| film | Details |
|---|---|
| Contempt of Conscience (50mins) | Robin from the Peace Tax 7 wrote: Mark was considering showing our own film, Contempt of Conscience (50mins). This needs to be arranged with the distributor, but Joe, the director, can help us here. Let me know if and when you want to pursue this. |
| Terrorizing Dissent | Bristol ABC wrote: Also...have you seen this film on this site - http://www.terrorizingdissent.org/ I was thinking of suggesting ABC or the bookfair collective host a film night and a discussion on Obama USA (ie will this still happen under Obama?). |
| An Anarchist's Story | This drama-documentary tells the story of Ethel MacDonald?. A forgotten legend, her story ranks alongside the courage of 'La Pasionaria' and the legendary 'Odette'. Whilst both these women sustained world-wide recognition, our Scots heroine dwindled into obscurity and remains forgotten to this day. http://www.spanishcivilwarfilm.com/thefilm/index.html |
| Please Vote for Me | This hilarious documentary chronicles the first open elections at a public school in central China, as three third-graders furiously campaign for the position of class monitor. The Washington Post calls it "part American Idol, part Survivor" http://firstrunfeatures.com/pleasevoteformedvd.html |
| Meeting Resistance | Meeting Resistance is a daring, eye-opening film that raises the veil of anonymity surrounding the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with individuals who are passionately engaged in the struggle against coalition forces. It documents for the first time the sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation's citizens when their homeland is occupied. http://firstrunfeatures.com/meetingresistancedvd.html |
| The Take | In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats, and refuse to leave. |
| http://www.indebtwetrust.org/ | shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. |
| Our Brand Is Crisis | Is an astounding look at one of their campaigns and its earth-shattering aftermath. With flabbergasting access to think sessions, media training and the making of smear campaigns, we watch how the consultants’ marketing strategies shape the relationship between a leader and his people. And we see a shocking example of how the all-American art of branding can affect the 'spreading of democracy' overseas. |
| 9 Star Hotel | This unflinching documentary follows Ahmed and Muhammad, two of the many Palestinians who illegally cross the border into the Israeli city of Modi'in in search of work. Together they share food, belongings and stories, and live under the constant threat of imprisonment from soldiers and police. With raw, handheld images, this disconcerting yet touching film documents friendship, nostalgia and the uncompromising urge to survive. |
| Losing Ground | Youth from Inupiat Village of Kivalina among subjects of a new film by Jenni Monet and in association with NARF on the impact of global warming on the village of Kivalina. |
| Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars | FIGHTING GOLIATH: TEXAS COAL WARS was intended to serve as a tool for raising awareness, inspiring action, and creating a meaningful dialogue about how to overcome one of the greatest threats to public health contributors to global warming faced by the U.S |
| Dictator Hunter | If you kill one person, you go to jail. If you kill 40 people, they put you in an insane asylum. But if you kill 40, 000 people... |
| A Jihad for Lov | New Film Explores Challenges Facing Gay Muslims Worldwide |
| Sweet Crude | Oil Politics in the Niger Delta |
| Elections Under Threat | Elections Under Threat portrays the everyday people of Iran as well as the candidates running for Parliament, as they debate and discuss the relevant issues |
| Up the Yangtze | The Three Gorges Dam along China’s Yangtze River |
| Taxi to the Dark Side | The film traces the final days of a young Afghan man, Dilawar (many Afghans use just one name), who was arrested in 2001 by the U.S. military and brought to the hellish prison at Bagram Air Base |
| For Love of Water | The film examines how the world’s water supplies are diminishing and how the privatization of water is worsening the crisis. |
| Aristide and the endless revolution | Film about aristide |
| dead society | http://www.deadsociety.org - film about civilisation - free to download, 55 mins long. |
| 20 years of May days in Berlin | Details here http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/391940.html or download from here I think: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4036266/20_Years_Revolutionary_1st_of_May_Berlin_Kreuzberg_ENGLISH_VCD |
| Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454852/ |
| Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes | http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/ The documentary explored the issues of masculinity, violence, homophobia and sexism in hip-hop |
| A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash | (Basil Gelpke/Ray McCormack?) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9073827608399871128 |
| Breaking the Spell | (CrimethinK?) film about Seattle 1999 |
