Just in time for the 4th of July Weekend, Dinesh D'Souza's highly anticipated film America: Imagine the World Without Her hits theaters Wednesday.
The film, created by D'Souza and produced by Academy Award winner Gerald R. Molen (Schindler's List), covers the history of America beginning with the Founding Fathers and their achievements in freedom all the way to "present-day critics" who feel they have progressed beyond those old American ideals.
D'Souza's America is being praised by the right by the likes of Rush Limbaugh who says the film will be "huge" and by National Review who hopes "it begins a long-overdue national conversation about the true meaning of America."
The left, on the other hand, has come out "screaming," with "guns blazing" as WND.com reports. Leftists have panned the film's preview as a "piece of junk" and as "the worst political documentary of all-time."
But that doesn't' bother D'Souza:
So, the left is coming out screaming. And I frankly think it’s fantastic. We are seeing clearly the hatred of the left, and, far from intimidating me, I welcome it.
D'Souza's previous film 2016: Obama's America grossed $33 million making it the second most popular political documentary of all time (Moore's Farenheit 9/11 is first at $119 million).
America is well on its way to do the same. On Tuesday, it opened in 700 theaters and on Monday, D'Souza held a red-carpet premiere in Hollywood attended by over 1,000 invited guests including several high-profile underground conservative celebrities, according to WND.com.
The film opens Wednesday in over 1,000 theaters nationwide. Check for tickets and show times here.
Below is a synopsis of the film via AmericaTheMovie.com:
"Someone once observed: 'America is great because she is good; if she ever ceases to be good she will cease to be great.' Today that notion of the essential goodness of America is under attack, replaced by another story in which theft and plunder are seen as the defining features of American history—from the theft of Native American and Mexican lands and the exploitation of African labor to a contemporary foreign policy said to be based on stealing oil and a capitalist system that robs people of their 'fair share'.
Our founding fathers warned us that, although the freedoms they gave us were hard fought, they could very easily be lost. America stands at a crossroads, and the way we understand our past will determine our future. America the movie takes 21st-century Americans into the future by first visiting our past.
Gerald Molen, the Academy-award winning producer of Schindler's List, and Dinesh D'Souza, the creator of 2016: Obama's America, invite you on a journey of discovery that will bring you face-to-face with the heroes who built America, in the times in which they lived, bled, and sacrificed in order to build a great nation: Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and others. You'll be there as Columbus sets foot on American soil, as bullets whiz by Washington's head, as Douglass demands that America live up to the promises of her Founding Fathers, and as Lincoln sacrifices thousands of lives, including his own, to right a great wrong of history.
We'll also meet their present-day critics, hear their stories, and then let you decide which America you believe in. From the team that created 2016: Obama's America comes the story not of a man but a nation, at the crossroads of hope or disaster, whose destination will soon be decided.
