Folks, a whole SLEW of docs/films just out and coming out in September!

[cascadiance]

There have been recently many threads on 9/11 Press For Truth, Freedom to Fascism, and other documentaries and other relevant films that are starting to air in the theaters soon. Greenwald is coming out with Iraq for Sale soon, which will be scheduled for national TV screenings in early October. Sibel Edmonds will have her French-made documentary on TV sometime shortly. We should have a way of centrally identifying all of the various ones out there that tackle each of the currently important issues out there now so that we can arm ourselves with DVD house parties, etc. in the fall where these films are needed. I'll put in a first pass with stuff I found/just ordered from a few sites now (along with links on where to buy them). Feel free to add to the list. I'm at the moment trying to focus on new DVDs coming out, but if there are some older ones that are hugely relevant, and others I don't have here, feel free to add. I'm currently putting those that are coming out on DVD. There are also many not showing up for preorder on DVD yet, and we might want to have a list of those too so that we can encourage them getting produced shortly. If many of us buy those available now, perhaps it will send a message to the studios/distributors that more of these others not offered on DVD should be put on DVD shortly too. The more message we can get out before November, hopefully it will be harder for the uninformed to ignore the truths out there!

Some of these you can get online too, but here's some links to build a library if you are so inclined.

Release Date:

Now - A - A look at the group behind the Sarin Gas attacks in Japan.
Now - Al Qaeda Files - A study of Al Qaeda.
Now - An Open Letter to the Evening News - An almost banned flick on how some Italian radicals succeeded in getting a letter printed in the Newspaper on how they'd fight on the side of the Viet Cong against the U.S. in the 60's.
Now - Answering the Call - Ground Zero's Volunteers - A look at the volunteer Firefighters, etc. working after 9/11.
Now - Aristide and the Endless Revolution - How we've f'd with Haiti's democracy for many years!
Now - Benito - Movie on how the fascist prototype Mussolini came to power.
Now - Cult of the Suicide Bomber, The - Terrorism expert explores the origins of suicide bombing.[br />Now - Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran - New documentary of Islam from the History Channel.
Now - Edward R. Murrow-Voice of America - biography of one of the older truer journalists.
Now - Frontline: Tank Man - Frontline looks at the guy who stood in front of the line of tanks in Tianemen Square.
Now - Frontline: The Dark Side - The evil Cheney and the shenanigans in the administration.
Now - Hitler - Beast of Berlin - one of the earliest activist documentaries against the creeping fascism of Hitler's regime.
Now - In the Year of the Pig - Emile de Antonio's documentary criticizing America's involvement in Vietnam war.
Now - Inside the Mind of a Suicide Bomber - History Channel's study of how people get drawn to this.
Now - Jib Jab, The-Early Years - Those that made the flash "This Land is Your Land"
Now - Night of Ferocious Joy, A - Hollywood concert that confronted the Afghanistan war in 2002.
Now - Labor Stories - Collection of documentaries looking at 1970's crucial labor issues.
Now - On Native Soil - Tracing the proceedings of the 9/11 Commission report to expose flaws in the system.
Now - Protocols of Zion - Sorting out anti-semitism that sometimes masks legitimate concerns of Israel.
Now - Sir! No Sir! - Jane Fonda and others have helped make a documentary on how Vietnam War protests were not only on college campuses, but within the military ranks as well.
Now - Stupidity - Looks at that aspect of America that we moan the most about in our efforts to wake it up from the mess we're in!
Now - Terror Storm - Alex Jones look at domestic tyranny as opposed to what's sold to us as "terrorism".
Now - Voices of Iraq - More intimate look at those in Iraq.
Now - Why we Fight - A study of the military complex and its effect on American policy.
Now - Winter Soldier - Investigations of what happened in Mai Lai.
Now - Wobblies, The - Recent release of 1979 documentary on how this group helped unionize America's beaten-down workforce at that time.
Now - WTC View - A play looking at difficulty in lives of New Yorkers after 9/11.
