Archive for the ‘War’ Category

World War 2: Behind Closed Doors

World War 2: Behind Closed Doors

This a documentary film on the role of Joseph Stalin during World War 2. The film combines narrative-led documentary segments, interwoven by dramatic re-enactments, with actors representing main political figures of the period. The documentary carries information newly available to the public, from the Soviet archives, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. British [...]

May 15, 2011 War 3 Comments

Death In Gaza

Death In Gaza

In spring 2003, filmmaker James Miller and reporter Saira Shah, following the success of their Peabody-winning films “Unholy War” and “Beneath the Veil,” set out to take a first-hand look at the culture of hate that permeates the Middle East.
They captured the lives of three Palestinian children growing up in the bullet-riddled streets of [...]

June 6, 2010 War 1 Comment

WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception

WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception

WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception , a 100 minute non-fiction film, explores this story with the findings of a gutsy, media insider-turned-outsider, former network journalist, Danny Schechter, who is one of America’s most prolific media critics. Schechter says he “self-embedded” himself in his living room to monitor media coverage, by fastidiously tracking the TV coverage [...]

May 20, 2010 War 0 Comments

The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War

The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War

Hailed as “powerful” and “quietly unflinching,” Patricia Foulkrod’s searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker’s subjects are patriotic young Americans – ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq – as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families [...]

April 27, 2010 War 0 Comments

Obama’s War

Obama’s War

Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander and armed with a counterinsurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the “graveyard of empires”? And can the U.S. stop [...]

April 24, 2010 War 0 Comments

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death

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 [...]

March 8, 2010 War 2 Comments