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Rick Steves on Iran, a MUST see video

2011-12-27T20:39:00.001-05:00

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

2011-10-01T15:02:00.001-04:00

Boatlift

2011-09-27T13:37:00.000-04:00

Just an incredible September 11th story… I had never heard about it before.

Adam Curtis: The power of Nightmares

2010-03-17T23:26:00.001-04:00

Part 1” Baby it's Cold Outside”

Part 2 “The Phantom Victory”

Part 3 “The Shadows in the Cave”

War Made Easy

2010-03-14T17:40:00.001-04:00

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 line of one administration after another.

Here is an excerpt with Senator Wayne Morse:

Schools Kill Creativity

2010-03-01T13:12:00.000-05:00

The Wave

2010-02-16T10:32:00.001-05:00

1981 - Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967. To explain to his students the atmosphere in the 1930's Nazi-Germany, history teacher Burt Ross initiates a daring experiment.

See also the German production of the story, Die Welle done in 2008:

How to Get Fat Without Really Trying

2010-02-12T09:50:00.001-05:00

Lost Lightning: The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla

2009-12-04T15:38:00.003-05:00

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, region of Croatia.

His father, Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother Djuka Mandic was an inventor in her own right of household appliances. Tesla studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873, the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. At first, he intended to specialize in physics and mathematics, but soon he became fascinated with electricity. He began his career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in 1881.

Before going to America, Tesla joined Continental Edison Company in Paris where he designed dynamos. While in Strassbourg in 1883, he privately built a prototype of the induction motor and ran it successfully. Unable to interest anyone in Europe in promoting this radical device, Tesla accepted an offer to work for Thomas Edison in New York. His childhood dream was to come to America to harness the power of Niagara Falls.

Young Nikola Tesla came to the United States in 1884 with an introduction letter from Charles Batchelor to Thomas Edison: “I know two great men,” wrote Batchelor, “one is you and the other is this young man.” Tesla spent the next 59 years of his productive life living in New York. Tesla set about improving Edison’s line of dynamos while working in Edison’s lab in New Jersey. It was here that his divergence of opinion with Edison over direct current versus alternating current began. This disagreement climaxed in the war of the currents as Edison fought a losing battle to protect his investment in direct current equipment and facilities.

Why We Fight?

2009-11-28T22:48:00.001-05:00

JOHNNY CASH - The Last Great American

2009-10-05T14:30:00.002-04:00

Juan Enriquez at TED: The Ultimate Reboot

2009-09-14T12:55:00.001-04:00

Christmas In Darfur

2009-06-16T23:30:00.002-04:00

Christmas in Darfur is a non-conventional documentary look at one of the world's worst ongoing tragedies.

More details here.

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

2009-05-18T11:10:00.000-04:00

Kissinger. The original neocon fear & war monger.

This documentary is based on the book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens.

Don't be a sucker - 1947

2009-04-23T10:56:00.001-04:00

Argentina's Economic Collapse

2009-04-06T16:15:00.001-04:00

The Obama Deception

2009-03-16T00:32:00.000-04:00

http://video.google.com/v...

Bailouts and Bull

2009-03-15T10:34:00.000-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

The Birth Of Israel (BBC)

2009-03-14T11:34:00.000-04:00

Documentary examining the the events leading up to the Israeli war of Independence in 1949, its continuing impact on Arab/Israeli relations and the implications for the Middle East peace process...It's a one hour crash course in some of the underlying causes of the current problems in the Middle East.

The Gig Is Up: Money, The Federal Reserve and You

2009-02-22T23:40:00.000-05:00

Populist lawyer, Gary Fielder, presents The Gig Is Up: Money, the Federal Reserve and You. Live from Wolfe Hall at The University of Colorado School of Law, on December 4, 2008, Mr. Fielder, a criminal and constitutional lawyer from Denver, Colorado, presents a power point and video presentation on the creation of money with an historical analysis of our current banking system. With quotes from Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and many others, Fielder makes his case to abolish the Federal Reserve and return to a sound and honest money system. Fractional Reserve Banking. Currency. Amero. World Government. International Banking. www.gigisup.net Produced by Jack Creamer, Side 3 Studios, Denver, Colorado. Video edits by Jonathan Ellinoff. Technical Assistant, Rye Miller. This video is for educational purposes only. Admission was not charged, nor will any effort be made to profit from its production or sale.

