Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Bush Family Fortunes:
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
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Directed bySteven Grandison
Greg Palast
Written byGreg Palast
Produced byMeirion Jones
Greg Palast
Linda Levy
Leni Von Ekhardt
Duane Andrews
Edited byJonathan Levin
Music byDaron Murphy
Lem Jay Ignacio
Adam Hawkins
Laura Dawn
Rıchard Ray Harris
Moby
Production
company
Release date
  • September 28, 2004 (2004-09-28)
Running time
62 mins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy is a 2004 documentary film directed by Steven Grandison and Greg Palast. The film, which examines various aspects of the presidency of George W. Bush, including the 2000 US presidential election and the Iraq War, is adapted from the 2003 BBC production Bush Family Fortunes and based on the 2002 book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by investigative journalist Palast, who had spent years tracking the Bush family for the BBC and The Guardian newspaper. The research for the original BBC film, which claims to have exposed the George W. Bush military service controversy, was also drawn upon by Michael Moore for Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and footage was used by Robert Greenwald in Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002).