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- Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
- Korengal picks up where Restrepo (2010) left off--with the same men, in the same valley, with the same commanders--but presents a very different look at the experience of war.
- A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
- Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth.
- No Safe Spaces contends that identity politics and the suppression of free speech are spreading into every part of society and threatening to divide America.
- The groundbreaking and often game-changing reporting of legendary foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk is profiled in the latest from acclaimed documentarian Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze).
- A documentary that explores why African cult and militia leader and indicted war criminal fugitive Joseph Kony needs to be arrested by the end of 2012.
- About the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.
- An unsettling and eye opening exploration into the spread of the radical Islamic school Red Mosque in Pakistan, which trains legions of children to devote their lives to jihad, or holy war, from a very young age.
- Host Mack checks out the latest and greatest in Military defense--and offense, and introduces the bizarre characters that spend their lives inventing new ways to obliterate the enemy. Big guns, smart bombs; no weapon is off-limits.
- Co-written by NY Times bestselling author Tom Woods, THE HOUSING BUBBLE is a critical, non-partisan examination of the policies and events that shaped the United States economy into one bursting bubble after another. Traveling the world for answers after starting a house painting business just in time for the crash, filmmaker Jimmy Morrison drove over 35,000 miles to track down the experts who saw it coming, seeking to understand the root causes, so that we can avoid being blindsided by the bigger bubbles and the inevitable crises that follow. Informative, eye-opening, fresh, funny, and occasionally shocking, THE HOUSING BUBBLE skillfully demystifies the boom/bust link between the stock market, the FED, and the housing market for the economist and layperson alike. Released as a feature in 2019, the film is broken into 2 episodes for the 4 part series THE BIGGER BUBBLE. (2023)
- The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.
- In this award-winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed looks at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Over the last 20 years, Africa has experienced some 15 devastating civil wars with over 20 million victims in death, injury or displacement. Yet the West has turned a blind eye. This documentary sheds light about the conflict and post conflict reconstruction in particular in West Africa , discussing issues such as child soldiers and the many damaged victims of war and how they have found support. Missionaries have played a vital role in the restoration and healing process of post war conflict. The documentary is narrated by the former Australian Rock Star Themi Adams, who once toured with the Rolling Stones and who now heads the Orthodox Mission in Sierra Leone. He talks about how his mission in particular is contributing to the recovery process.
- A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.
- ANPO: Art X War tells the story of Japan's historic resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying array of artwork created by Japan's foremost artists. The film articulates the insidious, lasting impact that the U.S. military presence has had on Japanese lives, and the creative processes that artists have devised to transmit the spirit of resistance.
- Villager News: the movie is upcoming 2023 movie.
- Is the dream of liberty dead in America? For an Iraq Veteran named Adam Kokesh, freedom and liberty in the United States has a new meaning after 9/11. A U.S. Marine returns home to find he risked his life for nothing in Falluja, Iraq and wants answers. Starring Adam Kokesh and Ron Paul.
- In the Ukhiya refugee camp located in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, the scars of the ongoing genocide in Myanmar are visible on each and every face of the stateless Rohingya refugees that have been displaced there. This documentary chronicles the recent and previous history of a conflict that has gone on for centuries, with explosive new testimony regarding the war crimes inflicted upon the Rohingya people. The documentary is an extensive historical retelling of a fractured and silenced past, with exposure to a horrifying yet hopeful present, and a special look at the youth that represent the Rohingya's unpredictable future. "Blossoms from Ash" follows three young refugee children, each of whom has lost everything in the flight, as they struggle to balance education, celebration, and survival.
- Yasemin is sent by the newspaper she works for to take a picture of the events in Syria. Under the influence of what she saw, Yasemin cannot adapt when she returns to city life. Yasemin bears the scars of war without fighting. A short film in the psychological, drama genre.
- The Network is a documentary set behind the scenes at the largest television network in one of the most unstable and dangerous places on earth, Afghanistan.