The War On Democracy by John Pilger

2009-02-22T23:37:00.001-05:00

Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America’s manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years leading up to the struggle by ordinary people to free themselves from poverty and racism. Since the mid 19th Century Latin America has been the ‘backyard’ of the US, a collection of mostly vassal states whose compliant and often brutal regimes have reinforced the ‘invisibility’ of their majority peoples. The film reveals similar CIA policies to be continuing in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon. The rise of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez despite ongoing Washington backed efforts to unseat him in spite of his overwhelming mass popularity, is democratic in a way that we have forgotten or abandoned in the west. True Democracy being a solid 80% voter turnout in support of Chavez in over 6 elections.

F For Fake - Elmyr de Hory Documentary

2009-02-22T23:29:00.000-05:00

Elmyr de Hory (born 'Hoffmann Elemér') (1906 – December 11, 1976) was a famous Hungarian-born painter and art forger. He claimed to have sold over a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world. His forgeries garnered much celebrity from a Clifford Irving book and from F for Fake, a documentary of sorts by Orson Welles, making his works popular in their own right.

Most of the information regarding de Hory's early life comes from what he told American writer Clifford Irving, who wrote the first biography about him. Since Elmyr's success was reliant upon his skills of deception and invention, it would be difficult to take the facts that he told about his own life at face value, as Clifford Irving himself admitted. Elmyr claimed that he was born into an aristocratic family, that his father was an Austro-Hungarian ambassador and that his mother came from a family of bankers. However, subsequent investigation has suggested that Elmyr's childhood was, more likely, of an ordinary, middle class variety. His parents left him to the care of various governesses and were divorced when Elmyr was sixteen.

Federal Reserve System - What's Really Going On

2009-01-26T10:09:00.002-05:00


The shocking documentary about what Federal Reserve System really is, and why it's not federal at all.

John Bogle - The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

2009-01-20T10:12:00.000-05:00

The founder of Vanguard Securities, John Bogle, discusses his new book, The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.

In the last decade, the United States financial system has shaken our confidence. Few people have been more outspoken in calling for Wall Street to return to its place as a credible and transparent American institution than John Bogle. A zealous advocate for the small investor for more than fifty years, he knows that a trustworthy business and financial complex is essential to America's continuing leadership in the world.

Bogle argues for a return to a governance structure, in which owners' capital that has been put at risk is used in their interests rather than in the interests of corporate and financial managers.

Time magazine named Bogle one of the most influential people in the world. Bogle is a founding father of the National Constitution Center and Chairman of its Board of Trustees.

Modern London Gangs - Ross Kemp On Gang

2009-01-06T10:14:00.000-05:00


Ross Kemp is back on Sky One this autumn as he continues his journey into the underbelly of some of the world’s most notorious gangs. From San Salvador to Cape Town, St Louis to Moscow, Ross tracks down the criminals that lay down their law, finds out what makes them tick and what is being done to control them.

The Mysterious Mr Hopper

2009-01-05T10:17:00.000-05:00

Documentary from the BBC's Imagine series, presented by Alan Yentob. The career of the reclusive artist Edward Hopper is covered in this beautifully-filmed episode. Includes interviews with Hopper's biographer, his friends and admirers such as Sam Mendes and Jonathan Miller, along with archive clips of the artist and his indomitable wife, Jo.

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross

2009-01-04T10:18:00.000-05:00

THE CRUSADES: CRESCENT & THE CROSS presents the epic battle between two Middle Age superpowers: the Christian Crusaders and the Muslims. Fought over two centuries, the conflict decided the fate of the Holy Land of the Middle East. Only a tiny strip of land, just a few hundred miles long, it contained the ultimate prize, the city of Jerusalem. The documentary is driven by the key personalities of the First, Second and Third Crusades, the popes, kings, sultans and knights who, in the name of God, ruthlessly fought for land and power. Experience the murder, treachery, and bloodshed of this legendary chapter of history throuth the eyes of key historical figures such as Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, King Louis VII and Nur al-Din. With breath-taking CGI-enhanced visuals, heart-pounding reenactments, and stunning footage from rarely-seen locations THE CRUSADES: CRESCENT & THE CROSS brings the first three Crusades alive for a new generation in conflict.

Einstein's Biggest Blunder

2008-12-28T10:24:00.000-05:00

A documentary about Einstein's formula on gravity and the universe. How his 'mistake' to add the Lambda constanse into the formula was not a mistake afterall. Modern physicists today have revived Einsteins 'mistaken' formula and elaborate on it. Basically the hypothesis they are challenging is "what if the amount energy in the universe was not constant to begin with, but was and still is variable?"

