Revolution of Light, Defending Democracy

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Davis Guggenheim

Cast

Al Gore, Billy West

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls l...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Cecilia Peck, Barbara Kopple

Cast

Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire

Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death Squad. At the time, the press still had some freedom to disseminate the work of these death squads formed by police officers of various ranks, and that he acted on the outskirts of cities l...

Runtime

39m

Director

Sergio Muniz

Cast

Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Othon Bastos, Lafayette Galvão

Let's look back at the 18th presidential vote. The 13,500 ballot boxes were taken to 251 ballot count locations and were sorted by 1,300 automatic ballot openers. The chairman announced the sorted data and soon it was announced to the public. But something strange happened. The 251 ballot count locations found 'a number' that have the...

Runtime

1h 42m

Cast

Kim Ou-joon

Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government - where privatisation of state assets was part of a wider agenda that sought to remake New Zealand as a model free market state. The trickle-down ‘Rogernomics’ rhetoric warned of no gain without pain, and here the theory is...

Runtime

1h 47m