- According to the Bible, King David conquered Jerusalem and built his palace there 3000 years ago. The City of David, an archaeological site in East Jerusalem, purports to be the place where that palace was. Trouble is, there's not much scientific evidence to support that theory. The controversy is not confined to academia - an entire Palestinian neighborhood, located right next to the ruins, is set to be razed in order to make way for the gardens of King David to be rebuilt.
- Enrique Enriquez is a controversial thinker in tarot world; he does not believe in spirits, the supernatural or in anything mystical. Enrique's approach to tarot cards is purely visual and poetic yet within this framework he creates beautiful and inspired readings. His work work with the Marseilles Tarot breaks new ground both intellectually and artistically. This film explores Enrique's unique philosophy and approach toward the ancient craft of tarot reading.
- This Little Land of Mines is an independent feature documentary about the resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear 80 million unexploded bombs from when the United States secretly bombed Laos more heavily than any country on earth.
- This Emmy® nominated investigation unpacks how climate change interacts with migration, unrest and conflict through the lens of US national security.
- Based on the title of General Eisenhower's book, combat film from from World War II. This was the first documentary series produced for television.
- In 1965, the United States officially became involved in the conflict in Southeast Asia where decades of turmoil had been building since the beginning of World War II. The fall of French Indochina and the spread of Communism, catapulted the country into one of its longest and deadliest wars. The history of U.S. involvement is told in this 7 part documentary series featuring personal stories from veterans and detailing the battles, strategy, and politics of a war that consumed multiple U.S. Presidents. VIETNAM: 50 YEARS REMEMBERED is a chronicle of the tragedy that tested the strength of our country and forever changed the social and political landscape of the world.
- As South Africa celebrates its 20Th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it's hard to believe that the 'Mandela Miracle' nearly didn't happen. In an orgy of countrywide violence, some were intent on derailing the first free elections. Now for the first time, those responsible for countless deaths and widespread mayhem explain how they nearly brought South Africa to its knees. 1994 is a chilling look at what these hard men did to thwart democracy and how they have made an uneasy peace with the 'Rainbow Nation' in their own different ways.
- Bassam and Rami, a Palestinian and Israeli, were once dedicated fighters willing to kill and be killed by one another for the sake of their nations. Yet each one of them came face to face with the price of war when their daughters were killed in the conflict. Left with the excruciating pain of bereavement, they chose to do the unexpected. They set out on a joint journey to humanize the very enemy, which took the dearest thing from them and prevent the vicious cycle of retaliation in themselves and their societies. Along the way they reveal the friendship and humor that keeps them alive.
- Palestinians and Israelis pursue conflicting visions of justice in the West Bank, zeroing in on the explosive issue of the Israeli settlements: its protagonists are both Israeli settlers and the Palestinians and Israelis who oppose them.
- This animated documentary about the vision of the Colombia war by displaced children using their original drawings and their testimonies.
- Two Somali soccer stars chase impossible dreams in this human rights story born out of civil war and terror.
- Follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter jumps into the fray.
- 'A Short Film About Guns' examines the illegal arms trade across the globe, featuring four experts on arms trafficking who recount their varying first hand experiences with the black market trade in areas of conflict and how the illegal flow of weapons facilitates loss of life and devastation: * Kathi Lynn Austin, arms trafficking investigator. * Ishmael Beah, former child soldier, author 'A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a Boy Soldier'. * Paul Conroy, Sunday Times war photographer. * Stuart Franklin Platt, Rear Admiral US Navy (ret.), author 'Letters From the Front Line' Director Minos Papas partnered with the Control Arms coalition, including Oxfam International, to produce the film, which was screened at the UN during the conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, 2012.
- Footage from Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda documentary, Triumph of the Will, is juxtaposed with a popular British dance tune to make fun of Hitler, in this playful short subject.
