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America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a special, highly autobiographical introduction.
84) Imminent Threat
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents a documentary on the War on Terror’s impact on civil liberties. For the past 15 years, the phrase ‘War on Terror’ has been used to justify everything from mass surveillance and spying to the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists without evidence or trial. Throughout history, governments have applied security surveillance programmes to people they considered a political threat. But surveillance...
Publisher
LATINBEAT
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
During the period of Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990), a group of photographers portrayed the harsh conditions Chilean society. In the streets, along the protests marches, these photographers developed and created a metaphoric political language. To take pictures was an expression of freedom and an attempt to survive. In addition to collecting fragments of life during those years, their work was used as evidence to support victims’ testimony...
Publisher
Talking Eyes Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While discussing politics at their dinner table, filmmaker Julie Winokur’s 17-year-old son called her ‘one of the most intolerant people he had ever met.’ The accusation stopped Winokur in her tracks and made her realize that she actually wasn’t listening to people with different political views. In fact, she was as much to blame for the divisive tone of politics in America as the people whom she blamed. So rather than continue to be a part...
87) Breaking Free
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Breaking Free introduces the subject of hydraulic fracturing in an easy-to-understand way, enhanced by stories of the people living in the towns, sharing the good and the bad, with the goal of informing and educating in a nonpartisan way the benefits of becoming energy independent in our lifetimes. The focus of the film is on the Shale Rock Revolution, and how hydraulic fracturing has affected the local, state and national communities at large. Its...
88) Murge
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
For 13 days in 1962, the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Krushchev’s decision to place nuclear weapons in Cuba sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis. But what’s relatively unknown is that he was responding to an earlier perceived threat from America: the stationing of nuclear weapons in Murge, Italy -- within striking distance of the USSR. In this film, we reveal how Murge was transformed unwittingly into a theatre of the Cold War.
Publisher
Annie Goldson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
He Toki Huna (title taken from Māori proverb, ‘the hidden adze cuts the most sharply’) explores Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest military involvement — the country’s engagement in the war in Afghanistan. The documentary also provides context to some of Afghanistan’s turbulent history before and after the events of 9/11. The film asks three questions: Why did NZ go into Afghanistan? What did they do there? And why did we hear so little...
90) Red Wolf Revival
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Red Wolf Revival is a short film about the last remaining wild population of red wolves. Centered on the historic recovery effort in Eastern North Carolina, we document the multifaceted struggle to reintroduce one of the rarest animals on earth in the face of cultural, economic, and biological challenges in North Carolina..
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Forty-five years after the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, top Secret CIA and White House telegrams reveal how U.S. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon propped up the longest military dictatorships of South America, with the support of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.. Winner of Best Documentary from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards. Winner of Best Foreign Documentary at the St. Tropez International Film Festival.. “Excellent...
92) The Draft
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning documentary play that explores one of the most contentious periods in American political history. Filmed live on stage, THE DRAFT tells the story of the Vietnam War era through the real-life stories of 10 young Americans — eight men and two women — whose lives were shaped and forever changed by the military draft. Dramatically enhanced by archival photos, film Filmclips, and music, the play chronicles the choices these ten individuals...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness sheds light on the fascinating story of a president who knew how to harness the nation's grief over JFK's assassination, and become an unlikely champion of Civil Rights. The film includes rarely seen footage, secret White House tapes, and personal testimony from LBJ's advisors, biographers, friends, and family..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk (United States of Secrets, Losing Iraq, Bush's War, The Torture Question) comes the dramatic story of the fight over the CIA's controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture.. Based on recently declassified documents and interviews with key political leaders and CIA insiders, the film investigates what the CIA did -- and whether it worked..
96) Seeing Red
Publisher
Annie Goldson
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Cecil Holmes was a young talented New Zealander, born in Palmerston North, who became caught up in New Zealand’s own “red scare”. Having seen service – he had had a “good war” – Holmes returned to Wellington, his eyes opened about the world. A film enthusiast, he worked at the newly formed National Film Unit, established to provide news on the war efforts, abroad and at home, and to document the post-war recovery.. But Holmes, a man...
97) Battle for Iraq
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A gripping, first-hand look at the fight for Mosul and its implications. Reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad makes a dangerous trip inside Mosul to examine the fight and its toll - surviving an ISIS truck bombing along the way.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
What does the Occupy movement have in common with the Spanish Indignados or the Arab Spring? Is there a connection between the Iranian democracy movement and the Syrian struggle and what is the link between the Ukrainian topless activists of Femen and Egypt?. The reasons for the various uprisings in these countries may be diverse, but their creative nonviolent tactics they are strongly connected. EVERYDAY REBELLION is a documentary & cross-media project...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Reid Davenport's breakout film that explores the lack of accessibility in Europe. It is an award-winning documentary that has been shown coast-to-coast and internationally. The film has been featured in the Washington Post, NPR and USA Today.. When Reid Davenport was discouraged from studying abroad during his junior year of college based on his disability, he was more than a bit surprised. Davenport decided to travel with a cameraperson throughout...
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