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Loose Change Final Cut Part 1 2008-10-26 17:47:03 The third and final release of this controversial documentary series uses video content from main stream news sources to tell a different side to the official 9/11 story. Filmmaker Dylan Avery began researching the 9/11 attacks in 2002 and came to the conclusion that they were not a terrorist attack but were orchestrated by members of the United States government.
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God's Next Army 2008-10-26 17:24:28 Enshrined in the US Constitution is the belief that there should be separation of church at state, but Patrick Henry College was founded with the aim to train young fundamentalist Christians to become the next generation of America's most powerful. This documentary tells the story of how PHC's mission is to 'rechristianise' America; to 'preserve the world from the sinfulness of man'. Scary stuff!
Do schools kill creativity? 2008-10-23 12:47:58 Excellent lecture by creativity expert Ken Robinson in which he examines whether schools kill creativity in children and what we can do to improve matters.
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated 2008-10-19 17:21:58 This is an independent documentary film about the inner workings of the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture, how it effects the films the public gets to see and even the ones that get made in the first place. Essential viewing for those you are interested in the first amendment .
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Orwell Rolls In His Grave 2008-10-10 17:43:46 This chilling documentary film examines the relationship between the media, corporate America, and government. In a country where the 'top 1% control 90% of the wealth', the film argues that the media system is nothing but a 'subsidiary of corporate America.
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Zeitgeist: Addendum 2008-10-10 17:14:04 The failure of our world to resolve the issue of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. 'Zeitgeist
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' addresses the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long term solution.
Slacker Uprising 2008-10-06 11:20:24 Michale Moore's new movie was released free onto the internet in an attempt to get the youth of America away from their televisions and into the polling booths this November. Can this one man have an effect on who is voted in as US President? Find out the answer soon!
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unlocking the mysteries of life 2008-11-17 04:07:30 I generally pride myself in only putting the best documentaries up on the site but I thought I'd break from tradition today and post one I consider to be pure propaganda. Watch in amazement as religious fundamentalists clutch at an increasingly small number of straws, trying to convince us that Darwin was wrong. According to this movie the theory of evolution cannot account for the huge variety an
Life and Debt 2008-11-15 05:10:09 A very well made documentary film which combines traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework showing how international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade affect the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact. Focusing on the lives of ordinary workers & farmers on the island of Jamaica, this film contends that free-trade is of greatest ben
Darwin's Nightmare 2008-11-12 17:03:05 A harrowing, hard-hitting documentary which shows the devastating effects of the "globalized" economy on the residents of a fishing village in Tanzania. The story starts four decades ago when a species of huge fish is introduced to Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The fish are now harvested, chopped into filets and shipped to European and Japanese consumers while the Africans who catch and process them Read more:Darwin
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Super Rich - The Greed Game 2008-11-04 18:45:00 As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill.
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Jesus Camp 2008-11-04 18:18:46 Follow charismatic teacher Becky Fischer who runs a summer camp for evangelical christian children in the US. An interesting but thoroughly alarming documentary which shows the brainwashing and spiritual abuse of a generation of children trained to be young soldiers in "God's Army".
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Night And Fog 2008-11-04 17:45:23 One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of man's brutal inhumanity.
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OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism 2008-11-01 17:50:37 The genre-busting documentary that started a flood of issue-oriented documentaries exposes the right wing bias of RupertMurdoch
's Fox News which has been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. An in-depth look at the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the media.
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Taxi to the Dark Side 2008-10-29 17:47:05 This is a superb Academy Award-nominated documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney. The two-hour long story tells of a young Afghan taxi driver, Dilawar, an innocent bystander who was picked up by American troops, tortured, and died from his severe injuries at an American detention center. The film uses never-before-seen footage, interviews with leading politicians and activists
McLibel - Two People Who Wouldnt Say Sorry 2008-12-09 15:27:59 McLibel is a documentary movie which tells the story of political activists, Helen Steel and Dave Morris who were taken to court by the McDonalds fast food chain for claims they had made about the company. The couple had accused McDonalds of paying low wages for staff, poor treatment of animals, environmental damage and advertising to children.The trial which followed turned into the longest in
The Good Consumer 2008-12-06 15:45:35 This one's not a documentary but I found it on the web today and thought some of you might appreciate it.
The producers of this movie contend that consumerism is the root cause of the worldwide crisis we find ourselves in today, with the drive for consumer growth contributing to the destruction of the environment, the economy and popular culture. Definitely worth taking a few minutes to watch this Read more:Consumer
The Root of All Evil? - The Virus Of Faith (2 of 2) 2008-12-05 16:55:15 Richard Dawkins investigates the continuing march of militant faith which seems unstoppable despite science having exposed old religious myths.
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The Root of All Evil? - The God Delusion (1 of 2) 2008-12-05 16:25:41 Pretty much everything Dawkins releases is pure gold as far as I'm concerned. This two part series, which originally aired on Channel 4 back in January 2006, explores the beliefs that are treated as fact by many followers of religion and what Dawkins describes as the 'process of non-thinking called faith'.
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guns, germs and steel - part two 2008-11-29 13:53:00 Part two of the series based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs and Steel. This episode looks at how European societies were able to develop weapons to conquer the rest of the world and the germs they took with them which became an unintended weapon against indigenous people.
You can read more about the book and TV series on this wiki.
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The Century Of The Self - Part 1 of 4 2008-11-25 14:57:02 A fascinating look at the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in the west. How was the all-consuming self created, who created it and what were their intentions?
Examines the work of Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays who is often seen as the "father of the public relations industry" and was the first to use psychological techniques in adve Read more:Century
The Denial Machine 2008-11-18 15:22:46 A 2006 British report estimated that the projected costs of global warming to be as costly as both world wars and the Great Depression added together. Yet, with such consequences, some scientists still insist that climate change, if it is happening at all, could be a good thing.
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investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tr
Guns, Germs and Steel - Part one 2008-11-18 14:49:09 Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs
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traces the journey humankind has taken from the end of the last Ice Age to modern day life in the twenty-first century in a quest to understand why white Europeans managed to conquer so much of the world.
Three one-hour programs were made, filmed across four continents and combining ambitious dramatic reconstruction with m
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