The Untold History of the United States with director Oliver Stone & writer Peter Kuznick

On May 5, the Institute of Politics and the Department of History welcomed Academy Award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, director of films including JFK, NIXON, W. and the upcoming SNOWDEN, to campus. Stone has described his body of work as “controversial versions of recent American history, some of them at deep odds with conventional myth.” The event began with a screening Episode 3 of The Untold History of the United States; which explores the strategies behind the atomic bombings of Japan. After the screening, UChicago professor Bruce Cumings interviewed Mr. Stone and Peter Kuznick, historian and writer of the Untold series. Kuznick is Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University.
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[@rico879]

On behalf of my generation: Thank you Mr. Stone!

[@LuisaRodriguez0212]

@cops and govern ment are gangstalkers +qp]

[@diane4488]

Me too 👍

[@jeandere6759]

Don't blame the loss of industrial jobs in America on China or other countries in the Global South. It's done by American big business and corporations.

[@Bob31415]

Very true.

[@grannygotcha9809]

You forgot about Bill Clinton.

[@cbriangilbert1978]

@@grannygotcha9809 This isn't a Dem or Rep issue. Both parties have been hijacked by people who's sole goal it is to protect the system that is. Both parties protect the same system because it makes them both rich. You are a fool to not see it.

[@davedillon1372]

On the other hand, we get Soo much trash thrown at US by china- if not SKorea, IT IS a china made: sex toy, blow up doll, et al. I saw, in a Walgreens in SF a sales fixture- a barrel, with a bunch (12±) of already rusting, cheap steel 'back scratchers' with glittery, sparkling, bright metal flake paint on a bent fork-like piece of BLISTERING painted bimetal, rusting away attached to an oblong piece of wood that was splitting, cracked up- like a piece of driftwood but smooth and about 10" maybe 15" long. "On sale! $3.99" in green, red, blue colors of glittery sparkling paint flaking away, or blistering off the handle that had a weird shape to them- each like nothing I've ever seen before and corroding metal that you were going to scrape against your skin‽ A deal? Here, America- buy this one! We are paying for china's overpopulation so they DON'T JUST ROLL INTO CONFLICT WITH EVERY NATION THEY SHARE A LAND BORDER WITH OR A SEA BODY ACROSS THE WATERWAY (IE, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WATER). NOW WE AREN'T EVEN GOING TO STOP SUCKING THE PIPE FROM china producing garbage like formaldehyde soaked wood for 'flooring' planks (hardwood floors, quick cured by formaldehyde at season it'll evaporate enough so it passes inspection at the port of entry here. When it doesn't, they take it back to sea & let it air out until it's at the acceptable level for YOUR KIDS TO LAY ON, LICK AT (AS KIDS DO), & BREATHE DEEPLY! UHMMMM AHHH, UMMM AHHHH. ALSO, I GUESS WE'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO GROW PEARS AND PEACHES BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN BUYING FKG FOOD FROM china- THAT'S AS FAR AWAY FROM THE USA AS CAN BE TO SOURCE A CAN OF PEARS IN A BIMETAL CAN, WITH A METALLIC TASTE OF THE INGREDIENTS IN THE CAN- OF THE CONTENTS MAKING THE CAN. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU? AT ALL? THAT'S NOT UNLIKE US BUYING CHERRY TOMATOES FROM OCCUPIED PALESTINE- DID WE FORGET HOW TO GROW CHERRY TOMATOES TO THE POINT OF IMPORTING THEM, A CASE OR TWO AT A TIME FROM WHAT USED TO BE CALLED PALESTINE, WHILE THOSE PEOPLE- WHO NEVER GOT UGLY WITH THE JEWISH POPULATION IN PALESTINE ALL THROUGH WW2. NEVER. BUT ONCE THAT LAND WAS STOLEN & GIVEN TO THESE PEOPLE, THEY TURNED INTO WHAT THEY'RE CRYING ABOUT TREATING THEM WRONGLY. I'VE A GOOD IDEA THAT STARVING PALESTINIAN PEOPLE COULD EAT CHERRY TOMATOES & THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE FLOWN AROUND THE WORLD TO GET TO THEM EITHER. WHATDYA THINK?

