Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election

Unprecedented:
The 2000 Presidential Election
Directed byRichard Ray Pérez
Joan Sekler
Written byWilliam Haugse
Richard Ray Pérez
Joan Sekler
Produced byRichard Ray Pérez
Joan Sekler
StarringDanny Glover (2004)
Narrated byPeter Coyote
CinematographyRichard Ray Pérez
Edited byWilliam Haugse
Matthew Martin
Music byBobby Johnston
Distributed byShout! Factory
Release date
  • September 17, 2002 (2002-09-17) (U.S. premiere)
Running time
47 min. (2002)
57 min. (2004)
LanguageEnglish

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is a 2002 47-minute documentary directed and co-written by Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler,[1] and narrated by Peter Coyote,[2] about the contested 2000 presidential election in Florida.[3]

It was re-released in an extended 56-minute[4] 2004 Campaign Edition presented by Danny Glover to tie in with the 2004 US presidential election.[5]

A Public Interest Pictures Film, it was co-executive produced by Robert Greenwald and Earl Katz.[1] Greenwald later made this the first of his "Un-Trilogy", which also includes Uncovered: The War on Iraq and Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties.[6]

  1. ^ a b Klein, Andy (November 24, 2002). "Review:'Unprecedented the 2000 Presidential Election'". Unprecedented.
  2. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonothan (21 November 2003). "Unpredented: The 2000 Presidential Election". The Chicago Reader.
  3. ^ Roten, Robert (October 27, 2004). "Laramie Movie Review: Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election". Laramie Movie Review.
  4. ^ "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election: Another Civics Lesson from Greenwald; Did the US Experience a Coup?". Bills Media Reviews. February 11, 2014.
  5. ^ Benson, Thomas; Snee, Brian (2008). The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary. Southern Illinois University.
  6. ^ Nichols, John (September 16, 2004). "Filmmaker Takes Fox News to Task". Capital Times.