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Gas Hole

Viola — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:57:11 +0000

Gas hole is a new documentary film about the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of our dependence on foreign supplies of oil. What are the causes that led from America turning from a leading exporter of oil to the world’s largest importer? What are the economic and sociological forces that have contributed to that change and impede its solution?

The film examines many different potential solutions to our oil dependence. Starting with claims of buried technology that dramatically improves gas mileage, to navigating bureaucratic governmental roadblocks, to evaluating different alternative fuels that are technologically available now, to questioning the American Consumer’s reluctance to embrace alternatives. If you buy gasoline, you should see this movie.

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David Icke – Was he right?

Viola — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:38:51 +0000

This is a mainstream British Channel 5 documentary from 26/12/06 which chronicles David Icke’s career to present day, and asks the big question – Was he right? Anyone who is paying attention knows the answer to that. A very impartial and fair documentary.

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WikiRebels

Viola — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:36:54 +0000

In-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it.

From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange.

Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new Spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, as well as people like Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now is starting his own version – Openleaks.org!

Where is the secretive organization heading? Stronger than ever, or broken by the US? Who is Assange: champion of freedom, spy or rapist? What are his objectives? What are the consequences for the internet?

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Collapse

Viola — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:49:30 +0000

Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst?

Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Lost Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter. From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray.

Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate about the issue of “peak oil,” the concern raised by scientists since the seventies that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel.

While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Ruppert doesn’t hold back at sounding an alarm, portraying an apocalyptic future. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded, and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.

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The Case Estonia

Viola — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:31:20 +0000

A documentary about the sinking of the ship Estonia by journalist Jutta Rabe.

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CRUDE

Viola — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:21:14 +0000

One of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, CRUDE by director Joe Berlinger is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film examines a complicated situation from several angles while bringing a story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

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Brazil’s Child Prostitutes

Viola — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:45:31 +0000

In this shocking episode of Our World, Chris Rogers from the BBC goes undercover, posing as one of the millions of so-called sex tourists who visit Brazil. As Brazil prepares to host the next World Cup, it’s people are confronted with the growing problem of child prostitution. The country’s relaxed attitude to buying sex has long attracted millions of tourists, particularly men.

But now the world’s oldest industry is recruiting the world’s youngest workers. UNICEF estimates there are 250,000 children forced into prostitution across Brazil. In this shocking episode of Our World, Chris Rogers goes undercover, posing as one of the millions of so-called sex tourists who visit the South American country in search of cheap sex, often with children as young as seven years old.

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Welcome to Lagos

Viola — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:23:03 +0000

A fantastic three part observational documentary series which explores life at the sharp end of one of the most extreme urban environments in Africa and the world: Lagos, Nigeria.

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Food, Inc

Viola — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:37:55 +0000

The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business – with an emphasis on the business – has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies.

Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences. Many of the changes are based on advancements in science and technology, but often have negative side effects.

The answer that the companies have come up with is to throw more science at the problems to bandage the issues but not the root causes. The global food supply may be in crisis with lack of biodiversity, but can be changed on the demand side of the equation.

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Earthlings

Viola — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:30:50 +0000

A feature length documentary about humanity’s absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called “non-human providers.” Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.

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