From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Before that he was the 46th Governor of Texas, serving from 1995 to 2000. Bush is the eldest son of President George H. W. Bush, who served as the 41st President, and Barbara Bush, making him one of only two American presidents to be the son of a preceding president, after John Quincy Adams. He is also the brother of Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked in oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. In a close and controversial election, Bush was elected President in 2000 as the Republican candidate, defeating Vice President Al Gore in the Electoral College. He was named Time Person of the Year 2000 and 2004. Early on, the Bush administration withdrew from a number of international treaty processes, notably the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. A series of terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bush's first term as president on September 11, 2001. In response, Bush announced a global War on Terror, ordered an invasion of Afghanistan that same year and an invasion of Iraq in 2003. In addition to national security issues, Bush promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, and social security reform. He signed into law broad tax cuts, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and Medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors. His tenure saw national debates on immigration, Social Security, electronic surveillance, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques". Bush successfully ran for re-election against Democratic Senator John Kerry in 2004, in another relatively close election. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the political spectrum. In 2005, the Bush Administration dealt with widespread criticism over its handling of Hurricane Katrina. Following this and other controversies, as well as dissatisfaction with the direction of the Iraq War, Democrats won control of Congress in the 2006 elections. As the U.S. entered its longest post–World War II recession in December 2007, the Bush Administration took more direct control of the economy, enacting multiple economic programs intended to preserve the country's financial system. Though Bush was popular in the U.S. for much of his first term, his popularity declined sharply during his second term. He was a highly controversial figure internationally, with public protests occurring even during visits to close allies, such as the United Kingdom. After leaving office, Bush returned to Texas and purchased a home in a suburban area of Dallas. He is currently a public speaker and has written a book about his life entitled Decision Points. Description above from the Wikipedia article George W. Bush, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | UFO Invasion at Rendlesham | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2025 |
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Movie | In the Grip of Gazprom | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2023-02-07 |
Movie | China: The Uighur Tragedy | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 2022-02-01 |
Movie | Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL | Self (archive footage) | 2022-09-23 |
Movie | Facing Nolan | Himself | 2022-05-24 |
Movie | Two Men at War | Self (archive footage) | 2022-11-11 |
Movie | Celebrating America | Self | 2021-01-20 |
Movie | 9/11: Inside the President's War Room | Self | 2021-08-31 |
Movie | The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress | Self (archive footage) | 2021-02-16 |
Movie | Korea, A Hundred Years of War | Self (archive footage) | 2020-06-11 |
Movie | George W. Bush | Self | 2020-05-04 |
Movie | Frontline: America's Great Divide | Self - Former President (archive sound) | 2020-01-13 |
Movie | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self (archive Footage) | 2020-07-03 |
Movie | The Soul of America | Self (archive footage) | 2020-10-22 |
Movie | 537 Votes | Self (archive footage) | 2020-10-21 |
Movie | American Deep State | Self | 2020-08-14 |
Movie | The Plot Against The President | Self (archive footage) | 2020-10-16 |
Movie | The Way I See It | Self (archive footage) | 2020-09-18 |
Series | The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power | Himself (archive footage) | 2019-03-03 |
Movie | Korea: The Never-Ending War | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-29 |
Movie | XY Chelsea | Self (archive footage) | 2019-05-24 |