8/22/06 - National Geographic-9/11-Commemorative Edition - Newer edition of National Geographic's study of 9/11.
8/22/06 - Scared Sacred - Looks at many recent "Ground Zero" areas of the planet and tries to see how humanity can transform their being "scared" into something "sacred".
8/29/06 - 911 Commemorative Box Set - Collection of three 9/11 oriented films.
8/29/06 - Baghdad ER - A look at 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad.
8/29/06 - Nukes in Space-Rainbow Bombs - a look at secret high altitude thermonuclear tests.
8/29/06 - Trinity and Beyond-The Atomic Bomb Movie-60th Anniv. Diamond Ed. - Newer release of this movie on our favorite technology.
9/5/06 - United 93 (Widescreen) - Recent movie on Flight 93 at the theaters.
9/12/06 - Serving in Silence - Glen Close plays the true story depiction of the colonel that was caught in Don't Ask Don't Tell restrictions on her personal life.
9/12/06 - Too Hot Not To Handle - Documentary on Global Warming.
9/26/06 - 9/11 Press for Truth - Duer Paul Thompson, five members of the Family Steering Committee and others trying to press for the needs of 9/11 to be investigated.
9/26/06 - Absolute Zero - Another SciFi film projecting the future of Global Warming out of control.
9/26/06 - American Blackout - A look at the career of Cynthia McKinney and the supression of black voters.
9/26/06 - Combat Diary-Marines of Lima Company - Documents one of the units in Iraq and it's more harrowing moments.
9/26/06 - GI Jesus - story on hispanic immigrant who's served in and returned home from Iraq.
9/26/06 - Ground Truth, The - Patricia Foulkrod's film on Iraqi vets trying to get adjusted after returning back home.
9/26/06 - Iraq for Sale - War Profiteers - Robert Greenwald's new film looking at how corporate America is profiting from the Iraq war.
9/26/06 - Ottoman Empire-War Machine - History Channel documents the transformation of the old islamic Ottoman Empire into a more modern and democratic state of Turkey. Perhaps a better model of spreading "Democracy" than what we're doing in Iraq.
9/26/06 - Parallel Lines - NY resident and filmmaker Nina Davenport's interviewing folks after 9/11.
9/26/06 - Power Trip - American company trying to introduce "privatized electricity" to the Republic of Georgia.
9/26/06 - Thursday Club, The - Documentary recounting the history of Oakland antiwar and Black Panther demonstrations in the 60's from the eyes of protestors and retired police officers.
9/26/06 - Tomorrow Show-Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-aid - A look back at Tom Snyder's show during the 60's flower power generation.
9/26/06 - Waging a Living - Robert Weisberg's documentary about four minimum wage workers trying to earn a living.
10/03/06 - A Private Matter - Story of when Romper Room's presenter was exposed as getting an abortion back in the 60's.
10/24/06 - Road to Guantanamo - Looks at innocent people getting sucked over into Guantanamo prison now.
10/24/06 - That's My Bush - South Park Creator's parody of Dubya.

I'll try and add some more later as I get more time.

[KoKo]

1. Kick and Recommend!

[cascadiance]

2. A few more...

Now - 9/11, American Empire & Christian Faith - Latest of the speeches from David Ray Griffin and Dr. George Regas from March of this year.
Now - ACLU Freedom Files - For those of you not watching these Civil Liberties topic shows on Link TV, here's your chance to catch up.
Now - Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja - American and Iraqi filmmakers team up to make this film on attack on Falluja.
Now - Earthlings - Joaquin Phoenix narrates this new documentary on cruelty to animals.
Now - One Nation Under Siege: They're Coming For You - Big Brother is getting heavy handed in America now.
Now - Soldiers Speak Out - Former Iraqi Vets now opposing the war.
Now - The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - How Cuba has adjusted to its shortages of resources as perhaps a lesson to the rest of us.
Now - Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping - Billy Talen's campaign against globalization in public spaces.
Now - Waging Peace - How to build and sustain the peace movement in these times.[br />Now - War Game, The/Culloden - BBC TV's film about a nuclear attack on Britain (their "The Day After" film)
Now - We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom - How corporatism with the Pharma and other countries is screwing with our health.
Now - Who Killed John O'Neill? - Is this today's Orwell's telling of 1984 on someone going nuts over the truth of 9/11?

