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DVD: The Greening of Southie DVD-GOS Directed by Ian Cheney 2009 72 minutes In the traditionally Irish-American working-class neighborhood of South Boston, Mass. a new kind of building has taken shape. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets, the Macallen building is something different: a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design. But Boston's steel-toed union workers aren't sure they like it. And when things on the building start to go wrong, the young developer has to keep the project from unravelling. Building Boston's first L.E.E.D. Gold-certified building turns out to be harder than anyone thought. Yet among the i-beams and brickwork emerges a small cadre of unlikely environmentalists who come to connect their work with the future of their children. . Click on title for Awards and excerpts from eleven reviews of the film... 
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DVD: Why We Fight DVD-WWF Directed by Eugene Jurecki Documentary 90 minutes. It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever? Is US foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? At last, a film that you can show anyone, even your Republican and (still) pro-Bush neighbors, relatives and friends. They will even watch it all and will learn a few facts from this remarkable true story of the growth of America's military-industrial complex, a term first used by President Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell speech to the nation. This is an even-handed documentary film in an era of highly polarized views. Click on title for further description...
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DVD: Body of War $29.00 DVD-BOW Directed by Ellen Spiro & Phil Donahue 2008 87 minutes + extras The true story of an anti-war hero. Original songs by Eddie Vedder. Paralyzed from the chest down after serving in Iraq for just one week, 25-year old Tomas Young is forced to deal with the realities of the consequences of war each and every day. For Tomas, learning to cope with his disability means finding his voice to speak out against the war in Iraq. This multi-award-winning film splits its time between Tomas's arduous daily reality in Kansas City, Missouri, and the harrowing legislative processes that led up to the invasion of Iraq in 2002... Click on title for the rest of the story...
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DVD: Crude Impact - It's worse than you think, but it's not too late DVD-CI Directed by James Jandak Wood 96 minutes + 2 hours of extras An award-winning documentary film which Chris Vernon of theoildrum.com called "a terrific film...the best documentary I've seen on the subject." This feature film explores the interconnection between human domination of the planet and the discovery, refining, global dependence on and use of crude oil. "It is impossible to see this film and not begin to rethink the way we live." Lynne Twist, Pachamama Alliance Click on title for more information...
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DVD: The Ground Truth $19.00 DVD-TGT Produced & directed by Patricia Foulkrod (2006) 1 hour 18 minutes. This film may well be the best feature-length documentary about recently-returned Iraq war veterans yet made. Ideally, show it in conjunction with the film, "Soldiers Speak Out" (28 minutes). Together they make a very persuasive case against war, militarism and sacrifice to a trumped-up false "noble" cause. Click on film title for more info and review excerpts.
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DVD: The Future of Food DVD-FF A film by Deborah Koons Garcia Two Disc Special Edition (2005) "One of 2005's must-see documentaries." - S.F. Cronicle "A rarity! Learned and persuasive" - Village Voice "Quietly inflammatory. Unsettling." - N.Y. Times "a stunning revelation in almost every scene. Grade A." - Christian Science Monitor "If you eat food, you need to see The Future of Food." - Newstarget.com There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America. A revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. Click on title for more about the film...
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DVD: Soldiers Speak Out DVD-SSO THIS DVD NEEDS TO BE SEEN BY EVERY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IN THE COUNTRY. It's short enough (28 minutes) to show in a class. It effectively counters the disinformation recruiters routinely tell young people about enlisting. "A powerful, first-hand testament to the reality of the military experience, told entirely in the words of American veterans who have been to war and now oppose it." Soldiers Speak Out sheds light on the growing and courageous anti-war and anti-occupation movement within the military and military families. Click on title for more information...
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DVD: Internationally Speaking DVD-IS A film by Christine Rose (Liberty Bound, 2004) Voices from around the world address America and its foreign policy. Seen as individuals rather than as cultural stereotypes, people from all over the world share their opinion of America, its government, its foreign policy and its people. In the midst of growing international anti-Americanism, real people from various other countries, tell us what they think and why, in an attempt to further understanding and compassion. Click on title for more about the film...
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Video: Banking on Life and Debt $20.00 VHS only Over 90% of the world's population lives in countries impacted by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) policies. This video takes viewers to Brazil, Ghana and the Phillipines to see the results of these policies. IMF/World Bank officials comment and community activists and scholars critique the policies and trace the change which led to the current world economic order. An excellent introduction to the issues of global "monetary aid" by developed nations and debt incurred by poorer countries unable to pay back such loans. Critics have called the policies of the World Bank and I.M.F. "a war on the poor." Over 90% of the world's population live in coutries trapped in multibillion-dollar loan repayment schemes, with the terms dictated by the World Bank and I.M.F. This documentary will show you how millions of children are sacrificed for the sake of financial stability. The film traces the poist-World War II change which led to the current economic order. It raioses the question: Is it time for another change? Produced by Maryknoll World Productions. Narrated by Martin Sheen. 30 minutes.
