Documentary Films Relevant to the Diverse Disorders of Our Culture
(Some in this list are movies that are based on actual events and are like documentaries)
(180 +/-  DVDs)

This series of films, 8 through 13, below are about the destructive role of oil and oil companies on the earth and peoples around the world.  I have not seen them yet but have them on reserve to be sent to me as soon as they are available.

Plunder: The Crime of Our Time

(2009)

Our Daily Bread

(2005)

Unser Täglich Brot

The Social Network

(2010)

Food Matters  (2008)

With a staggering number of Americans suffering from obesity and other food-related maladies, this film takes a timely and hard-hitting look at how the food we eat is helping or hurting our health, and what we can do to live (and eat) better. Nutritionists, naturopaths, scientists, doctors, medical journalists and more weigh in on everything from using food as medicine to the value of organic food and the safety of the food we consume.

Cast: Andrew W. Saul, David Wolfe

Director: James Colquhoun

Wit

(2001)

I Am Curious: Yellow

(1967)

Jag Är Nyfiken - Gult

Inside Job

(2010)

The Brain

(2008)

Journey of Man

(2002)

1. PBS; NOVA; Nature; Evolution; “Becoming Human:  The Birth of Humanity”
2. PBS; NOVA; Nature; Evolution; “Becoming Human:  The Last Human Standing”
3. The Journey of Man 2002
4. Wit
5. Home 2009NR120 minutes  Award-winning photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand directs this breathtaking ode to planet Earth, an aerial voyage that captures the interdependence of the world's ecosystems -- and the bruises left behind by human indifference. From the agricultural revolution to our ever-increasing reliance on oil, narrator Glenn Close examines the changes that have wreaked havoc on our home, urging viewers to preserve the Earth's remaining natural treasures.
6. Jablonsky? The Ascent of Man  1972NR5 discs Narrated by mathematician and biologist Jacob Bronowski, this landmark BBC series traces human development from the dawn of evolution and the creation of rudimentary tools to the rise of technology and the computer age. Along the way, the 13-part documentary covers the history of the sciences and touches on humanity's contributions to art, warfare, empire-building, agriculture, music, architecture, mathematics, medicine, industry and politics.
7. Connections 1974? Connections 1 1978NR5 discs How did a test of gold's purity in 500 B.C. lead to the invention of the atomic bomb? James Burke, host of this beloved 1978 TV documentary series, makes this and other beguiling connections between history and science. Combing through 12,000 years of history, this Sherlock Holmes of science finds clues that led to various modern inventions. Burke's droll humor, careful reenactments and stirring use of classical music helped to make this a BBC hit.
8. Alice Tepper Marlin the Architect of Corporate Responsibility
9. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” 2009 Stieg Larson’s “Millennium Trilogy”
10. “The Girl Who  Played with Fire” 2009 Stieg Larson’s “Millennium Trilogy”
11. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” 2009 Stieg Larson’s “Millennium Trilogy”
12. Monsoon:  China and India and Indonesia and the Role of Ocean Transport Pathways; Vying for Natural Resources; and the Military Trends of the Future (2011)
13. The Commanding Heights, 3 disks about the Future of World Economies 2002
14. South of the Border by Oliver Stone 2008 ?
15. The Future of America by Simon Shama 2004 ?
16. Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined 2009 134 minutes From provocateur Jason Bermas comes this mesmerizing documentary that exposes what global leaders really mean when they talk about a "new world order": a tyrannical world government that enslaves humanity to consolidate its power. Using damning footage of former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and other wealthy elites, Bermas chronicles how they've used bank schemes, false flag terrorism and other nefarious means to usher in their plans.  http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Invisible_Empire_A_New_World_Order_Defined/70136002?trkid=912834
    I have mixed feelings about this documentary.  It has much of the same information as “The Oil Factor” but there is a strange injection of rightwing ideology along with the exposure of conspiracies behind the ‘nefarious’ schemes and exploitative military and economic campaigns of the Bushes, the CIA and NSA, multiple secret societies and obscure megalomaniacs, the World Bank, the Project for the New American Century, the G 8 and G 20, the WTO and the rest of the international wealthy and powerful to achieve the New World Order.  On the one hand, it assails these globalization schemes but on the other hand it makes them seem so ominous, invincible, so sweeping in its influence, and so powerful as to make people like myself feel impotent to stop it and resigned to it.  “The Oil Factor” does the opposite.  It also seemed somewhat disorganized in the flow, a bit too repetitive, and at least thirty minutes longer than necessary.  It is worth seeing if for no other reason than to compare it with “The Oil Factor.”
17. The Oil Factor 2005 93 minutes  Despite official statements that U.S. wars in the Middle East and Central Asia are being waged in the name of terror, it's hard to ignore that three-quarters of the world's oil supply comes from these regions.  Narrated by Edward Asner, this thought-provoking documentary explores the realities of the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and sheds light on the United States' true motives.  Featured experts include Noam Chomsky and author Ahmed Rashid.  http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Oil_Factor/70045845?trkid=912834
18. Battle in Seattle about the WTO protest in 1999 http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Battle_in_Seattle/70095158?trkid=1211017  2007R98 minutes With the World Trade Organization about to convene in his city, Seattle's Mayor Jim Tobin (Ray Liotta) tries to make sure all events go smoothly. As tensions between protestors and authorities rise out of control, activists and bystanders get caught in the crossfire. Based on the 1999 protest referred to as the "Battle of Seattle," this drama features Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin, Connie Nielsen and Michelle Rodriguez.
19. The International http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_International/70105936?trkid=438403  2009TV-PG118 minutes  Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and New York Asst. DA Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) team up to expose a global financial institution's money laundering, arms dealing and other illegal rackets in this tense thriller from director Tom Tykwer. As the pair race from New York to Milan and beyond to pursue their case, they soon discover that the ruthless bank will stop at nothing to continue its profitable activities.

