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Dan Weingarten rated Newbury Protests - 20 Years On 4 stars on Jan 23, 2018
Dan Weingarten rated The Failings of the American Left with Charles Derber 5 stars on Jan 23, 2018
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 rated Weapons of Mass Deception 4 stars on Apr 14, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism 4 stars on Apr 14, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price 4 stars on Apr 14, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Fahrenheit 9/11 5 stars on Apr 14, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room 5 stars on Apr 14, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated America's Poor Kids: Poverty in the United states of America 4 stars on Apr 14, 2013
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 rated We're Not Broke 5 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown 5 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated The Real Dirt on Farmer John 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution 5 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Coconut Revolution: "The world's first successful eco-revolution." 5 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated James Steele: America's Mystery Man in Iraq 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Religulous 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated The Yes Men: Changing the World One Prank at a Time 5 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated American: The Bill Hicks Story 5 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Koch Brothers Exposed 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated No Impact Man 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Park Avenue: Money, Power And The American Dream 5 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Obey 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Consumed 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Power of Nightmares: The Best 22 Minutes 5 stars on Apr 13, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Pink Ribbons, Inc. 4 stars on Apr 13, 2013
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 rated Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade 5 stars on Mar 15, 2013
Dan Weingarten rated Peter Joseph, Zeitgeist Movement Founder on The Young Turks 4 stars on Mar 15, 2013
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 rated Confessions of an Undercover Cop 5 stars on Mar 1, 2012
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 rated Inside Occupy Wall Street Raid: Eyewitnesses Describe Arrests, Beatings As NYPD Clear Camp 5 stars on Feb 23, 2012
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...