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DVD: Salt of the Earth $15.00 DVD-STE Directed by Herbert Biberman 94 minutes 1953 Black & White This is, by far, Kate Donnelly's favorite movie. Made in 1953, it portrays the struggle for equality of Mexican-American miners and their wives. The men fight for equality with Anglo workers, the women for equality with the men. Based on an actual strike in a zinc mine in Silver city, New Mexico, this film was made against all odds, by blacklisted filmmakers. Real miners and their families portrayed many of the cast. Sure its style is 1950's hokey, but the main character, Esperanza's speech, about rising up together hasn't been rivaled. There is also a documentary ("A Crime To Fit The Punishment") and book about the making of the film ("Salt of the Earth: The Story of a Film/The Fascinating Saga of America's Only Blacklisted Film" by its Director, Herbert Biberman, written in 1965, 11 years after he made the film) The book is available from us in our Books section. The only film we offer in two editions: this generic version, and the deluxe version with many extras (see Special Edition in next listing) Click on title for more about this remarkable film... |
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DVD: Salt of the Earth (with Special Features) $25.00 For a description of the movie, see above listing of the "Salt of the Earth" DVD. DVD-STE-SF The Special Features of this version include: Digitally-enhanced transfer of "Salt of the Earth" "The Hollywood Ten", a short film documenting the lives and work of the blacklisted people who were the "Hollywood Ten." A chronicle of the troubled production and distribution of the only black- listed U.S. feature film. Hundreds of production and filmographies. Original theatrical trailer. Editing and shooting notes. A history and hundreds of pictures of the actual strike the film is based on. The history of the blacklist in Hollywood. Congressional testimony of the blacklisted filmmakers.
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DVD: Paul Jacobs & The Nuclear Gang DVD-PJNG 68 minutes 1978 Directed by Jack Willis, Saul Landau & Penny Bernstein. This remarkable documentary profiles investigative journalist and political activist Paul Jacobs, who exposed the U.S. government's cover-up of the health hazards from low-level radiation. He chronciled this scandal from atomic fallout contamination of U.S. soldiers (used by our military and government as human "guinea pigs") during the early above-ground atom bomb test detonations during the 1950's, to the problems still facing nuclear industry workers today.
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DVD: Missing DVD-MISSING 1982 123 minutes Criterion Collection edition Outstanding adaptation of a true story directed by Costa-Gavras. His first English language film, it won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. There was an earlier catastrophe on a September 11th, in 1973 in Santiago, Chile. A coup d'etat that overthrew a democratically-elected President and installed a brutal dictator who reigned for nineteen years. This film is the true story of one of the victims of that coup. Charlie Horman was an American living in Santiago when he became one of the 3,000 who disappeared, were tortured and killed by Pinochet's death squads in the national stadium where they were rounded up and herded in like cattle en route to slaughter. Double-disc includes a restored high-definition digital transfer, theatrical trailer, and ... Click on title for the rest of the film description and more information.
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DVD: A Force More Powerful $39.95 DVD-FMP A two-part documentary series on one of the 20th Century's most important and least-known stories - how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule at different times and places in the world. Episode One: In South Africa in 1907, Mohandas Gandhi led Indian immigrants in a nonviolent fight for rights denied them by white rulers. The power that Gandhi pioneered has been used by underdogs on every continent and in every decade of the 20th century, to fight for their rights and freedom. Click on title for film description...
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DVD: Liberty Bound - Is the U.S. bound for liberty or does it just have liberty bound? DVD-LB A film by Christine Rose A U.S. Citizen's journey of discovery into the lies, oppression and corruption that has invaded her country since 9/11. The catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 caused a sea change in U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Liberty Bound takes a unique look at America's ongoing struggle to keep a comfortable balance between democracy, capitalism and fascism. This is a film about historic events that have changed our country and the world. It is a film about courage and fear; ignorance and awareness; propaganda and rhetoric. The documentary explores unanswered questions, examines the U.S. government's reasons for war with Afghanistan and Iraq, and delves into accusations that... Click on film title for more information...
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DVD: Out of the Past $25.00 DVD-OOTP 70 minutes 1997 Told through the eyes of Kelli Peterson, a 17-year-old high school student in Salt Lake City, Utah, OUT OF THE PAST explores Kelli's history-making experience of forming a Gay-Straight Alliance in her public high school. The protests, legislative battles and national media attention serve as a modern counterpoint to the history of a human rights movement. |
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Video: Let's Get Real $95.00 VHS-LGR Produced by Debra Chasnoff, Helen S. Cohen, and Kate Stilley A powerful new documentary where kids speak up about bullying
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DVD: The "Not in Our Town" series $99.00 DVD-NOIT The Working Group 1995/1997/2005 94 minutes total running time. Not In Our Town tells the inspiring story of the people of Billings, Montana, who took a stand against a series of hate crimes in their community. Together they lived up to the values of courage, tolerance and... Click on title for the rest of the description...
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Video: Counting on Democracy Bullfrog Films Narrated by Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee 57 minutes VHS only "Counting on Democracy gets to the guts of the election fix... fascinating, important, informative, teeth-gnashing cinema." - Greg Palast Before the fiasco in Florida, most Americans assumed that the votes they cast would be counted in accordance with one of the fundamental principles of American democracy, yet 175,000 votes cast in that state, largely by the working poor and people of color, were uncounted. The story of what happened in Florida during the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential race plays like a drama in many acts. Cliuck on title for the rest of the story...
