This documentary looks into the economic situation of low income households to see how the economic situation in Britain is influencing children. PRESS TV Documentaries
Hand held cell cam video of historic "Special Treat" Q&A session with Tim DeChristopher after 7:10pm May 17th 2013 NYC Theatrical Opening of documentary film, "Bidder 70". Bidder 70 Director/Producers George and Beth Gage join self described "Anti-Government Activist" Tim DeChristopher onstage at Quad Cinema on W13th in NYC.
A little bit of political satire on systems of government. This just about sums it up doesn't it? :)
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The Money Lobby examines how Political Action Committees (PACs) and Super PACs have managed to monopolize the political discourse in the US in favor of a privileged class. PRESS TV Documentaries
College senior, Tim DeChristopher, Bidder #70, monkey-wrenched the out-going Bush administration's contentious oil and gas auction. He bid $1.8 million to save 22,000 acres of Utah's red rock wilderness with no intention to pay or drill. Now he's paying for it with his future.
How the Obama administration is redefining the US military's strategic priorities with far-reaching consequences. The United States' military expenditures today account for about 40 percent of the world total. In 2012, the US spent some $682bn on its military - an amount more than what was spent by the next 13 countries combined. Now that the war in Iraq is over and the...
Since its independence from France in 1946, Syria has been rocked by periods of political instability. This documentary tells the story of the past and brings it right up to the present to provide deeper historical context to the events of today as war continues to rage in Syria with the unleashing of many of the forces which had been previously repressed. As the colonial hold of the...
The founder and director of Alternative Radio, David Barsamian, talks about how Republicans and Democrats are essentially the same, it's just a choice of how fast you want the system to collapse. Americans are also under a lot of pressure to put food on the table as the economy stagnates, leaving little time for people to organize and protest. SUBSCRIBE and check out our other...
Aghet is an award-winning documentary made by German filmmaker Eric Friedler , which proves the truth of the genocide of the Armenian people. Using the actual words of 23 German, American and other nationals who witnessed the events, and armed with archival materials, Aghet expertly takes on the challenge that Prime Minister Erdogan
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Salmon Confidential is a new film on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers BC’s wild salmon are testing positive for dangerous European salmon viruses associated with salmon farming worldwide, a chain of events is set off by government to suppress the findings. Tracking viruses, Morton moves from courtrooms, into...
Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo co-narrates this 18-month cradle-to-grave fracking investigation by Public Herald, an investigative news nonprofit co-founded by journalists Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman. Triple Divide features never before seen interviews with industry giants and advocates, exclusive reports with impacted landowners, uncovered state documents, and expert testimonies. ...
The government has announced that the badger cull will go ahead, and is likely to start on June 1st. This is despite many eminent scientists and wildlife experts opposing the cull. Opinion polls show the majority is also decisively opposed and, in October 2012, MPs voted to abandon the cull by 147 to just 28 votes. In Wales, badgers are being trapped and vaccinated instead of shot. ...
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 1993 presents a different spin on the events from that of the United States government, which held that the Branch Davidians set the fire that destroyed their...
Welcome to Wall Street – the epicenter of financial power in America, perhaps the money capital of the world. The globally oriented financial firms, based in the New York stock exchange, have extraordinary influence on the politics and policies of this country. No one has elected them, and in fact these financial firms are trying to undo the regulations and new laws governing them...
A hard look behind the curtain, stopping the corporatocracy, revolution and political reality. About Class War Films: We have one mission: to expose, explain, attack, and dismantle the myth of American Exceptionalism, the mask and disguise of Predatory Capitalism. We have no loyalty to any politics or party, dogma or philosophy, and our one governing principle is justice for all...
Democracy Watch's Tyler Sommers discusses how the Canadian Conservative Government is muzzling federal scientists from releasing reports and talking to the media. SUBSCRIBE and check out our other videos! http://www.operationmaple.com http://www.facebook.com/operationmaple http://twitter.com/#!/operationmaple
The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new three-hour series by California Newsreel claims. Race - The...
The documentary about the founders of the Pirate Bay. Share it with the world! Support the filmmakers of this free film here www.tpbafk.tv A film by Simon Klose
Does the ailing world economy get you down? ContagionEx might be for you! Take a look at economic austerity and saving the world in a whole new light. A Mark Fiore political animation.
It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov's Soviet Union. The term that he used in describing the death rattle of the empire was "Catastroika". In Yeltsin's time, when Russia instituted maybe the biggest and least successful privatization...
John Perkins was a prominent member of the top-secret team of “economic hit men”, who used fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, military coups and murder to create the global American empire after World War II. After a long internal struggle between his guilt and the fear of telling the truth, Perkins meets the daughter of an assassinated...
CONFIDENCE GAME examines the demise of the investment bank known as Bear Stearns; the first Wall Street domino to fall in America's, and the world's most dire economic crisis since the Great Depression. Though the firm collapsed in the space of five short days, CONFIDENCE GAME reveals that the bank's downfall was many years in the making due to a confluence of fraud...
KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom -- corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivete, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help...
As expected the, NRA wasn 't particularly pleased with President Obama's gun control proposals. And why not? As Jon Stewart outlined on Wednesday night's "Daily Show", the organization has enjoyed massive influence on gun laws and their enforcement for quite a while. If you've been asking yourself why the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms hasn't been...
