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1) Dark money
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana, a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that "political spending is a form of protected...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrongdoing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. Includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayland Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton,...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Comedian and podcast king Adam Carolla and radio talk show host Dennis Prager take the audience on a powerful and entertaining journey to expose the growing threat to free speech taking place on university campuses, in social media, and at your place of work. Along the way, Carolla and Prager show Americans how to have the courage to defend their First Amendment rights.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Director Astra Taylor's idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens's groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy, from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Anders Østergaard brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. Armed with small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reportages from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out of the country and broadcast back...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Coverage of the first National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, 1972.
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926-2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices...
10) The Yes Men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed - hook, line and sinker - the Yes Men must up the satrical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights
Publisher
[Parallel Lines Documentary Production & Distribution]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this award-winning new documentary, director Jen Senko seeks to discover why her WWII veteran fathers personality radically transformed from that of a non-political Kennedy Democrat to an angry right-wing fanatic after his discovery of Talk Radio and Fox News. In trying to understand how this happened, Senko not only finds this to be a phenomenon, but also comes to a startling conclusion about the course of the media over the last 30-40 years....
12) Represent
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Equal parts personal and political, it follows three women on both sides of the aisle who share the singular goal of improving their community through public service. Myya attempts to spark a youth movement and unseat the incumbent mayor of Detroit; Bryn, a farmer and working mother in Granville, OH, runs for township trustee; and Julie walks a tightrope between her identities as a Korean immigrant and Republican candidate for State Representative...
Publisher
Human Race LLC
Pub. Date
[2015], c2014.
Language
English
Description
For twenty years, notorious activists the Yes Men have staged outrageous hoaxes to hijack public dialogue about the issues of the day. In their third cinematic outing, they're well into their 40s, and mid-life crises are threatening to drive them out of activism forever; even as they prepare to take on the biggest challenge yet: climate change. Their latest film is as much a character study as it is a thrilling ride depicting their latest interventions...
14) The agronomist
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the 80's and early 90's in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over the years. Dominique fought tirelessly against his country's...
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Leaked by an anonymous source to journalists in 2015, they were a collection of documents, exposing the use of secretive offshore companies to enable widespread tax evasion and money laundering. Director Alex Winter examines how this story reshaped the understanding of corruption amidst the highest forms of government and the systemic problem of global inequality.
16) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Investigates the development and demise of the fuel-efficient, environment-friendly electric car. Examines the Bush administration's role in the car's being peremptory pulled from production, the influence of the automobile industry and oil interests, and implications for the future of sustainable energy in the United States.
Publisher
Distributed by Sky Island Films
Pub. Date
2004]
Language
English
Description
Brings together an ex-"60-Minutes" producer, a United States congressman, as well as some of the country's leading intellectual voices on the media to examine the mix of business, politics and idealogy that is the modern mainstream media. From the very size of the media monopolies and how they got that way to who decides what gets on the air and what doesn't, this film moves through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to the New York Times, making headlines around the world. ... one man's profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America's newspapers, its president, and the Supreme Court--a political thriller whose events led directly to Watergate, Nixon's resignation,...
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