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DVD / VHS: Bowling for Columbine $21.00 DVD-BFC Filmmaker Michael Moore's Oscar-Winning Best Documentary of 2002, Bowling for Columbine is a must-see. Give a copy to your local library! Available as DVD or VHS. Select below: |
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DVD: Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train DVD-HZ 2004 78 minutes + bonus materials A film by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller, Narrated by Matt Damon. Made five years before his death, this documentary is essential viewing for anyone who wants a better understanding of the life of Howard Zinn. The life and times of historian, activist and author of the best-selling classic "A People's History of the United States. "He has changed the consciousness of a generation." - Noam Chomsky "A striking portrait of a truly great American." - CBS Radio "If Fahrenheit 9/11 unveils the problem, then You Can't Be Neutral.. .offers the hope that there indeed are solutions." - Boston Phoenix "An excellent introduction to a man whose thoughts on war, peace and dissent have become increasingly influential in ever more confusing times" - TV Guide.com For more information and a full description, click the product title link.
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Video: One Million Postcards $12.00 Two elementary school-age sisters, angry about the U.S. inspired sanctions against Iraq, decided to ask people around the world to send one million postcards to Presisdent Clinton in protest. Narrated by the sisters, this video is a "how-to visual manual" of their campaign. 12 minutes.
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DVD: What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy DVD-WILA A two hour video compilation by Frank Dorrel. This is an excellent introduction and overview of the issues confronting us today. A valuable primer for those new to the hidden history of the U.S. and a sobering refresher for those who may have forgotten or who've chosen to base their political beliefs on denial of the painful facts presented here. Excerpted from ten outstanding documentaries made in recent years, and now available together on one DVD. Very worthwhile, informative and empowering as a primer for people who need to know this neglected and hidden history. Click on title for more information...
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DVD: Sweating for a T-Shirt DVD-SFT Directed by Maisa Mendonia & Vicente Franco 1999 23 minutes produced by Global Exchange This is the story of Arlen Benjamin's travels to Honduras to observe firsthand the conditions of the workers who actually make the t-shirts and sweatshirts for college students like herself here in the United States. Her narration deftly responds to a number of the myths about life in poor countries: workers make less because it's so much cheaper to live, more job equal more prosperity, etc. Several women workers share powerful descriptions of their living and working conditions. Click on title for further description...
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DVD: Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD: F9/11 Download a free Teacher's Guide to this film at: www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/fahrenheit911/teachersguide. Every once in a long while, a film is made that has the power to change minds. Often such a film is staunchly opposed, ridiculed and trashed by opponents in the media. Efforts to boycott it arise. Often the filmmaker is attacked because some don't want to hear the message such a film brings to a nation's attention. All of this happened when "Fahrenheit 9/11" first came out, during the critical fall of 2004 during the Presidential campaign. Click on title for more information...
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DVD: Uncovered: The War on Iraq $20.00 Produced and Directed by award-winning filmmaker and documentarian Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism; Unconstitutional; Unprecedented; The Burning Bed; Steal This Movie). EXPANDED NEW EDITION FOR 2005. Click title above for film description and more information.
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Video: Earth & The American Dream $95.00 V-E&TAD OUT-OF-PRINT & never released on DVD. (we have two copies left) This extraordinary film examines U.S. history from the standpoint of the earth itself. Beginning with Columbus, it effectively blends contrasting quotes from Native Americans and Euiropean settlers with images of the environmental consequences of these ideas and attitudes. We've never before seen a film that does this so powerfully. Unforgettable images. A vital classroom resource. A film by Bill Couturie. Distributed by Direct Cinema Limited. 77 minutes,
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DVD: Bringing Down A Dictator $30.00 DVD-BDD Color 59 minutes closed-captioned Written, produced & directed by Steve York Narrated by Martin Sheen In the year 2000, in a war barely noticed outside Yugoslavia, the indicted war criminal, Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. He controlled a battle-hardened army, a tough police force, and most of the news media. But, he underestimated his opponents, led by a student movement called "Otpor!" (Serbian for "Resistance"), who attacked the rigime with ridicule... Click on title for the rest of the description...
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DVD: Iraq for Sale - War Profiteers $12.00 DVD-IFS Directed by Robert Greenwald (2006) 75 minutes + 20 min. short version Click on the film title for more excerpts from reviews
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DVD: Sir! No Sir! DVD-SNS The untold story of the G.I. movement to end the war in Vietnam Directed by David Zeiger 2006 84 mnutes "The voices of the veterans alone, however, make this an important and poignant film that can speak to any generation." - John McMurtrie, S.F. Cronicle Click on film title for more information and reviews.
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DVD: Sophie Scholl - The Final Days $30.00 DVD-SSFD Directed by Marc Rothemund 2005 117 minutes Germany Starring Julia Jensch, Alexander Held German with English subtitles 2005 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film, this is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Armed with recently uncovered historical records of her incarceration, interrogation and so-called "trial," director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of 22 year old Sophie Scholl's life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless. Click on film title for more information and review quotes.
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DVD: Readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States $25.00 DVD-RFV 120 minutes 2005 Powerful dramatic readings from primary sources quoted in Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove's book "Voices of A People's History of the United States" Paul Robeson Jr. reading his father Paul Robeson's suppressed testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Lili Taylor reading Emma Goldman's blistering attack on patriotism. John Sayles raeding an anti-imperialist essay by Mark Twain. Brian Jone reciting Frederick Douglass' poweful words delivered on Independence Day. Sarah Jones as Yuri Kochiyama. Playwright and actor Wallace Shawn as Vito Russo. Leslie Silva as Anne Moody, and many other talented actors and activists bringing the forgetten words of our neglected national past to life. Click on title for more about the film...
