Tag: documentary
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another look at jonestown
from washington post: Why did the followers of cult leader Jim Jones commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana? In Stanley Nelson’s “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple,” the award-winning filmmaker looks at the events leading up to Nov. 18, 1978, when more than 900 Peoples Temple members drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid and died en…
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suspect nation
from bbc 4: Since Tony Blair’s New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. ASBO’s were introduced by Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy, free from…
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body of war
from fox news: Add the name of Phil Donahue to the list of people who’ve made documentaries about the effects of the Iraq war… [Donahue] showed his film – which he called a work in progress – to a private screening group last week. The film, “Body of War,” is unfinished but riveting. It should…
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the last white hope
The Last White Hope – America’s War on Drugs gives a radical new perspective to the Drug War by putting a human face on the War’s casualties, while enlisting help from some unlikely sources. A Republican Governor? A right-wing Judge? The Last White Hope has made ending the drug war a mainstream issue. Director Kevin…