Genocide: Worse Than War. Earth Story - BBC. Inside the Milky Way. Four Wives, One Man. Four Wives, One Man -Â Four Wives One Man is a documentary film by Nahid Persson. In this documentary film the producer has made an effort to bring awareness to the problems caused by polygamy. Polygamy means having more than one wife, and this is a common practice in rural areas where there is lesser extent of literacy. Thus people are not aware of the economic and emotional problems that are caused by polygamy. Under certain interpretations of the Koran, Muslim men are allowed to have more than one wife, and filmmaker Nahid Persson profiles an Iranian husband who already has four brides and is looking for more in this documentary. Heda is a farmer who is married to Farang, Goli, Shahpar and Ziba; between his four spouses, Heda is already father to twenty children, but he feels his current wives are not always as obedient as he'd like, and he's interested in finding a younger and more subservient partner to give him more offspring. -- Excerpt by Mark Deming, Rovi.
Influencers. The Emperor's Tram Girls - Japan. Chinatown, Africa. Inside Iran: Rick Steves' Travel Journal. Evgeny Morozov: The End of Cyber Utopia. Smartphones and social media seem to be the new weapons used to topple both dictators and old power structures. The euphoria over the Internet and its revolutionary role seems endless. One man, Evgeny Morozov states that this is nothing more than a mirage. He takes Backlight into his battle against cyber utopianism. Surrounded by enormous video screens, Evgeny Morozov is visually bombarded with thoughts and situations on the effects of the technological revolution on totalitarianism, democracy and the people concerned. Morozov shares his criticism, flow of thought and dilemma's with us. Morozov is an angry young man who fights the cyber-utopianism that is so dominant in today's world.
Morozov grew up in communist Belarus and was just 5 years old when the Berlin wall fell. The Virtual Revolution. 2210: The Collapse? Trance - Formation. The Crisis of Civilization. The Crisis of Civilization - If you look at what is going on in the world today, it can be very confusing trying to get your head around what’s going onâ€. So opens The Crisis of Civilization, a film which offers a glimmer of hope to the overwhelmed. Crisis is a collaboration between filmmaker Dean Puckett, and Security Analyst Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. Many of the films used are gleaned from the collection of Rick Prelinger, an archivist who for 20 years has raided flea markets, garage clear-outs and car-boot sales for ‘found footage’.
The 60,000 works Prelinger has safeguarded – many of them corporate promotion movies or public information films – capture the growth of corporate America, and small-town American consumerism. Many of the clips are inadvertently hilarious, or eerie, keeping the film conversational and humorous in tone, even as the critique builds its hypothesis that we are, essentially, on the highway to hell. Excerpt from littlewhitelies.co.uk. The Strangest Dream. The Strangest Dream - The legendary Manhattan Project: the makers of the Atomic Bombs used on Japan to end World War II. Only one nuclear scientist ever quit the project before completion: Joseph Rotblat.Based on moral grounds, he would later win the Nobel Peace Price . 1 hour 30 minutes. The documentary traces the history of nuclear warfare: from the very first sketches in Albert Einstein’s notebook, to test grounds in New Mexico, to Hiroshima.
Rotblat was deemed a traitor and blacklisted as a potential spy by the United State Government. The pressure not to quit was tremendous. However, Rotblat had an epiphany and decided to devote the rest of his life to studying medical uses of radiation. Eventually, he won the Nobel Peace Price. Tale of Tales. SANS SOLEIL (Sunless)