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Dan Weingarten added a video on Sep 28, 2014
Lessons Of Darkness
Lessons Of Darkness (1992) (trailer)
Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's Lektionen in Finsternis is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. Herzog, as much a daredevil as a...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Oct 3, 2013
Seeds of Discontent
Seeds of Discontent (2013)
A powerful new documentary film “Seeds of discontent” was launched today that draws attention to the role of a Swedish investment firm, Dutch pension fund and Norwegian church endowment firm in land grabbing in...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 15, 2013
Street Fight
Street Fight (2005)
Nominated for an Academy Award, this film chronicles the hard-fought campaign for mayor of Newark, New Jersey, by Corey Booker, a young community activist and City Council member, against a 16-year incumbent with a powerful political...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 14, 2013
The Mona Lisa Curse (2008) (trailer)
The Mona Lisa Curse (2008) (trailer)
In The Mona Lisa Curse, art critic Robert Hughes subjected present-day commercialisation of art to a withering criticism. It's a damning indictment of the general tendency of art to degenerate into flashy triviality to the degree that...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 13, 2013
The Town That Was
The Town That Was (2007)
In 1962, a trash fire ignited a seam of anthracite coal beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once thriving mining town of over 1600 people. By the mid 1980’s, giant plumes of smoke and deadly carbon monoxide gases billowed from fissures...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 7, 2013
The Pipe
The Pipe (2010) (trailer)
What do people do when the law prevents them from protecting themselves? This is a documentary film on the small Irish village that stood up to Big Oil.
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 4, 2013
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997)
This controversial documentary about the stand-off between an unorthodox Christian group - the Branch Davidians, under the leadership of the young, charismatic David Koresh - and the FBI and ATF in Waco, Texas, from February to April...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 1, 2012
Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (2008) (trailer)
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 protests against the military regime in Burma. Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 29, 2012
PBS FRONTLINE: The Interrupters
PBS FRONTLINE: The Interrupters (2011)
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 20, 2012
A Panther in Africa
A Panther in Africa (2004)
On October 30, 1969, Pete O'Neal, a young Black Panther in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested for transporting a gun across state lines. One year later, O'Neal fled the charge, and for over 30 years, he has lived in Tanzania, one of...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Aug 11, 2011
Capitalism Is The Crisis
Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)
This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.
Dan Weingarten added a video on Jul 28, 2011
Subconscious War
Subconscious War (2011)
Subconscious War is a short documentary on media, reality, and the culture of violence, It covers the prophecies of Aldous Huxley and Neil Postman's grim assessment of our Brave New World and relates these to our violence and the...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 28, 2011
Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus/Nation Books) came out the day of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 17, 2011
The Panama Deception
The Panama Deception (1992)
The Panama Deception documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama; the events which led to it; the excessive force used; the enormity of the death and destruction; and the devastating aftermath. The Panama...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 16, 2011
Gaddafi: Our Best Enemy
Gaddafi: Our Best Enemy (2011)
Born in a tent in the Libyan desert, this Arab nationalist gained notoriety at 27 after toppling King Idris I. He went on to survive revolts, military strikes and embargoes while showing a knack for playing to Western interests, namely...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 11, 2011
Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds (1974)
Peter Davis' landmark documentary Hearts and Minds confronts with stark frankness the United States' involvement in Vietnam and the development of its foreign policy in the 1970s. Using a carefully constructed range of meticulously...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 8, 2011
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis (2010)
In times of crisis people seek strong leaders and simple solutions. But what happens when their solutions are identical to the mistakes that caused the very crisis? 'Overdose' is the story of the greatest economic crisis of our age ...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 8, 2011
American Drug War: The Last White Hope
American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)
The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure?
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 8, 2011
Energy War
Energy War (2007)
In a world in which the U.S. and Europe are addicted to oil and gas, and those increasingly scarce resources are controlled by authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria and Russia, the geopolitical ramifications...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 6, 2011
GasHole
GasHole (2010)
GasHole is a new documentary film about the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of our dependence on foreign supplies of Oil. What are the causes that led from...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 1, 2011
Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy
Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)
This film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the "graveyard of social movements", the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States, the continuity and...