20.    The End of Poverty? http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_End_of_Poverty/70127022?trkid=438403  (Progress vs. Property) 2008NR106 minutes  Exploring the history of poverty in developing countries, filmmaker Philippe Diaz contends that today's economic inequities arose as a result of colonization, military conquest and slavery, with wealthier countries seizing the resources of the poor. Narrated by Martin Sheen, this absorbing documentary includes interviews with numerous historians, economists and sociologists who shed light on the ongoing conditions that contribute to poverty.  Cast: Martin Sheen, John Christensen, William Easterly, Susan George, Chalmers Johnson, Alvaro García Lineras, John Perkins, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz

21. The People Speak 2009TV-PG106 minutes  Inspired by historian Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," (Zinn’s Tour de Force) a slate of top performers takes the stage to recreate the voices of American history's most eloquent dissenters, many of whom are excluded from traditional history books. The words of slaves, authors, politicians, poets, protesters, and others come to life, courtesy of a cast that includes Don Cheadle, Sean Penn, Sandra Oh, Marisa Tomei, Benjamin Bratt and many more.  Cast: Marisa Tomei, Josh Brolin, Viggo Mortensen, Sandra Oh,Matt Damon, Eddie Vedder, Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Benjamin Bratt, Jackson Browne, Sean Penn, Don Cheadle.  Director:  Chris Moore, Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove
22. The Girl in the Cafe(2005) TV-14“The Girl in the Café” (2005), a Review
    by Edwin L. Young, PhD
    May 17, 2010 You have not heard of this movie, “The Girl in the Cafe”  (2005) have you?  If not, well, see it and you will know why.  It is an Odd Combination of Romance and Global Politics.  After meeting Gina (Kelly Macdonald) in a café, lonely civil servant Lawrence (Bill Nighy) asks her to join him at the G8 Summit in Iceland.  These two shy outsiders hit it off almost instantly, but their attraction is tested when Gina's personal convictions contradict Lawrence's professional duties and the modus operandi of the G8 leaders.  Macdonald earned an Emmy for her performance in this made-for-television movie.  It has an overarching plot about the G8 but that also has a parallel plot that charts the origin and disintegration of the endearing May-December romance between Gina and Lawrence.  This is a great movie about a crucial issue in our new, globalized world.  While it has a simple plot, it grips your attention with every subtle inflection of emotion and each surprising, modestly spoken, but incisive confrontation by the ingénue outsider, Gina, with the heady, sophisticated, dignified G-8 political leaders.  The highlights of the movie, for me, were the tensely awkward moments as these confrontations take place.  They were almost humorous had it not been for the glaring gravitas of the issues being addressed by the G8.  In an officious, clandestine, sterile, dehumanized, and sanctimonious manner, these men and women are literally charting the course for the entire globe for the next fifty years.  While their issues are scaled down and tailored for a brief TV movie, they, nevertheless, contain a simple, persuasive representation of the political philosophy of a group of leaders who now have absolute power over the rest of the world.  This power extends, unfortunately for them, to the third world countries made desperately impoverished by the wealthy nations whom the G8 are representing.  Most of those who are dispassionately doing the complex intellectual work for these ‘Lords of the Universe’, and therefore determining the G8’s policies, are unelected, highest-echelons civil servants from the eight world dominant nations.  This is the most exclusive club in the world.  I was spurred on to learn more about this G8.  While it is brief and adapted to a television audience, it, nevertheless, gives a revealing insight into that lofty, inhumane, but pretentiously humane, world.   It was produced by a British, independent film company.  As an Independent film, it is part of the growing trend of ‘alternative’ movies.  As with alternative energy, alternative life styles, alternative-organic-farmer to market foods, alternative medicine, and the internet as a source alternative information, this new generation of films is part of that burgeoning new world of alternatives.  These alternative movements are juxtaposed against what is in the mainstream and owned and incessantly promoted on the outlets of the mainstream media that is also owned by this newer version of the ancient Feudal States and controlled by the new Corprocrats.  Those of us who are New Green World Denizens must learn to change our habits which have been shaped by those psychopathic, exploitative, dehumanizing, multinational corporations and their lackeys in D C’s Center of Corruption. 
23. Panic (2000) http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Panic/60004272?trkid=1525429  I see this as an allegory depicting the relation between the US government and soldiers in the military.
24. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Crude/70112742?trkid=222336&strkid=1589468861_0_0&strackid=2f7fc25d0b121243_0_srl explores the ongoing battle waged by 30,000 indigenous Ecuadorans and their lawyers against Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into the Amazon. (2009)
25. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Sweet_Crude/70119684?trkid=222336&strkid=1589468861_2_0&strackid=2f7fc25d0b121243_2_srl (2007)
26. Crude Impact In Nigeria's Niger Delta, locals struggle with poverty, illness and wretched conditions despite living above billion-dollar oil reserves. (2006)
27. Crude Independence (2006)
28. Crude Oil (2008)
29. Crude Independence (2009)
     
30. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Daughter_from_Danang_American_Experience/60027145?trkid=912834  (2002)
31. http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=adam+curtis+the+trap&emb=0&aq=f#  Trilogy about the degeneration and Modern Politics as it turned into tyranny by the rich-rightwing
32. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_People_s_Republic_of_Capitalism_Disc_1/70117090?trkid=912834  (2008)  Known in America as the Capitalist Republic of China
33. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_People_s_Republic_of_Capitalism_Disc_2/70117091?trkid=912834  (2008)  Known in America as the Capitalist Republic of China
34. Capitalism: A love affair by Michael Moore 10/2/2009  http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1232207/
35. 500 Nations: Disc 1
36. 500 Nations: Disc 2
37. 500 Nations: Disc 3
38. 500 Nations: Disc 4
39. A Crude Awakening The Oil Crash
40. Advise and Consent (1962)
41. Africans in America: Disc 1-2
42. America: Freedom to Fascism 07/17/08
43. American Dream
44. American History X
45. An Inconvenient Truth
46. Any Given Sunday (1999
47. Apocalypto 05/07/08
48. Blood and Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
49. Born Rich 2003 aka The One Percent
50. Building Bombs
51. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 09/22/08
52. Bush Family Fortunes (2004)
53. Caminho das Nuvens,
54. City Hall
55. Clearing, The (2004)
56. Cochise County, USA: Cries from the Border
57. Conspiracy (2008)
58. Conspiracy: The Secret History: The Secret Birth of the Federal Reserve
59. Control Room, The (2003)
60. Damaged_Care
61. Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
62. Democracy University: Disc 1- 4 (2004) Democracy University: Vol. 2: Disc 1 10/08/08Democracy University: Vol. 2: Disc 2 10/24/08Democracy University: Vol. 2: Disc 4 11/13/08
63. Demonlover (2002)
64. Blood Diamonds(2007) NR
65. Diamonds of War: Africa's Blood Diamonds (2007)  This is the diamond industry's clever counter propaganda that came on the heals of DiCaprio's film exposing the evils of the diamond industry.  The DeBeers Diamond Corporation is actually owned by a Jewish family in Belgium.
66. Blood Diamond (2006 with Leo DiCaprio (contrast with Diamonds of War Docu above)
67. Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement 11/20/08
68. Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room
69. Erin Brockovich
70. Evolution: Disc 1 (2002)     07/23/08
71. Evolution: Disc 2 08/04/08
72. Evolution: Disc 3 08/25/08
73. Evolution: Disc 4 09/02/08
74. Fahrenheit 9/11
75. Flow For Love of Water
76. Fourth World War, The 2003
77. Frontline Bush s War
78. Frontline: The Dark Side (2006)
79. Good Night and Good Luck (2005)
80. Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
81. Guns, Germs and Steel National Geographic: Videos 1-3 (2005)
82. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral (2004)
83. I Witness (2003)
84. In Search of the American Drug Lords (2003)
85. In the Time of the Butterflies
86. In the Valley of Elah 03/31/08 04/08/08
87. Internationally Speaking 04/21/08
88. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
89. Iron Jawed Angels (2004),
90. Islam: What the West Needs to Know 06/19/08
91. Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains05/13/0805/21/08
92. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
93. Life and Debt
94. Lions for Lambs 06/02/08 06/10/08
95. Lord of War 11/17/08
96. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky
97. Maxed Out
98. Michael Clayton 03/25/08 03/31/08
99. Motorcycle Diaries, The 2004
100. No End in Sight
101. Noam Chomsky: Imperial Grand Strategy 05/21/08 05/28/08
102. North_Country
103. Out of Balance
104. Outbreak (1995)
105. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism(2004)
106. Panama Deception
107. Perfect Score, The (2004)
108. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky
109. Pump Up the Volume (1990)
110. Raising Cain: Exploring the Inner Lives of America’s Boys (2005)
111. Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man
112. Recount
113. Religulous
114. Rendition 04/08/08
115. Reported missing on 11/29/08
116. Sicko
117. Slavery & the Making of America: Disc 1 of 4 (2004)
118. Speaking Freely: Vol. 1: John Perkins
119. Speaking Freely: Vol. 2: Susan George
120. Speaking Freely: Vol. 3: Ray McGovern 07/30/08
121. Speaking Freely: Vol. 4: Chalmers Johnson
122. Speaking Freely: Vol. 5: Hugo Chavez
123. Strange Culture
124. Syriana (2005)
125. The 11th Hour 06/10/08
126. The Atomic Cafe
127. The Awful Truth: Season 1
128. The Awful Truth: Season 2
129. The Bank (2001)
130. The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress
131. The Chomsky Sessions
132. The Constant Gardener
133. The Corporation Apr. 23, 2004
134. The Empire in Africa 2006 The Empire in African
135. The Fog of War
136. The Future We Will Create
137. The Injustice System in America
138. The Merchants of Cool: Frontline (2001
139. The Oil Factor
140. The Passion of the Christ 09/18/08
141. The Pentagon
142. The Persuaders (2004)
143. The Persuaders: Frontline (2004)
144. The Situation (2006)
145. The Sum of All Fears (2002)
146. The Take
147. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) (TV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAluyt5_kic
148. The Unforeseen (2007)
149. The_Great_Indian_Wars1-4
150. There Will Be Blood (2007)
151. This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
152. Time Regained 09/29/08
153. Trudell: Independent Lens (2006)
154. Unchained Memories: Slave Narratives (2002)
155. Uncovered: The War on Iraq(2004)
156. War Made Easy 11/04/08
157. Warlords (2-Disc Series)
158. What the #$*! Do We Know!? 12/01/08
159. Why We Fight (2005)
160. With God on Our Side 09/09/08
161. Witness in the War Zone (1987)
162. World in the Balance: Nova 11/07/08