Iran a key part of "The Untold History of the United States," as told by Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone's "The Untold History of the United States" shows the dark side of American politics as related to Iran and other countries, something often not seen in mainstream American media or in U.S. high school history textbooks.
Famed liberal Hollywood director Oliver Stone was so tired of sanitised version of US history that he decided to write his own, as The Guardian reports.
Stone was raised as an Eisenhower Republican, fought as a patriot in Vietnam and made his name in Hollywood writing such splashy, amoral screenplays as Scarface for Al Pacino, before becoming an Oscar-winning, Chávez-admiring Buddhist!
In 2011 the US federal government survey reported that only 12% of US high school students knew their country's history. Why is that? Stone believes: "My theory is history is boring because the horror stories are left out. What's left in is the sanitised Disney version – a triumphalist narrative. We kind of always win. And we're always right."
For the past five years, the 66-year-old director has been working with historian Peter Kuznick on the desanitised version, complete with horror stories. The result is a 10-hour TV series called "The Untold History of the United States", and an allied 750-page book.
Stone plans to be in Croatia for the Subversive Festival around May 11th with Tariq Ali.
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