[@TheListOf]

Yeah, selling out to the Chinese Communist Party. CHINA.

[@johnmuirsgrand5335]

Wonderful men. Very thoughtful. Thank you for your service Mr. Stone. 💜

[@5321jerry1]

Thoughtful? Really. That's why his buddy Hugo Chavez who thank God is now occupying a spot in hell, he ruined an entire country. Have you seen or heard what is happening in Venezuela in the last 10 years? Stop Pandering to your heroes, and do some research! Totally irresponsible.

[@sea2959]

@@5321jerry1 go away infantile imbecile

[@andrewperkovich8184]

I’ve watched this documentary 4 times now and I’ve never had one make me cry...very disturbingly powerful

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Where can I watch it

[@andrewperkovich8184]

Travis Rodgers its on Netflix, Its called “the untold history of the United States”

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

@@Just.A.T-Rex also on dailymotion

[@chrisgreene2623]

Then read some books by Howard Zinn

[@TheListOf]

@@chrisgreene2623 No, thanks. Effin' SOCIALIST.

[@buch157]

Prof. Kuznick, you are my favourite historian. Thanks for UChicago for this great presentation.

[@bellaluna730]

Yes Kuznick knows his historical facts but listen again to his description of Truman being compared to a “weak woman.” Very insulting to women.

[@fabiengerard8142]

Meeting with two most remarkable men. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@tedmusson5179]

I was critical but that was very good. There should be ten Oliver Stones and they should all live at least a hundred years.

[@fabiengerard8142]

Even 10 x 10 x 10 would never be enough, I'm afraid...

[@paramjitc.9120]

Brilliant discussion.

[@joesolobraincloud]

Awesome series.

[@yuko3258]

I just watched the first episode of The untold history of the us. Mr Stone, I am so grateful that you exist. I will need a while to recover and go on the other chapters tho. It's both wonderful to learn what I wasn't taught at school and heartbreaking to see what the elites put common people through.

[@mackenziedog1872]

Stone came out of Vietnam war. Chomsky had orthodox Jew parents teaching Hebrew as he listened to Hitler terrify him. Both men taught the world about why.

[@mrmrsplummer3526]

Great Doc.

[@rd264]

I blame the taxpayers for sitting by and letting the elites and their government servants dictate their hopes, their fears and their future which they have done since 1788

[@insideoutcoconut4784]

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[@grannygotcha9809]

Totally agree. We all bought their plan and still defend it. Now, being in the knowwe need leaders and actual instructions.....at least I do

[@danielscheinhaus5210]

Harry Truman was the launcher of the Korean War, decided to unnecessarily drop 2 atomic bombs on Japan, started the Cold War, refused to assist the Soviet Union after that nation had lost 27 million people and had totally destroyed cities and towns. Truman also started the weakening of the union movement in the US with his support of the Taft-Hartley Labor Law and started the so-called McCarthyism atmosphere as soon as WW2 ended.

[@drewlsy]

He also prevented the early ending to the Korean War by denying General Mcarthur his request to bomb the Manchurian border.

[@martin27000]

@@drewlsy ye with over 25 nukes that more then likely would escalate the war and get the soviet involved truman was right in getting that mad man Mcarthur out of there

[@mikeforte7585]

@@martin27000 I have had alot of military people tell me exactly that...