Crazy Love

2008-12-26T10:22:00.000-05:00

From the late '50s through the '70s, New York tabloids fed on the lurid and bizarre tale of lawyer/stalker Burt Pugash and his obsession with Linda Riss, a young working-class woman whose life was forever changed by a shocking act of violence. Noted publicist and documentarian Dan Klores tells this morbidly fascinating story with its many twists and surprises. Featuring interviews with Pugach, Riss and veteran New York journalists. Winner of the Best Documentary Independent Spirit Award. "Like a noir-thriller"

Taken For A Ride

2008-12-16T12:24:00.000-05:00

Taken for a Ride is an amazing documentary by Jim Kleina and Martha Olson that documents the efforts to derail mass transit in America. Ever wonder why the U.S. has the worst mass transportation system in the industrialized world? Using historical footage and investigative research, this film tells how GM fought to push freeways into the inner cities of America, and push public transportation out.

The Illusion of Freedom

2008-12-07T12:56:00.002-05:00

The ILLUSION of Freedom and why you are still a 45% taxpaying serf, an ignorant “law obeying” slave. That is, you are just “Human Cattle on the National Farm”

Stefan Molyneux on the illusion of freedom

http://yannone.blogspot.c...

and on You Tube here:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Orwell Rolls In His Grave

2008-11-08T12:41:00.002-05:00

"A marvel of passionate succinctness, Robert Kane Pappas' docu critically examines the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy."

If you like the film, please consider buying a copy and donating it to your local library. Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Fabled Enemies

2008-09-02T10:40:00.000-04:00

One Nation Under Siege

2008-08-17T08:40:00.000-04:00

From documentary filmmaker William Lewis comes a bone chilling documentary on the spying, tracking and control of the American public.

Taking Liberties

2008-08-11T10:03:00.002-04:00

"TAKING LIBERTIES" is a shocking but hilarious polemic documentary that charts the destruction of all your Basic Liberties under 10 Years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair's departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal people who's lives have been turned upside down by injustice - from being arrested for holding a placard outside parliament to being tortured in Guantanamo Bay.

Don't Talk

2008-08-09T03:52:00.000-04:00

Zeitgeist, The Movie

2008-08-07T12:08:00.000-04:00

The Iron Triangle - The Carlyle Group Exposed

2008-08-06T00:55:00.000-04:00

The Carlyle Group, known as the The Iron Triangle, houses the military industrial complex under one roof (theirs) with an ability of ‘predicting’ [influencing] trends for personal pocket stuffing profits at the expense of American tax payers.

Enemy Images

2008-07-14T20:57:00.000-04:00

The invasion of Iraq was the most closely documented war ever fought. Lasting only 800 hours, it produced 20,000 hours of video, but those images were tightly controlled, producing a monolithic view of combat sanitised and controlled by the Pentagon. Enemy Image traces the ways U.S. television has covered war, starting with Vietnam in the 1960s and shows how the military has devised ever-improving means of ensuring the American public never again has the real face of combat beamed directly into their living rooms.

Disbelief

2008-07-14T20:51:00.001-04:00

A fatal bomb blast in a Moscow apartment building ignites a fury of questions about terrorism, shadow politics, and post-Soviet intrigue in Disbelief; a film as much about the high art of political deception as it is about violence and human tragedy. The bombing on September 9, 1999, of a nine-story working-class apartment complex in Moscow was quickly blamed on Chechen terrorists. But was it their crime? Or did the Russian secret service deflect its own responsibility for the bombing on the Chechens to heighten national fear and hysteria and justify Russia’s subsequent military attack on the breakaway republic? “Deploying all the suspense and drama of a sophisticated murder mystery, Nekrasov has created one of the most compelling and captivating films of the year” - 2004 Sundance Film Festival Catalogue.

The Last Days Of Health Freedom

2008-06-20T01:40:00.001-04:00

"International award-winning filmmaker Kevin P. Miller of Well TV. A documentary about the threat to medical freedom of choice. 'We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom' details the ongoing attempts by multinational pharmaceutical interests and giant food companies in concert with the WTO, the WHO and others to limit the publics access to herbs, vitamins and other therapies.

'We Become Silent" is narrated by Dame Judi Dench, the noted UK actress. It features the only known video from inside a Codex meeting, exclusive interviews with delegates to the Codex Commission, FDA officials, two U.S. Congressmen, actor Mel Gibson, and more. Consumer activists like Dr. Robert Verkerk (UK), Dr. Carolyn Dean (Canada), Dr. Julian Whitaker, Scott Tips, John Hammel and more. This film is a powerful statement about multinational corporations, the WTO, Codex, and their dominance over our daily lives."