| Drilling and Killing | It's about chevron's drilling for oil in Nigeria. |
| Faceless | CCTV film http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=faceless |
| The Assassination of Hugo | A special DVD documentary by Greg Palast and Rick Rowley http://www.palastinvestigativefund.org/the-assassination-of-hugo-chavez |
| I am Not a Moderate | http://www.iamnotamoderate.com/ The story of Fo's campaign is told in a new documentary, I Am Not a Moderate (Fo's campaign slogan), which premiered at the Locarno Festival this summer. The title is telling. Fo doesn't do moderation. For more than 50 years, he has been scandalising and provoking the authorities. One might have expected the Nobel Prize for Literature that came his way in 1997 to make him more accepted in Italy, but he annoys contemporary politicians just as much as he did their grandfathers in the 1950s. Silvio Berlusconi detests him. http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/features/article2901161.ece |
| The Blood of My Brother | The Blood of My Brother tells a story of the war in Iraq from a perspective rarely seen. The primary point of view is Iraqi-a family grieving at the tragic death of its eldest son. After years of hard work, Ra'ad, an Iraqi portrait photographer, has saved enough money to open his own shop. On the night of the opening, while volunteering to guard the ancient mosque in Kadhimiya, Ra'ad is shot and killed by an American patrol. Longing for revenge, Ra's brother Ibrahim dreams of joining the Shia uprising against the American occupation. http://www.storytellerinc.com/Iraq-site/BOMB/bomb-pages/bomb-about.html |
| Charlie Jade | Charlie Jade is the name of a science fiction television show filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective who finds himself trapped in an alternative reality. Though viewers will doubtless recognize a similarity to Blade Runner, especially in the scenes set in the Alphaverse, Wertheimer has said in interviews that much of the ethos of the series is primarily influenced by Derek Jensen's book The Culture of Make Believe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Jade |
| The Power of Nightmares | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm Powerful BBC three part series on the so-called war on terror and the common ideological roots of the neo-cons & al-qaeda. SEE IT HERE: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm |
| Disbelief | http://www.disbelief-film.com/intro.htm A fatal bomb blast in a Moscow apartment building ignites a fury of questions about terrorism, shadow politics, and post-Soviet intrigue in Disbelief; a film as much about the high art of political deception as it is about violence and human tragedy. The bombing on September 9, 1999, of a nine-story working-class apartment complex in Moscow was quickly blamed on Chechen terrorists. But was it their crime? Or did the Russian secret service deflect its own responsibility for the bombing on the Chechens to heighten national fear and hysteria and justify Russia's subsequent military attack on the breakaway republic? |
| Manufacturing Consent | the classic http://www.aigis.com/wl/consent.html Based on the award winning film, this book explores the life and work of one of the most respected and influential intellectuals in the world, Noam Chomsky. A complete transcript of the film is complemented by key excerpts from the writings, interviews, and correspondences of Chomsky. Also included are further exchanges between Chomsky and his critics, additional historical and biographical material, filmmakers' notes, a resource guide, and more than 270 stills from the film. The book has been designed to help readers easily survey the breadth of Chomsky's thinking. |
| Dreams and Nightmares | http://www.seattleactivism.org/events/event766.htm Abraham Lincoln Brigade Veteran Abe Osheroff shows and discusses his documentary "Dreams and Nightmares", a personal account of the Spanish Civil War, it's origins and aftermath. |
| Liberty Bound | http://www.libertybound.com/ Liberty Bound takes an entertaining look at America's ongoing struggle to keep a comfortable balance between democracy, capitalism, and fascism. This is a film about historic events that shape history. It is a film about courage and fear; ignorance and knowledge; propaganda and rhetoric. Through original footage, archived footage, and interviews with people such as Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and Michael Ruppert, Liberty Bound explores the state of the union and its ostensible move toward fascism. We talk with people who have been interrogated by the Secret Service and threatened with arrest for doing such benign things as sending an email, turning around during a Bush speech, and having a philosophical discussion on a train. |
| "A letter to the Prime Minister: Jo Wilding's diary from Iraq | which has just come out, saw this last week and it's very powerful. I'm going to see if we can get this on at our local picturehouse after the g8 shenanigans have died down... |
| Why we fight | military industrial complex, read a good review of this but haven't watched it yet. |