Movie | Official Secrets | Self (archival footage) | 2019-08-30 |
Movie | The River and the Wall | Self (archive footage) | 2019-05-05 |
Movie | 30 Years of Democracy | Self (archive footage) | 2019-12-22 |
Movie | John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls | Self (archive footage) | 2018-05-28 |
Movie | RBG | Self (archive footage) | 2018-05-04 |
Movie | The Road to Mass Incarceration | Self | 2018-06-13 |
Movie | The Bubble | Himself | 2018-07-12 |
Movie | The Corporate Coup D'État | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2018-11-18 |
Movie | Above Majestic | Self (archive footage) | 2018-10-30 |
Movie | Fahrenheit 11/9 | Self (archive footage) | 2018-09-10 |
Series | One Day at a Time | audio archive (uncredited) | 2017-01-06 |
Movie | Legion of Brothers | Himself (archive footage) | 2017-05-19 |
Movie | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power | Self | 2017-07-28 |
Movie | The Words That Built America | Reader - The Constitution | 2017-07-04 |
Movie | Zero Weeks | Self (archive footage) | 2017-11-02 |
Movie | Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne | Self (archive footage) | 2016-03-13 |
Movie | Zero Days | Himself (archive footage) | 2016-07-08 |
Movie | Boom Bust Boom | Self (archive footage) | 2016-03-11 |
Series | The New Yorker Presents | Himself | 2016-02-16 |
Movie | Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? | Self (archive footage) | 2016-08-01 |
Movie | Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | Self - President (archive footage) | 2016-03-04 |
Movie | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Self (archive footage) | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | 15 Septembers Later | Self | 2016-09-05 |
Movie | HyperNormalisation | Self (archive footage) | 2016-10-25 |
Movie | 13th | Self (archive footage) | 2016-10-07 |
Movie | Shadow World | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 2016-10-14 |
Movie | Hamilton's America | Self | 2016-10-01 |
Movie | National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony | Self | 2016-09-24 |
Movie | Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang | Self (archive footage) | 2015-01-25 |
Movie | Bitter Lake | Self (archive footage) | 2015-01-24 |
Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Himself (archive footage) | 2015-01-01 |
Movie | 41 on 41 | Self | 2015-06-09 |
Movie | Truth | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2015-10-16 |
Movie | The Making of Trump | Self | 2015-11-30 |
Movie | Imminent Threat | Self (archive footage) | 2015-09-04 |
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Movie | The Big Short | Himself (archive footage) | 2015-12-11 |
Movie | All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State | Self (archive footage) | 2014-04-28 |
Movie | Mad As Hell | Self (archive footage) | 2014-04-29 |
Movie | JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick | Self (archive footage) | 2014-11-19 |
Movie | Koch | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2013-02-01 |
Movie | David Blaine: Real or Magic | Self | 2013-11-19 |
Movie | Propaganda | Self (archive footage) | 2013-02-14 |
Movie | Inequality for All | Self (archive footage) | 2013-01-19 |
Movie | Fire in the Blood | Archive Footage | 2013-09-06 |
Movie | Speeches That Shook the World | Self (archive footage) | 2013-11-06 |
Movie | The Presidents' Gatekeepers | Self (archive footage) | 2013-09-12 |
Movie | Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? | Self (archive footage) | 2012-03-02 |
Movie | Top Priority: The Terror Within | Self - Former US President (archive footage) | 2012-06-15 |
Movie | Killing Them Softly | Self (archive footage) | 2012-07-30 |
Movie | The Untold History Of The United States | Self (archive footage) | 2012-11-12 |
Series | Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States | Himself | 2012-11-12 |
Movie | The Last Mountain | Self (archive footage) | 2011-06-03 |
Movie | Reagan | Self (archive footage) | 2011-02-07 |
Movie | George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview | 2011-08-28 | |
Movie | Khodorkovsky | Self (archive footage) | 2011-11-17 |
Movie | GasHole | Self (archive footage) | 2010-04-18 |
Movie | How to Win the TV Debate | Self | 2010-04-12 |
Movie | Casino Jack and the United States of Money | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-09 |
Movie | Fair Game | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2010-05-20 |
Movie | The President's Book of Secrets | Self (archive footage) | 2010-12-01 |