The Corporation

2008-06-20T00:35:00.001-04:00

Behind The Big NEWS

2008-06-18T17:53:00.000-04:00

Commanding Heights

2008-06-16T03:33:00.003-04:00

The history and impact of the new global economy are made clear--and compelling--in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. This three-part, six-hour documentary does an astonishingly thorough job of dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance without ever causing a loss of consciousness for the viewer.

Part One: The Battle of Ideas

Part Two: The Agony of Reform

Part Three: The New Rules of the Game

80: The Story of Che Guevara

2008-06-14T02:01:00.001-04:00

the life and death of Che Guevara

Washington, Youre Fired!

2008-05-18T11:30:00.000-04:00

EU Takeover & the Lisbon Treaty

2008-05-17T00:17:00.000-04:00

Bullshit!

2008-05-16T03:34:00.003-04:00

War on Drugs

Recycling

American*Drug War

2008-05-10T14:32:00.000-04:00

Death of a nation

2008-05-09T16:23:00.002-04:00

In March 2006 Fifteen years after the fall of Communism, Marcel Theroux goes on a personal journey through Putin's Russia. He discovers a country that's literally dying.

Breaking Ranks

2008-05-08T13:36:00.001-04:00

Breaking Ranks. Documentary on American soldiers leaving Iraq war for Canada.

Merchants*of cool

2008-04-30T08:31:00.000-04:00

The Avoidable War

2008-04-13T15:34:00.002-04:00

A documentary which traces how crucial mistakes made by the West helped lead to the unnecessary breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, culminating in the devastating NATO bombing campaign in 1999.

Maxed*Out

2008-04-12T21:30:00.000-04:00

The Constitution in Crisis* Bill Moyers

2008-04-11T13:30:00.001-04:00

State of Fear

2008-04-09T02:59:00.000-04:00

2008-03-18T13:22:00.001-04:00

America, Have You Forgotten History? from Stryder on Vimeo.

* S P I N

2008-02-24T23:32:00.000-05:00

An amazing doc that shows the monstrous face of the MSM and the nexus with the politicians. It also features Bill Clinton, Larry King, Pat Robertson, etc and shows how they engage in spin and deceive people.

The Trap

2008-02-24T10:48:00.003-05:00

Adam Curtis's brilliant 3 part documentary The Trap. Tackling some big ideas like the assumption of self-interested individuals in society, the mathematical purity of game theory, and the powerful effects of these freedom-loving ideas on modern notions of liberty, control, and society, this is worth taking a good 3 hrs of your time and soaking in it for a while.

*Part 1, Fuck You Buddy

*Part 3, We Will Force You To Be Free

Republic*OfLakotah

2008-02-20T00:44:00.000-05:00

Russell Means explains the need for Real Lakotah Sovereignty
RepublicOfLakotah.com

Lakota Pine Ridge South Dakota Lakotah Oglala SD Porcupine School Language Treaty Rights Native American

More about Russell Means on the Wikipedia Page

CRISIS

2008-02-14T23:41:00.003-05:00

US Banking CRISIS?
01/31/2008 by Jonah Ford, Senior Analyst for Greenrush Capital Management, LLC

Riots *

2008-01-25T23:30:00.000-05:00

Huge Mexico Riots May 2006? Never heard of them... but how many thing of this nature media forgot to report on... Just an example of a violent response of the government in Mexico City as thousands of residents confront police in their opposition to an international airport.

"Inflation" Hans Richter, 1928

2008-01-23T16:41:00.000-05:00

"Inflation", in the year of its 80th Birthday and in tribute to 'Helicopter' Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve System.
This film was made by the legendary filmmaker Hans Richter is Germany (1928); a warning from the past.
January, 1921, there were 64 marks to the dollar. By November, 1923 this had changed to 4,200,000,000,000 marks to the dollar.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

2008-01-20T10:27:00.000-05:00

The Art Instinct combines two fascinating and contentious disciplines—art and evolutionary science—in a provocative new work that will change forever the way we think about the arts, from painting to literature to movies to pottery. Human tastes in the arts, Dutton argues, are evolutionary traits, shaped by Darwinian selection. They are not, as the past century of art criticism and academic theory would have it, just socially constructed.

Our love of beauty is inborn, and many aesthetic tastes are shared across remote cultures. Using forceful logic and hard evidence, Dutton shows that we must premise art criticism on an understanding of evolution, not on abstract theory. He restores the place of beauty, pleasure, and skill as artistic values.

