January 2012
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Watch(via 500 Nations - Part 1)
500 Nations is an eight part documentary on the Native Americans of North and Central America. It documents from pre-Columbian to the end of the 19th century. Much of the information comes from text, eyewitnesses, pictorials, and computer graphics. The series was hosted by Kevin Costner, and directed by Jack Leustig. It included the voice talents of narrator Gregory...
December 2011
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October 2011
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Watch(via Mumia_Abu_Jamal_-_A_CASE_OF_REASONABLE_DOUBT)
The story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner nearly 30 years ago, is being told (again). This time by a local documentary filmmaker.
Hill, 42, told PhillyNow that after interviewing more than 50 people for the film, “there’s been a lot of lies and misrepresentations and crazy conspiracy...
June 2011
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May 2011
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MOVE: A Documentary
“The MOVE surfaced in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. Characterized by dread lock hair, the adopted sir name of Africa, the principle unity, and an uncompromising practice of a belief, members practiced the teachings of John Africa.”
“The basic teaching of John Africa is to protect life from the enslavement of the system; which means all life....
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (The Oka Crisis)
by prolific First Nations documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin
A feature-length, multi-award winning documentary by Native American filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin set in the thick of the armed confrontation between Native American Mohawks and Canadian government forces during the 1990 standoff in the Mohawk village of Kanehsatake...
The Canary Effect
The Canary Effect
The Canary Effect is a 2006 documentary that looks into the effects of that the United States and its policies have on the Indigenous peoples (Native Americans) who are residents.
August 2010
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July 2010
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WatchOutfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right to know.
May 2010
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WatchSir! No Sir! - The Gi Revolt
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the...
October 2009
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WatchSteal This Movie!
Steal This Movie (2000) is an American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. It was directed by Robert Greenwald and the screenplay was written by Bruce Graham. It is based on a number of books including To america with Love: Letters From the Underground by Anita and Abbie Hoffman and Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer. The film follows Abbie...
WatchThis Is What Democracy Looks Like
1:08:28 - 2 years agoThis film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO’s power to arbitrally overrule nations’ environmental, social and labour policies in...
Rethink Afghanistan →
note: I couldn’t get the embedded code, so please go to the website to view the documentary.
Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding this war. By releasing this film in parts for free online, we are able to stay on top of news of the war as it continues to unfold. We hope to raise critical questions regarding Afghanistan...
September 2009
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WatchThe Patriot Act
Premiered on USTV Media on April 25th, 2004 What is it and why was it created? What are its intended purposes and the actual ramifications of its implementation? Is it an effective protection of America or an insidious threat threat to the core values and functioning of our democratic society? A new way of fighting terrorism or just a rehash of the days of domestic surveillance...
WatchOn March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that you won’t see on American television. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years...
August 2009
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WatchInvisible Children
In the spring of 2003, three young Americans traveled to Africa in search of such as story. What they found was a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them. A story where children are weapons and children are the victims. The “Invisible Children: rough cut” film exposes the effects of a 20 year-long war on the children of Northern Uganda. These children live in fear...
WatchSuper Size Me
Super Size Me is an Academy Award-nominated 2004 documentary film, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. It follows a 30-day time period (February 2003) during which Spurlock subsists exclusively on McDonald’s fast food and stops exercising regularly. The film documents this lifestyle’s drastic effects on Spurlock’s physical...
WatchJohn Pilger - The New rulers of The World
John Pilger’s New Rulers of the World tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization.
WatchRebels With a Cause
Rebels with a Cause chronicles the movements for social change of the Sixties that began with the civil rights movement and culminated with the angry protests against the US war in Vietnam. Told through the eyes of SDS members, the film is about far more than SDS. It’s about the values, motivations, and actions of a generation that lost its innocence but gained a sense of...
WatchFrank Capra’s Why We Fight
Produced by the U.S. Army Special Service Division, and directed by Frank Capra “Why We Fight” is a seven part propaganda/documentary series that traces the earliest beginnings of the second world war starting with Japan’s invasion of China in 1931, to the Nazi’s march across europe.
WatchThey Chose China
It is January 1954. The Korean War is over. Captured UN soldiers held in POW camps are free to return home. Those who refuse repatriation to their homeland are transferred to a neutral zone and given 90 days to reconsider their decision. Among them are 21 American soldiers who decide defiantly to stay in China. Back in the United States, McCarthyism is at its height. Many...