[@mikeforte7585]

@@robertdownes793 i said that a number of times....in the past...if I have problems 80% don't care and the other 20% are glad I'm having them..all the best

[@grannygotcha9809]

@Allah is Satan(Saturn); Mahomet=Baphomet I cannot stop thinking this and cannot concentrate on more of your thesis. Question:. If a helicopter simply huvvered in the air in New York wouldn't LA be on the ground in a matter of seconds.? Please dont tell me that the atmosphere moves as fast as the earth. We are in a mess. Or just I am in a mess. What's going on,,,? Yes I know there will be some mon scientific ....scientific explanation. Enough.

[@shelleyharris2850]

Just shaking my head.

[@johnjarou2357]

Just recently started watching this on Documentary Channel. Take note people, THIS is what REALLY HAPPENED!!! much thanks to Mr Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick.

[@fabiengerard8142]

Taking notes is fundamental. That worth-watching series is actually kind of a university course, to be memorized, and deepened, and discussed, almost the same way you’d do it for an exam. 😉

[@Nebo600]

My mouth is ajar after watching this. Just mind blowing!!!

[@grannygotcha9809]

Your mind is now open to the truth....not all because no one dares mention the truth about 9/11 and following invasion, destruction and murder for the next ,,20 years. Lots to know now that you are ready for the truth. Good luck and good bless.

[@kurtbogle2973]

No one should enlist, and everyone should refuse to fight. The Universe has only one rule , KINDNESS, we need to stop violating that rule!

[@grannygotcha9809]

Oh, I hope they listen to you. This is a very manipulative and vengeful government Invade destroy, attack and murder. They call it war...,

[@maryshaffer8474]

Many will be imprisoned and put to death on both sides for being neutral. They were in every war. But not eito change the house of a terrible war.

[@kurtbogle2973]

Why do I not hear anything about D Rockefeller? You mention all of his minions.

[@DougGrinbergs]

Skip introductions to 2:55 interview start

[@MonaLisa-lu8zi]

You are just great. You make history so interesting. 👍

[@imperialmovo]

26:07 didn’t know Rich Evans was this interested in this part of history.

[@georgiafreckles4180]

I learned quite a bit from your interview with Putin, and your hard hitting questions to him.

[@rpm8865]

25:46 classic Oliver

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

Oliver Stone is older than you.... This makes him an acceptable form of information concerning history!

[@zyrrhos]

"We're troglodytes when it comes to questions of force." Not 'we.' A very small cabal of psychopaths.

[@williamwylie4346]

So very true 👌

[@grannygotcha9809]

Who have immense power.

[@tedmusson5179]

@zyrrhos Yes... if only ameriKKKa had anything close to a democracy. It is a terrible psychopath non-democratic oligarchy.

[@tedmusson5179]

Oliver... daddy of 39 and gramps of 41 was a bald face traitor. He bankstered for hilter while U$a was at war with him. Worse than that.. after being busted he didn't get so much as a slap on the wrist, rather he got from ameriKKKan citizenry the profit he would have made. As to dropping bombs on Germany? Did I miss the German internment camps.

[@tedmusson5179]

You'd have dropped them on commies, but y'all were well predisposed to hugging nazis.

[@estebanpardo9611]

Every American should watch this as a must in high-school for history class.

[@grannygotcha9809]

True idea but will never happen.

[@thehealthychefri]

Public schools are factory modeled and teach obedience, conformity and cognitive dissonance! 135 million Americans adults have a 5th grade or less education!

[@janetmarmaro8269]

I find l like Oliver too. He’s more easy going than what l expected. I’m impressed.. 🌺i

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[@janetmarmaro8269]

I remember that horrible day like it was yesterday!

[@jorgejohnson451]

It’s hard to know whom or what to believe anymore. I’m not even sure I exist anymore.

[@kelliintexas3575]

That's how they want you.

[@grannygotcha9809]

@@kelliintexas3575 we are following undisclosed orders.

[@grannygotcha9809]

You exist and sometthing created you. After that. Who knows

[@Big-guy1981]

Trumann was credited as a good artillery officer in WW1 and rose to the rank of colonel (reserve). I doubt he was some pushover by 1944.