[Fridays Child]

3. Kicked, recommended, and bookmarked!

[flvegan]

4. Giving this Numero 5

Nice compilation. Bookmarked, as well. Thanks!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

5. A couple more

Now: CSA: Confederate States of America Satirical mockumentary charting a parallel history where the South won the civil war (November in UK)

Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W08zB4maza0

Now: Manderlay Dramatical companion piece to the above. Part attack on America foreign policy, part scathing attack on race-relations in the US. Technically a sequel to Dogville (amazing film, but you don't need to view in order), with Bryce Dallas Howard taking on the role of Grace from Nicole Kidman. I cannot recommend this film enough.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH0q5xcigtw

09/11/06 - Documentaries That Changed The World - John Pilger UK DVD which sounds very worth importing, especially for Pilger fans (to do so you'd need a multi-region DVD player that can play PAL discs) out 11th September:

Vietnam - The Quiet Mutiny (1970)
Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)
Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War (1982)
Nicaragua - A Nation's Right to Survive (1983)
Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy (1994)
Flying the Flag - Arming the World (1995)
Inside Burma - Land of Fear (1996)
Welcome to Australia (1999)
Paying the Price - Killing the Children of Iraq (2000)
Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)
Breaking the Silence - Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)
Stealing A Nation (2004)

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/news/news.asp?Index=11190&Section=3

edit to say -- thanks for the great list - lots I hadn't heard of.

[RedEarth]

6. TWOThumbs Up

[silverlib]

7. The US vs. John Lennon

09/15/06

[DemReadingDU]

8. heck of a list, thank you!

K&R, bookmarked for future reference!

[cascadiance]

9. A few more...

At some point I hope to get a web site up with a way of centralizing this info for all relevant documentaries, films, etc. for progressives. Don't know how soon I can do that, but I've got a big enough collection of them at the moment as well as an interest to help facilitate house parties that at some point we can have a good starting point to find stuff instead of going to tons of different places trying to find stuff.

