Today, Stone is thought of as Sam Peckinpah by way of Michael Moore - a Hollywood outsider and foot-in-mouth political crank, chilling with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez in the documentary South of the Border and suggesting that American media fixated on the Holocaust and “scapegoated” Hitler while downplaying Soviet deaths during World War II because of “Jewish domination of the media.” For these and other reasons, viewers might consider the messenger of Untold History and then dismiss its message, sight unseen. Why would anyone want to sit through The Untold History of the United States, a documentary series directed and narrated by Oliver Stone? Fifteen years ago, no one would have asked that question love him or hate him, the director of Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, and other feverish, politically charged dramas was a giant - an influential filmmaker who pushed the medium forward while ripping the scabs off social and historical wounds.
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