postmanwhoalwaysringstwice "Unprecedented" is an unsettling account of the 2000 Presidential Election, which should have been an alarm call to American citizens to do one of two major things: become active in moving forward voting reform, or become more apathetic about the entire voting process. It's another Robert Greenwald production, who has been well-known at putting together left leaning documentaries (on subjects such as Walmart and Rupert Murdoch) about important social and political issues. Even though this film tells the story of what put a Republican in office, and therefore does spin the information to prove without a doubt that an election was "stolen" from a Democrat, there are key societal issues that this film addresses that would hopefully affect viewers on a human level as opposed to a political level.

jimadamgolfer Of course, Al Gore got hosed in Florida. Absolutely more voters intended to vote for Al Gore than George Bush. But Al Gore had a lot a voters too challenged to get it right and after the votes were counted and recounted he came up a tad short.I went into this movie hoping to learn something I already didn't know. No such luck. It was obvious the movie was slanted or bias to omit facts that favored George Bush.For example, all of the counties with the problems were Democratic controlled counties and they ran the voting process. They were responsible.For example, the absent overseas votes, the movie only mentioned the late post marked votes, but the much larger problem were the thousands of envelopes with no post mark. Why should these Bush favored votes all be thrown out because the Armed Forces does a sloppy job of post marking.For example, the Florida Supreme court was rewriting election laws to aid Al Gore. The law sets a specific deadline date in compliance with the electoral college deadlines and to avoid the chaos that ensured. For example, the new services joined together to count every votes and they reported that George Bush won more votes, but the movie flipped that conclusion to suit their liberal agenda.They may fool impressionable minds, but by disregarding both sides of the story, this documentary is false. All they had to do is try to be more fair and balanced, because Al Gore did get hosed.

dave-wade Yes, the voting process in this country is screwed up and, yes, this movie correctly identifies some of the problems. However, where it goes wrong is in blaming the problem on the Republicans... and this is 90% of the content of this 'documentary'.Election reform, and more specifically, reform of the voting process, is a non-partisan issue which both sides bring up when *they* lose an election. The problem never gets fixed because the 'winner' has the power (and our government only contains the 'winners', remember).The wailing and gnashing of teeth that goes on in this film makes me want to puke. Reminds me of 'Casablanca'... "I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find that gambling is going on in here!," says Captain Renault, as he pockets his winnings.

LelandT If you thought you knew the fact about what happened in November & December of 2000 this documentary surprises you with more hard evidence that the main stream media has refused to report. Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Harris planned for months before the election to purge the voter rolls of legally registered Democrats. And there are signed memos to prove it. This investigative journalism is truly amazing.