This can only be Labeled Propaganda, it can only be Falsely Labeled a Documentary. It is Badly Made Propaganda. Unlike, say, Leni Rethinsal's "Triumph of the Will" (1935).

The Creative Method used to make this Jarring Jingoism is sorely Lacking and is a Display of Clunky Reenactments, and Atrociously Edited Montages to make Conservative Counterpoints to Progressive Points about America's Mistreatment of Native Americans, African Americans, the Working Poor, and its Foreign Policy Hubris that at Times could be Brutal and Devastating (Vietnam for Example).

It is a Painful Exercise in Excruciating Justification for America's Sins...

Genocidal treatment of Native Americans should be Downplayed, because after all, They Fought among Themselves and Disease was the Main Ingredient that Perpetuated Their Demise.

The Slaving of African Americans should be Downplayed, because after all, Blacks Owned Slaves, and of course, there were those Indentured Servants, and Slavery has been a Human Behavior since, For Ever.

The Foreign Policy Failures and Imperialism should Not be Questioned and the Loss of Life and Treasure on Both Sides should be Downplayed because POW's have been Brutalized and Resources were Not Confiscated and after all, that's what has been Going On since, Forever.

The Economic Oppression of the Poor and the Exploitation of Minorities and the Masses for the Benefit of the 1% and Free Market Capitalism should be Downplayed, because after all, a Black Woman became a Success and the rest of the World Sees this as a Model to Follow and a Latino Law Student Likes it here.

America is a Model for the World. Freedom, Political Participation, the Bill of Rights and so forth make it a Wonderful Experiment and an Idea Worth Defending, Embracing, and Loving. But D'Souza does it No Favors by Ignoring or Defending Bad Policy. It Would Better be Argued by the Right Wing and Conservatives to Admit rather than Justify.

Overall, Worth a Watch to see Manipulative Megalomaniacal Movie-making. The Writer/Director is so Transparent and Delusional it is Amazing to see it all Self-Destruct with even a Minimal amount of Scrutinizing and Open Minded Criticism.

The Film is Awful in its Artlessness and any Attempt to make a Case Disintegrates like the Iconic Americana that Crumbles to Dust on Screen, but, in the end, is Reversed by the Director to Come Back to Life, He the Redeemer.

For many years I often wondered why people who hated this country simply didn't get up and leave for what they would consider a better place to live. I've come to the realization that what they really want instead is to 'fundamentally transform' the country into the image they have of an egalitarian or socialist type of society. This core group of elites 'know better' than the rest of us what's really in our best interest, so if we only turn the country over to them, things will become a lot better. Well, for essentially the last six years, that's what's happened. How is that hope and change working out for everybody now?

What's almost troubling about "America" is that for the first thirty minutes or so, Dinesh S'Souza does such a good job of presenting one side of an argument that liberals and progressives could just about lift that part of the film and use it for their own propaganda purposes. D'Souza lays out the case for America's injustice against Native Americans, Blacks, Mexicans, capitalism and the rest of the world in such a way that when you hear just one side of the story, as most in academia, the entertainment industry and science today would have you hear it, you would be just about swayed by it yourself. But then he strips away the veneer of simplicity of those arguments, and counters with historical fact how the 'idea' of America is one that people and countries around the world wish to emulate.

What's particularly compelling about the timing of this film is the appearance of both D'Souza and Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground of the 1960's, coming together to debate their points of view on Megyn Kelly's Fox News program, the Kelly File this past week. Without hesitation, Ayers states that he's not proud to be an American and dismisses categorically that the activities of his group were terrorist in nature. He supports the same point of view as activist radicals like Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill and Howard Zinn, who's textbook of revisionist history attempts to place blame for the world's troubles on the United States. They refuse to see that wealth in America is created by a system that encourages a work ethic that produces goods and services that consumers willingly enter the market to pay for.

Like D'Souza, I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here for my own views on individualism, freedom and personal responsibility, but that's OK. Like many of my fellow countrymen, I have a gnawing fear that the America I grew up in, the America I know and love is in danger of slipping away. But I also know that Americans rise to the occasion when it becomes necessary to stop tyrants and bullies around the world, so I know we can do it here as well.

I am an Independent voter. I consider myself Moderate as opposed to Conservative or Liberal. But I usually vote Democratic which I did for the last two Presidential elections. So it is with that in mind that I say that for the most part, Dinesh D'Souza seemed to convince me of his compelling argument of how great this country was and how it still achieves some greatness, here and there. Then he tears into Obama and then Hilary Clinton who hasn't even announced her intention to run in 2016 and he starts to lose me then especially when he emphasizes their association with one Saul Alinsky who he considers a sneaky radical. That part seemed too slanted to trying to convince anyone watching how bad they're for this country. Before that, there seemed some balance of presenting the liberal viewpoint with the conservative one. Still, this was compelling watching. So on that note, I recommend America: Imagine the World Without Her.