All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.

I. F. Stone

(Self - Investigative journalist (archive footage))

Chris Hedges

(Self - Former correspondent, The New York Times)

Leslie Moonves

(Self, president of CBS (voice) (archive footage))

Jeff Cohen

(Self, founding director, Park Center for Independent Media)

Matt Taibbi

(Self - Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone magazine)

John Carlos Frey

(Self - Independent journalist)

Colin Powell

(Self (archive footage))

Henry Kissinger

(Self (archive footage))

Ralph Nader

(Self, author and political activist)

Amy Goodman

(Self, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!)

Jeremy Scahill

(Self, co-founder, The Intercept)

Erin McLaughlin

(Self, reporter, CNN (archive footage))

Glenn Greenwald

(Self, co-founder, The Intercept)

Edward Snowden

(Self (archive footage))

Laura Poitras

(Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage))

Carl Bernstein

(Self - Investigative Journalist - Co-author, All the President's Men)

Noam Chomsky

(Self - Professor Emeritus, MIT)

Nermeen Shaikh

(Self - Senior producer and co-host - Democracy Now!)

Sharif Abdel Kouddous

(Self, independent journalist)

Lori Baker

(Self, forensic archaeologist)

Jeremy J. Stone

(Self, son of I. F. Stone)

Myra MacPherson

(Self, author of 'All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone')

Dick Cavett

(Self)

Tom Engelhardt

(Self, founder, TomDispatch.com (as Tom Englehardt))

David Corn

(Self, Mother Jones Magazine)

Ari Fleischer

(Self, White House press secretary (archive footage))

Mitt Romney

(Self (archive footage))

Dick Cheney

(Self (archive footage))

Condoleezza Rice

(Self (archive footage))

Cenk Uygur

(Self, host, The Young Turks)

Hillary Clinton

(Herself (archive footage))

Ana Kasparian

(Self, The Young Turks)

Paul Ramirez

(Self, retired county judge, Texas)

Esther Kaplan

(Self, The Nation Institute)

George W. Bush

(Self (archive footage))

Desmond Cole

(Self)

Tom Ewell

(Richard Sherman (archive footage))

Dustin Hoffman

(Carl Bernstein (archive footage))

Peter Jennings

(Self (archive footage))

Marilyn Monroe

(The Girl (archive footage))

Michael Moore

(Self - Independent filmmaker)

Barack Obama

(Self (archive footage))

Michelle Obama

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Redford

(Bob Woodward (archive footage))

Jason Robards

(Ben Bradlee (archive footage))

Donald Trump

(Self (archive footage))

Kevin Spacey

(Verbal (archive footage))