Where to Invade Next

In his most light-hearted and optimistic effort yet, filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore becomes a one-man American army and sets out to "invade" several foreign nations to steal their good ideas. Where to Invade Next comedically pursues the serious mission of challenging the conventions and inequities of U.S. social policy and the mythology of the American Dream.

On his global tour, he looks to Italy where workers are given 30 days of vacation and new mothers get five weeks of full paid leave. He stops in France, where well-funded school systems provide multicourse, high-quality lunches; in Slovenia, where college education is free to citizens and foreign students alike; and in Germany, where workers are sent to spas to contend with overstressed work environments. In Norway, he finds that prisons provide humane housing and extensive work and learning opportunities, and in Iceland, a strong economy and thriving middle class has been recovered with the help of strong female leadership.