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Trailer: "U.N. Me" Takes the Michael Moore Approach for an Expose on the United Nations

If you're disappointed that Sacha Baron Cohen didn't take the Borat and Bruno approach with his latest film, The Dictator, for an inside look at the United Nations, maybe the upcoming documentary U.N. Me will hit the spot.

As you can see in the above trailer, directors Matthew Groff and Ami Horowitz employ Michael Moore-like tactics for a first-person investigation (with Horowitz as our onscreen host) for a humorous yet important expose of the peacekeeping organization. Is most of the U.N. a big, incompetent scam that our taxes are partly funding? We'll find out when the film hits theaters and VOD on June 1.

How a U.N. peacekeeping force stationed in Cote d'Ivoire fired into a crowd of unarmed protesters, injuring and killing dozens, and how the U.N. failed to investigate.

How the largest U.N. humanitarian effort ever conceived, the Oil for Food Program, devolved into one of the biggest scams in the history of the world, and how the U.N. never disciplined or fired the culprits. 

How the organization that ought to be leading the international effort to eradicate terrorism cannot, seven years after 9/11, agree on a definition of "terrorism."

How the U.N.'s Human Rights Council prolonged the genocide in Darfur by attempting to discredit the urgent recommendations of its own investigative team.

Another notable talent on the film is editor Doug Abel (Moore's The Awful Truth series; Manda Bala). I'm impressed that two first-time documentarians were able to get such a top-notch team involved.

Here's a bonus clip from the movie:

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