- Meet John G Morris, 95, a legend of photojournalism, whose unerring eye for the best shot has moved and changed the world. Morris, former Picture Editor of Life Magazine & New York Times was instrumental in the early years of Magnum with his friends and peers Robert Capa & Henri Cartier Bresson. This film covers serious subjects; the coverage of conflict through photojournalism, a sensitive view of humanity and a search for peace in the world.
- What makes a man willing to kill and die for God?
- A profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Documentary Film 'The Pillars of Heaven' A young and disillusioned British diplomat abandons his diplomatic career, spends his own money, and risks his very life on a journey of faith and war in Ukraine. A country riven in pieces by indescribable events, sometimes called: an EU inspired and US -organised revolution, a Russian invasion, a civil war, a war of lies and misinformation, a war where thousands of people have died, and which created over a million refugees, and a war at the heart of Christendom which rips the very geopolitical foundations of Europe to shreds. With the Ukrainian people (including soldiers, military priests, peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers, refugees, church leaders, politicians/ 'terrorists', ordinary families and everyday victims of the war) as his guide, his journey takes him from the idyllic Carpathian Mountains, to the golden cupolas in Kiev to the very heart of the hellish War-zone in Donetsk. He embarks on an odyssey from Christmas Eve to the Epiphany, searching for the soul of this troubled nation and for something which might help to bring a lasting end to the bloodshed and prevent a wider military confrontation between Russia and the West.
- From Vietnam to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, this intimate insight into the lives of our veterans, combined with medical and psychological experts, explains the realities of war, service and the emotional cost of war.
- The experimental short film MONTE NERO deals with the issues of war and remembrance in a film aesthetic reflection. Based on diary entries from the First World War MONTE NERO asks questions about technical, aesthetic and media-historical developments in film-making since 1914. The main focus of MONTE NERO is on the representation of war events especially since the shift from analogue to digital cinema. The montage concept is a metric one and the sound design uses exclusively field recording from the original locations of the historical report. The voice-over narration is carried out in a cut-up technique. It foregrounds the protagonist's perspective and delivers a deeper understanding of an ordinary soldier's life during the First World War.
- AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR is a documentary about the extraordinary costs of the US government's 40-year war on drugs. Drug prohibition has failed. Drug usage rates have not declined, and illegal drugs are more available-and cheaper-than ever before. At the same time, the costs of the drug war are staggering. More than $1 trillion taxpayer dollars have been spent. More than 50,000 SWAT raids occur each year. Hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders are wasting their lives away in prison at our expense. And more than 60,000 people have been murdered in Mexico over the past six years. AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR tells the stories of some of the victims of the drug war and, more importantly, points to a viable alternative approach to drug policy.
- This is the story of a man's bravery to cover the world at war, and what it takes to get images published for the world to see. This is Jason P. Howe's story of survival and change.
- Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. At the end of 2012, the Doctor was the target of another attempt on his life, which he miraculously survived. Threatened with death, this doctor with an exceptional destiny now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the protection of the United Nation peacekeepers. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he has restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.
- How did Hawaii go from an independent nation to a United State? Explore the controversial nature of Hawaii's statehood in this documentary, tracing the history of Hawaii's control at the hands of the U.S.
- The documentary exposes the ways in which America's foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives the U.S. media's portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. The film lays bare the truths behind taboo subjects that are conspicuously avoided, or merely treated as sound bites, by the mainstream American media: "Why do they hate us?" "Why do we hate them?" What were the events that led to the 9/11 attacks? What are the politics behind the U.S.-Israeli relationship? Why is there a robust debate about these subjects in Europe, the Arab World and in Israel itself, but not in the U.S.? Valentino's Ghost provides a fresh inquiry which challenges the media's daily barrage of rhetoric and misinformation about our complex and vital relationship with this part of the world.
- 'Project Censored: The Movie' explores media censorship in our society by exposing important stories that corporate media fails to report/under report. Using the media watchdog group, Project Censored, as their road map, two fathers from California decided to make a documentary film that will help to end the reign of Junk Food News that Corporate Media continues to feed the American people.