What Is Democracy

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item number:  6V359
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 14, 2019
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Zeitgeist Films

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User Ratings: 37
Unfocused but consistently engaging. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Jan 16, 2019
One could imagine the place of Taylor's film in the classroom, though one would first have to imagine the kind of classroom this country appears bent on destroying. Full Review
Virginia Quarterly Review
Aug 29, 2019
[Taylor] presents an inclusive and necessary debate, asking whether democracy today really is of, by, and for the people, and if it ever was. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Feb 14, 2019
[A] deliberate challenge to complacency -- and, as a result, it’s a great watch.
The Guardian
Jun 11, 2018
Rating: 2/4 -- The impact may have been greater had Taylor and editor Robert Kennedy trimmed some rough edges and leaned further into the more effective asides. Full Review
Cambridge Day
Feb 1, 2019
Taylor's film demonstrates how democracy sometimes yields lemon when the fields bear finer fruits. It's up to us to take those lemons and make lemonade-and, quite frankly, to add the nip or two of gin that makes it tolerable. Full Review
POV Magazine
May 20, 2019
[A] hugely ambitious documentary from the Canadian director Astra Taylor...
New York Times
Jan 15, 2019

Product Description:

Writer-director Astra Taylor's documentary spans ancient Greece, the 1960s civil rights movement, and contemporary world affairs in its appraisal of the value of democracy. Drawing from Plato, Renaissance art, and American philosopher Cornel West, it analyses the costs, challenges, and virtues of the democratic experiment.

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