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DVD: Who Killed the Electric Car? DVD-WKEC The auto industry's biggest mystery - revealed. Running solely on electricity, General Motors' fleet of EV-1 electric vehicles were so efficient, they were on the brink of altering the future of driving in America -- perhaps even the world. Those lucky enough to drive one gave it glowing reviews. So why were they all destroyed? Click on title for more info about the film
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DVD: McLibel: The Story of Two People Who Wouldn't Say McSorry $25.00 DVD-M Produced & directed by Franny Armstrong 85 minutes McLibel is the true story of a postman and a gardner who took on McDonald's and wouldn't say "McSorry," in a legal battle since described as "the biggest corporate PR disaster in history." Filmed over ten years by no-budget Direcor Franny Armstrong ("Drowned Out"). In this entertaining documentary, every aspect of the corporation's business is cross-examined: from junk food and McJobs, to animal cruelty, environmental damage and the company's advertising to children. McLibel is not about hamburgers. It is about the power that multinational corporations wield over our everyday lives and two unlikely heroes who are changing McWorld. To watch the trailer go to: http://www.youtube.com/ewatch?v=LyGK5j_EcmE McLibel features reenactments of key courtroom scenes directed by seasoned British filmmaker Ken Loach. Click on title for more info...
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DVD: Shooting The Past DVD-STP Written & Directed by Stephen Poliakoff Drama/History 182 minutes/2 discs. Multi-award winner including the Priz Italia. "...both an engaging human drama and a deeply felt homage to the soulfulness of photography..." Boston Globe This undervalued masterpiece of a film is so much more than its storyline reveals. It is a story of the power of photographs to tell stories and move us profoundly. The plot: as the representative of a U.S. firm, Christopher Anderson is developing a country estate on the outskirts of London into a business school for the 21st century, which would be fine ...if the building were not already the home of a unique, vast photographic collection, cared for by a small but determined staff. Click on film title for a review and more information.
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The U.S. versus John Lennon DVD-USVJL Directed by David Leaf & John Scheinfeld (2006) 96 minutes. "John Lennon: Artist. Humanitarian. National Threat." reads the subtitle of this movie. In an empire that is addicted to war and militarism, Lennon really was seen as a national threat by the Nixon administration and the F.B.I.'s J. Edgar Hoover. That the filmmakers took fifteen years to complete is a testament to the timelessness of its subject. "Lennon's spirit, like his music, shines through this movie like a beacon. Powerful stuff." wrote the reviewer for Rolling Stone. This film is the compelling and provocative story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved member of The Beatles (1962-1970) to outspoken artist and activist to iconic inspiration for peace, and how, in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in American history, Lennon stood his ground, refused to be silenced and courageously won his immigration battle with the U.S. government. Click on title for several reviews and more about the film...
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DVD: My Country My Country DVD-MCMC a film by Laura Poitras 2006 90 minutes Filmed singlehandedly by an American documentary filmmaker, Laura Poitras, who traveled to Baghdad by herself to capture this extraordinary film of daily civilian life in Baghdad during the second and into the third year of U.S. occupation. The filmmaker was invited into the home of an Iraqi family in Baghdad where she was able to create an intimate and profoundly honest portrait of the family both at home and in public. A heart-felt inside look at a family trying to survive life in wartime. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary of 2006. "The definitive non-fiction film about the occupation of Iraq! Indespensible, heartbreaking and ferociously wise." Michael Atkinson, Village Voice Click on title for more...
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DVD: China Blue DVD-CB Our best-selling DVD a film by Micha X. Peled (Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town) 88 minutes audience age: grades 9-12, college, adult NOTE: Any school or library orders for this DVD must be placed directly with Bullfrog Films (800-543-3764 or online: www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/china.html ) We can only sell it to individuals or activists. Not available through Netflix, other retail websites or in videostores. Winner of the Amnesty Human Rights Award at the Amsterdam International Film Festival Winner 2007 PBS Independent Lens Audience Award Winner - Doen/Amnesty International Award I.D.F.A. 2005 "Heartbreaking yet boldly essential...fairly-balanced and richly human." - Seattle Times "An unflnching indictment of globalization and the unfettered consumerism that fuels it. The cheap clothes we wear come at a high price, for real people." - Marin Independent Journal Click on title for description...
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DVD: War Made Easy - How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death DVD-WME Written & Directed by Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp Produced by Sut Jhally/Media Education Foundation Based on the book by Norman Solomon 2007 72 minutes 15 pg. House/Community Screening Organizer's Kit included. WAR MADE EASY brings to the screen Norman Solomon's insightful analysis of the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war, from Vietnam to Iraq. Click on title for more information...