[@tallsmile28]

The Military-Industrial Complex is undefeated

[@barquerojuancarlos7253]

51:33 ... and they don't understand what's going on in Ukraine reverberates today just a few years after this presentation ... why is the US in 2021 sending tons of military weapons to Ukraine and 2 warships to the Black Sea to assist the gov't of Kiev, who refused to abide by UN Security Council approved Minsk Peace Accords, in its civil war in eastern Ukraine against Russian Ukrainians?

[@kelliintexas3575]

Hillary Clinton and Alec Ross launched Civil Society 2.0

[@kelliintexas3575]

The State Dept., intelligence & Big Tech train redicals to overthrow their government... Exactly like Antifa 🤔 Used in Ukraine, Libya, Egypt, Honduras, Chile, Venezuela, a long list of others!! The best detailed walk through of Ukraine is by Glenn Beck. It's called 'The Democrats Hydra' it starts about 20mins in.

[@grannygotcha9809]

Our govt relies on invading, destroying and murdering all they can. Easy does. It.

[@grannygotcha9809]

@@kelliintexas3575 Also very affective in our country. Promoting predjeduce, woman's lib, destroying every treaty with indigenous people, Women's lib was a plan..an effective one...it worked. It destroyed the family unit..( I happen to have been. Big time....g u n g - h o) consider the massive changes in economy, family structure and price rises. Everything became unattainable on one income and difficult on two.

[@jodyljohnson8515]

And in 2022....?

[@louismarucci9056]

I thoroughly respect Stone, we are of the same generation and I served as an Army Medic (although not in Vietnam). I can’t help but wonder though what he and the academics in this video would have done had they been in leadership positions regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. One had to have lived during the Second World War and consider the atrocities Japan committed on military personnel and civilians to understand the American desire for vengeance. Call me a troglodyte for my views on this matter. It’s a label I gladly accept.

[@fredsmith9236]

Why focus on Japanese war crimes. The war movies and history books produced in the US, UK, etc, aren't likely to report their own atrocities and war crimes. They try to keep them hidden. Their war criminals all live comfortable lives while the people who expose them end up in jail like Julian Assange. Steven Donziger exposed the atrocities caused by Texaco and Chevron in the Amazon and he is now facing a prison sentence.

[@GeorgeZimmermen]

4:30. And now it’s so far to the left, the country is in an even worse situation and may never recover

[@kurtbogle2973]

Mr. Stone can you please look into the Lenard Poitier situation. I have contacted my senator "Dick Durbin", several times, and get no response!

[@fredsmith9236]

Leonard Peltier.

[@grannygotcha9809]

I don't know him....but they .follow borders

[@garrieleepeck8753]

What a bloody mess everything is really in !!!

[@grannygotcha9809]

Part of the plan...turn us against each other and it's working

[@shelleyharris2850]

207k, back against the wall. 80k clean up, proceeds now.

[@Probe253]

Plenty of hair dye 🤣

[@sadieandme3971]

Yeah fdr never told Truman about the bomb because he knew he would want to use it and then he did just that!

[@grannygotcha9809]

He. Sure. Did..X ,2

[@cbarclay99]

The discussion on China has not aged well.

[@saxogrammaticus3917]

To be the bully of the world...you/we first need hunt your own demons before you chastise others'....thank you, you're very needed

[@mexicobuzz8063]

nice rug

[@chrisgreene2623]

How lucky to survive the Cold War and now into a new unstable of Great Powers and History. Sadly, in the aftermath of World War Two we missed an opportunity .

[@grannygotcha9809]

The fear of Communism is mistaken...it really should be fear of Faccisim....think!

[@shelleyharris2850]

Ooh, check this out . Shelley Oliver my daughters name is Samantha, or some call her Sam.

[@p.a.andrews7772]

Truthfully these people spend their entire lives lying to us in the past ,and I'm sure still would be.

