Must-see DVD thread

[mark414]

ok so Outfoxed just came out, the upcoming dvd for F911, as well as Uncovered: The Truth About The War In Iraq.

what other good political DVD's have we got?

[ChocolateSaltyBalls]

1. Unprecendented.............

covers the election theft of 2000.

Excellent, excellent movie.

[Michael_Franken]

3. Hunting of the President

Covers the Right-Wing attempt to take down Bill Clinton.

Narrated by Morgan Freeman.

[newyawker99]

6. Hi Michael_Franken!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[gasperc]

8. THE Mike Franken

as in another ordinary guy that happens to have the same last name as Al Franken!!!

Cool!

Welcome to DU!!!!
Feel free to post liberally!!!


:beer:

[dr.strangelove]

12. Welcome

I found this place 6 months ago and try to visit several times each day. Post early and often.

[madmax]

2. The Hunting of The President

release date September 28. Pre-order at Amazon.

[robpopulace]

4. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

http://www.mef.tv/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=2&pid=1

From the press kit:

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines
how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11
terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American
foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home.
The documentary places the Bush Administration’s false justifications for war
in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives
to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to
expand American power globally by means of military force. At the same time,
the documentary argues that the Bush Administration has sold this radical and
controversial plan for aggressive American military intervention by deliberately
manipulating intelligence, political imagery, and the fears of the American
people after 9/11.

Narrated by Julian Bond, Hijacking Catastrophe features interviews with more
than twenty prominent political observers, including Pentagon whistleblower
Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who witnessed first-hand how the Bush
Administration set up a sophisticated propaganda operation to link the anxieties
generated by 9/11 to a pre-existing foreign policy agenda that included a
preemptive war on Iraq.

At its core, the film places the deceptions of the Bush Administration within
the larger frame of questions seldom posed in the mainstream: What, exactly,
is the agenda that drove the administration's pre-war deceptions? How is 9/11 being
used to sell this agenda? And what are the stakes for America, Americans, and the
world if this agenda succeeds in being fully implemented during a second Bush term?

FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH:
Tariq Ali | Benjamin Barber | Medea Benjamin | Noam Chomsky | Kevin Danaher
Mark Danner | Shadia Drury | Michael Dyson | Daniel Ellsberg | Michael Franti
Stan Goff | William Hartung | Robert Jensen | Chalmers Johnson | Jackson Katz
Michael T. Klare | Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (Ret.) | Norman Mailer | Zia Mian
Mark Crispin Miller | Scott Ritter | Vandana Shiva | Norman Solomon | Greg Speeter
Fernando Suarez del Solar | Immanuel Wallerstein | Jody Williams | Max Wolff

[Room101]

5. check these out......

videos

[rman]

11. nice source, but they seem to be missing a section...

they don't seem to include documentaries that are about the role of the media in "constructing public opinion".

such as
Orwell rolls in his grave
Manufacturing Consent
Outfoxed
Constructing Public Opinion

[NYCGirl]

7. Don't forget this one...

Quite brilliant.



Amazon.com
The Fog of War, the movie that finally won Errol Morris the best documentary Oscar, is a spellbinder. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds a uniquely unsettling viewpoint on much of 20th-century American history. Employing a ton of archival material, including LBJ's fascinating taped conversations from the Oval Office, Morris probes the reasons behind the U.S. commitment to the Vietnam War--and finds a depressingly inconsistent policy. McNamara himself emerges as--well, not exactly apologetic, but clearly haunted by the what-ifs of Vietnam. He also mulls the bombing of Japan in World War II and the Cuban Missile Crisis, raising more questions than he answers. The Fog of War has the usual inexorable Morris momentum, aided by an uneasy Philip Glass score. This movie provides a glimpse inside government. It also encourages skepticism about same. --Robert Horton

[gatorboy]

9. If we can add fiction, I'd like to suggest Pleasantville.

An excellent movie, that takes a serious look, disguised as a Twilight Zone parody, at those that fear anyone different from themselves.

[rman]

10. there are many

Orwell rolls in his grave
"Meticulously tracing the process by which media has distorted and often dismissed actual news events..."
www.orwellrollsinhisgrave.com


The Corporation
"The corporation created unprecedented wealth. But at what cost? The remorseless rationale of "externalities" - as Milton Friedman explains: the unintended consequences of a transaction between two parties on a third - is responsible for countless cases of illness, death, poverty, pollution, exploitation and lies."
www.thecorporation.com


Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
"...the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America."
www.unprecedented.org


Manufacturing consent: Chomsky and the media (book & docu)
www.zmag.org/chomsky/mc
www.chomsky.info


Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism
www.outfoxed.org


Control Room
http://www.noujaimfilms.com/


THE TRUTH & LIES OF 9/11
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/store/videos.shtml


Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
http://www.mef.tv/index.php?agent=E1001M100904


Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land
U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/PeacePropaganda


Independent Media In A Time Of War
http://demandmedia.net/story/2003/11/19/185147/13


Constructing Public Opinion
How Politicians and the Media Misrepresent the Public
http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ConstructingPublicOpinion