Favorite left-wing documentaries?

[smallprint]

after watching Bowling For Columbine again, i'm in the mood for more hard-hitting, truth-telling, right-wing-infuriating non-fiction films. Only problem is, I've seen all the good ones that i know about. That's where y'all can help...

What are your faves?

[Kellanved]

1. Yes

but those are in German ... :evilgrin:

[Sequoia]

2. The one about Panama

I think it came out in 1992? The name doesn't spring to mind but it was quite eventful.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. the panama deception

narrated by elizabeth montgomery

[Bozita]

16. That's a powerful piece. IIRC it won an Oscar.

Definitely worth a serious look.

[JohnKleeb]

4. its a bio about a left winger

The Life and Times of Robert F Kennedy
The sad part being you know what happens to old Bobby.

[smallprint]

5. oops dupe sorry everyone

on edit:

ok, the other one is locked now. i don't know how that happened. :)

[roughsatori]

6. The Year of the Pig NT

[SpiralHawk]

7. "The Truth and Lies of 9/11"

The Mike Ruppert Documentary. Lots of copies circulating in the world. Definitely worth getting a hold of a copy.


Stun a freeper. Give him a copy of this tape, and invite him to watch and try to make $1,000 fast dollars by disproving any of the allegations Rupper makes in the video. I guarantee, the freeper will never be the same.

There is hope for us all.

Let the truth be revealed. May justice prevail.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Deep Dish TV about candidates on both sides and media manipulation

even has a section of Poppy Bush admitting he was on halcion to Larry King..you can order it from Freespeech TV.

One more..Affluenza

and Trading Democracy by Bill Moyers..about NAFTA

[DBoon]

9. Salt of the Earth

I think it was a documentary. Classic early '50's film about labor organizers in the West. Was made by blacklisted Hollywood types.

[alfredo]

10. Harlan County USA

It's about the strike against Blue Diamond Mines.

Might be able to find it through Appalshop.

http://www.appalshop.org/

You might like their other products too



Look for Nimrod Workman in films and music. He's what it's all about.

Harlan County USA
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303614639/104-4188459-9756763?v=glance

Nimrod Workman sang in Coal Miner's Daughter. In the funeral scene.

[CanuckAmok]

17. Also by Barbara Kopple: "American Dream".

I also enjoyed "Waco: Terms of Engagement". I don't know if it's Left wing, but it's certainly populist.

[curse10]

11. Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2

made me sooo angry

[-..__...]

12. Atomic Cafe

Pretty much for the same reasons "The Day After" (fiction) pissed
a lot of right-wingers off.

[toddzilla]

13. manufacturing consent

a good chomsky flick..
the big one michael moore

i've seen the ruppert one and it's good

the afghan massacre, but it's pretty short and really depressing.

[maxanne]

14. Incident at Oglala

about the shoot out at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where one Indian and 2 FBI agents were killed.

Welcome to Missile Street - about the sanctions in Iraq.

[dudeness]

15. John Pilger..

is one the most highly respected authors and documentary film makers in the world today..you probably have not seen much of him in the USA..but check out www.johnpilger.com

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Second "The Panama Deception"

Also

"Tell the Truth and Run"--the story of a left-wing journalist who reported from Europe during the fascist era and published a newspaper on his own till put out of business in the McCarthy era

"The Trials of Henry Kissinger"-- or "Why Henry Kissinger SO Did Not Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize"

"Life and Debt"--the effects of "free trade" and IMF policies on Jamaica. I've dared a couple of "free trade" zealots to watch this film and still tell me that Jamaica was treated right, but no one has taken me up on it. Great reggae/calypso soundtrack.

"Harvest of Shame"--Believe it or not, this documentary was done on CBS in 1960, by the great Edward R. Murrow. And believe it or not, conditions for migrant workers haven't changed that much.

"The Titicut Follies"--Fredrick Wiseman's expose of conditions at the Massachusetts Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the 1960s.

"Mandela"--about the life of Nelson Mandela, featuring a wonderful sound track of South African music

"The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time"--the first group to popularize folk music, the Weavers (two of whom, Pete Seeger and Ronnie Gilbert, later--much later-- had solo careers) were immensely popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but once they were blacklisted, their concerts and recordings were cancelled.

That should keep you busy for a while. :-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. I wanted to see LIFE and DEBT but it only played a brief while in

LA..where can I get it?

[NightTrain]

19. Cover-Up: Inside the Iran-Contra Scandal (1989)

n/t

[ISUGRADIA]

20. The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

A great documentary on the life of one man and of the gay rights movement of the 1970s. Oh, and how one man got away with murdering Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk because he was portrayed as the victim and a family man. A good history lesson to see how things used to be.

[mac56]

22. Great movie.

I was about to nominate that too.

I was in tears at the end of it.

Add on edit: Wasn't Robin Williams going to play Harvey Milk in a biography movie?