About All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
Full Cast of All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
I. F. Stone
plays Self - Investigative journalist (archive footage)
Chris Hedges
plays Self - Former correspondent, The New York Times
Leslie Moonves
plays Self, president of CBS (voice) (archive footage)
Jeff Cohen
plays Self, founding director, Park Center for Independent Media
Matt Taibbi
plays Self - Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone magazine
John Carlos Frey
plays Self - Independent journalist
Colin Powell
plays Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
plays Self (archive footage)
Ralph Nader
plays Self, author and political activist
Amy Goodman
plays Self, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!
Jeremy Scahill
plays Self, co-founder, The Intercept
Erin McLaughlin
plays Self, reporter, CNN (archive footage)
Glenn Greenwald
plays Self, co-founder, The Intercept
Edward Snowden
plays Self (archive footage)
Laura Poitras
plays Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
Carl Bernstein
plays Self - Investigative Journalist - Co-author, All the President's Men
Noam Chomsky
plays Self - Professor Emeritus, MIT
Nermeen Shaikh
plays Self - Senior producer and co-host - Democracy Now!
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
plays Self, independent journalist
Lori Baker
plays Self, forensic archaeologist
Jeremy J. Stone
plays Self, son of I. F. Stone
Myra MacPherson
plays Self, author of 'All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone'
Tom Engelhardt
plays Self, founder, TomDispatch.com (as Tom Englehardt)
David Corn
plays Self, Mother Jones Magazine
Ari Fleischer
plays Self, White House press secretary (archive footage)
Mitt Romney
plays Self (archive footage)
Dick Cheney
plays Self (archive footage)
Condoleezza Rice
plays Self (archive footage)
Cenk Uygur
plays Self, host, The Young Turks
Hillary Clinton
plays Herself (archive footage)
Ana Kasparian
plays Self, The Young Turks
Paul Ramirez
plays Self, retired county judge, Texas
Esther Kaplan
plays Self, The Nation Institute
George W. Bush
plays Self (archive footage)
Tom Ewell
plays Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Dustin Hoffman
plays Carl Bernstein (archive footage)
Peter Jennings
plays Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
plays The Girl (archive footage)
Michael Moore
plays Self - Independent filmmaker
Barack Obama
plays Self (archive footage)
Michelle Obama
plays Self (archive footage)
Robert Redford
plays Bob Woodward (archive footage)
Jason Robards
plays Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
Donald Trump
plays Self (archive footage)
Kevin Spacey
plays Verbal (archive footage)
Crew of All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Sound
Editing
Production
Camera
Directing