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Pokazatelnyy protsess: Istoriya Pussy RiotThree young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in?
Genre: Documentary, Music, News
| Diary of a Disgraced SoldierIn Iraq 2003, Corporal Martin Webster filmed fellow soldiers beating Iraqi youths during rioting in Al Amara. Two years later, a British newspaper obtained his footage. The story that ran led to outrage across the world. In March 2007, he approached three filmmakers. This is his film, telling his story as he seeks to make sense of his shame and anger: he visits fellow soldiers involved in the incident and takes to expressing himself through painting, music and poetry.
Genre: Documentary, Music, News
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The RevisionariesThe theory of evolution and a re-write of American history are caught in the crosshairs when an unabashed Creationist seeks re-election as chairman of America's most influential Board of Education.
Genre: Documentary, History, News
| Goodbye ShanghaiWhile embezzling $14 billion from a Chinese bank for the US government, two Western bankers grab $15 million in cash for themselves. They store it in an upright bass case and wander the streets of Shanghai, waiting for their morning departure. When the more experienced of the two insists they spend their last night partying in a local club, the night takes a wild turn. Goodbye Shanghai explores the negative effects of Western imperialism on modern Chinese culture.
Genre: Short, Drama, News
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Cocaine UnwrappedMoving from country to country in South America, reporting from across the drugs frontline and interviewing top-level international politicians this film exposes the human cost of one of the most popular drugs on the London streets. Combining reportage from the drugs front line and interviews with those top-level international politicians who are campaigning to get us in the West to take real responsibility for our drugs problem, Cocaine Unwrapped presents prohibition in a wholly new light.
Genre: Documentary, News
| You Dont Like the Truth 4 Days Inside GuantanamoThe meeting, never seem before, of a Canadian interrogation team with a child detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Based on a seven hour video recording, declassified by the Supreme Court of Canada, this documentary shows the intensity of this interrogation which lasted four days. Using the surveillance camera, the film analyzes the scientific, legal and political implications of this forced dialog.
Genre: Documentary, History, News
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The Recess EndsOne brother gets laid off and convinces his younger brother to quit his job and embark on a fifty state journey through America filming a documentary on the economy and the recession. This film documents the communities and the people they met along the five month journey.
Genre: Documentary, News
| Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American HealthcareESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: what can be done to save our broken medical system? The film examines the powerful forces trying to maintain the status quo in a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground. ESCAPE FIRE follows dramatic human stories as well as leaders fighting to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the US military. The film is about a way out, about saving the health of a nation.
Genre: Documentary, News
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Harvest of EmpireA powerful documentary that exposes the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. From the territorial expansionist policies that decimated the young economies of Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Harvest of Empire provides an unflinching look at the origins of the growing Latino presence in the United States. Adapted from the landmark book written by journalist Juan Gonzalez, the film tells the story of an epic human saga that is largely unknown to the great majority of citizens in the U.S., but must become part of our national conversation about immigration.
Genre: Documentary, History, News
| How to Survive a PlagueThe story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
Genre: Documentary, History, News
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