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Category: ReligionThe God Delusion (2 of 2)
The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title "The Root of All Evil?" was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy.[1] His sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous.[2] Dawkins's book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail. In The Virus of Faith, Dawkins opines that the moral framework of religions is warped, and argues against the religious indoctrination of children. The title of this episode comes from The Selfish Gene, in which Dawkins discussed the concept of memes Tags: The God Delusion root evil all Views: 520 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsThe Trials of Henry Kissinger
The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal - allegations documented in Hitchens' book of the same title - based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia. Kissinger's story raises profound questions about American foreign policy and highlights a new era of human rights. Increasing evidence about one man's role in a long history of human rights abuses leads to a critical examination of American diplomacy through the lens of international standards of justice.
The film focuses mainly on Kissinger's role in America's secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, the approval of Indonesia's genocidal assault on East Timor in 1975, the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970, and his involvement in the 1969 Paris peace talks concerning the Vietnam Conflict. Tags: The Trials of Henry Kissinger Views: 444 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: HealthSuper Size Me
Super Size Me is an Academy Award-nominated 2004 documentary film, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. It follows a 30-day time period (February 2003) during which Spurlock subsists exclusively on McDonald's fast food and stops exercising regularly. The film documents this lifestyle's drastic effects on Spurlock's physical and psychological well-being and explores the fast food industry's corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit. During the filming, Spurlock dined at McDonald's restaurants three times per day, sampling every item on the chain's menu at least once. He consumed an average of 5,000 calories (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment. Tags: Super Size Me Views: 704 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: HealthThe Future of Food
What should every person know about the food they ingest. The documentary "The Future of Food" changed the way we think about food by answering this very question. But, just how has food actually changed? Do we need to worry about genetically modified foods? What about artificial foods? Learn all this more as Kurt Olson, host of the Educational Forum, sits down with Deborah Garcia the award winning creator of "The Future of Food. Tags: The Future of Food Views: 719 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: BiographiesAtaturk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is one of the most important statesmen of the twentieth century. He was an outstanding military officer of the Ottoman Empire, he became the leader of a national war of independence and then the builder of a war-torn country into a new, modern state. He drew a path for national independence for nations under foreign encroachment. He aimed at his country's attaining the standards of contemporary civilization, which he idealized as a true progress for humanity. His conviction in this secular ideal for human progress guided his deeds and his doings in the making of the modern Turkish nation. His biography is thus written and read along with the history of the emergence of the Republic of Turkey. Tags: Ataturk Views: 353 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsThe War on Democracy
John Pilger's 2007 documentary explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger claims that the film "...tells a universal story... analyzing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow". Tags: BUSH'S BRAIN Views: 409 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsWar Made Easy
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. Tags: War Made Easy Views: 692 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsPlan Colombia
What was the point of Plan Colombia? Is the U.S. government still concerned with fighting drugs? Why have 20 years of drug wars in the Andes resulted in a two-fold increase in cocaine imported into the U.S. in the last ten years alone? Could there be alternate purposes to a plan focused on beefing up the brutal Colombia military and spraying coca fields in rebel-held parts of the country when coca is grown all over Colombia? And what about oil, given that Colombia has the same oil potential as Venezuela, currently the second largest oil supplier to the U.S.? The award-winning Free Will Productions team sheds light on the complex issues of drug-trafficking and civil struggle in Colombia and the impact of both the current chemical-spray program and the multibillion dollar aid package delivered to the military. Analysis and interviews with Noam Chomsky, the late Senator Paul Wellstone, Colombian Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt (later taken hostage by the FARC), U.S. Members Of Congress John Conyers and Jim McGovern, U.S. State Department officials, a World Wildlife Fund scientist, as well as Colombians from all walks of life, including guerilla leaders. Tags: Plan Colombia Views: 469 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsSecrets of the CIA
Ground breaking documentary work and life changing stories that reveal the truth of what the CIA does to promote its budgets and increase its influence globally. Engaging profiles of 5 former CIA agents which includes the varied experiences encountered during they're recruitment, frightening top-secret operations, eventual disillusionment and defection. A remarkable look at the lengths our government has gone to manipulate public opinion for its objectives. These 5 former agents feel guilty for their participation in completing these objectives. A must see for every world citizen to better understand the history of war. Tags: Secrets of the CIA Views: 1147 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: MysterySecret NASA Transmissions
"EBE Award Winner! Best Film - International UFO Congress Film Festival. On March 11, 2000, in front of an assembled audience of UFO enthusiasts and the media, evidence was presented that would appear to indicate the existence of, not one, but two types of unknown extraterrestrial lifeforms. Labeled 'Phenomena One' and 'Phenomena Two' by a man who spent several years recording and logging thousands of hours of NASA space shuttle transmissions, this "historic" footage and the story that lay behind its discovery can now be revealed" - Amazon.com Tags: Secret NASA Transmissions ufo Views: 1271 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: SocietyTHE U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON
"The U.S. vs. John Lennon" focuses on a part of the music icon's life that is often overlooked: his politicization both during and after the Vietnam War. Towards the end of the Beatles' career, Lennon began taking the band in a new direction, using their popularity to circulate a message of peace in songs such as "Revolution." Tags: U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON Views: 322 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: BiographiesMahatma Gandhi
This is a 5 hrs. 10 min. documentary biography of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi's life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values. The purpose of the film is to tell the present and the future generations "that such a man as Gandhi in flesh and blood walked upon this earth", to acquaint them with his life and work and to spread his message of peace and universal brotherhood to the war-weary and fear-stricken world. The film brings together a mass of visual record not only of 78-year life of Gandhi but also of an important period of India's history. The aim of the film being education and not entertainment, there is no attempt at dramatization of those exciting times. The story is told with an eye to truthful documentation of the main events within the limits of available documentary visual material. Tags: Mahatma Gandhi Views: 402 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: BiographiesGenghis Khan
Brutal tyrant or man of vision? Always strike first and always take revenge. Genghis Khan learnt these lessons the hard way during a violent childhood. Son of a murdered father, Genghis grew up in the unforgiving environment of the Mongolian Steppe. But how did an outcast, raised in poverty, come to be the great Khan? Combining live-action footage shot in Mongolia with CGI software used in Lord of the Rings, the recreation of battle scenes is taken to a new level in presenting the story of how Genghis conquered an empire greater than the Roman Empire at its peak Tags: Genghis Khan Views: 768 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: BusinessThe Fourth World War
True to leftist propaganda, this movie takes the opportunity to paint everything black. I'd say that black is the color most sought out by end of worlders, false prophets, etc.etc. Tags: The Fourth World War Views: 780 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsThe Fog of War
This is an amazing film that opens the door into what was really going on when the Kennedy Administration handled the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as how Vietnam policy dramatically changed once Kennedy was no longer in office. Robert McNamara gives us 11 lessons that America needs to learn so that we don't make the same mistakes twice. Tags: The Fog of War Views: 360 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: BusinessBush Family Fortunes
This hour long documentary follows the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team's spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq. These are the hard-hitting reports that have been seen in films like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, broadcast internationally on BBC Newsnight television, and are found in Palast's international bestselling book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Tags: Bush Family Fortunes Views: 455 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: SocietyStyle Wars
Anyone who has even a passing interest in Hip-Hop or its history owe it to themselves to see this film. It's an often times brilliant documentary about on of the most important art movements in the last century. Henry Chalfant is a true visionary who saw art where others saw only crime. His dedication and professionalism helped to bring street culture to a grand scale. If the train writers took graffiti All-City, Chalfant took it All-World.
Another reason to see this movie is to get an unfiltered look at the early foundations of Hip-Hop. Regardless of what the current marketing machine would have you believe Hip-Hop was a multi-cultural phenomenon. That means whites, Puerto Ricans, blacks, Mexicans and everything in between. It could only happen in New York. Tags: Style Wars Views: 325 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: SocietyMissionary Positions
Bill Day's award winning comic documentary about two young Christian pastors on a quixotic journey to fight porn. From the red light district of Amsterdam to the porn sets of Los Angeles, these two guys are the funniest porn fighters you will ever meet. Tags: Missionary Positions Views: 1278 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Documentary that focuses on the period when the Egyptian Empire reached its apogee. In "The Last Great Pharaoh," a new dynasty emerges. Threatened from abroad, Ramses II leads an army north to fight the Hittites at Kadesh. The battle becomes his crowning achievement and the basis for a new period of stability and wealth. Resources flood into Egypt. A new capital is built, artisans revel in an explosive period of building and The House of Life becomes the intellectual center for the empire. However, foreign powers once again threaten, and some provinces question their allegiance. After the long reign of Ramses II, the great tombs are systematically looted and civil war ensues. Though Egypt is once again divided, the period known as the New Kingdom has left a rich legacy that reverberates through the ages. Tags: Egypts Golden Empire Pharaoh Views: 407 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: BusinessBanking With Hitler
The US Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, began investigating Nazi finances 60 years ago and found Allied banks, including many British and American high street names, who continued to do business with Hitler's Germany throughout the war. Tags: Banking With Hitler Views: 425 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: HistoryThe Lost Temples of India
Documentary about some of greatest temples of India, mainly the Tanjore temple,Temples of Hampi, Sri Rangam and the temples of Khajuraho. "The Lost Temples Of India" will take you back in time and try to reason out as to, how they bulit these really amazing, complex temples? How they managed, what now looks like a logistic nightmare involved in building these temples? Also the documentary puts forward a interesting viewpoint as to why most of foreign travellers when they come to India ignore the south Indian temples.
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