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DVD: The Time Is Now DVD-TIN Featuring, written and directed by Kenneth Brady 2006 78 minutes DVD-TIN Kenneth Brady's film is very powerful, reflective, poetic and brutrally honest. It is simply one man speaking directly to the camera. No film crew, no audience present. It is a revelation , as if it were made so that the information he tells us is recorded and preserved for a time capsule, to be viewed by a future generation. He has made it to tell us today, as well as those in the future that, yes, some of us many, in fact knew of the things that our government did in our name, and even though some did not remain silent, they were not able to prevent the atrocities. But, most importantly, the truth-tellers may have helped to limit the extent of the deeds. His point is that the truth-tellers of every era, are essential. Still, this film is not a guilt-trip for those who knew better but did not act or do enough. It is a plea to all of us to always, under all circumstances, do what we can to recognize the connections, refuse to be complicity and act courageously against actions committed in our name by the state. Show this film in home screenings and as part of a free community film series. It's a uniquely engaging form of narrative documentary that will captivatethe audience. "The Time Is Now" heralds a new voice and a courageous new examination of America. This searing political monologue exposes shocking discoveries in a way that is part plea, part confessional, and part outcry. Acathartic antidote to apathy and numbing complacency. Click on title for more information...
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DVD: Sacco & Vanzetti $24.00 DVD-SV Documentary Directed by Peter Miller 2007 color and B&W 82 minutes A new documentary about two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of murder in 1920 (during the height of the first 20th century Red Scare) and executed seven years later. Their story continues to have greater resonance, as 80 years later, civil liberties and the rights of immigrants are again under attack. As Tony Shalhoub and John Turturro read the men's powerful prison writings, commentators including historian Howard Zinn, songwriter (and son of Woody) Arlo Guthrie and author/radio commentator Studs Terkel offer their insights into a story of bigotry, intolerance and the worldwide impact of the very controversial trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Our friend Ralph DiGia (1914-2008) appears in this film, recallng how the first political event his father ever took him to at a young age was a New York protest in support of Sacco & Vanzetti. he roots of today's activism go deep and far back into history. Click on film title for more information...
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CD: Soundtrack Album Music to the film "O Lucky Man!" $17.00 CD-OLM Alan Price, the keyboardist for the English band "The Animals" in the 1960's, composed the lyrics and music and played the songs in the Lindsay Anderson film "O Lucky Man!" in 1973. The music is an intregral part of the film, but each song also stands alone. Whether you've seen the film or not, the songs from the film are timeless in their message. But if you haven't seen the film, it's well worth viewing. If you have seen and enjoyed the film, this album is a welcome addition to your music collection. Alan Price was awarded a British Academy Award for the music. Liner notes by Malcolm McDowell. Click on title for track listings on CD...
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DVD: Rush To War - Between Iraq & A Hard Place DVD-RTW Written, produced & directed by Robert Taicher 2007 86 minutes DVD-RTW An historical documentary that examines the issues surrounding September 11th and U.S. foreign policy. Early in October 2001, three weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, director Robert Taicher and a small film crew droive from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. and New York, interviewing a cross-section of Americans in the aftermath of the events. Following the invasion of Afghanistan and the administration's war with Iraq, Taicher interviewed a number of government officials, foreign policy experts and journalists, Click on title for description of the film...
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DVD: The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion & the Collapse of the American Dream $15.00 DVD-EOS Directed by Gregory Greene Hosted by Barrie Zwicker 78 minutes Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. Click on title for the rest of the description...
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DVD: Made in L.A. DVD-MILA a Semilla Vede Productions, Independent Television Service & American Documentary/P.O.V. Co-production Directed by Almudena Carracedo 70 minutes 2007 MADE IN L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21. In intimate observational cinema-verite style, MADE IN L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman's life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, MADE IN L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage to find your voice. For more info, visit the website: www.madeinla.com "A rousing true story of solidarity, perseverance and triumph" - Ronnie Scheib, VARIETY
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DVD: The Corporation DVD-TC Special Edition Two Disc Set Directed by Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott 145 minutes Canadian Winner of 23 International Awards, including the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema-Documentary Audience Award In this acclaimed documentary from the co=director of "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky & The Media", 40 corporate insiders and critics, including "Shock Doctrine" and "No Logo" author Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, and economist Milton Friedman explore the nature and spectacular rise of the most pervasive institution of our time. Combining analysis with footage from pop culture, advertising, television news, corporate propaganda and industrial films illuminate the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "Just what kind of person it it?" Unique, witty, sweepingly informative, this film includes true confessions, case histories and strategies for change. It's an entertaining and provocative look at the inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possibe futures of the modern global conglomerate. For extra features, click on film title...
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DVD: The War At Home DVD-WAH a film by Glenn Silber & Barry Alexander Brown 100 minutes 1979 DVD features: Biographies, trailers, chapters. Nominated for an Academy Award and widely considered one of the most important political films ever made, THE WAR AT HOME vividly chronicles the anti-war protest movement of the 1960's and '70's. Click on title for more information...
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DVD: The Panama Deception DVD-PD Directed by Barbara Trent & David Kaspar 1993 Academy Award winner Best Documentary 97 minutes released on DVD Sept. 2007 "No matter what your political leanings may be, this film should be considered mandatory viewing." Seattle Times Click on title for the rest of the description...
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DVD: Ron Jones Stories - The Wave DVD-WAVE Written & Performed by Ron Jones 1996 60 minutes Dirksen/Malloy Productions For the first time, breaking a long silence, world history teacher Ron Jones tells "what really happened" in his 1967 classroom "experiment" The Wave. Click on titlwe for the rest of the story...
