Intermission: Beatboxer Does Dubstep - Culture. The Race Card Meets Its match from The Message. THE UPSETTER: the Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry. Favourite Documentaries? [Archive] Diablo75 December 18th, 2008, 02:55 AM +1 for Steal This Film 1 & 2 +1 for This Film Is Not Yet Rated +1 The Corporation +1 Outfoxed +1 Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price I've not yet seen The World According to Monsanto, but I'd bet The Corporation encompassed a good chunk of it (as does someone I know who used to work for them) I've also not seen "The enemies of reason" so will have to check that out. +1 "The god who wasn't there" (I could have sworn the same person who made this also did the Zeitgeist films) +1 "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" (It's much easier to watch than that Nova documentary about string theory) +1 Planet Earth +1 Revolution OS Documentaries that I like a lot that haven't been mentioned yet: Status Anxiety - discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to "climb the social ladder" and the anxieties that result from a focus on how one is perceived by others. (3 parts)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 non-fiction book co-written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, wherein the authors argue that the mass media of the United States "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion".[1] Government and news media[edit] Editorial distortion is aggravated by the news media’s dependence upon private and governmental news sources.
If a given newspaper, television station, magazine, etc., incurs governmental disfavor, it is subtly excluded from access to information. Consequently, it loses readers or viewers, and ultimately, advertisers. Editorial bias: five filters[edit] Herman and Chomsky's "propaganda model" describes five editorially distorting filters applied to news reporting in mass media: Recent developments[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Outfoxed. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism is a 2004 documentary film by filmmaker Robert Greenwald that criticises the Fox News Channel, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the channel is used to promote and advocate right-wing views.[1] The film says this pervasive bias contradicts the channel's claim of being "Fair and Balanced".[2][3] The documentary enjoyed a limited theatrical release,[4] was distributed in DVD format by the Political action committee MoveOn.org, and was sold online through Internet retailers such as Amazon.com, where it was a top-seller in July 2004.[5] MoveOn.org had helped promote the DVD release by taking out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times.[5] Following the release of Outfoxed, Greenwald and Brave New Films produced a related series of anti-Fox viral videos, collectively entitled Fox Attacks.[1] Synopsis[edit] Some of Outfoxed's coverage includes: Reviews[edit] Fox News and Rupert Murdoch's response[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Steal This Film. The World According to Monsanto. Synopsis[edit] The film reports many controversies surrounding the use and promotion of genetically modified seeds, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Agent Orange, and bovine growth hormone. Cases in the United States (including Anniston, Alabama), Canada, India, Mexico, Paraguay, the United Kingdom (Scotland) and France, are explored, claiming that the corporation's collusion with governments, pressure tactics, suppression and manipulation of scientific data, and extra-legal practices aided the company's attempts at dominating global agriculture. Scientists, representatives of the United States Food and Drug Administration and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, civil society representatives, victims of the company’s activities, lawyers, and politicians are interviewed.[3] In March 2008, French journalist Marie-Monique Robin released the results of her three years of worldwide research into Monsanto.
References[edit] External links[edit] America: Freedom to Fascism. Federal Reserve System issues and interviews in the film[edit] The film examines the genesis and functions of the Federal Reserve System. The film asserts that the Federal Reserve System is a system of privately held, for profit corporations, not a government agency, and that the Fed was commissioned to print fiat money on behalf of the federal government, at a fee ultimately paid for by the personal income tax (through service on bond interest). The film also refers to the fact that the United States dollar is not backed by gold, and states that this means the dollar has no real backing other than future income tax payments. Consequently, the film states that Federal Reserve Notes represent debt instead of wealth. The central thesis of the film may be that this monetary policy is the strongest form of governance that has ever existed, and is central to the unconstitutional, global power ambitions of the interests that supposedly control the Federal Reserve System.
Fifth Amendment[edit] Earthlings (film) Earthlings is a 2005 documentary film about humanity's use of animals as pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and for scientific research. The film is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, features music by Moby, was directed by Shaun Monson, and was co-produced by Maggie Q, all of whom are practicing vegans.[1] Covering pet stores, puppy mills and animal profession, Earthlings includes footage obtained through the use of hidden cameras to chronicle the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely on animals.
It draws parallels between racism, sexism, and speciesism. The film started off as footage first that writer, director and producer Shaun Monson had shot at animal shelters around Los Angeles in 1999. Monson originally shot the footage for PSAs on spaying and neutering pets but what he saw moved him so much that he turned it into a documentary. Into Great Silence. Into Great Silence (German: Die Große Stille) is a documentary film directed by Philip Gröning that was released in 2005. It is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains).
Production[edit] The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to Gröning 16 years later to say they were willing to permit him to shoot the movie if he was still interested. Gröning then came alone to live at the monastery, where no visitors were ordinarily allowed, for a total of six months in 2002 and 2003. He filmed and recorded on his own, using no artificial light. Reception[edit] Awards[edit] Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Festival.European Film Awards 2006, Documentary - Prix ArteBavarian Film Award best documentary film on Friday, 13. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] The Enemies of Reason. The Enemies of Reason is a two-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in which he seeks to expose "those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell", including mediumship, acupuncture and psychokinesis.[1] The documentary was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK, styled as a loose successor to Dawkins' documentary of the previous year, The Root of All Evil?
, as seen through the incorporation of brief clips from said documentary during the introduction of the first part by Dawkins. The first part aired 13 August 2007 and the second on 20 August 2007.[2] Episode 1: Slaves to Superstition[edit] Dawkins points to some of science’s achievements and describes it as freeing most people from superstition and dogma. In another notable segment Dawkins visits a psychic for £50 who said she could hear or see his father "on the other side Episode 2: The Irrational Health Service[edit]
The Root of All Evil? The Root of All Evil? , later retitled The God Delusion, is a television documentary written and presented by Richard Dawkins in which he argues that humanity would be better off without religion or belief in God. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title The Root of All Evil? Was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy.[1] The sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Part 1: The God Delusion[edit] "The God Delusion" explores the unproven beliefs that are treated as factual by many religions and the extremes to which some followers have taken them.
Lourdes[edit] Dawkins first visits the shrine of Lourdes in southern France, where he joins a candlelit procession of pilgrims singing, "Laudate Mariam! " Faith versus science[edit] Colorado Springs[edit] Jerusalem[edit] Modulations. Modulations is a multi-media exploration into the history of electronic music, consisting of a documentary film, its soundtrack album, and a book. The project was directed by Iara Lee, the maker of the documentary film Synthetic Pleasures. Modulations, Cinema for the Ear (1998)[edit] Soundtrack[edit] Modulations, A History of Electronic Music, Throbbing Words on Sound (2000)[edit] External links[edit] Project Camelot. Project Camelot was a social science research project of the United States Army that started in 1964 and was cancelled after congressional hearings in 1965.[1] The goal of the project was to assess the causes of conflict between national groups, to anticipate social breakdown and provide eventual solutions.
The proposal caused much controversy among social scientists, many of whom voiced concerns that such a study was in conflict with their professional ethics.[2] Chile was to be the test case for the project, but Claudio Bunster was alerted almost immediately to its possible military nature when Johan Galtung showed him a letter from the Special Operations Research Office (SORO) inviting him to a seminar to discuss the project in 1966 at the American University in Washington DC. The project's purpose was described by the army as follows: History[edit] The origin of the name "Camelot" came from a book by T.H. Organization[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit]