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3) Thirst
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A documentary without narration that explores how water and the ownership and control of water figure into community resistance to corporations rapidly buying up local water supplies. Examines the environmental and human rights issues associated with governments and companies making the world's fresh water supply into a commodity at the expense of local communities. Visits locations in Stockton, California, Bolivia, and India.
5) Earth days
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"[This program] looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement -- from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestseller 'Silent Spring' to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962. Seven billion in debt (circa 2000), Jamaica has seen its agricultural industries laid to waste by the impossibility of competing with subsidized, multi-national American based companies. The poverty of 'average' Jamaican in a shantytown near Kingston is in stark contrast...
Publisher
[Distributed by Sky Island Films]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Brings together an ex-"60-Minutes" producer, a United States congressman, as well as some of the country's leading intellectual voices on the media to examine the mix of business, politics and idealogy that is the modern mainstream media. From the very size of the media monopolies and how they got that way to who decides what gets on the air and what doesn't, this film moves through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered...
Publisher
UT Film, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"Featuring media personalities, ministers, civil rights activists, veterans, and a self-employed plumber, the film explores their personal journeys of navigating the world as one of America's most misunderstood political and cultural groups: The American Black Conservative." -- https://uncletom.com/
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the Republican Party and crack down on immigration.
10) Fahrenheit 451
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In a future when books are banned and destroyed by the government, a fireman in charge of the burning becomes involved with a schoolteacher who flaunts the law by collecting and reading books.
Publisher
Cloud Ten Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Grant Jeffery will reveal how secret spy satellites now listen in on every phone call you make, how powerful supercomputers are building secret files that contain everything on everyone, from age to the last groceries bought, and more.
13) Fahrenheit 451
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In a not too distant future, humans live a seemingly care-free existence where they're happy and productive. There is a "price" though for this life: They must place special drops in their eyes daily and follow the rules perfectly, including the rule that they never own or read books. Guy Montag is a firefighter. He doesn't fight fires though, but instead hunts down those people who refuse to follow the law and burns their books. Like everyone else,...
Publisher
UT Film, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"[This film] is an odyssey depicting the gradual demoralization of America through Marxist infiltration of its institutions. The film explores how this deceptive ideology has torn apart the fabric of society while using black America as its number one tool for its destruction. From Executive Producer Larry Elder and Director Justin Malone comes the continuation of their ... film, Uncle Tom (2020)"--Container insert.
16) Black code
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this gripping documentary, filmmaker Nicholas de Pencier examines the complex global impact that the Internet has had on matters of free speech, privacy, and activism. Based on the book by Ron Deibert, it is the story of how the Internet is being controlled and manipulated by governments across the world in order to censor and monitor their citizens. As they battle for control of cyberspace, ideas of citizenship, privacy, and democracy are challenged...
Publisher
Accentus Music
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the First World War broke out in 1914, the music world was not unaffected. Artists inevitably became involved, either as soldiers at the front or as composers of patriotic music or musical memorials to a lost world. The three-part documentary series investigates the (un)known, overt and hidden connections between music, power, war and revolution. Beginning with what led to this great human tragedy, each episode addresses different perspectives...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police,...
19) Fahrenheit 451
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"In the realm of documentary filmmaking there is no greater icon than Michael Moore, but are his films really the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? At what point is manipulation of 'fact' a work of fiction? See for yourself when the lens is turned on the most controversial director of our time."--Container.