Now - A Little Light'll Do Ya - Defending Democracy in America - Boxer's Rebellion challenging the 2004 election, etc.
Now - Back the Attack - How we were lead as a country into supporting World War II.
Now - Codex and Nutricide - Two documentary bundle dealing with the freedom to eat healthily.
Now - Community Choice: The Movement for Energy Independence - Reports on local efforts to move towards sustainable energy alternatives.
Now - Denial Stops Here: From 9-11 to Peak Oil and Beyond - Michael C. Ruppert's first original DVD since the landmark Truth and Lies of 9-11!
Now - Eyes on the Fries-Young Workers in the Service Economy - How kids deal with "McJobs"...
Now - Free Zone: Democracy Meets the Nuclear Threat - An overview of an international movement to move to a Nuclear Free Zone.
Now - Got Democracy? - Video expose on America's Electoral system in crisis.
Now - Here, In America - How immigrants are demonized in War Time.
Now - Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story - How a Japanese boy was screwed with a WWII internment.
Now - Hood Politics - A raunchy look at how "The Hood" looks at politics.
Now - Investigative Reports: Intelligence Failures - Not much info on this one.
Now - Labor Women - Documentary on immigrant women trying to help build a union contract.
Now - Local Power - The story of Community Choice Energy Revolution.
Now - New Rulers of the World, The - John Pilger's look at globalization in Indonesia.
Now - New World Border - A look at human rights abuses on the Mexico/U.S. border.
Now - Palau Chronicles, The: Nuclear Politics in the Pacific - Palau's efforts to have a "nuclear free" constitution and Washington's efforts to stop it.
Now - Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie - Not really about the Patriot Act, but a "patriotic act" of Jeffrey Ross and other comics entertaining the troops in Iraq.
Now - Public Exposure: DNA, Democracy & the Wireless "Revolution" - Health effects of radiofrequency emissions from newer wireless technologies of today are studied.
Now - Punishment Park - Peter Watkins film of 1971 looks at the blacklash against leftist activism at that time.
Now - Shadow Company - A study of mercenaries (aka "private security contractors") being used in places like Iraq.
Now - Uprooted: Refugees of the Gloal Economy - A documentary talking about the displacement of families of migrant workers.
Now - Valley of the Wolves Iraq - (Kurtlar Vadisi Irak) - Controversial high budget Turkish film starring Billy Zane and Gary Busey that builds upon depictions of real events in Iraq to show a story where the Americans are the bad guys instead of the prototypical good guys. Note that these DVDs on Ebay are Region 2 DVDs as this isn't available in the U.S., so you'll need a regionless DVD player to play them. There is a mixed language soundtrack with a lot of English voice in it along with subtitles.
Now - Vote Rigging - National Teachin on Electoral Crisis in the U.S., and what to do about it.
Now - When News Lies - DVD/Book combination about media complicity with the Bush administration on the war in Iraq.
Now - WTC 9/11/01 - Day of Disaster - a lot of footage from 9/11 disaster on site.
9/5/06 - August in the Empire State - A look at the 2004 Republican Convention behind the scenes.
??? - Ambassador, The (Ambassadøren) - Norwegian documentary that pulls NO punches on Negroponte! Saw a part of it at Democracy Fest. Wish I'd had a chance to see all of it. Though DVDs do exist of this, I don't think it's being sold yet.
??? - Anytown, U.S.A. - Documentary about a partisan local mayoral race in Bogota, New Jersey.
??? - Apollo 11: The Untold Story - How close Apollo 11 came to tragedy. On google video for now.
??? - Chavez: Inside the Coup - Documents the coup against Hugo Chavez. It's been pulled from distribution as noted here.
??? - Dixie Chicks: Shut up and Sing - Documentary on the Dixie Chicks' battles of words with Bushco. New version to be shown in Toronto shortly.
??? - Four Corners - Peak Oil? - Australian investigative team looks into the problem of shrinking supplies of oil.
??? - Freedom to Fascism - A little more of a Libertarian point of view than progressive (with a lot of anti income tax agenda in it), but sounds like it pretty much goes after the neocons on fascism pretty heavily too.
??? - Friendly Fire - Documentary on the effects of depleted uranium and other deadly chemicals and radiation in wartime on American soldiers.
??? - Help America Vote on Paper - New film on election fraud issues.
??? - Inconvenient Truth, An - How soon does this get on DVD? Hopefully soon!
??? - Iraq: The Hidden Story - More investigative reporting from Iraq.
??? - Jesus Camp - Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio covers kids going to "Jesus Camp".
??? - Power of Nightmares, the - Study of how Islamic Fundamentalism and Neoconservatism is going at it and how it affects the world.
??? - Raymundo - Biography of leftist Argentinian filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer. Supposedly DVDs are floating around for this one someplace. Haven't tracked down a good online source for it yet though.
??? - (Sibel Edmonds documentary on European Television) - Still not much info on this, though this work by Mathieu Verboud should be airing soon in France or other parts of Europe.
??? - Sicko - Michael Moore's latest film effort going after the health care industry appear to be delayed until 2007.
??? - The War Tapes - Real life drama of video accounts from an actual National Guard unit stationed in Iraq.
??? - When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts - Spike Lee's inspired documentary of Hurricane Katrina on HBO. Best bet is probably getting it off of HBO when it airs on August 29th and burning it on DVD for right now.

[GumboYaYa]

12. Check out the documentary that I co-wrote and co-produced...

The movie is CAN MR. SMITH GET TO WASHINGTON ANYMORE?

Skinner saw the world premiere and wrote this review: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Skinner/111

Here is our review from film threat: http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=9261

They gace us four and half stars. That makes us the highest rank doc and one of the highest ranked features for 2006.

We are booking ciies across the US and should be playing in a theater near you soon.

[cascadiance]

14. Thanks for noting this one!...

This film sounds great! Thanks! This is precisely the kind of film that gets lost, but is one that we should all be able to have access to that has been a problem I've tried to come up with ways of addressing. So many indy films and those with progressive themes if they are too "controversial" or perceived as targeting too much of a "fringe audience" are really hard to find for those that might be interested. Either:

a) They can't get the information of the film to start with.
b) They can't find any inexpensive way of getting access to it to their needs.
c) The inexpensive means of getting access to it (film showings) isn't close by to where they are or at a time they can see it.

Send me an IM some time. I have some ideas on how to deal with these sorts of problems and I do want to hear from indy filmmakers what works for them as I think a solution needs to have an element that works well for them and helps makes any good solution also beneficial to those that help tackle these problems too. With the internet, we certainly have the means to find such information, but with all of the balkanization of different sites that talk about this stuff without enough gatekeepers directing traffic to them, it still makes it a hard problem to solve. That and things like copyright and distribution laws, which both protect the indy filmmaker, but also serve to in some cases to restrict access to them in a systematically efficient manner and further this balkanization unless we can come up with creative ways that benefit both the consumer and provider of such films. Ultimately the theater distribution system has their own sets of films that are more mainstream and profitable for them the way the system is set up already, so they don't want to lead in helping build such a channel of distribution either.

[electricmonk]

10. Another one

Out now- I Know I'm Not Alone- Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar.

[mogster]

11. Amazing collection

Thanks for posting this.

[glitch]

13. Wow, excellent work. Thanks for posting K & R nt.

[cascadiance]

15. Just remembered Ed Schultz promoting this one the other day...

Of course he's already jumped in earlier testing an electric car prototype, so has an added interest in it. Talked to the filmmaker on his show about it too.

Now - Who Killed the Electric Car? - Documentary on how car companies toyed with the electric car earlier but unexplainedly pulled it from those testing it, etc., now leaving us further behind in this growing market now.

[Mnemosyne]

16. Cali, thank you! Great comp. k and r! n/t

:hi:

[lisainmilo]

17. great post!

Thanks Cali...Honestly I didn't know there were that many out.

[Joanne98]

18. JESUS CAMP The scariest film coming.....

http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tixSYS/2006/filmguide/event_np_full?EventNumber=4083

[cascadiance]

19. One more film I'll selfishly add is Brats...

I know one of the producers, and got to know the filmmaker talking to her when we had a screening of it in Dallas last summer at a reunion of brats when I lived overseas. It's pretty cool in that those who made it are strong Democrats (though they are careful to be neutral about talking about it as a non-profit film). Kris Kristoferson donated his time and his song writing skills to it with his narration, etc., since he was also a military brat himself at one point.

Brats: Our Journey Home

I thought of it as a cool film to show to military films now at a time when they have to be on the fence politically with what is going on Iraq, and perhaps could be swayed by people sponsoring a viewing to them. It really hits hard as one of the few films on this topic for a huge number of Americans who've lived as brats at one time or another, and the film makes a point that military life is almost a life of socialism in a way, with more forced integration earlier than the rest of the country, and many things supplied to you in the military (free housing, reduced cost of merchandise at a PX, etc.). When that's pointed out and yet some identify positively with that experience for them in many cases, I think many will see the value to our ways of thinking, even if that might not be what's drummed into them.

Tried to get that going with a showing or two earlier here in district 50, but surprisingly enough there aren't that many military families that live in this district that are registered locally. Many are registered in other states even though they might live here. We still might get a showing down here near Miramar where I live, but it's not as high on the agenda here to help GOTV. Maybe in other places it might help though.

Contact her though if you think it might help to have her help with a showing, as they are travelling around giving showings with the film not in wide distribution yet. You can get a DVD off of this site.

[joeunderdog]

20. kick

[Bozita]

21. CBC will air TWO new 9/11 documentaries on Sunday 9/10

Back to back.

Bless those good folks at the CBC. They aired "Why We Fight" on Wednesday evening.