Dan Weingarten added a video on May 1, 2011
The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
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...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 29, 2011
The Dark Side of Chocolate
The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)
A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 24, 2011
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms (2009)
A heart-stopping new documentary, A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Apr 24, 2011
The Wobblies
The Wobblies (1979) (trailer)
"Solidarity! All for One and One for All!" With that slogan, the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the Wobblies, took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changing the course of history. Along the way to winning an...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Mar 19, 2011
Who's Afraid of Nuclear Power?
Who's Afraid of Nuclear Power?
Almost every day seems to bring more horror stories on fossil fuels. We're bombarded with reports about global warming. The price of oil keeps increasing. But with each gloomy media prediction, the nuclear industry can boast: we've got...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Mar 13, 2011
The Battle of Chernobyl
The Battle of Chernobyl (2006)
THE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL dramatically chronicles the series of harrowing efforts to stop the nuclear chain reaction and prevent a second explosion, to "liquidate" the radioactivity, and to seal off the ruined reactor under a mammoth...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Mar 8, 2011
Waste Land
Waste Land (2010)
An uplifting documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Mar 8, 2011
Possum Living
Possum Living (1980)
A short documentary of Dolly Freed, author of the 1970s cult classic Possum Living. It shows how this father and daughter pair quit their job and school respectively to live out of their suburban home. As per the book's subtitle, it...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Mar 6, 2011
Palestine Is Still The Issue
Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)
In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. He speaks to the families of suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the humiliation of Palestinians...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Mar 6, 2011
The War You Don't See
The War You Don't See (2010)
A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 28, 2011
Mistaken Identity: Jimmy Carter, the Abortion Myth, and the Rise of the Religious Right
Mistaken Identity: Jimmy Carter, the Abortion Myth, and the Rise of the Religious Right
Author, historian and Emmy Award nominee the Rev. Dr. Randall Balmer, distinguished visiting professor at Emory Universitys Candler School of Theology, reveals groundbreaking research on the real impetus behind the rise of the...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 27, 2011
Big Sugar
Big Sugar (2005)
From its early days with ties to slavery, to modern times with its political ties, "Big Sugar" explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels.
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 27, 2011
Unwanted Migrants: Drug Addiction and Race
Unwanted Migrants: Drug Addiction and Race (1992)
Tensions mount in Williamsport when residents resist an influx of recovering drug addicts from urban areas. This in-depth documentary follows the resulting controversy, examining dynamics of racial and immigration politics that...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 27, 2011
Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled
Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled (2009)
Poppa Neutrino always said that "rent is the thing that kills us". So he and his wife and 5 kids picked up some instruments and hit the road. The ‘Travelling Neutrinos’ roamed from the USA to Moscow to Mexico. They slept on beaches...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 26, 2011
CRASS: There Is No Authority But Yourself
CRASS: There Is No Authority But Yourself (2006)
There is No Authority But Yourself is a Dutch film directed by Alexander Oey documenting the history of anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archive footage of the band and interviews with former members Steve Ignorant, Penny...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 26, 2011
Storming the Temple
Storming the Temple (2004)
"The army went into Darbar Sahib not to eliminate a political figure or political movement but to suppress the culture of a people, to attack their hearts, and to strike a blow at their spirit and self-confidence."- Joyce PettigrewA...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 26, 2011
Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion
Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion
Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges...
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 26, 2011
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, this documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice.
Dan Weingarten added a video on Feb 26, 2011
The Mark of Cain
The Mark of Cain (2000)
The Mark of Cain documents the fading art form and “language” of Russian criminal tattoos, formerly a forbidden topic in Russia. The now vanishing practice is seen as reflecting the transition of the broader Russian society. Filmed in...