Bali does have a garbage problem. But it also has the solutions. Garbage is increasingly becoming a concern for locals and tourists alike, detracting from the natural beauty of Bali. Illegal dumping, burning of garbage, and a lack of access to recycling facilities means that Bali’s air, land and water, and all those who live, work and play in it, battle pollution daily. But the problem...
Trailer for the feature documentary Dirty Energy premiering in 2012! On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded off the Gulf of Mexico taking the lives of 11 workers and sank as millions of barrels of oil poured into the ocean creating one of the worst environmental disasters in history. Dirty Energy tells the personal story of those directly affected by the spill who...
Half a world away from Cairo's Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the internet and he hardly seems like a dangerous man.
Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent ac-tion, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why. Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy...
This trailer is for the upcoming Sea Shepherd film 'Sea Shepherd Galapagos' which documents the extensive work carried out by Sea Shepherd in protecting and defending the Galapagos Marine Reserve against illegal poaching. Coming in October 2012
Uruguayan journalist Jorge Gestoso interviews Julian Assange from within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Originally aired on GamaTV, August 30, 2012. “Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into...
No matter who's elected, the system wins, so we may as well die bold (laughing). Electile Dysfunction is 45 minutes of remix video art bringing you the best political gaffes and education money can't buy: The damned lies of Margaret Thatcher, communities resisting foreclosure and gentrification by taking back their homes, candidates like Vermin Supreme who are not, unfortunately, on your...
This documentary uncovers perplexing survey of the Congo’s myriad resistance groups. Besides the fragmented Lord’s Resistance Army , the Democratic Republic of Congo is also home to militant groups such as the Mai-Mai, the Raia Mutomboki, and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. But the greatest threat to regional stability could very well be a group known as M23...
Indigenous tourism helps to reconcile the two different Australian peoples: the Europeans want to be forgiven for the tragic colonial period, and the Aborigines try to preserve their ancient roots from the present and the future. But the geographical isolation of the indigenous communities faced with problems in economic development underlines the fragile balance between tradition and...
As a Cholera epidemic rages in Haiti, the United Nations denies it is responsible for introducing the disease despite glaring evidence suggesting Nepalese peacekeepers are to blame. Baseball in the Time of Cholera is the story of a young Haitian boy who plays in Haiti's first little league baseball team and the Haitian Lawyer seeking justice against the UN. As the epidemic spreads, the two...
TEACHED: The Path to Prison Synopsis TEACHED is a new short film series examining the causes and consequences of education inequality in America. THE PATH TO PRISON takes a look at the under-education and over-incarceration of black men in America. The United States now bears the ominous title of being the world's most prolific jailer: with only 5% of the population, we represent 25% of the...
Dispatches investigates one of the most powerful and influential political lobbies in Britain, which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel. Despite wielding great influence among the highest realms of British politics and media, little is known about the individuals and groups which collectively are known as the pro-Israel lobby. Political commentator Peter Oborne...
From Dawn To Death is a documentary about the fate of dolphins and pilot whales hunted by Japan when their annual migratory route brings them near the coasts of Taiji in Japan. The dolphins and whales are driven to a cove where most are killed and some are sold into the slave trade in Dolphinariums all over the world. Thousands of dolphins and pilot whales are killed annually in this cove by...
Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most...
Outrage is a 2009 American documentary film written and directed by Kirby Dick . The film presents a narrative discussing the hypocrisy of individuals purported in the documentary to be closeted politicians who promote anti-gay legislation.
From the author : When I was given a DVD of a protest rally in the small town of King, near where I live, I was shocked by the sight of five thousand people waving Christian Flags and cheering one of the speakers when he said that everyone there should “encourage” those who weren’t Christian in the area to move somewhere else. My first reaction was anger and I told my wife...
A groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of our country's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within our US military. Today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire with the number of assaults in the last decade alone in the hundreds of thousands. Focusing on the powerfully emotional...
A little bit of political satire on systems of government. This scene features an annoying peasant that seems to know a lot more about goverment than he should. Content from the 1974 film Monty Phyton and the Holy Grail.
A little background on Don Regan, former Merrill Lynch CEO, White House Chief of Staff and advocate of Reaganomics. In this video he orders President Reagan to "Speed it Up"... Do presidents still receive orders from Wall Street? Content from Michael Moore's film "Capitalism: A love story".
This short film chronicles the events of September 25-29th in Madrid, Spain where tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the government and an end to police brutality. Many of the protests ended in clashes with the police. Read More: Do you know why the the Spanish Congress was surrounded by people on #25s? Read the Manifesto
September 2012 rocks around with some crucial developments in the ongoing struggle over the future of the internet. Will it remain the one open frequency where humanity can bypass filters and barriers; or become the greatest spying machine ever imagined? The future is being decided as we type. Across Oceania, States have been erecting and installing measures to legalise the watching...
Part 1 - An introduction to Molly Grave's ongoing investigation of Stephen Harper, the Conservative Party of Canada, and their supposed ties to Canada's religious right. Part 2: Molly Grave heads to an election fraud protest in Downtown Kitchener where she investigates what the general public knows about the religious right. Then, she interviews Professor Sam Reimer from Crandall...
An Unreasonable Man traces the life and career of political activist Ralph Nader , the founder of modern consumer protection in America and frequent presidential candidate. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -George Bernard Shaw, Man...
A Competent Democracy presents a detailed analysis of our political systems today and asks the question throughout: Do our political systems today offer any technical approach to governing society and are our political systems socially relevant anymore? The current economic system does not go unquestioned either. http://newfuturemedia.net/