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Help add to my list of political docs

posted 20 years ago by nothing_important
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This is a list of what is, or has been, available on the internet. I've never actually compiled my collection until now, but this doc finally made me interested in finding the ones I may have missed. So please add titles or URL links to important political documenaries. Thanks in advance!

Plan Columbia
Eyes on the Prize, volumes 1-3
What I Learned about American Foreign Policy
The Eternal Jew (Nazi propaganda)
The Killing Zone
The Gaza Strip Documentary
Many Chomsky videos
Some of Alex Jones' videos
Many Democracy now interviews
Bill Hicks - Totally (not really that political)
The Fourth World War
The Truth and Lies of 9/11
This is what democracy looks like
Control Room
Fog of War (don't actually have this right now)
The Corporation
9/11 - In Plane Sight
Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
Spin
The Money Masters (feh, kinda paranoid)
Robert Fisk Lecture
Hidden Agenda (interview)
Orwell Rolls in his Grave
Counting on Democracy
Scott Ritter Lecture
Bush Family Fortunes
The Hidden Ideology of Mass Media
Michael Moore's docs
Many PETA vids
History of Marijuana/Hemp/Reefer Madness

[–] Powergracee 19 years ago

Bush's Brain (Story behind Karl Rove's and the Rise of President George W Bush)
Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
Truth Lies And Intelligence
Three Days in September
Too Hot to Not Handle
Road to Guantanmo (docudrama)

I would list more but most of my Favorites have already been listen. My reccomendation to anyone watching the above mentioned videos is to watch them, and do your own research. Never take anything for face value , espically with the Extreme Right Wing/Left Wing. Good Luck and Enjoy!

[–] val789 18 years ago

HELP...

I'm looking for the name of a documentary I watched on CBC a while ago. I will try to describe in as much detail as possible...

It is about US media bias/censorship when it comes to war coverage, and looks heavily at the Vietnam War and how journalists were allowed to get right into it and show the horrors of war from both sides (burning of villages, innocents being killed, etc.), and that this resulted in losing support for the war at home. It goes on that the US government is now determined to never allow that to happen again. It then goes into the Gulf War and the later Shock & Awe and how the coverage was heavily censored, and now journalists are now "embedded" into US troops with a very limited viewpoint. They are hand-fed news and video straight from the White House, which then airs on TV. Technology and CGI is now used to show off the fancy new weapons of war, but the actual brutality of war is now sanitized and censored on any of the major US networks, and war coverage is essentially now limited to White House press conferences, etc. I do recall one specific part when a journalist wanted to show his video coverage of Iraq, but before airing he was fired from the cable company, with a message that his video will never be aired.

Note... if the documentary doesn't have Vietnam content in it, it's not the correct movie.

[–] chatruc101 18 years ago

A must have of political documentaries:

The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs

You get to hear first hand story lines from the leaders of the nations (at the time) themselves, USA presidents, Israely PM, Palestinian leaders, Syrian military leaders, etc.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204782/

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] vindo310 18 years ago

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

America: From Freedom to Fascism

(you can find both on google video)

Also.... The documentary "Commandante" made by Oliver Stone is good.