Hillary's America
| Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party | |
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| Produced by | Gerald R. Molen |
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| Starring | Dinesh D'Souza |
| Music by | Stephen Limbaugh |
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D'Souza Media
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| Distributed by | Quality Flix |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $13.1 million |
Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is a 2016 American political documentary film about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and a conservative critique of the Democratic Party, written and directed by conservative political commentator Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley. The film had a limited release on July 15, 2016, before a wide release on July 22, 2016, and accompanies a book by D'Souza by the same name. The film was the most successful political documentary of 2016 and is as of March 2017 the 8th highest grossing political documentary ever.
Although the film was a box office success, most critics gave it negative reviews. Metacritic declared it the worst-received film of 2016. It was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, and won four, including Worst Picture (a first for a documentary film), and Worst Director and Worst Actor for D'Souza himself.
Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative author and commentator who co-directed Hillary's America, is known for also directing 2016: Obama's America (2012), which criticized incumbent president Barack Obama during the 2012 presidential election, and America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014) arguing against perceived liberal critiques of its history, including the theft of Native American and Mexican lands, black slavery, contemporary foreign policy, and its capitalist system.
The film begins with scenes of D'Souza at the halfway house where he spent time due to a conviction for making an illegal political contribution. (D'Souza and some of his supporters believe that his prosecution was too harsh and his sentence was excessive.) The film then switches to examining and criticizing the history of the Democratic Party, from Andrew Jackson to the present day. D'Souza is portrayed going into a basement archive of the DNC Headquarters where he reveals secrets of the party's history.
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