Archive for the ‘Society’ Category
The Hassle
with Atheism is definitely an
hour-long documentary on atheism, presented
by Rod Liddle. It aired on Channel four
in December 2006. The documentary focuses on criticizing atheism, also
as science, for its perceived similarities to religion, too
as arrogance and intolerance. The programme consists of
interviews with quite a few
prominent scientists, such as
atheists Richard Dawkins and Peter Atkins and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne. It also consists of
an interview with Ellen Johnson, the president of American Atheists.
Liddle
starts
the documentary by surveying prevalent
criticisms of religion, and particularly
antireligious arguments based
around the
prevalence of religious violence. He argues the
“very silly
human longing for
certainty and justification”, not religion, is to
blame for this violence, and that atheism is turning out to be
just as dogmatic as religion.
Posted by Sara on December 4th, 2010
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Forget the axis of evil, its the axis of oil. The Chilly
War as well as the
War on Terror were
about ideology and globalization. The 21st century might be
dominated by the battle
for power
: It’ll
be each and every
guy
for himself and it is
going
to get
dirty.
Inside the
two-part documentary Power
War, VPRO’s Backlight investigates the key
developments with regards to
energy
sources
. Featuring NY Instances
columnist Thomas Friedman.
Posted by Sara on December 2nd, 2010
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California is a strong brand, the state of new beginnings, goals and movie stars, of surfers and a fantastic climate.
However the Golden State is bankrupt along with the metropolis of Los Angeles is working from cash. Public companies are becoming lower and unemployment keeps growing. At the same time, optimism, entrepreneurship along with the perception in the energy of America are stronger than ever.
Posted by Sara on December 1st, 2010
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In Russia, Sept. 1
is the
Day of Knowledge
, a joyous annual event
marking the start
of the
new school
year
. But Knowledge
Day 2004 was different
at School
No. 1
in Beslan: A group of heavily
armed rebel extremists stormed the school
, holding more
than a thousand children
and adults hostage in a
sweltering gymnasium for three
days.
The harrowing siege ended Sept.
3
in a
series
of explosions and hail of gunfire that killed some 350 people
– half
of them children
. Featuring heartbreaking interviews with more
than a dozen young
survivors, as well as
chilling footage shot by the hostage-takers themselves
, Children
of Beslan explores the devastating impact
of violent conflict on children
.
Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010
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Paradise Lost is a 1996 documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of three teenage boys in West Memphis, Arkansas for the murder and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys.
The boys on trial for the crime are: Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin, also known as the West Memphis 3.
Despite a lack of any significant evidence indicating that they are connected to the case at all, the three boys are charged and tried for the murders.
Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010
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Three part observational documentary series which explores life at the sharp end of one of the most extreme urban environments in the world: Lagos, Nigeria.
Fifty years ago, Lagos, then Nigeria’s capital, was a city the size of today’s Bradford, with a population of a little less than 300,000 people. Everyone said it was lovely. Now 16 million people live there: it is one of a new breed of megacities in a world that is abandoning the countryside. And it grows by 600,000 a year.
Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010
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Intriguing documentary that turns standard
anthropology on its head. 5
tribesmen from a remote South Pacific island journey
ten
,000 miles to observe the natives of a odd
and exotic land – Britain and USA.
Armed with video clip cameras and warm garments, 5 South Pacific islanders journey across the UK recording their experiences of dwelling with representatives in the 3 ‘tribes’ of Britain: the Operating Course, the Center Course, along with the Higher Course.
Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010
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British Channel 4 engaged the Team Delta Cadre to recreate the Guantanamo Bay interrogation experience.
At the production company’s request, along with Team Delta’s normal approach to interrogation, the cadre also reenacted several specific events reported to have occurred at Guantanamo.
In most cases these reenacted events were counter productive to the interrogation plan developed by Team Delta – a plan that had learned 80% of the requested intelligence within the first few hours of capture.
Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010
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Just exactly
how Firms
treat
folks
, particularly
these
within the
third
world
. On this
function
size
documentary, directors German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia current
a searing indictment from the
Coca-Cola empire and its alleged kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders trying to
improve
working
circumstances
in Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey.
The filmmakers adhere to labor rights attorneys Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth and an activist for the Cease Killer-Coke! campaign, Ray Rogers, as they attempt to hold the giant U.S. multinational beverage organization accountable on this legal and human rights battle.
Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010
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What Andy Capper, Vice UK Editor, is saying
about the
film
: “We arrived in Liberia with a
little
crew of three
and quickly
rendezvoused with a
nearby
journalist who would be
our fixer and manual
. Our initial
shooting location
was the West Point
slum, house
to 80
,000 individuals
living
in situations
that redefine squalor. Miles of rotting garbage
surround the slum, which has no sewage system
.
Pretty a lot everybody – even the regional authorities officials – defecates and urinates within the open. Medications, prostitution and armed robbery would be the principal industries. We acquired to understand a few of the citizens of West Stage, who advised us their tales as they smoked heroin and cocaine and begged us for funds.
Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010
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