Dark Money

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Dark Money

2018

1h 37m

Documentary

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51 Reviews

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100+ Ratings

In the wake of the Citizens United ruling, dark money floods elections nationwide, but Montanans are standing up to stop history from repeating itself in a struggle that has the potential to change the way elections happen across the U.S.

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Dark Money does an impressive job of tackling a complicated subject in easily understandable -- and, for many viewers, utterly enraging -- terms.

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

08/08/2018

4/5

"Dark Money" exposes the dangers of unbridled, anonymous political spending so expertly that it will make you fume with anger, practically quake with distress.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

08/02/2018

3/5

The film's basic problem is that it jumps around too much... Still, Reed and her team have boiled down their presentation to a manageable 99 minutes that's fascinating, absorbing, and mind-altering.

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Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

07/27/2018

B+

The undue influence of money on elections is not exactly news, but the ways in which that influence can now be secured, given the current state of the law, certainly is.

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Bianca Garner

Filmotomy

10/11/2024

An intelligent piece of investigative journalism and an educational journey back into the past...

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Cory Woodroof

615 Film

02/11/2022

The documentary can crackle along with the best journalism capers, but also carries a pang of regret for the decline of traditional media.

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Scott Phillips

The Movie Isle

07/24/2020

Dark Money should be required viewing.

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Matthew R

@RT52830269 06/10/2025

Most of us know that our governement is corrupt and we are really being run by corporations but to see it laid out so obviously is very demoralizing and sad.

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Per S

@RT83737705 05/11/2025

Dark Money is an important display of how corrupt US politics really is. Access to funding talks no louder than in the nation fundamented on capitalism and industrial power, and political corruption is pivotal in this system. That's why so many of the worst possible people get elected and why there are so many horrible candidates. Where Money Talks Greed Rules.

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09/04/2019

Eye opening - watch this before we get too much further into the election cycle.

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Chris J

@RT01945278 04/11/2019

Well, another shortlisted film bites the dust. A documentary like a million I've seen before. I'm almost always a fan of documentaries but this one just didn't do it for me. I found some interesting information from this and it did open my eyes to an unfortunate way some things work in politics. This is really one of those films with a very limited target audience (though to be fair most documentaries are lol). I'd definitely be interested to hear anyone else's opinion on this one.

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12/04/2018

Far too complicated for me to understand these days

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10/02/2018

PBS POV 10/2/18 SCARY

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Synopsis

In the wake of the Citizens United ruling, dark money floods elections nationwide, but Montanans are standing up to stop history from repeating itself in a struggle that has the potential to change the way elections happen across the U.S.

Director: Kimberly Reed
Screenwriter: Kimberly Reed, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Distributor: PBS Distribution
Production Co: Big Mouth Productions, Meerkat Media Collective, Big Sky Film Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 13, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 2, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $164.0K
Runtime: 1h 37m