''Dream On'' is a 2015 American
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
starring
John Fugelsang.
Overview
Comedian John Fugelsang set outs see if the
American Dream is still alive by retracing the journey taken across the United States by French historian
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (; 29 July 180516 April 1859), colloquially known as Tocqueville (), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works ...
in 1831 that inspired his 1835 book ''
Democracy in America
(; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title literally translates to ''On Democracy in America'', but official English translations are usually simply entitl ...
'', which gave birth to the concept of the American Dream.
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2015 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about the United States
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
Alexis de Tocqueville
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