[@charlespiliero3709]

extreme jealousy, hatred, and revenge in the course of monetary survival/comfort comes exclusively from both upper and lower sects of society. but the most damaging, to the world human population and natural environment, comes from the former - no matter what aspect of their society they exist. so be cautious who you applaud.

[@robfrancis8690]

Jim Morrison in guise.

[@CallsItLikeISeizeIts]

Lord girl get to the interview

[@kryptonianog9418]

We've been screwed ever since Wallace got screwed IMHO..... Stay strong !

[@ivanwalker3391]

"A huge market for American goods"? What goods? Oh! you mean, like . . . . hamburgers and hotdogs and Coca-Cola etc?

[@clarkpalace]

Back in the day “made in usa” was a mark of quality. Guess that was just a honeymoon. Not that we are really doing any better. We just have better government forced, a little bit more, to listen to the people. The cheap quality we are able to create now through modern machinery is a worry. The argument that after all no one knows about tmrw so why buy quality today if I dead tmrw , is a worry The cabals that exist in corporate head offices is a worry. Given the choice I don’t see why we couldn’t return to old ways. But I will warn, production is hell. Someone has to do those repetitive tasks, sometimes at great speed. Did my time in my own hell. But that was my own business. It helps when you have enormous passion. Old Canadian here

[@ivanwalker3391]

@@clarkpalace 👍

[@psg1941]

Before this year is over the USA will either have dismounted its Highhorse, or have been knocked off of it. Either way the USA is through!

[@gushutchinson8758]

They've got a bomb They've got a bomb They've got a bomb They've got a bomb They can't wait to use it They can't wait to try it out They can't wait to use it They can't wait to try it out They've got a bomb They've got a bomb They've got a bomb They've got a bomb They can't wait to use it on Me. Meeee Me Meee Me Mee a simple ditty from the band CRASS. The reality is frighteningly that simple. Bill Hicks said something similar in a few minutes of standup where two soldiers are casually discussing what effects each type of the many available at hand does what exactly. Sick but very amusing. It's just fireworks to these Soldiers . I really believe that is how removed a soldier gets. Of course Drones under Obama the drone king took the disconnect to new levels. Now the drones have been requested to pick targets so that PTSD doesn't trouble any 9 -5 office worker /soldiers in a tower block in Cleveland.

[@grannygotcha9809]

"they' you must be referring to A mericans

[@bataviaborobudur]

Truman had a chihuahua complex

[@shelleyharris2850]

Omg, 555 likes. You know what that address is to.

[@debralegorreta1375]

The Untold History of the United Snakes

[@HistoryChannel1776]

Kuznick is wearing a wig.

[@PaddyOHareMusicUK]

A really bad one!

[@grannygotcha9809]

So????

[@marksark1119]

The Vietnam Conflict was NOT worth the total deaths and destruction inflicted on all the people involved. The same goes for the Korean Police Action. Communism wasn't a worldwide threat. That was U.S. and NATO propaganda. Russia found out that they'd rather have Capitalism than Communism. Both wars, if you will, had U.S. companies that were heavily vested in them. Same for the military. Testing grounds with REAL targets of steel and flesh and bone. Any conflict involving the U.S., Kuwait and Irag for instance, in the Middle East will involve a very big worldwide product. Oil. And that too, just plain sucks.

[@Simko3426]

It was a bitter disappointment. Those in power in Kyiv had counted on being able to successfully campaign against Moscow alongside the US/NATO war machine. Zelensky himself had openly propagated the war aims: reconquest of Donbass and Crimea. Both would have been possible, if at all, only with the massive deployment of US combat units. Vladimir Zelenskiy has now had to realize that his bet on US/NATO military support has not worked out and that his armies are threatened with complete defeat, the end of his rule and the end of Ukraine in its current form. He began to use tactics in the negotiations with the Russian side. This, in turn, brought the "Western" hardliners into action. An early end to hostilities is far from what US/NATO sanctions warriors need.

