Fahrenheit 11/9
Fahrenheit 11/9 provides a comical but horrifying look into the 2016 US Presidential election. Directed by Michael Moore, it serves as a loose sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11 and provides a critical look at the Trump Presidency. Th...
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Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood
In 1968, English politician Enoch Powell delivered a controversial speech known as Rivers of Blood, in which he predicted that the UK’s immigration policy would result in violence on the streets of Britain. It is among...
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing follows all-female American band the Dixie Chicks in the aftermath of their political criticism of the Iraq War and then President Bush during their 2003 London concert. The documentary opens by...
Defamation
In his exploration of modern Israeli life, filmmaker Yoav Shamir travels the world in the hunt for the most recent manifestations of anti-Semitism, and comes up with some startling answers as highlighted in his documentary De...
Death by China
Death by China examines the steadily emerging power and global ambitions of China. It is based on a book of the same name that is critical of the country’s abusive trade policies, currency manipulation, and deadly consumer pr...
Citizenfour
Citizenfour uncovers the secret and illegal practices of the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programme using classified documents revealed by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. It aims to shed light on the i...
Can’t Get You Out of My Head
Inspired by the division between political liberals and populists, filmmaker Adam Curtis demonstrates how all factions in the 21st century have lost the ability to establish a practical vision for the future. Can’t Get...
Boer Separatists
Apartheid, or the South African system of segregation and discrimination based on race, officially came to an end on 27 April, 1994. For some, however, apartheid was a relic of a better time and a system that should be reinst...
Bitter Lake
Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis advocates a position that Western governments and media have simplified the story of militant Islam down to an argument of good versus evil. It is an examination of why the explanations offered to t...
Bannon’s War
Bannon’s War goes behind the scenes of the Trump White House to look at the confrontational style and mission of former chief strategist Stephen Bannon. Using archived footage from Bannon, former President Jimmy Carter...
Apartheid Did Not Die
Apartheid Did Not Die makes the case that many of the facets of apartheid remain even after the end of the South Africa’s minority rule and the subsequent presidency of revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela. John Pilger r...
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein tells the story of controversial political scientist Norman Finkelstein, the son of holocaust survivors who is well known for his polarising views on Jewish-American politica...