Political Documentaries on the Internet

[Barking_Mad]

Thought I'd add a thread for political documentaries. I had the idea for this a few days ago and was going to draw my own list up, then someone on MediaLens did the hard work for me and posted their own. So with their hard work here's a list of video's that might be of interest. If you find one doesn't work PM me and i'll delete it of find another link. Feel free to add your own obviously......

LATIN AMERICA

Life and Debt - A documentary about world trade and globalization using Jamaica as case study

The Panama Deception - about 'Operation Just Cause' - 1989.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3


The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - attempted coup to oust Hugo Chavez

ADAM CURTIS

Pandoras Box - Black Power - A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific age

Pandoras Box - League of Gentleman - Forty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical means to make Britain great again

Pandora's Box: To the Brink of Eternity - Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom 'Dr Strangelove' was based

The Mayfair Set - About rise of the stock market in post war UK

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Power of Nightmares - Government spin over terrorism

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Century of the Self - The rise of public relations and identity

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

HOWARD ZINN

Can't be neutral on a Moving Train - Biography, narrated by Matt Damon

Embracing Humanity: Truth in a Time of War with Howard Zinn

CHOMSKY

Chomsky - Iraq war lecture

Noam Chomsky speaks to BBC's Francine Stock at London's St Paul's Cathedral - Dec '02.

Noam Chomsky Lecture - Distorted Morality

The Myth Of The Liberal Media - featuring chomsky and based on his and Herrman's model

The Chomsky / Marr Interview, 1996

Exchange with Chomsky, Hani Faris and students at the University of British Columbia - topic is the Middle East, Nov. 2005

Manufacturing Consent

PALESTINE/ISRAEL

Tragedy in the Holy Land - The Second Uprising

Peace Propaganda and the Promised Land

The Iron Wall

GENERAL/MEDIA/MARKETING/PR/

The Corporation - About the rise of corporations

Robert Reich: How Unequal Can America Get Before We Snap? - About widening gap between rich and poor

The Plot to Overthrow FDR

Outfoxed - About Fox News

Interview with Alan Rusbridger - Editor of the Guardian re: Can newspapers survive and serve the public interest?

Resisting Government Secrecy in a Time of Terrorism with Seymour Hersh

Marketing Practice, Propaganda, and Public Relations with Professor David Morris

MICHAEL PARENTI

Dr. Michael Parenti: "Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy"

Michael Parenti: Race, Gender and Class Stuggle

JOHN PILGER

Cambodia - The Betrayal

The New Rulers of The World

Death of a Nation - about East Timor

Pilger Breaking The Silence - about post 911 irresponsibility

Palestine is still the issue

MID EAST/OIL

Saddam: Americas Best Enemy - History of foreign relations with him

Iraq : The Hidden Story - Channel 4 special

Rob Newman - History Of Oil

Why We Fight - Documentary about US War Aims and politics post WWII

SOURCES/VIDEO LINKS/SEARCH HELP

The Dossier - Lots of vids on this site (some already featured here)

Information Clearing House - in the sidebar

Frontline/PBS

 

[Barking_Mad]

Hurricane Katrina video

The Storm

An hour-long FRONTLINE investigation, examines how and why government at every level -- local, state and federal -- was unprepared, uncoordinated and overwhelmed in dealing with the Hurricane Katrina disaster that devastated the Gulf Coast in the late summer of 2005 and killed more than 900 people in New Orleans.

 

[fela fan]

Fuck, that's quite a list mate! Do i stay in for one full weekend?! You coulda posted it up before the footy season started...

 

[Firky]

Adam Curtis is the dog's cock, I think you can also get transcripts of his stuff on the Beeb's website.

 

[Julie]

Thanks heaps BM

Can we burn them on to cd?

 

[Gee]

Thats great thanks. I watched the Seymour Hersh talk last year, he is one of my hero's, very interesting to listen to, we need more journos like him in our media.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Great list, cheers!

 

[Backatcha Bandit]

Nice one, BM.

Here's a couple of lectures on the theme of 'Energy' :

Prof. Rick Smalley - Columbia University Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center presents "Our Energy Challenge" September 23, 2003 (WMV).

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Dr. Albert Bartlett - "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" Download, Stream or Stream (all Realmedia).

 

[Ae589]

Fantastic - I have nightshifts watching scripts go past for the next week - this is perfect...

 

[django]

Nice idea, Barking Mad.

Though the Life and Debt video seems to have been removed from google video.

 

[look again]

Freedom To Fascism, Radical new film

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1616088001333580937&q=freedom+to+fascism

Interview with Aaron Russo

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3254488777215293198&q=freedom+to+fascism

 

[kyser_soze]

Can we like, make BM a badge for good community service here?

Top list!