[@shelleyharris2850]

S.O.S.

[@averayugen8462]

"Harry you were meant to be a girl anyway!" Lol. My mother liked Adlai Stevenson who was in Wallace's camp. Bless her! Thank you Oliver Stone and Peter K for this superb contribution to our growingly authentic grasp of our own past

[@claudrebille178]

Those guys all love mineral water

[@estebanpardo9611]

Would of had been a different country if Henry A Wallace would had been president.

[@alphaomega5923]

Talk about UN Permanent Members; the Top Five Countries. Who are they? Do they all possess nuclear bombs? Do they share nuclear researches? Why do they called it the ISS? We are not sheep.

[@grannygotcha9809]

Oh, I see sheep everywhere. Big mouths likee are criticized and literally screamed at by these. Sheep....they are. Everywhere .

[@alphaomega5923]

@@grannygotcha9809 Not everyone is a sheep.

[@LBWalls]

Late to the game but,pretending that the USSR was for some type of Utopia is sorry, cause I love listening to Oliver, just plain wrong!

[@rosestewart1606]

I agree but as a Canadian I'd say they aren't the bad guys in comparison to the US. we're neighbours with both of you and we would never join either of you. Pot and Kettle

[@dougstyles]

Really? She couldnt memorize that intro?

[@RobertHearn-hu2br]

It's a start and quite good but why did you leave out The Balfour Agreement, The Treaty of Versailles to enslave Germany, The refusal of Russia not wanting to join the Federal Reserve? Why not expose more on the book , The Creature of Jekyl Island in which America had its money be controlled by a private consortium The does not help Americans , only people connected to the Fed . Too much Hollywood pressure?

[@kurtbogle2973]

It's all capitalism ! You don't think Putin is on Wallstreets payroll?

[@diogene9324]

Saw the movies. Hadn't see such a propaganda since "The Fall of Berlin" by Mikheil Chiaureli.

[@dankokovacevic]

Propaganda backed by facts??? It's called the truth!

[@diogene9324]

Sure boomers.

[@adam-thesportsguy6147]

Oliver Stone’s hair is a mess.

[@francesjecmaloney8977]

Personally conservative (as appropriate I think, for my age group), I love all our presidents and their wives. This has to do, not with agreement with a package of policy or opinion, but with the fact that, so far, all have preserved the clime in which we watch and are able to benefit from, this video.

[@babyjesus9320]

I live in China and I can watch this documentary, it seems a low bar. American presidents have been responsible for the indiscriminate killing of millions of people around the world.

[@anthonygarcia3097]

I am not impressed.

[@scottclark.3766]

OLIVER STONE IS OVER RATED! Jon Stewart said he's the most UN-America person he ever meet!

[@bibihabbshi6384]

Who cares about what John Stewart said or not?

[@Zingalamadumi]

You are a propaganda fed person

[@rsr789]

Oliver Stone never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like... he made two or three good films (over 20 years ago) and is becoming more and more irrelevant and crazy as time goes by.

[@tomm6789]

Irrelevant are you sick?

[@Zingalamadumi]

he's irrelevant to ahistorical, inept imbeciles like yourself

[@darenkelly1386]

Not any crazier than Trump and his TRumplicans

[@scottspencer6899]

How many Oscars have you won, how many wars have you fought in, how many bestselling books have you won? My guess is none so shut the f€¢k up.

[@mizzypoo4827]

He was ousted from Hollywood, for truth telling.. basically he didn't get any jobs for breaking the Hollywood golden rule, of making American sugarcoated movies.

[@tedmusson5179]

Indonesian tells as much or more about the horrors that ameriKKKa is as Vietnam is. Wallace should have gone down as the greatest American.

[@tedmusson5179]

Oliver... where is the four generation of total evil bU$h movie.

[@omagosh5137]

Professor Kuznick is brilliant. I have the dvd and their book on the history of the U.S. Thank you!