Following on from El Mona's Book thread, I thought I'd start one for Documentary's. They teach people a lot and I personally love them.

At the moment I'm downloading the Documentary :

"Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (1993)"

"Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar made this penetrating documentary about the career and views of linguist and media critic Noam Chomsky. While the man is the subject of the movie, the filmmakers wisely and carefully choose not to make Chomsky more important than his insights into the way print and electronic journalism tacitly and often willingly further the agendas of the powerful. We learn a lot about Chomsky’s formative experiences as a child, student, academic, activist, and politician (he has campaigned for office), but we learn just as much about the media institutions that deny him access today, from ABC to PBS. The centerpiece of the film, arguably, is a long examination into the history of the New York Times’ coverage of Indonesia’s atrocity-ridden occupation of East Timor, reportage that (as Chomsky shows us) was absolutely in lock step with the government’s unwillingness to criticize an ally. –Tom Keogh"

I'll post my review here when I've finished watching it.

Feel free to post about any good documentary's you've seen or plan to watch.

Iraq The Hidden Story


Hacking Democracy


Occupation 101

There are the 2 'open your 3rd eye' topics with lists of documentary links, but without recommendations:
http://www.immortaltechnique.co.uk/Threa...ht=3rd+eye
http://www.immortaltechnique.co.uk/Threa...ht=3rd+eye

A couple of recommendations of mine, unfortunatly mostly without links, are:
Why we fight
War on democracy
War for Water
Dead mens secrets - tracking nazi gold
Slavery - http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=192
An inconvenient truth
All Michael Moore's (F 9/11, Sicko, Bowling 4 Columbine)

The best cold war documentry available.

Cold war documentry

(11-28-2009 05:33 AM)shakur420 Wrote:  Iraq The Hidden Story


Hacking Democracy


Occupation 101

Yo. i was going to see a screening of 'Occupation 101' at the local University with my Palestinian brother. long story short we weren't able to make it but i do plan on watching .


One that probably most people know of is "The Corporation" - its very comprehensive and has probably the ultimate list of commentators.

'The Weather Underground' - after watching this documentary i swear i was ready to take action. At first i was just mesmerized and in awe and then it made me really think deeply about certain things. - http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Undergroun...692&sr=8-1

Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum

http://www.piecebypiecemovie.com

http://www.bombit-themovie.com

http://www.capitalismalovestory.com

http://theyesmen.org/

I will post more later.

The Wizard of Oz.

Dorothy has four "Persons" the "Tin Man" is her, the "Scarecrow" is her, the "Lion" is her and Toto is her. see http://www.immortaltechnique.co.uk/Threa...st-be-DEAD
a Discussion. Tex

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visit topdocumentarys.com
great site with hundreads of free films covering every subject.

http://freedocumentaries.org/