The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg - Watch the... →
Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher— Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life challenged the very soul of America. For 25 years, Academy Award-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 120 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive and...
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WatchJack Kerouac - King of the Beats
Documentary about the life of On the Road author Jack Kerouac. Kerouac coined the phrase Beat Generation and has been called the Father of the Hippies.
WatchJohn Lennon - Year of Peace
The year: 1969. Headlines blare war and civil unrest while John Lennon and Yoko Ono are in love. The eccentic rock ‘n’ roll couple has just gotten married, and more than happy to be together, they want to change the world.
Lying in a hotel bed surrounded by journalists, they announce their mission for peace and invite the rest of the world to symbolically...
WatchBastards of the Party
Raised in the Athens Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cle “Bone” Sloan was four years old when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan looks back at the history of black gangs in his city and makes a powerful call for change in modern gang culture with his insightful documentary, Bastards...
WatchThe War On Democracy by John Pilger
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger claims that the film “…tells a universal story… analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to...
WatchGimme Shelter- Rolling Stones
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, chronicling the Rolling Stones’ 1969 US tour, which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert. The film is named after “Gimme Shelter”, the lead track from the Rolling Stones’ 1969 album Let It Bleed.
WatchBiography of Barack Obama
When he called himself “a skinny kid with a funny name” at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, his political star was already on the rise. By the time he decimated the competition in 2004 race for the Illinois Senate, he was the bona fide golden child of a Democratic party desperately in need of a winner. In many ways, the story of Barack Obama is a...
WatchChina’s Stolen Children
Through the personal stories of several men, women and children whose lives are impacted by the stolen-child black market in China, China’s Stolen Children brings viewers face-to-face with a crisis brought on by the controversial one-child policy, implemented in 1979 to slow the country’s explosive population growth. As narrator Ben Kingsley explains,...
WatchBoy With the Increadible Brain
This is the breathtaking story of Daniel Tammet. A twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities, Daniel is one of the world’s few savants. He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking...
WatchControl Room — Propaganda of the Iraq War
See how tight constraints and desire to win over the hearts and minds of people world wide to support the baseless cause for the invasion of Iraq. See how different the sides are between east and western reporting. You be the judge of the truth
WatchTimothy Leary- The Man Who Turned On America
Documentary on Timothy Leary, the LSD guru and sixties counter-culture icon
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WatchEncounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog is a master filmmaker. Stretching back decades, genres, languages, styles and scope, he continues to be a pioneering creative force. Encounters at the End of the World is the newest reminder of his skill, and joins the growing list of ecologically/environmentally centered documentaries gracing us, the most famous being Davis Guggenheim/Al...
WatchBorn Into Brothels
Born Into Brothels (Calcutta’s Red Light Kids) is a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Calcutta’s red light district. The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2004 (via Born Into Brothels-Calcuttas Red...
WatchWhy We Fight
A documentary on the commerce of war, and how the military industrial complex profits so much from war, that it must create wars to continue the growth of it’s business.
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WatchConventions: The Land Around Us
“Conventions: The Land Around Us” is a documentary film essay on the topic of cultural and political change. It takes as its particular subject matter the confrontations that took place between anti-war demonstrators and the US political establishment in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. While bringing to life the emotional and ideological...
WatchThe Murder of Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life. When he was murdered he was only...
WatchThe Weather Underground
Hello, I’m going to read a declaration of a state of war…within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice.” ~ Bernardine Dohrn Thirty years ago, with those words, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Underground members,...
Watch4 Little Girls (1997)
There are many remarkable things about the documentary 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee’s striking, beautifully realized film is a cinematic lesson of what kind of material is better suited to the documentary format. In his first documentary, Lee shares an attribute of Ken Burns: the major event in his documentary is not seen on camera. Except for four quick glimpses of...
WatchAnarchy in America
A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misconceptions
WatchBomb Harvest
magine there was a new Unabomber at work in the US, sending letter bombs out across the nation. Now imagine there was one in every state, so that 164 letter bombs went off in one year, killing 36 people, 15 of whom were children. Would that make headlines? That was the number killed by unexploded ordnance in Laos in 2005. Almost all of the ordnance in Laos is American, left over from...