It is brilliant in one sense. But then, why bother. People like Kissinger or Rumsfield are the most evil, sinister, worse than the devil, nation building, murderous, imperialists. They were and are. Even though that sounds like some "socialist" student rant - should not be easily discounted even where the student may turn into an old man even more conservative than the media's most evil man, Rupert Murdoch.Evil is a bad word, sullied by biblical, fictitious illusions. I am sick of how, in this world, there are men who force an evil agenda, far worse than imagined in the bible, and they get off scot free, even celebrated - going where all the Bourgeois hang out (and make docos together), as if "everything is everything", and we are all friends and it's all a laugh. IF war were over, I wouldn't make this rant. In that case, forgiveness could start.Innocent people die, still, while war criminals are treated as heroes and make jokes about fooling everybody, or not. One obvious step further; the main reason those innocent people die is so that some other people pillage the resources to make sick jokes on very expensive film. And here some of them are, having fun at mocking the idea of a conspiracy.Hence I use words like the devil or evil, as understatements.WAKE UP WORLD. I have been saying this for a long time now. The biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that fact is already more shocking! Kissinger, Rumsfield, et al, are directly guilty for leading, sending men to kill many other men FOR A PARANOIA (WITH FAR LESS BASIS FOR IT) THAN YOUR AVERAGE CONSPIRACY THEORY/IST.And here is this Documentary maker, allowing them more fame and the arrogant position to mock. Kissinger didn't feel as though he had enough Vietnamese killed, so why not take part in a mockumentary that uses them as bit parts. They may be kidding, however, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Iraq, etc, etc, etc. the tens of millions murdered, are no joke.Certainly an interesting documentary, just as Hitler's men made some interesting experiments on people too.A very strange co-incidence for me, that I saw this so very soon after 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' - (apparently NOT a hoax, but I still dilly-dally on that). Said documentary or elaborate hoax is far more interesting and incomparably funnier. Jeez I hate Donald Rumsfield, with politicians like him you can bring back Stalin or Saddam any day.

I have to write something because I can't let the existing review be the only one. This is not a set of anti-American lies passed off as a documentary; it's a straightforward mockumentary. You were supposed to know that.That said, the writer gave us a nice little conspiracy theory story, but I really didn't think the results were all that interesting. I felt things turned out kind of stiff in the end. People were too serious about things. Could've used a bit more humor. Forgotten Silver, which comes to mind when discussing this film, shows how a balance could be hit when making a mockumentary of this tone.On an unrelated note, Chomsky > Moore.

The mockumentary The Dark side of the Moon was first screened by SBS TV in Australia on April 1, 2003. And yes, some of the segments were over-the-top, but I think this was done deliberately to discredit the Moon landing hoax. Unfortunately, despite the added clue of the screening date here, many people still believed it was a real revelation that the Moon landing had been faked. Although I fully share sarastro7's lament that there are so many people who do not believe the Moon landings really happened, and I agree that it is a pity that the documentary gave credence to the conspiracy peddlers, I still think it is an exceptionally clever production. The fact that viewers found it hard to sort out the facts from the fabrications, indeed even wonder if it was a US government counter-hoax, underscores William Karel's point. I only saw it once, but as I understand it, the non-actor interviewees, including Donald Rumsfeld, were not actually part of the farce. If viewers listen carefully, the real key players interviewed do not refer specifically to the Apollo 11 mission in their comments denying it happened. Rather, the documentary maker inserted clips of real interviews with these personages, but in most cases they were speaking about unrelated matters. The viewer merely draws inference from the words and clips from the context of the documentary. The key players were then asked for their consent to include the clips, and the end segment captures their surprised reaction.

* * * CAUTION the following comment may or may not contain SPOILERS * * * Hahaha, never thought the man responsible for tens of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians (oops, collateral damage) could be so charming when being interviewed.It's amazing that such a busy man as Rumsfeld could find the time to cooperate in this documentary.Another person who seems so much more human after viewing this product, is of course Henry Kissinger.Then there's some more big wigs who graciously gave their full support to this humorist documentary. Among them: Buzz Aldrin, Alexander Haig and Stanley Kubrick's widow.I never heard of this documentary maker before but he must be reallyreally famous: why else would all these powerful and famous people willingly give their sparse free time to make this product the thing it has become?