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DVD: The Wave (TV drama version) $25.00 DVD-TWTV 44 minutes 1981 This is the made-for-TV version adapted from the true incident in history teacher Ron Jones' Palo Alto, California high school classroom in 1967. (the DVD case mistakenly says 1969). It is the dramatization that millions of people have seen. This dramatization was directed by Alexander Grasshoff, and produced for television by Norman Lear. It aired nationally in 1981. The powerful forces of group pressure that lead to a totalitarian mindset grew out-of-control in the classroom experiment known as "The Wave." After all the years since it was made, this is still a valuable lesson for students to see and learn. A novel was adapted from the TV script. Also see "The Wave - Ron Jones Stories" to hear the story told for the first time, first hand, before a live audience in 1996, by the teacher who created it in his classroom, 29 years after it happened. (1 hour) Both films, together make a profound presentation, over two or more days (total time: 1:44) For more about the story, visit "The Wave" and "The Third Wave" entries on www.wikipedia.org
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DVD: One Bright Shining Moment DVD-OBSM A film by Stephen Vittoria 2005 125 minutes featuring the music of Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Donovan, Leon Russell and Elvis Costello. {four stars!} Christian Science Monitor "Hearing and seeing McGovern makes it all too apparent what is missing in contemporary Washington." Los Angeles Times "A riveting tale of idealism versus cynicism." N.Y. Daily News "Well-researched." New York Times "Tremendously thought-provoking." CBS Radio "An elegant homage. It illuminates much of the political landscape of the '60's and early '70's - as well as today," Minneapolis City Pages Click on title for more reviews...
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DVD: No Logo: Brands, Globalization, Resistance $25.00 DVD-NL produced by Media Education Foundation 42 minutes + 9 min. of extras In the age of the brand, logos are everywhere. But why do some of the world's best known brands find themselves on the wrong end of the spray paint can the targets of anti-corporate campaigns by activists and protesters? NO LOGO, based on the best-selling book by Canadian journalist and activist, Naomi Klein, reveals the reasons behind the backlash against the growing economic and cultural reach of multinational companies Click on title for more information...
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DVD: Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People $25.00 DVD-RBA Produced by Media Education Foundation 50 minutes featuring Dr. Jack Shaheen REEL BAD ARABS take a devastating tour of the American cinematic landscape, moving from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters to reveal an astonishing and persistent pattern of slanderous Arab stereotyping. Featuring acclaimed author and Hollywood film consultant Dr. Jack Shaheen, the documentary exposes America's long love affair with Arab villainy and buffoonery, from over-sexed Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and blood-thirsty terrorists. Along the way, the film provides striking insights into the origin of these images, their disturbing similarities to anti-Semitic and racist stereotypes from the past, and their political resonance during key moments of conflict in U.S. history... Click on title for the rest of the description.
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DVD: The Diamond Empire (the film DeBeers Tried to Silence & Censor) DVD-DE Produced by Janine Roberts 1994 (first time on video is 2008) 102 minutes "In all my years of teaching, this is the single most important video I have ever shown to my students. No film has proven as successful in showing how a major art of their identities has been constructed by a corporate, commercial culture. This movie changes the way we see the world." Sut Jhally, Dept. of Communication, UMass "Our goal is to make diamonds a cultural imperitive for all important aspects of a woman's life." DeBeers promotional statement to its retailers Click on title for film description...
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DVD: Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate power $125.00 DVD-MMM Produced by Media Education Foundation 52 minutes The Walt Disney Company's animated films are almost universally lauded as wholesome family entertainment, enjoying massive popularity among children and endorsement from parents and teachers. MICKEY MOUSE MONOPOLY takes a close and critical look at the world these films create (in terms of the stories told about race, gender and class) and teaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. Click on title for film description...
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DVD: On A Paper Crane: Tomoko's Adventure DVD-OAPC NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD Exclusively from this catalogue! Tomoko is a sixth-grader in elementary school. Quite active and adventurous, she visits Hiroshima all by herself. While at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, she meets a mysterious girl (Sadako), who takes her on a strange, eye-opening journey. This animated film is beautifully-crafted, powerfully presented and age-appropriate for children in elementary school. Click on the title for the rest of the description...
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DVD: The Peace Patriots DVD-TPP 78 minutes directed by Robbie Leppzer MiddleHigh School, College, Adult Narrated by Janeane Garofalo, this feature-length documentary film follows a diverse group of individuals, ranging in age from 14 to 75, including middle and high school students, college students, teachers, clergy, and war veterans from Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, as they take part in vigils, marches, theatre performances and civil diobedience sit-ins to protest the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq. The film features contemporary music by Grammy Award winner Steve Earle, Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Jonatha Brooke, Stephan Smith, DJ Spooky, Jami Sieber and original music by John Sheldon Click on title for more reviews...
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DVD: Blood & Oil $125.00 DVD-BAO Directed by Michael Klare from Media Education Foundation * 52 min. "Michael Klare looks into the future with sharper eyes than almost anyone else around." Bill McKibben, author: The End of Nature "Compelling, credible and thought-provoking...A must-see for current and older generations who have served America's militaristic pursuit of oil." Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) "Indisepensible to an understanding of the critical problems we face. I hope that this lucid and historically accurate film is widely seen." Chalmers Johnson, author: The Blowback Trilogy Click on title for more description and Special Features included on this DVD...
