Movies with Enlightened Politial View
The War On Democracy, A film by John Pilger,[ DVD available from Bullfrog films] "Essential look at the US government's continued decimation of LAtin America ... this is much more than just a history lesson, it is also a beautifully shot account of hope." London Daily Mirror
Buying The War, Bill Moyers Journal: The Bush administration marketed and sold the war in Iraq to the American people. How and why did the press buy it, and what does that say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda? In this program, veteran journalist Bill Moyers, award-winning producer Kathleen Hughes, and their investigative team piece together the reporting and political spin that shaped the public mind prior to, during, and following the 2003 invasion. Exposing the disappearance of a watchdog mentality in mainstream newspaper and TV journalism, the documentary also highlights the work of intrepid Knight Ridder reporters who dug beneath the surface of administration claims—only to be drowned out by the drums of war. Further insight comes from journalists Dan Rather, former anchor of CBS Evening News; Tim Russert of NBC’s Meet the Press; Bob Simon of 60 Minutes; and Walter Isaacson, former chairman of CNN. (87 minutes) See it on PBS or buy the DVD From PBS
War Made Easy:How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death ,based on book of same title by Norman Solomon
Fahrenheit 9/11, Find a movie showing near you. Michael Moore's impassioned pseudo documentary intended to convince Americans to dump Bush
Control Room, Find a screening near you. A movie about the workings of the Arab newschannel AlJazeera and its coverage of the Iraq war. It should convine you there is a valid alternative viewpoint and that AlJazeera is not the rabid anti-America biased organization portrayed by western media.
Noam Chomsky -(DVD) Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? (2002)
Editorial Reviews
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The hypocrisy of the U.S. government is powerfully scrutinized in Distorted Morality, a
scathing thesis presented by renowned scholar Noam Chomsky. Speaking before an intimate
audience at Harvard University on February 6, 2002, Chomsky sets fair and logical
parameters to his thesis (namely, we are all hypocrites and, for the purposes of debate,
the U.S. government should always be given benefit of the doubt) before outlining, with
academic precision and citation of real history (as opposed to biased written history),
the reasons why America's post-9/11 war on terror is a logical impossibility.
This, according to Chomsky's carefully supported analysis, is because the U.S. government
has been, and continues to be, a major supporter of state-supported terrorism, favoring
retaliatory or preemptive aggression over mediation in the world court, and avoiding
accountability by excluding itself from the globally accepted definition of terrorism. (To
underscore his point, Chomsky repeatedly volunteers his sources, inviting scrutiny at
every turn.) With an additional hour-long Q&A session (in some ways more compelling,
since it offers Chomsky's response to opposing viewpoints), Distorted Morality deserves
the widest possible audience. In the short period between Chomsky's Harvard speech and the
start of America's war against Iraq in March 2003, Chomsky's thesis has attained the
chilling status of prophesy. Inevitably, Chomsky will be labeled anti-American, but at
least his morality is crystal clear, immune to the obfuscation of politics and mainstream
news. --Jeff Shannon
From the back cover
Noam Chomsky is a renowned scholar, the founder of the modern science of linguistics, a
philosopher, a political and social analyst, a media critic, an author of more than 70
books, a winner of numerous prizes and awards, and ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the
Bible as one of the 10 most quoted sources in the humanities. In this remarkable DVD, Noam
Chomsky offers a riveting but devastating critique of America's current War on
Terror--arguing, in fact, that it is a logistical impossibility...
Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (2003) DVD
~ Robert Baer
Editorial Reviews
AL FRANKEN
"It's one thing for a President to lie about his sex life. It's another to lie about
why we are sending our young men and women into battle."
ERROL MORRIS - Filmmaker - The Fog of War
"On a daily basis we, the American public, are exposed to unending administration
insanities: fear mongering, the reduction of foreign policy to a bad video game, an
exhausting audio-visual parade of lies and self-deceptions. Robert Greenwald's film is a
The Corporation. A movie not about Bush or the Iraq war, but basically about the social irresponsibility of mega-corporations, and the case for implementing more responsibility (both corporate and managerial personal) for corporate actions.
The God That Wasn't There, An investigation into history before and after the supposed Jusus that concludes that it is very unlikely that such a real person and the biblical religious events ever occurred. Significant in that much of world conflict can be traced to dogmatic religious belief.
Root Of All Evil , by Richard Dawkins. Dawkins follows closely his book, The God Delusion, in presenting a case that all personal gods are delusional, and that the religions they sprout are at the root of much of the conflict/evil in the world today.