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An excerpt from BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman's March, 2011 discussion with linguistic professor and political activist Noam Chomsky. For the full interview click the website link below the video.
7 min
The Panama Deception documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama; the events which led to it; the excessive force used; the enormity of the death and destruction; and the devastating aftermath. The Panama Deception uncovers the real reasons for...
92 min
Welcome. This is James Corbett of corbettreport.com with your Sunday Update for this 8th day of May, 2011. And now for the real news.
10 min
Peter Davis' landmark documentary Hearts and Minds confronts with stark frankness the United States' involvement in Vietnam and the development of its foreign policy in the 1970s. Using a carefully constructed range of meticulously researched and powerful material including...
112 min
The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by White House press secretary Jay Carney bears little resemblance to the original Sunday evening story. The...
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
How much unspoiled nature should we preserve and what do we sacrifice for clean, renewable energy? Dreamland gradually turns into a disturbing picture of corporate power taking over small communities.
2 min
What does a young kid do when she realizes that the map she's been given by her parents and school teachers to navigate this world is almost entirely outdated?
Tim Hjersted
Class Dismissed provides a critical look at how U.S. history is taught in high school, at the myths that reduce the complexity of history into simple soundbites, and the information that never seems to make it onto the textbook pages. How can we alter this system to address...
27 min
This chart puts the class war in simple, visual terms. On the left you have the “shared sacrifices” and “painful cuts” that the Republicans claim we must make to get our fiscal house in order. On the right, you can plainly see WHY these cuts are “necessary.” The reason?...
AFL CIO
Each day there are opportunities for resistance, liberation, freedom, creativity, engagement, and meaning.
Jesse D. Palmer
In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. He speaks to the families of suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and...
53 min
Directed by Franklin Lopez, END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations.
75 min
When Baghdad exploded under bombs, television chose to bring us fireworks. But does this distant and spectacular image tell us what is really happening on the ground, how it feels or what it means? Television has the means to take us anywhere and show us anything. It can...
92 min
IRAN (Is Not The Problem) is a feature length documentary film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between the US and Iran, as happened before with the lead up to the invasion of...
79 min
From its early days with ties to slavery, to modern times with its political ties, "Big Sugar" explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels.
90 min
Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies...
83 min
Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, this documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice.
80 min
"Hello. I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war... Within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." -- Bernardine Dohrn
Thirty years ago, with these words, a group of young American radicals called The Weathermen announced...
91 min
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive and disputed areas of the West Bank...
59 min
Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies — in other words, wealthy countries taking...
105 min
Editor’s Note: The following report includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.”
David DeGraw
And he continues to kick our asses posthumously. That’s right, he’s been dead for eleven fucking years and we’re still on orange alert. After years of dialysis and a less than comfortable lifestyle, despite his wealth, in December 2001 Osama bin Laden died in the mountains...
Mike Burrows
A middle class white guy comes to grips with peak oil, climate change, mass extinction, population overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle.
123 min
Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?
26 min
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing...
77 min
THE EVILNESS OF POWER examines the ways in which power and hierarchy affect individuals, society, and the world at large. It's possibly the best film on the subject ever made. Produced by Jonathan Shockley.
92 min
'The War On Democracy' (2007) was John Pilger's first for cinema. It explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
94 min
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, and the North; from Seattle to Genova, and the War on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq, The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being...
76 min
Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention. Danny Glover, Peter Hallward, and Anthony Fenton contribute to breaking down the media avoidance of Haiti's history of foreign intervention. According to Hallward...
13 min
Renowned author, journalist, and film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009. Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Women's Building in San Francisco 7-4-09. Pilger offers a stinging critique of Obama and his administration's policies in his first six months of office, as well as...
34 min
Derrick Jensen imagines Star Wars, as if it was written by environmentalists. “I don’t know if you know this, but the original draft of the movie star wars was not written by Lucas, the original draft was written by environmentalists. And it’s a little bit different”
5 min
Sometimes pictures speak more loudly than statistics. This short video collage compares and contrasts the living conditions between two very different types of cultures in the world.
