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Dreams from My Real Father

  • 2012
  • 1h 35m
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4.8/10
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Dreams from My Real Father (2012)
Documentary

At age 18, Barack Obama admittedly arrived at Occidental College a committed revolutionary Marxist. What was the source of Obama's foundation in Marxism? Throughout his 2008 Presidential cam... Read allAt age 18, Barack Obama admittedly arrived at Occidental College a committed revolutionary Marxist. What was the source of Obama's foundation in Marxism? Throughout his 2008 Presidential campaign and term in office, questions have been raised regarding Barack Obama's family backg... Read allAt age 18, Barack Obama admittedly arrived at Occidental College a committed revolutionary Marxist. What was the source of Obama's foundation in Marxism? Throughout his 2008 Presidential campaign and term in office, questions have been raised regarding Barack Obama's family background, economic philosophy, and fundamental political ideology. Dreams from My Real Father... Read all

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    • Joel Gilbert
  • Writer
    • Joel Gilbert
  • Stars
    • Ed Law
    • Frank Marshall Davis
    • David Axelrod
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    446
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    • Director
      • Joel Gilbert
    • Writer
      • Joel Gilbert
    • Stars
      • Ed Law
      • Frank Marshall Davis
      • David Axelrod
    • 21User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Ed Law
    • Barack Obama - Narrator
    Frank Marshall Davis
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    David Axelrod
    David Axelrod
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Bill Ayers
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Bernardine Dohrn
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Michelle Obama
    Michelle Obama
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Jeremiah Wright
    Jeremiah Wright
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Lloyd Nolan
    Lloyd Nolan
    • F.B.I. Agent
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
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      • Joel Gilbert
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      • Joel Gilbert
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    10maximusj-12538

    Very Revealing

    Lots of interesting info about Obama, and many things you've never heard. It appears to have been researched very well. The negative reviews are based on people not liking information that flows against the norm, and their own political bias. They can't dispute the information contained in the documentary.
    1Jorge_De_Feria

    This documentary is absolutely awful.

    I also received this DVD in the mail and I took it as political propaganda against President Obama facing the presidential election. But, when I saw it, I realized that this film was much more than a mere political propaganda, to become a totally false and offensive document, not only for President Obama, but to their legitimate parents, for the prestigious Occidental College, for president's wife and for the people of the United States. I do not understand how a filmmaker can dare to make an "alternative autobiography" of a character as well known as the president of the United States and place an actor (whose name is not given) to tell the story as if it were the biography of a character who died long ago. I'm not surprised at all that it is rated so low and they have to give it away, because this documentary film is pure garbage. So I pour it immediately where it belongs, in the trash can.
    1michaeltepe

    Just because you don't see eye to eye with his policy doesn't mean that you get the right to name him anything you want.

    Anyone who really watches this movie based on the summary shown on IMDb must be seriously impaired or just blind. I mean just because you don't see eye to eye with his policy doesn't mean that you get the right to name him anything you want. I mean this goes back to the middle ages when we went witch hunting.

    So he is accused of not being American, then he releases his birth certificate. You still aren't satisfied and search for even more bogus ideas to destroy his presidency.

    Well I can sort of understand it, because I mean when you don't have an actual candidates in your party that can match up or let alone have a real vision for America. I mean I wouldn't do these kinds of things, like fabricate bogus movies that make unsubstantiated claims.

    How much longer will the American public be blindsided by biases and bitter opposition. I mean even in other parts of the world where opposing parties don't see eye to eye they still get things done.

    When will you guys wake up and start seeing whats actually going on. You care more about what side the person is standing than actually getting policy changed or improvements made, that America dearly needs.

    Seriously, if things continue going down this path and you don't find a way to compromise and agree on certain things, all these dystopian films and TV shows that are getting so popular, will become reality.

    Why was Obama elected the first time, if you don't want change?
    1rmax304823

    An Insult To Human Intelligence.

    The sociologists owe us a good, useful, short, simple word for "collective insanity." I agree with the makers of this fake tabloid garbage that there is indeed something wrong with America. This is a symptom.

    It's hard to know how this movement towards conspiracies got started. Of course it's an expression of our overall move to the right. Two political scientists, Rosenthal and Poole (easily Googled) did a respectable study of voting patterns in the congress and found that the drift to the extreme right began around 1970.

    Note that it was before Obama so racism can't account for all of it.

    In any case, the rough beast has slouched towards Bethlehem and given birth to this.
    1dbrown1793

    Right-Wing Racist Trash

    Just when you think the right-wing can't sink any deeper into the gutter, they surprise you. This "documentary" will take its place in history alongside every pseudo-scientific film Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis created to "prove" Jews were a sub-human species. The "plot" of "Dreams From My Real Father" is not worth discussing because it lacks any facts whatsoever. It is an election prompted piece of character assassination.

    The good news is that when screened to un-decided voters at various focus group gatherings in the swing states, the response was universal revulsion. The vast majority of Americans are decent people and were justifiably repelled by the blatant lies, racism and sexism that is on display here.

    It is interesting that Amazon and Netflix both categorize this film in the same genre as Dinesh D'Souza's laughable "2016" and docs about the mentally unbalanced Ayn Rand whose philosophy of greed and selfishness is a favorite of the Tea Party movement. If they included documentaries denying the Holocaust, it would be complete.

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    • Release date
      • July 24, 2012 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
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    • Filming locations
      • Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA
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      • Highway 61 Entertainment
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      • 1h 35m(95 min)
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      • 16:9 HD

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