Negative reviews of this film are actively being suppressed as I am now on my sixth revision.
Political Science Professor Howard Zinn attempts to trash American history with his cherry picked vignettes of the poor and the uneducated. For Mr. Zinn preaches wealth redistribution propaganda and does so in the guise of teaching 'history". You see Mr. Zinn is going to teach you all the "hidden" episodes of American history that will make you so enlightened, you will reevaluate the meaning of life, leave America and run off to a communist utopia like North Korea. He failed to achieve his goal.
A People's History of the United States is an embarrassment to any serious historian by telling historical events in the most biased way as possible. Any serious scholar of history of even the average armchair historians will have heard about all of these events before but in an objective form not taken out of context to suit this anti-American polemic. Zinn literally holds contempt for the founding fathers , what more do I need to say?
This documentary apparently attempts to pull the best snippets from Zinn's work for maximum effect but instead it only reinforces that the emperor (Zinn) has no clothes. For instance a big deal is made about anarchist Alexander Berkman who was rightfully convicted of the attempted murder of Henry Clay Frick whom is painted as some civilian mass murderer of union members on strike. No mention is made that the strikers attempted to use mob rule to keep a private business closed, prevent people from going to work or move freely about a town in the United States. The strikers cheered for the murdering of the security hired for the business, intimidated local law enforcement from enforcing the law and were finally stopped only by the state's militia.
This is literally one of the most cringe inducing documentaries I have ever watched in my life.