1 min
Wolf's impassioned arguments prove totally compelling, and the filmmakers' accompanying illustrations transport her comparisons from the abstract to the historic- VARIETY
Expertly crafted by award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Devil Came on Horseback...
3 min
Is it the end? END:CIV is a film that examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen...
2 min
John Pilger travels to many third world countries to investigate the devastating results of loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). This film shows how many wars today are not carried out at the barrel of a gun, but by the monetary policies of global...
52 min
Released in 2006, this is still one of the most compelling films outlining the disturbing and heavily censored facts associated with the worst terrorist attacks in American history. The film focuses on prior knowledge and established facts as reported by mainstream outlets...
72 min
Zeitgeist: Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, is a continuation of the film Zeitgeist, the Movie. The film includes facts regarding the Federal Reserve System in the United States, the CIA, Corporate America and others, concluding the advocation of a...
123 min
A documentary that looks into the events during the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, MN. Footage contains excessive use of force and questionable tactics used by police toward activists. It also includes interviews with citizens, asking them what they are...
48 min
The Power of Nightmares is a BBC documentary 3-part film series. The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More...
180 min
First they came for...
2 min
Civilization, the one-size-fits-all way of life that's right for everybody - whether you like it or not! Don't like the cradle to grave security you get from tribal cultures? Try "civilization" - it's great! See side-bar for product details. Civilization is not intended to...
3 min
Five years before whistleblower, Edward Snowden released information on the extensive reach of the U.S. Government's foreign and domestic spying, the filmmakers and investigators at PBS Frontline were uncovering proof of their own that regular American citizens were being...
56 min
Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire by Howard Zinn and narrated by Viggo Mortenson.
9 min
What if you live in the most destructive culture ever to exist? What if that culture refuses to change? What do you do about it? An excellent presentation by Derrick Jensen, a must watch for everybody who hasn't had the chance to hear Jensen speak in person.
120 min
The top ten signs in 2 minutes or less. For the concerned citizen on the go!
2 min
If you're experiencing difficulties with this link, please watch the entire film for free at the OFFICIAL PBS FRONTLINE WEBSITE.
56 min
Written by Barry McNamara and brilliantly animated by Simon Robson aka. Knife Party, it's an animated look at the War Corporatism unleashed upon the world by Bush and the people behind the Project for a New American Century as stated in their September 2000 report.
Winner...
3 min
The planet is quickly confronting us with limits to the exploitative, dominator system of the past 5000 years. David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, and more recently The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, implores us to replace...
27 min
Directed by Jonas Cuaron. Alfonso Cuarón, director of "Children of Men", and Naomi Klein, author of "No Logo", present a short film from Klein's book "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
6 min
Occasionally the mainstream news will report on something relevant, though notice this is CNN International, not CNN as broadcast in America. Oh and wasn't Hitler the most Dangerous man in the world during his time? Hmmmmmmm.. Please get unplugged if you aren't. Ignorance may...
3 min
George Carlin talks about how corporations and business interests have Americans "by the balls." Carlin says the people that run this country want nothing more than "obedient workers" and now they want our social security money and retirement. "It's a big club and you and I...
4 min
Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson discuss the influences behind this heartfelt and riveting documentary on "Life at the End of Empire." Framed in Tim's personal story of awakening to the big global issues threatening everyone's survival. It will touch you and make you think.
28 min
In this documentary Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of the secret government. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected, top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret...
86 min
An inspiring collage of images set to a powerfully moving song, documenting over a thousand activists using their own bodies to create the letters I M P E A C H ! in the sands of a beach near San Francisco. Watch it when you're looking for inspiration and resolve.
4 min
Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo set out on a journey to find the evidence. The film exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently...
111 min
Inspired by Dwight Eisenhowers legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase military industrial complex), filmmaker Eugene Jarecki surveys the scorched landscape of a half-centurys military adventures, asking how and telling why a nation of, by, and for the people...
104 min
"Oil Smoke & Mirrors" offers us a sobering critique of our perceived recent history, of our present global circumstances, and of our shared future in light of imminent, under-reported, and misrepresented energy production constraints. From 9/11 to the "war on terror"...
50 min