The assassination of President Kennedy is a subject that Oliver Stone has been struggling with for years. His 1991 film JFK received eight Oscar nominations (winning two for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing), while the director was accused of amplifying conspiracy theories. After three decades, he produced a documentary, which is a kind of epilogue to the original film. Using the declassified documents, he returns to a few questions related to the JFK murder. Where did the bullet found during the autopsy come from? Why did the authorities prevent professional pathologists from being present at the autopsy? Most importantly: who really benefited from Kennedy's death? With the help of scientists and historians studying the Dallas tragedy, Stone multiplies the answers and makes new suggestions. Some will call it underwhelming, others will find confirmation of their own suspicions or favorite conspiracy theories. Perhaps Stone just wanted to get back at his critics after all these years? Regardless of his motivation, the director of Natural Born Killers still knows how to piece the conspiratorial puzzle pieces into an engaging and persuasive whole. Whether we believe him is, in fact, of secondary importance.
Oliver Stone is an actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Winner of three Oscars - for directing Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, and for Alan Parker's script for Midnight Express - as well as dozens of other film awards. Stone does not hide from difficult topics, constantly revealing the dark sides of American history. In recent years, he has been devoted primarily to documentary productions, often involving various conspiracy theories, or fraternizing with dictators (he has devoted films, among others, to Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin). Still, he remains one of the most important and controversial authors of American cinema.
1981 Ręka / The Hand
1986 Salvador
1986 Pluton / Platoon
1987 Wall Street
1989 Urodzony 4 lipca / Born on the Fourth of July
1991 The Doors
1991 JFK
1993 Pomiędzy niebem a ziemią / Heaven & Earth
1994 Urodzeni mordercy / Natural Born Killers
1995 Nixon
1997 Droga przez piekło / U Turn
1999 Męska gra / Any Given Sunday
2003 Dowódca / Comandante
2004 Aleksander / Alexander
2006 World Trade Center
2008 W.
2010 Wall Street: Pieniądz nie śpi / Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2012 Savages: ponad bezprawiem / Savages
2012 Historia Stanów Zjednoczonych według Olivera Stone’a / The Untold History of the United States (doc. TV series)
2014 Mi amigo Hugo (doc.)
2016 Snowden (doc.)
2017 Oliver Stone vs Putin / The Putin Interviews (doc. TV series)