Moore 's 1995 satirical film , '' Canadian Bacon '' , features a fictional U.S. president ( played by Alan Alda ) engineering a fake war with Canada in order to boost his popularity . The film is also one of the last featuring Canadian-born actor John Candy . Some commentators in the media felt the film was influenced by the Stanley Kubrick film '' Dr. Strangelove . '' Moore 's 1997 film , '' The Big One '' , documents the tour publicizing Moore 's book '' Downsize This ! Random Threats from an Unarmed American '' , in which he criticizes mass layoffs despite record corporate profits . Among others , he targets Nike for outsourcing shoe production to Indonesia . '' Variety '' film critic Joe Leydon wrote , " Imagine a cross between an illustrated standup comedy routine and an anecdotal cinema verite documentary , and you ’re ready for “ The Big One , ” Michael Moore ’s ruthlessly amusing and ruefully insightful followup to his popular “ Roger and Me . ” Documentary '' Bowling for Columbine '' released in 2002 probes the culture of guns and violence in the United States , taking as a starting point the Columbine High School massacre of 1999 . '' Bowling for Columbine '' won the Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and France 's César Award as the Best Foreign Film . In the United States , it won the 2002 Academy Award for Documentary Feature . It also enjoyed great commercial and critical success for a film of its type , and has since gone on to be considered one of the greatest documentary films of all-time . At the time of '' Columbine '' s release , it was the highest-grossing mainstream-released documentary ( a record now held by Moore 's '' Fahrenheit 9/11 '' )
Columbine High School massacre
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