After backing the second-most-profitable U.S. political documentary film, Gerald “Jerry” Molen of Bigfork is producing a new film about America.

Molen, an Oscar-winning producer for blockbuster movies such as “Schindler’s List” and “Jurassic Park,” was the producer of last year’s “2016: Barack Obama’s America.”

The documentary, narrated by author Dinesh D’Souza, took a critical look at the president’s background and the direction of the country under his leadership.

Now Molen is working with D’Souza again on a documentary called “America,” which will explore what the world would look like if the country never existed.

It will also examine the impact of Obama’s policies on the country and the promises the president has made, Molen told the Pachyderm Club in Kalispell on Friday.

“We’d like to have some impact on the election,” Molen said, referring to plans to release the film before November 2014.

That was Molen’s plan last year for “2016,” a film that grossed $33.5 million at the box office, second only to filmmaker Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit: 911,” a critical look at the Iraq war, the Bush Administration and the War on Terror.

“Fahrenheit: 911” made nearly $120 million.

Molen talked about attending the recent Conservative Political Action Conference and sitting on a discussion panel called “The Right in Hollywood.”

“What amazed me more than anything were the young people there,” Molen said. “I think a lot of it had to do with Rand Paul getting young people there.”

Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, has become popular among libertarian-leaning youths. Molen lamented how divisions in the conservative moment came up during the conference, particularly when “some of the dinosaurs in the Republican Party” criticized Paul for his 13-hour filibuster in the Senate.

Molen said Hollywood remains predominately liberal with many barriers for conservatives, but he expressed optimism for things to change. An organization of people in the filmmaking business called “Friends of Abe” now has about 1,400 members, he said.

Molen said that when he decided to get involved with “2016” he knew that it would end some of his relationships with the Hollywood elite.

“I made the decision that country mattered more,” he said, adding that he owed an effort to restore conservative values for his children and grandchildren.

“I truly believe that what we have at stake here is the American dream,” he said.

Molen said he has been pondering a future film project about last year’s attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the subsequent handling of the incident by the Obama administration and the media.

He said it would be a worthwhile effort to tell the story with a critical point of view.

“Our fear is that somebody from the left is going to make [the movie] and whitewash it,” he said.

Reporter Jim Mann may be reached at 758-4407 or by email at jmann@dailyinterlake.com.