Bowling for Columbine
Michael Moore · 2002
Michael Moore’s 2002 documentary uses the Columbine massacre as a lens to examine America’s relationship with guns, fear, and violence. Through staged interventions, selective interviews, and associative editing, it builds a case against cultural complacency — not by proving single causes, but by exposing patterns of denial, profit, and performance. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary and remains a touchstone for debates about advocacy filmmaking.