Showing posts with label Documentaries VI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentaries VI. Show all posts
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Death In Memphis: The Mysterious Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
In April 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King was at the height of his popularity. He had mobilized the black masses of America against apartheid and won Civil Rights concessions which made Blacks and Whites equal in the eyes of the Law. But J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, had an obsessional hatred of King and was determined to silence him.
On the afternoon of April 4th, 1968, at his Memphis hotel, King was assassinated with a perfect shot. The search immediately centred on James Earl Ray, an escaped prisoner. But there are many who insist that Ray was just the fall-guy and believe that the FBI set him up. Despite disturbing evidence, the case has never been opened for re-investigation.
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Warriors of the French Foreign Legion
Director: Scott Hillier
Writer: Michael Schlossman (writer)
Release Date: 2000 (USA)
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 50:01
It's been called an army of thieves and cutthroats.
A band of hired killers. But from the burning sands of Northern Africa to the jungles of South America, whenever the odds are long and the battle fierce, the French Foreign legion has been called into action.
A look into of army that made exception in history and.. still. What those warriors are fighting for?
Injection: The Murder of 400 Libyan Children
Produced, Directed and Photographed by Mickey Grant
Co-Produced by Jim Curtis and Cindy Grant
Edited by Jim Curtis and Mickey Grant
Music by Callen Clarke and Jamal Mohamed
Written by Cindy Grant and Mickey Grant
Story Editor - Ramona Dea Lucero
Art Director - Nick Curtis
AIDS is a global tragedy, striking Africa especially hard. Rampant reuse of disposable syringes is responsible for as many as seven million cases of AIDS in Africa alone. Substandard Health care continues in Africa while AIDS spirals out of control. Public health officials are reluctant to discuss this problem, perhaps in fear that Africans will avoid critical medical care, such as inoculations for malaria and other virulent diseases. The thrust of AIDS prevention campaigns is on safe sex, and healthcare risks are critically overlooked.
In Libya, five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were arrested in 1999 and convicted of infecting over four hundred Libyan children with HIV in a Benghazi hospital. Libyan prosecution, operating at the discretion of infamous dictator Moammar Kaddafi, has maintained at trial that the nurses conspired with the American CIA and the Israeli Mossad to maliciously infect the children.
According the website Creativehat.Com, in this hard-hitting film, Mickey Grant travels to Kenya, Bangkok, Sofia, Libya, Rome and London in an attempt to discover the hidden truths. He follows the trail of syringes from hospital to garbage dump, and then back into Africa's health care system. He interviews leaders of the World Health Organization, Amnesty International, government officials, the Kaddafi opposition, Bulgarian journalists, medical scientists, and health care workers. We also hear from two imprisoned Bulgarian nurses, the son of Moammar Kaddafi, and families of the infected children.
Could these healthcare workers have committed this horrific crime? Or, are they scapegoats to divert attention from institutional shortcomings? Is Moammar Kaddafi ultimately responsible for this tragedy? Is syringe reuse common in Libya and the rest of Africa? If syringe reuse is spreading HIV, why is it allowed to continue? Bottom line, millions more will continue to die unless the world health care community addresses these issues.
Vince Foster: What Really Happened?
Evidence is presented that the death of White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster was not a suicide.
Expert testimony, contradictory statements from witnesses, official bungling/corruption, the missing bullet, the missing X-rays, the missing crime scene photos, the strange, untraceable gun, the missing papers from Foster's office, plus more disturbing evidence and possible motives for his murder, are reviewed in detail.
On July 20, 1993, six months to the day after Bill Clinton took office as President of the United States, the White House Deputy Council, Vincent Foster, told his secretary Deborah Gorham, "I'll be right back". He then walked out of his office, after offering his co-worker Linda Tripp, the leftover M&Ms from his lunch tray.
That was the last time Vincent Foster was seen alive.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Be Good, Smile Pretty
Director: Tracy Droz Tragos
Writers: Eric Martin (writer), Charlie Pearson (writer)
TV Series: "Independent Lens" (1999)
Original Air Date: 11 June 2003 (Season 5, Episode 5)
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 56:00
A powerfully moving, personal exploration of a grief for the father she never knew, this award-winning film chronicles Tracy Droz Tragos' heart-wrenching quest to understand and cope with a loss shared by the estimated 20,000 Americans whose fathers were killed in Vietnam.
Weaving emotionally compelling interviews with home movies, stock footage, and family photos, Tragos travels from Selma, Alabama, to the U.S. Senate in search of her fathers Naval Academy roommates and war buddies, each of whom has been silently mourning his death and remembers her fathers life in his own way.
Along her journey, Tragos uncovers a 30-year-old mystery, as she comes to know her father as a man, untangled from the memory of a war that wounded a nation. And while some discoveries are almost too difficult to bear, it is ultimately the truth that allows her, and her entire family, to understand and move forward.
The Ritchie Boys
The Ritchie Boys (2004)
Director: Christian Bauer
Writer: Christian Bauer (writer)
Genre: Documentary - History - War
Runtime: 1:32:44
Run out of Germany by the Nazis, a small contingent of German Jewish intellectuals exacted the perfect revenge--returning to Europe as U.S. soldiers to defeat the enemy.
Groundbreaking and unforgettable, "THE RITCHIE BOYS" is the never-before-told tale of a handful of German nationals who used their language and cultural knowledge to wage psychological warfare against the Nazis and to liberate Europe.
Still sharp as octogenarians, The Ritchie Boys--a medley of hilariously unlikely soldiers--vividly recall their treacherous and heroic slog through World War II, from their training at Camp Ritchie, Maryland to the beaches of Normandy, from dark weeks spent in a German POW camp to D-Day ebullience.
Now highly successful artists, businessmen, and professors, The Ritchie Boys laugh at their clumbsy fit within the U.S. military, cry at the horrors of war, and marvel at the unorthodox--but effective--forms of interrogation and subterfuge that helped them to defeat the Nazis.
Manga Mad
"MANGA MAD" gives insight into contemporary Japanese culture through the iconography of its biggest pop culture and explains why comics are not just for children, as depicted by the compulsive consumer obsessiveness of the otaku adult manga and anime scene.
The tradition of graphic narrative is traced in Japanese art history through to the post WW2 boom of comics. There is extensive coverage of cyber-sex, 'electronics town', Akihabara. The virtual reality, manga-anime-mecca, for otaku, and most popular tourist attraction in Japan.
In addition, Comiket Market, the biggest comic and cosplay event in the world is featured with an interview with its founder, Mr Yonezawa, who recently passed away. Candid interviews with artists, animators, publishers, historians, retailers and otaku fans punctuate vivid fantasy graphics and cartoon-clad, bustling, metropolis vistas, segued with an exotic, electro sound track.
"MANGA MAD" opens the window behind the Japanese mask, to reveal what's really going on in the collective imagination, and explains why manga is so ubiquitous, mesmerising, virtually uncensored, and is now contagiously popular world wide.
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