Michael Moore's 'Bowling For Columbine' to Air on MSNBC Saturday Night

Moore's Oscar-winning film on America's gun obsession remains one of the most successful documentaries of all time

Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore's seminal documentary on American gun culture and its violent implications, will air (for free) on MSNBC Saturday night.

Moore won an Academy Award for the film in 2003, and famously earned boos from the Hollywood audience after he used his acceptance speech to criticize then President George W. Bush and his nascent war plans in Iraq.

​Bowling for Columbine won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to tally more than $22 million at the box office, making it one of the biggest documentary hits of all time.

Here’s a clip from the opening scene of my film, “Bowling for Columbine”, which will have a special nationwide screening tomorrow night (Saturday) at 9pm ET on MSNBC...

“You Open a Bank Account, You Get a Free Gun!”https://t.co/SxjrawMqwU

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 18, 2019

The film represented Moore's cri de coeur (albeit with his signature humor) of gun violence in the country, one of the most horrifying examples being the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado that took place in 1999. Moore confronted Charlton Heston in the film, who at the time was the president of the NRA, and had vowed retain his grip on weapons until they were pried from "my cold dead hands."
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This Saturday night, my film, “Bowling for Columbine”, will air as a prime time special on MSNBC at 9pm ET. Don’t miss it! Here’s the trailer for the movie when it first came out: https://t.co/o1vhSifoFy pic.twitter.com/d8htQMluTl

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 18, 2019