It is absolutely worth the price of admission.
My only potential point of disagreement with it is its take on the Civil War. When I was in school, one of my teachers said that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery: that it was about if the South had the right to split away from the Union.
I don’t know if that’s true or not. Frankly, most history books bore me to such a degree that it’s probably more trouble than it’s worth to investigate any farther. The rest of the movie was excellent.
It was surprising to see “America” address the NSA’s electronic surveillance state and Aaron Swartz’s death toward the end of the film. Sure, it’s easy to see liberalism in front of you when Bathhouse Barry gets to work with his magic pen, but there’s a war for digital rights being fought that less technically inclined conservatives don’t know about.
And sadly, a lot of it is being fought by leftist groups like the ACLU.
A large proportion of the Union men who died in the War probably thought they were dying for the Union, not to free the slaves.
“My only potential point of disagreement with it is its take on the Civil War. When I was in school, one of my teachers said that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery: that it was about if the South had the right to split away from the Union.”
It was both. Slavery was the reason that the deep South seceded but the war itself started over the issue of secession. Lincoln called up the army to force the seceding States to return to the Union. Ironically King George had the same view of secession 80 years earlier.
[Spoiler alert] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IS3IpR5KxM