French filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet were filming a documentary about a 'typical' New York firefighter on the fateful day September 11th 2001 when two planes hit the World Trade Centre. The brothers were able to film the courageous actions of the firefighters as they went about their business in the lobby of Tower One.
Produced by Emmyaward winning Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, The Nineties is the fourth series in the acclaimed documentary strand chronicling American society and popular culture in the later twentieth century. A decade that saw technological triumphs and terrorist tragedies, inter-racial conflict in Los Angeles to New York and all points in between, the grunge revolution and hip-hop's ascendance to the mainstream. A series of extraordinary events crowded across the world stage, including the collapse of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany and the end of apartheid in South Africa, while everything from culture to commerce was irrevocably altered as the world went online, and a groundbreaking, genre-bending new era of television changed the world forever. This epic series uses rare archival footage and interviews with renowned journalists, historians, musicians and television cast and crew to give us a window into the decade that set the stage for the way we live today.
An American Tragedy As the world watched in horror Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster but by the slow inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts. The film is structured in four acts each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans.
An investigation of disaster capitalism based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters war and terror to establish its dominance.
Following his award-winning documentary The War on Democracy John Pilger's new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war. The War You Don't See traces the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated the very nature of war has developed into an 'electronic battlefield'. But who is the real enemy today?
In the wake of the Columbine high school massacre acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's latest film takes a critical look at America's obsessive gun culture.
When We Were Kings The true story of the legendary 'Rumble in the Jungle' of 1974 in which Muhammad Ali endured a titanic battle with George Foreman. The fight took place in Zaire amidst a wealth of publicity and political intrigue and this film pieced together over 20 years chronicles it all. Featuring the music of the Fugees James Brown and BB King When We Were Kings won an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary. I Am Ali An intimate and heart-warming look at the man behind the legend--as we've never seen Ali before. I Am Ali is told through exclusive unprecedented access to Ali's personal archive of ‘audio journals' combined with touching interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends including his daughters son ex-wife and brother plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson George Foreman and Gene Kilroy. Experience Ali's extraordinary story as a fighter lover brother father--told from the inside for the very first time. The Trials of Muhammad Ali The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers the explosive crossroads of Ali's life. When Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali his conversion to Islam and refusal to serve in the Vietnam War leave him banned from boxing and facing a fve-year prison sentence. Ali's choice of belief and conscience over fame and fortune resonates far beyond the boxing ring striking issues of race faith and identity that continue to confront us all today.
The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers the explosive crossroads of Ali’s life. When Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali his conversion to Islam and refusal to serve in the Vietnam War leave him banned from boxing and facing a five-year prison sentence. Ali’s choice of belief and conscience over fame and fortune resonates far beyond the boxing ring striking issues of race faith and identity that continue to confront us all today Bonus Features: Muhammad Ali Suspended from the Nation of Islam 2 Masjid in Miami with Khalia Cassius Clay Meets the Beatles John Carlos on Raising the Fist The Mock Trials of Muhammad Ali
Startling and powerful, Control Room is a documentary about the Arab television network Al-Jazeera's coverage of the U.S.-led Iraqi war, and conflicts that arose in managed perceptions of truth between that news media outlet and the American military. Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) catches the frantic action at Al-Jazeera headquarters as President Bush stipulates his 48-hour, get-out-of-town warning to Saddam Hussein and sons, soon followed by the network's shocking footage of Iraqi civilians terrorized and killed by invading U.S. troops. Al-Jazeera's determination to show images and report details outside the Pentagon's carefully controlled information flow draws the wrath of American officials, who accuse it of being an al-Qaida propagandist. (The killing of an Al-Jazeera reporter in what appears to be a deliberately targeted air strike is horrifying.) Most fascinating is the way Control Room allows well-meaning, Western-educated, pro-democratic Arabs an opportunity to express views on Iraq as they see it--in an international context, and in a way most Americans never hear about. --Tom Keogh
When Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest oligarch, begins to support the political opposition and challenges Russia's all powerful president Vladimir Putin, he sets in motion a series of events that are still being felt today and most likely for years to come. Enraged, Putin instructs his secret service police to arrest Khodorkovsky in a dramatic raid on his private jet in October 2003 and then banishes him on trumped up charges of tax evasion to a Siberian gulag. Featuring an exclusive interview with Khodorkovsky behind bars (the only one of its kind), and with contributions from major political insiders and journalists, Khodorkovsky traces the metamorphosis of Russia's richest man into its most famous political prisoner. Unveiling the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics and business in post Soviet Russia, director Cyril Tuschi asks the million Ruble question - why did Khodorkovsky leave friends and family behind for life in a Siberian gulag?
Do you really know the truth? In his documentary feature 'Uncovered: The War On Iraq' filmmaker Robert Greenwald chronicles the Bush Administration's determined quest to invade Iraq following the events of September 11 2001. The film deconstructs the administration's case for war through interviews with U.S intelligence and defense officials foreign service experts and U.N. weapons inspectors - including a former CIA director a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even
War Made Easy exposes a 50 year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the US into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn the film exhumes remarkable archive footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. War Made East gives special attention to the parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon''s meticulous research and tough-minded analysis the film presents disturbing examples of propaganda and media complicity from the present alongside rare footage of political leaders and leading journalists from the past including Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Defence Secretary Robert McNamara dissident Senator Wayne Morse and news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer.
Think you can trust the media? There were two wars in Iraq - a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker Emmy-award winning TV journalist author and media critic Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the role of the media. His new film WMD is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propaganda and media complicity misled the American people while selling the war to influence international public opinion. Schechter compares and contrasts coverage on a global basis including exclusive material and insider interviews. WMD is a serious film that exposes the media role - the biggest scandal of our time
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people and neither do we. - George W. Bush Step up to the plate Mr G.W. Bush. This collection of faux pas' from the Commander-In Chief will have you laughing all the way to Iraq and back giving you hope that anything really is possible on this dusty old planet of ours. The occasional slip in rhetoric is understandable from people in the public eye however old Mr. Bush has really turned it in to an art form. So sit back and watch the most powerful man in the word make you feel a little bit better about yourself. Laugh or cry the choice is yours! Oh and don't forget the PB and Jelly sandwiches...
""I'm the master of low expectations."" - George Bush Step up to the plate Mr. G.W. Bush. This collection of faux pas' from the Commander-In Chief will have you laughing all the way to Iraq and back giving you hope that anything really is possible on this dusty old planet of ours. The occasional slip in rhetoric is understandable from people in the public eye however old Mr. Bush has really turned it in to an art form. So sit back and watch the most powerful man in the word make you feel a little bit better about yourself. Laugh or cry the choice is yours! Oh and don't forget the PB and Jelly sandwiches...
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