*Unconstitutional

2008-01-15T17:38:00.001-05:00

War Made*Easy

2008-01-09T16:36:00.000-05:00

Clip from "War Made Easy" explaining the context of "The Gulf of Tonkin" incident that was used as the excuse for starting the Vietnam "War" --- and that "It didn't happen."

more related links: "The Fog of War", TheRawStory article

Voiceless*

2007-12-07T13:24:00.000-05:00

VOTE?*

2007-12-01T17:12:00.000-05:00

The Shock Doctrine

2007-09-24T20:39:00.001-04:00

DIRECTED BY JONÁS CUARÓN. 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."

Boston Legal

2007-09-07T19:30:00.001-04:00

Rise up!

V Water - there's something in the water

2007-09-07T19:25:00.001-04:00

animated film created for V Water.

INSANE wave pool in Tokyo

2007-09-07T19:16:00.001-04:00

Where's the water?

Miriam Diaz Aroca

2007-09-07T18:37:00.001-04:00

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Mad as hell

2007-08-21T17:35:00.001-04:00

Network (1976)
Howard Beale, the mad prophet of the airwaves.

Disturbed - Land of Confusion

2007-08-18T23:16:00.001-04:00

The new music video for Disturbed's "Land of Confusion" from their album, TEN THOUSAND FISTS.

Directed by Todd McFarlane and Terry Fitzgerald; Character Design by Greg Capullo and McFarlane.

Cover of the 1986 Genesis song

Hokusai meets Salvador Dalí

2007-08-11T19:04:00.001-04:00

77th Kinchan's Kasou Grand-Prix Champions

Lantern Fishes

2007-08-11T18:53:00.000-04:00

Adam Gault's incredible animation that will suck you out of your world for a few minutes...

Zero Wing

2007-08-07T02:45:00.001-04:00

All your base are belong to us

Imogen Heap - Just For Now (live at Studio 11 103.1FM)

2007-08-01T00:42:00.001-04:00

Imogen Heap singing acapella "Just For Now" (from her album "Speak For Yourself") at the Studio 11 for Indie 103.1FM on september 2006.

Stockings

2007-07-31T06:09:00.001-04:00

The KLF - 3am Eternal

2007-07-31T05:41:00.001-04:00

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Operator Please - Just A Song About Ping Pong

2007-07-30T22:57:00.001-04:00

Just A Song About Ping Pong by Operator Please. Directed by Price James.

Japan Culture Lab - Sushi

2007-07-25T19:23:00.001-04:00

Japanese tradition of sushi! :)

The Adventures of Mark Twain

2007-07-25T13:22:00.001-04:00

A clip from the 1985 Children's show "The Adventures of mark twain"

How to cope with death !

2007-07-24T05:03:00.001-04:00

by Ignacio Ferreras

The reason she got mad at me

2007-07-24T04:34:00.001-04:00

78th Kasou Grand Prix - Silver Medal Winner

Ira Glass on Storytelling #1

2007-07-24T04:06:00.001-04:00

Project 155

2007-07-23T22:54:00.001-04:00

Clarin newspaper's sponsorship campaign for the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival.

The Little Girl Giant

2007-07-23T22:23:00.001-04:00

On the morning of Sunday 7th May the little girl giant woke up at Horseguards Parade in London, took a shower from the time-traveling elephant and wandered off to play in the park...

Stop Motion

2007-07-22T23:22:00.001-04:00

1500 Prisoners Perform Thriller

2007-07-22T23:14:00.000-04:00

The ABC's of DADA

2007-07-22T22:37:00.001-04:00

dadadadadadadadadadadadadada

Fernande et Artaud

2007-07-20T12:42:00.001-04:00

Antonin Artaud movie

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc 1928

2007-07-20T12:41:00.001-04:00

Carl Theodor Dreyer film

madonna gorillaz back drop

2007-07-16T02:46:00.001-04:00

Gorillaz Live

2007-07-16T02:36:00.001-04:00

holographic work

Hydro Train

2007-07-11T16:53:00.001-04:00

The Doll

2007-07-06T13:11:00.001-04:00

Short video created for boutique lingerie company Lascivious (www.lascivious.co.uk) by Wyld Stallyons (www.wyldstallyons.com)

Ivan Maximov - Fru 89 From left to right

2007-07-06T12:52:00.001-04:00

Marlene Dietrich

2007-07-06T12:51:00.001-04:00

Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 -- May 6, 1992)