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DVD: Freedom Song DVD-FS This film brings to life the Civil Rights movement in a personal and accurate way like no other film has. Inspired by accounts from the front lines of the Civil RIghts Movement, this story chronicles a family nearly torn apart by the struggles of a nation and its impact on a Mississippi town during the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960's. In documenting the complexity and effect of the movement on the volunteers, their families and their community, "Freedom Song" places heroism on the shoulders of the local people, who were the unsung and mostly unknown heroes who risked their lives to make change. Starring Danny Glover. 150 minutes.
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DVD: Ballot Measure 9 DVD-BM9 Produced & Directed by Heather Lyn MacDonald 72 minutes 1995 "One of the best movies of the year...positively shimmers." - L.A. Weekly Click on title for more information for educators, libraries and civil rights activists...
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DVD: Winter Soldier $25.00 DVD-WS A film as relevant today as it was 35 years ago when it was made. Listen to these 18 to 25 year old soldiers speaking their truth to an America that was unwilling to listen to them at the time, which is in large part why we are in the occupation/quagmire we are in today. We did not learn the bitter lessons of that war, and find ourselves, once again, waist-deep in another mistake of a war only the stakes are far greater today. "One of the most devastating antiwar films ever made!...A testament to those who had the bravery to speak out and speak up." David Fear, Time Out New York Click on title for more about the film...
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DVD: Hearts and Minds DVD-H&M Directed by Peter Davis 1974 112 minutes The Classic Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, 1974 Released by the Criterion Collection. Chillingly relevant to our times, filmmaker and journalist Peter Davis illustrates, in poignant graphic terms, both the horrors and lessons of the Vietnam war. Edited from over 200 hours of footage - incorporating newsreels, telecasts, even scenes from Hollywood war movies - Davis' film captures the experience of war through multiple perspectives, depicting its effects on the diverse range its participants (from "doves" to "hawks," military advisors to bombing victims, G.I.'s to bar girls) both in Vietnam and the United States. Click on title for more information and a review by N.Y. Times film critic Judith Crist...
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DVD: Behind The Swoosh $20.00 DVD-SWOOSH by Jim Keady & Leslie Kretzu Educating For Justice 2007 18 minutes Behind The Swoosh is the ultimate classroom resource for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using the Nike corporation as a case study, Educating For Justice co-directors, Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu have documented first-hand the widespread oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world. Used as a resource by hundreds of faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind The Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community groups and union halls. Click on title for more information...
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DVD: FLOW - For Love Of Water $30.00 DVD-FLOW Directed by Irena Salina 2008 93 minutes Water, the very essence of life, the the subject of this documentary. From both local and global perspectives, it examines the harsh realities behind the mounting water crisis. Learn how politics, pollution and human rights are intertwined in this vital issue that affects every being on Earth. With water being privatized by corporations like Coca Cola, Nestle and others, the film urges a call to action before more of our most precious natural resource is diverted, poisoned and disappears. Every MARCH 22nd is WORLD WATER DAY! Show this DVD in March! Your organization is encouraged to co-sponsor or partner with this event. contact; WaterCampaign@WeTheWorld.org Click on title for more information and reviews...
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Video: Arms For The Poor VHS-AFTP VHS-AFTP Maryknoll Productions Narrated by Richard Kiley 1998 25 minutes VHS only Cine Golden Eagle Award Winner This convincing case against the taxpayer-financed U.S. weapons-export business to developng countries is, unfortunately, in no way dated. The arms exporting industry is perennially booming. This video presents an international spectrum of dignitaries and activists who share the belief of one Nobel Laureate that "The poor are crying out for schools and doctors, not guns and generals." Through interviews and footage of the impact of these weapons throughout the world, viewers learn who benefits and who loses from the military-industrial complex. Includes a moving segment on the impact of landmines. A key resource for U.S. government or civics classes to introduce students to the impact of our tax dollars.
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DVD: The Reflecting Pool DVD-RP 2008 Directed by Jarek Kupsc 1 hour 46 minutes bonus disk: interview with director and actors Jarek Krupsc and Joseph Culp by journalist Jonathan Mark with excerpts from the film. Winner: Moondance International Film Festival, Columbine Award (2008) A dramatic, narrative film about an independent investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, written and directed by Polish-born filmmaker Jarek Kupsc. Better made, more persuasive than many of the documentaries made about 9/11 over the past eight years, this factually accurate, well-acted, dramatic story has what it takes to reach far more people than all the documentaries made to date. "The Reflecting Pool presents a story that I have not taken the time or courage to touch." Barbara Trent, Academy Award-winner, director of "The Panama Deception" Click on title for the Synopsis and reviews...