 

[Barking_Mad]

I'll add any suggestions to the 1st post so as to avoid them being scattered across pages and posts. Unfortunately at the minute I can't seem to edit anything on the original post (board maintenance?). Post noted about the 'Life & Debt' video not working.

In the meantime here's another one I just found.

The Slow Poisoning of India (25 mins)

Documentary on how the use of Endosulfan pesticide has created widespread congenital abnormalities in the children of Kochinim, Kerala. Alson on how the rampant use of fertilizers and pesticides in decimating the ecology and how farmers are moving back to organic farming to ensure sistained development.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Can we like, make BM a badge for good community service here?

Top list!

 

[Barking_Mad]

Chomsky Torrents

Looks like there's loads of stuff (Chomsky related and otherwise) on here. It also has Spike Lee's documentary 'When The Levee's Broke' which was a recent HBO Special, Greg Palast (Armed Madhouse). Definately worth checking out.

If you don't know about BitTorrent and how it works there is a guide here

 

[Barking_Mad]

....

Control Room

Jehane Noujaim's eye-opening documentary "Control Room" peeks behind the curtain at the Arab news network Al Jazeera. At once a document of the Iraq War, an inquiry into the way events are filtered into news, and a surprising portrait of the personalities behind the scenes, "Control Room," which opens today, is a must-see movie.

Land Alienation in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia (25mins - with subtitles)

A hard hitting look at the effect of land alienation ("landgrabbing") on indigenous cultures in the Northern Cambodian Province of Ratanakiri. Includes some historical perspectives on the region, including Khmer Rouge times.

 

[ZAMB]

There are some excellent political videos at the MIT archive site

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video_index.php?ordercol=sort_date&orderdir=desc&page=1

also many on other topics of course, but it's well worth a look.

 

[RaverDrew]

Are we allowed to post links to Alex Jones' videos ?

 

[Barking_Mad]

Not for me to tell people what they can and can't post. As long as it doesn't turn into another flame war, no objections from me!

 

[RHOQ]

Ty

 

[snouty warthog]

currently watching this- alex jones 'terrorstorm', 2006

inquiry into 911, 7/7 etc with interviews with Ex-minister Michael Meacher, ex MI5 David Shayler, etc...

 

[RaverDrew]

currently watching this- alex jones 'terrorstorm', 2006

inquiry into 911, 7/7 etc with interviews with Ex-minister Michael Meacher, ex MI5 David Shayler, etc...

very good documentary imo

I'm not always a fan of AJ either

he comes across as a bit of a shouty evangelical preacher most of the time, and I can't help but giggle most the time.

but this docu is very good, and I would advise anyone to give it a go

 

[look again]

Here are two highly recommended documentaries, from Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker.

The Great Conspiracy - The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6529813972926262623&q=zwicker

The Great Deception - The War On Terrorism An Alternative View

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6895068144140381538&q=great+deception

 

[ZAMB]

Chomsky Torrents

For Chomsky video and audio that you can stream rather than download
http://www.chomsky.info/audionvideo.htm

 

[ZAMB]

I was looking for a copy of the video below and I discovered this site with hundreds of political documentaries - some of which are also listed in previous posts.

Michel Chossudovsky - Disarming War Agenda (Carlyle Group)

http://www.documentaries.ws/1/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.62

Other links to lectures by Michel Chossudovsky can be found at http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Michel+Chossudovsky+video&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

links to hundreds of other documentaries at

http://documentaries.ws/1/e107_plugins/content/content.php?recent.4

and

http://documentaries.ws/1/e107_plugins/content/content.php?recent.3

 

[ZAMB]

This is a video [actually a group of short films] listing some of America's illegal terrorist activities in 3rd world countries from after WW2 to the 1990s.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3453261789658676035

What I've Learned about US Foreign Policy: The war against the Third World

 

[davekriss]

Some great stuff here. Can we get Mike to make this thread permanent and accessible?

 

[bigfish]

Spike Lee's 'When The Levees Collapsed'

In 26 ten minute segments...

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=leninology

Keep an eye out for Mrs Phyllis Montana Leblanc, she has a way with words.

 

[ZAMB]

This lecture gives a different view on Afghanistan and Pakistan to that promoted by our governments.

I Is for Infidel
From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years in Afghanistan

Associated Press and New Yorker writer Kathy Gannon delivers an intimately observed history of Afghanistan from 1986 to the present. The longest-serving Western journalist in the region, Gannon overturns simplistic understanding of the country's politics in this eye-opening talk.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14841.htm

 

[ZAMB]

More on Afghanistan

This is another documentary that is almost too shocking. Thousands of taliban prisoners being slaughtered and buried in mass graves by the USA and the Northern Alliance, after being promised that they would be handed over to the UN. Democracy Now took up a whole programme to show it in the USA, where no American network would touch it.

Afghan Massacre : The Convoy of Death

In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm