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638 WAYS TO KILL CASTRO
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Director Dollan Cannell recounts one of the CIA's most unintentionally comical and disturbing chapters in international intrigue: the 638 alleged attempts to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Would-be assassins and former members of Castro's security team are interviewed, giving insights to plots ranging from the truly ridiculous (spraying a TV station with LSD while Castro was on the air) to the disturbing (poisoning cigars), along with the possible CIA connections behind the downing of a Cuban airliner off Barbados in 1976. Dollan Cannell---USA---2006---78 mins.
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8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION
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This inflammatory and "informed" (Variety) documentary strikes back at the Mormon Church for providing financial and theological backing for Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that barred gay marriage in California. Despite painting an unflattering picture, the film is also "a vital, important cry for an open dialogue" (Salt Lake Tribune).
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9/11 PRESS FOR TRUTH
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Six grieving families--including the famous "Jersey Girls" housewives--tell the powerful story of how they banded together after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to hold President Bush and the U.S. Government accountable for their preparation and response efforts. Credited with ensuring the formation of the 9/11 Commission, the so-called Family Steering Committee raises pressing questions about the government's failure to anticipate and Kyle Hence---USA---2006---90 mins.
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A.K.A. TOMMY CHONG
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After serving nine months in jail for running a bong manufacturing business out of his home, Tommy Chong, former cinematic stoner, took his story of about the D.E.A.'s excessive sting operation and his scapegoating onto the standup circuit. With news footage, clips from Cheech and Chong films, and interviews with Chong, colleagues, and drug policy experts, a/k/a Tommy Chong "tells the depressing, often ridiculous and generally enraging story" (The New York Times) of prejudice and misdirected power. At the time o f Chong's arrest in 2003, the American government had bigger terrorist fish to fry, not hippie joints to snuff out. Josh Gilbert---USA---2005---80 mins.
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ACLU FREEDOM FILES (2DISCS)
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Produced by Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed) this fascinating and frightening series relates the true stories of Americans whose civil liberties have been threatened, and how they fought back. Director Jeremy Kagan (The West Wing) focuses on issues including religious tolerance, GLBT rights, racial profiling, and the War on Terror in a program that combines interviews, documentary footage, dramatization, and animation. The star-studded cast includes Richard Belzer, LeVar Burton, Margaret Cho, Christine Lahti, Harry Jeremy Paul Kagan---USA---2005---280 mins.
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ALIVE DAY MEMORIES HOME IRAQ
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From the producers of Baghdad ER comes this HBO Documentary Film that features actor James Gandolfini interviewing ten U.S. soldiers who returned home after being wounded in Iraq. Their thoughts and hopes for the future are joined by troubling footage from embedded cameras and soldiers' home videos. Here, the term "alive day" refers to the day these servicemen and women narrowly escaped death in Iraq. "Seeing an unexpurgated view what these young people have sacrificed, whatever one's politics, resisting the temptation to look away hardly seems like too much to ask" (Variety). Jon Alpert/Ellen Goosenberg Kent---USA---2007---60 mins.
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AMBASSADOR: INSIDE THE EMBASSY
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What does an American ambassador really do, and how does he or she deal with the dangers of serving in a potentially hostile nation? In this unique program, National Geographic ventures past the heavily guarded gates of four American embassies to find out. Among those profiled is single mother Wendy Chamberlain, who was the new ambassador to Islamic Pakistan when al Queda terrorists attacked the United States on September 11. She relates how, with family and staff members sent back to the U.S. for security reasons, she held talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to determine whether the one-time Taliban ally would support President Bush's war on terrorism. It was a turning point in the crisis, and one of several dramatic moments in this fascinating, highly personal look at American foreign policy. 60 mins.
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AMERICA BETRAYED
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An intelligent, quasi-conspiracy-theory documentary about how the Army Corps of Engineers and Congress have fraudulently misallocated public funds, and essentially paved the way for Hurricane Katrina's decimation of New Orleans. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss. Leslie Carde---USA---2008---94 mins.
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AMERICAN BLACKOUT
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A Special Jury Prize winner at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, this hard-hitting documentary goes where the mainstream media fears to tread in investigating the widespread disenfranchisement that occurred in African-American communities during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Ian Inaba's film centers on the efforts of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to uncover the systematic voting irregulaties that may have tilted the elections' outcome. Ian Inaba---USA---2006---86 mins.
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AMERICAN DRUG WAR: THE LAST WHITE HOPE
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Kevin Booth's documentary goes from the street corner to the Capitol in order to survey the current state of drug use, drug policy, and drug enforcement in America. He interviews drug advocates, drug addicts, drug dealers, gang members, police, CIA, DEA, attorneys, judges, governors, congressmen, researchers, doctors, reverends, and even Tommy Chong, finding equal amounts of blood, corruption, greed, and racism on both sides of the unwinnable war.
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AMERICAN TEACHER
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Research proves that teachers are the most important school factor in a child's future success, yet America's teachers are so woefully underpaid that almost a third must divide their time between second jobs in order to make a living. Chronicling the stories of four teachers in different areas of the country, American Teacher reveals the frustrating realities of today's educators, the difficulty of attracting talented new teachers, and why so many of our best teachers choose to leave the profession altogether. Their stories are disheartening, but this wake-up call to our system's failings also looks at possibilities for reform. “Powerful, compelling...Every policymaker should be required to see the new film American Teacher” (Washington Post).
Vanessa Roth---USA---2011---81 mins.
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ANARCHISM IN AMERICA
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A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America which attempts to dispel popular misconceptions and to trace its historical development, both as a native American philosophy stemming from 19th-century American traditions of individualism and as a foreign ideology brought to America by immigrants. It features rare archival footage of significant personalities and events in anarchist history. Steven Fischler/Joel Sucher---USA---1982---75 mins.
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ANYTOWN USA
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A reviled Republican incumbent squares off against a retired Democrat and an ex-football hero outsider in this lively and often hilarious documentary about a mayoral race in small-town New Jersey. Two of the three candidates are legally blind, one is being aided by Jesse "The Body" Ventura's campaign manager, and all three must convince the voters of dilapidated Bogota, New Jersey that they have a plan for the future. Kristian Fraga---USA---2005---93 mins.
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AS GOES JANESVILLE
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"An up-close view of one of the meanest and most dramatic chapters in recent American politics...The film pull[s] us along like a political thriller" (NY Times).
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AUGUST IN THE EMPIRE STATE
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With dozens of contentious issues hinging on the outcome of the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, activists on both sides of the political spectrum were galvanized by the 2004 Republican National Convention. Filmed on the front lines in New York City, this potent documentary follows several key figures during the run-up to the RNC, including leftist activist Cheri Honkala, aspiring Republican politician Paul Rodriguez, journalist Michelle Goldberg, Gabriel Rhodes/Keefe J. Murren/Michael Galin---USA---2005---100 mins.
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BAGHDAD ER
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Emmy Award-winning producer-director Jon Alpert takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital--the U.S. Army's premiere medical facility in Iraq--in this hard-hitting HBO documentary. From amputating limbs, extracting shrapnel, cleaning wounds, and mopping blood, the staff at "Baghdad ER" has one of the grisliest and most demanding jobs in the world, and Alpert captures it with unflinching detail. Jon Alpert---USA---2006---60 mins.
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BIG BUY: HOW TOM DELAY STOLE C
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Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) produced this documentary account of how House Majority Leader Tom DeLay became one of the most powerful and corrupt Congressmen in modern political history. Filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck explore the infamous K Street Project, DeLay's redistricting efforts, and his indictments on conspiracy, money laundering, and other charges. The film also profiles Texas D.A. Ronnie Earle, who spearheaded the fight to hold one of the most powerful men in Washington Mark Birnbaum/Jim Schermbeck---USA---2006---14.95
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BIG EASY TO BIG EMPTY
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Fitting with other sensational documentaries released by Disinformation, this film from Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author of Best Democracy Money Can Buy, tells the alleged real story of Hurricane Katrina. Two years after the devastation, only a fraction of the population of New Orleans has returned. Palast visits the barren city America forgot, taking notice of the scant reconstruction efforts, climbing suicide rates, and FEMA's fundamental disorganization. "A standing ovation...Extraordinary...Astonishing" (Gil Greg Palast---USA---2007---30 mins.
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BLAME GAME: ARE WE A COUNTRY
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John Stoessel, a journalist with ABC news, examines what he calls the victim movement. He probes the failures of social security, the limits of lawsuits and the diminishment of self-reliance and individual responsibility. 50 mins.
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BLOOD OF MY BROTHER
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Told from an Iraqi's point of view, and featuring harrowing footage shot in a Shiite district of Baghdad, this documentary tells of a young man who dreams of revenge after his brother is shot and killed by an American patrol. "...an intimate, enigmatic exploration of Tolstoy's maxim that every unhappy family is unique" (Andrew O'Hehir, Salon). In English and Arabic with English Andrew Berends---Iraq---2005---81 mins.
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