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DVD: What A Way To Go - Life At The End of Empire DVD-WAWTG Written & directed by T.S. Bennet 2008 123 minutes. A middle-class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle. Disturbing, compassionate, sometimes humorous personal essay about all of the above. Friends and experts analyze historical, social and psychological factors driving us toward human extinction. Bennet's ruthless assessment challenges the audience to face terrifying times with courage and integrity. One of the most profoundly moving documentaries ever made: it personalizes these massive, abstract issues and ideas in a quiet,personal yet most effective way. You will be moved from whatever place you were in before you saw the film, whether it was naivete, apathy, denial, partial awareness, anger, frustration, rationalizing, minimizing, or feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the mounting problems we face as a bio-region, a nation, a continent and a human and animal global habitat in an industrial age way out of balance. Featuring concisely-edited interviews with noted authors and scientists Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Richard Heinberg, William Catton, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Manning, Thomas Berry, Paul Roberts, Ran Prieur, William Schlesinger, Stuart Pimm, and Douglas Crawford-Brown. "Nothing less than a 123-minute cat scan of the planet and its 21st century human and non-human condition." - Carolyn Baker, U.S. History Uncensored. Click on title for more information . . .
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DVD: Blind Spot DVD-BS a film by Adolfo Doring 2008 88 minutes In this haunting portrait of America's oil-fueled excesses, director Adolfo Doring explores the inextricable link beteen the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the multiplying threats that now confront the environmental health and stability of our planet. Taking as its starting pint the inevitable energy depletion scenario known as "Peak Oil," the film surveys a fascinating range of the latest intellectual, political and scientific thoght to make the case that by whatever measure of greed, wishful thinking, neglect or ignorance, we now fin d ourselves at a disturbing crossroads: we can continue to burn fossil fuels and witness the collapse of our ecology, or we can choose not to and withness the collapse of our economy. Refusing to whitewash this reality, BLIND SPOT issues a call to action, urging us to face up to the perilous situation we now find ourselves in, o that we might begin to envision a realistic, if inconvenient, way out. Certain to inspire debate in classrooms across a range of disciplines, especially in economics, environmental studies, the natural sciences, and political science. Click on title for reviews . . .
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DVD-Food, Inc. DVD-FI DVD-FI a film by Robert Kenner 2008 91 minutes Nine years in the making, Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation. Click on title for more information . . .
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DVD: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring DVD-RCSS WGHB/The American Experience series 2003 56 minutes Rachel Carson is credited for being the inspiration and fore-runner of the environmental movement. Her story is well worth re-examining on this 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and 48th anniversary since the publication of her groundbreaking wake-up call of a book, "Silent Spring." Click on the title for more reviews . . .
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DVD: Capitalism: A Love Story DVD-CALS Directed by Michael Moore 2009 127 minutes + 80 min. extra features Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The film moves from Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan. With both humor and outrage, the film explores the question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings. Moore goes into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal...and 14,000 jobs being lost every day. Capitalism: A Love Story also presents what a more hopeful future could look like. Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do? Click on the title for more reviews . . .
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DVD: Collapse directed by Chris Smith 2010 The New Documentary From The Director Of THE YES MEN and AMERICAN MOVIE It's the documentary that has been called superb (Entertainment Weekly), hypnotic and haunting (Time Magazine) and so masterfully made its impossible to look away (AllMovie.com). COLLAPSE is the story of Michael Ruppert, former Los Angeles police officer turned rogue reporter whose eerie prediction of the current financial crisis shocked millions. Now Ruppert is warning of a new meltdown, one rooted in oil, economics, and covert U.S. policies that are leading us all towards unprecedented global disaster. Is he an analyst who can clearly see America's economic and energy future, or a conspiracy theorist fueled by fear and paranoia? Or is he, as he himself suggests, just someone who has put the dots close enough together so that you can connect them for yourself. And if Ruppert is right, can this slide into catastrophe be stopped? Experience this sometimes harrowing, often poignant and always riveting look into the mind of the ultimate outsider from filmmaker Chris Smith, the award-winning director of American Movie and The Yes Men.
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DVD: The Age of Stupid Directed by Franny Armstrong 2010 92 minutes Drama/Documentary/Animation 'The Age of Stupid' is the long-awaited new documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer of the Oscar-winning 'One Day in September'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archival' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance? All the 'archival' footage is actual documentary footage from the time the film was made (2006-08) Climate change, oil, war, politics, consumerism and human stupidity are the subject and theme of the film. Featuring: Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (drama) Fernand Pareau, 82-year old French mountain guide (documentary) Jeh Wadia, starting a low-cost airline in India (documentary) Alvin DuVernay, Shell oil man who rescued 100 people after Hurricane Katrina (documentary) Layefa Malemi, living in Shells most profitable oil region in Nigeria (documentary) Jamila and Adnan Bayyoud, two Iraqi refugee kids trying to find their brother (documentary) Piers Guy, a windfarm developer fighting the anti windfarm lobby in England (documentary) Filmed on location in the U.S., the U.K., India, Nigeria, Iraq, Jordan, The Alps Click on title for more information . . .
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DVD: The Most Dangerous Man In America Co-winner of this years Freedom of Expression Award from the National Board of Review (and one of their Five Best Documentaries of the Year), Winner of the Special Jury Award at IDFA, and in contention for the years Best Documentary Oscar, The Most Dangerous Man in America tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, who in 1971 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. A riveting story of how this one mans profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving Americas newspapers, its president and Supreme Court. With Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Ellsberg, Tony Russo, Howard Zinn, Hedrick Smith, John Dean, and, from the secret White House tapes, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who called Ellsberg the most dangerous man in America. Click on title for reviews . . .
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