The World According to Dick Cheney: Season 1

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SHOWTIME | Season Premiere Date: March 15, 2013

Summary: Narrated by Dennis Haysbert, former vice president Dick Cheney is profiled and interviewed by R.J. Cutler in this 110-minute documentary.

Genre(s): News/Documentary

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S1:E1. The World According to Dick Cheney
Air Date: March 15, 2013

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Linda Stasi

Mar 13, 2013

Many expected to see Cheney not just screwed, but nailed to the wall. This documentary comes awfully close. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Mar 13, 2013

Cutler’s documentary The World According to Dick Cheney is a rousing piece of work. Read full review

Verne Gay

Mar 14, 2013

Not a lot new here, but Cheney gets a fair hearing--even though a tougher one is occasionally warranted. Read full review

David Hinckley

Mar 14, 2013

The documentary doesn’t fawn over its subject. War skeptics get plenty of time to explain why they think Cheney was wrong.... Conversely, when the filmmakers make an effort to humanize Cheney, he doesn’t give them much to work with. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

Mar 14, 2013

The World According to Dick Cheney has interesting insights and revealing moments, but for critics who long to confront Mr. Cheney it may prove dissatisfying, because it allows him to make astonishing assertions without direct contradiction or follow-up questions. Read full review

David Wiegand

Mar 14, 2013

The strength of the documentary is that although it is grounded in an extensive interview with its subject, it is not hagiography. Writers like Woodward and Gellman weigh in with considered and not always flattering opinions about Cheney. That said, noticeable by their absence as interview subjects in the film are Rice and, in particular, Bush. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Mar 12, 2013

The film is a sturdy but ultimately stifled exercise in the most polite methods of interrogation--to which its subject is entirely immovable and not prepared to surrender anything, even a smile. Read full review

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Ironicguy

May 17, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Turns out, contrary to popular belief.... Dick Cheney has a heart. Cheney goes into depth about his alcoholic past, and his time in the white going from Watergate to Iraq. We understand the stresses of the Bush administration and the lies inside the executive branch. It is truly a compelling documentary. But it is also disturbing, Dick Cheney shows no remorse for any of his actions. Even the ones that cost lives.… Expand

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