Movie | Inside Job | Self (archive footage) | 2010-10-08 |
Movie | The Tillman Story | Self (archive footage) | 2010-08-22 |
Movie | I Want Your Money | Self (archive footage) | 2010-07-06 |
Movie | Waiting for Armageddon | Self (archive footage) | 2009-01-28 |
Movie | Iran: The Hundred Year War | Self (archive footage) | 2009-02-11 |
Movie | Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama | Self (archive footage) | 2009-10-21 |
Movie | South of the Border | Self (archive footage) | 2009-09-07 |
Movie | Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space | Himself | 2009-11-12 |
Movie | Bigger Stronger Faster* | Self (archive footage) | 2008-05-30 |
Movie | Lord, Save Us from Your Followers | Himself (archive footage) | 2008-06-13 |
Movie | Being W | Self (archive footage) | 2008-05-17 |
Movie | Splendor and Wisdom | Himself | 2008-01-01 |
Movie | Blood and Oil | Self | 2008-06-13 |
Movie | Občan Havel | Himself | 2008-01-31 |
Movie | Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson | Self | 2008-07-18 |
Movie | Fuel | Himself - President of the United States | 2008-11-14 |
Movie | All the Presidents' Wives | Self | 2008-06-24 |
Movie | Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country | Himself | 2008-11-12 |
Movie | Courting Condi | Self | 2008-11-06 |
Movie | Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower | Self | 2008-12-15 |
Movie | Beijing 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony | Self | 2008-08-08 |
Movie | Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House | Self (archive footage) | 2008-08-18 |
Movie | Taking Liberties | Self (archive footage) | 2007-01-01 |
Movie | Everything's Cool | Self (archive footage) | 2007-01-01 |
Movie | In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood, and Bioterrorism | Himself | 2007-01-01 |
Movie | The Union: The Business Behind Getting High | Himself (archive footage) | 2007-05-08 |
Movie | Ghosts of Abu Ghraib | Self (archive footage) | 2007-01-19 |
Movie | Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-28 |
Movie | The War on Democracy | Self (archive footage) | 2007-06-15 |
Movie | Sicko | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-18 |
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Movie | Blowin' In The Wind | Self | 2005-03-02 |
Movie | Why We Fight | Himself (archive footage) | 2005-01-20 |
Movie | Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class | Himself (archive footage) | 2005-08-31 |
Movie | Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State | Self (archive footage) | 2005-06-08 |
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Movie | Control Room | Self - US President (archive footage) | 2004-01-15 |
Movie | American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election | Self (archive footage) | 2004-08-04 |
Movie | Strip Search | self (archive footage) | 2004-04-27 |
Movie | Fahrenheit 9/11 | Self (archive footage) | 2004-06-25 |
Movie | Celsius 41.11 | Self (archive footage) | 2004-10-22 |
Movie | National Geographic: Inside the U.S. Secret Service | Self (archive footage) | 2004-10-24 |
Movie | WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception | Self | 2004-12-12 |
Movie | Nine Innings from Ground Zero | Himself | 2004-09-14 |
Movie | Diary of a Political Tourist | Himself | 2004-10-11 |
Movie | Tying the Knot | Self (archive footage) | 2004-10-01 |
Movie | Deadline | 2004-10-05 | |
Movie | Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties | Self (archive footage) | 2004-10-05 |
Movie | Echolalia | Self | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Stupidity | himself | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Salt Lake 2002: Stories of Olympic Glory | Himself | 2003-01-07 |
Movie | Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers | Himself (archive footage) | 2003-11-21 |
Movie | The Corporation | Self (archive footage) | 2003-09-10 |
Movie | Journeys with George | Self | 2002-03-08 |
Movie | The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing | Self | 2002-01-27 |
Movie | Horns and Halos | Himself (archive footage) | 2002-03-30 |
Movie | Family Fundamentals | Self - Presidential candidate (archive footage) | 2002-05-26 |
Movie | Demonlover | Himself (archive footage) | 2002-11-06 |
Movie | Bowling for Columbine | Self | 2002-10-09 |
Movie | Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election | Self (archive footage) | 2002-09-17 |
Movie | The Story of Darrell Royal | Himself | 1999-01-01 |