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11/22/04 :: By Mel Valentin Deadline Iraq: Uncensored Stories of the WarCategories :: Documentary
Deadline Iraq: Uncensored Stories of the War, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company for local television in November 2003 (still unaired in the United States), examines the invasion and initial occupation of Iraq from the perspective of fifty journalists, cameramen,...
11/14/04 :: By Mel Valentin Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Oil on IceCategories :: Documentary
Oil on Ice, a timely documentary directed by Bo Boudart and Dale Djerassi and narrated by Peter Coyote, examines the struggle to safeguard the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), a pristine19-million acre refuge located in northeast Alaska, from oil exploration...
11/12/04 :: By Mel Valentin Aftermath: The Remnants of WarCategories :: Documentary
”The remnants of war exist as unexploded artillery shells and swaths of unburied landmines. They drift as sea mines in oceans and moulder as dead soldiers left unburied beneath forest leaves.”
Donovan Webster (author), Aftermath: The Remnants of War
11/02/04 :: By Mel Valentin Brothers in Arms: John Kerry [Documentary]Categories :: Documentary
Written and directed by Paul Alexander (author of a flattering biography of Arizona Senator John McCain), Brothers in Arms examines, in broad strokes, John Kerry’s military service as the commander of a swift boat in the Mekong Delta during the...
10/19/04 :: By Mel Valentin The Hunting of the PresidentCategories :: Documentary
The Hunting of the President, another in the rapidly expanding series of partisan, political documentaries released in 2004, chronicles the decade-long campaign to discredit (and later impeach) former President William J. Clinton. Written and directed by Harry Thomason and Nicholas...
10/16/04 :: By Mel Valentin Distorted Morality: The War on Terrorism?Categories :: Documentary
Distorted Morality: War on Terrorism? features two lectures by Noam Chomsky given in 2002, after the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C, but before the March 19, 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States. Noam Chomsky is a professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, a position he’s held at MIT for more than forty years. In the 1950s, Chomsky pioneered linguistics research, formulating what he called “universal grammar” (a theory, in simplistic form, that posited innate, cognitive structures within the human brain inherently predisposed to generating complex language systems). For non-academics, Noam Chomsky is better known as a longtime political critic and activist. He began his second career as an activist during the 1960s, as a critic of U.S. involvement in Vietnam abroad and an activist for civil and political rights at home.
10/13/04 :: By Mel Valentin Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can BuyCategories :: Documentary
Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, the latest in what appears to be an unending series of anti-Bush political documentaries released this season, covers little new ground in examining George W. Bush’s meteoric, if unfortunate, rise to power in presidential politics and as such, indicates the limits, if not of the short-form documentary format, then of a subject matter that has been exhaustively scrutinized and discussed both in the alternative press and the mainstream media, to diminishing returns.
10/13/04 :: By Tom Ball Must Read Books and Must See DVDs for the 2004 ElectionCategories :: Books :: Documentary
As we approach the most important election of the past 25 centuries, I think it is important to refresh our memory as to why it is so critical. Thus, I have supplied a rather extensive "Election 2004" Reading/Viewing list.
10/12/04 :: By Mel Valentin The Yes Men (Taking on the WTO)Categories :: Documentary
The Yes Men, directed by Dan Olman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith (American Movie), follows two anti-corporate/anti-globalization pranksters, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano, as they impersonate World Trade Organization (WTO) officials at various trade and business conferences. The WTO is...
10/05/04 :: By Mel Valentin Going Upriver: The Long War of John KerryCategories :: Documentary
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry, loosely based on Douglas Brinkley’s Tour of Duty, is the latest in a series of political documentaries intended to educate, enlighten, and more importantly, impact the upcoming general election. Despite its unapologetically...
10/02/04 :: By Mel Valentin Persons of Interest: Muslims/Arabs After 9/11Categories :: Documentary
Funded in part by the Sundance Documentary Fund and directed by Alison Maclean (Jesus' Son, Crush) and Tobias Perse, Persons of Interest examines arbitrary arrest, secret detention, and deportation of Muslim and Arab immigrants in the after of the 9-11...
09/24/04 :: By Mel Valentin Shooting the War: DocumentaryCategories :: Documentary
Shooting the War, a 1999 Canadian documentary co-directed by Patrick Chauvel and Antoine Novet, explores, in cursory fashion, the subgroup of photojournalists who work and have worked in high-risk war zones, from World War II through the smaller, if nonetheless...
05/22/04 :: By Delton Murphy For Want of a War, The Truth Was LostCategories :: Anti-War :: Bush Administration :: Documentary :: Iraq :: Media
Highlighting the myriad of inconsistencies evident in the statements made by politicians and spokespeople in support of the war, such as the exaggeration of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, director Robert Greenwald strives to exemplify the clandestine motives that may have provided momentum to the war effort in his latest movie, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War.
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