What Movie Should We Watch This Week?

31  2012-08-06 by highlady420

37 comments

I love the list being included in the current polling. Excellent step forward, lady. :)

Thanks!

Where is the polling?

This post (above), is it. People make recommendations in comments (one recommendation per comment) and vote on the recommendations.

Thanks for answering that!

Yep Homegrown Terran covered it. We nominate in the comments and the winner is the comment with the most points/votes when I close voting on Wednesday.

Human Resources

Human Resources explores the rise of mechanistic philosphy and the exploitation of human beings under modern hierarhical systems. Topics Include: behaviorism, scientific management, work-place democracy, schooling, frustration-aggression hypothesis and human experimentation.

the power principle

"The film sees the United States engaged in a Third World War, a counter-revolutionary conflict against the indigenous insurgent peoples of the post-colonial Third World (first under the pretext of a ideological struggle against their Cold War Soviet bloc rival, and now as the ubiquitous War on Terror)."

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon is a 2001 documentary film written, produced and directed by Nashville, Tennessee-based filmmaker Bart Winfield Sibrel. Sibrel is a critic of the United States space program and proponent of the conspiracy theory that the six Apollo lunar landing missions between 1969 and 1972 were elaborate hoaxes perpetrated by the federal government and the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA).

That was the only youtube link I could find because youtube constantly takes this documentary down. Here is a alternate link.

Even if you don't think there was anything suspicious about the moon landings, this film is still really good to watch, especially considering we just touch down a rover on Mars.

I... I don't know what to believe anymore... my hopes and dreams, destroyed...

Waking Life

Sorry, no link atm

The International looks like it might be worth a look.

The ultimate history lesson.

This was the very first movie of the week that we watched. It's great and worth getting through. Taylor gives you lots of avenues for further research.

The Shining, from your favorite freedom torrent tracker and the analysis on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEq6IjgR04 . It's the story of Apollo 11 hoax.

Like last week, I propose one of the evidence of revision documentaries. http://archive.org/details/Evidence_of_Revision_1

Alternative link to part 1 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=666048701355447870

I have seen this and I started watching it again when you posted it last week. It does a good job of covering the Kennedy assassinations.

Yes, I also watched them more than once. Since large parts are without a narrator, it takes you to a journey, during which to have to look up a lot of information for yourself.

WHY WE FIGHT

Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its involvement in the wars led by the United States during the last fifty years, and in particular in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The film alleges that in every decade since World War II, the American public has been told a lie to bring it into war to fuel the military-economic machine, which in turn maintains American dominance in the world. It includes interviews with John McCain, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Gore Vidal and Joseph Cirincione. The film also incorporates the stories of a Vietnam War veteran whose son died in the September 11, 2001 attacks and then had his son's name written on a bomb dropped on Iraq; a 23-year old New York man who enlists in the United States Army citing his financial troubles after his only family member died; and a former Vietnamese refugee who now develops explosives for the American military.

A Question of Guilt: The Massacre at Port Arthur will definilty open your eyes to the way that governments are capable of disarming a willing populace.

It is shameful to think the free armed Australian citizens willingly turned in their firearms with zero resistance. What cowards.

Now they are unarmed subjects.

R.I.P. Australia. Live on your knees like servants and slaves.

Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

Yes it's quite good, we watched it a couple weeks ago.

We should watch. "Got the facts on milk?" Also called "the milk documentary". It's about how the milk industry misleads people into believing it is healthier than it really is.

Saved 4 later

Weather Underground - trailer http://vimeo.com/10394815

movie - The Weather Underground

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030801/REVIEWS/308010306/1023

I still have my membership card in Students for a Democratic Society, signed by Tom Hayden, who handed it to me at a National Student Congress in 1963, and tucked the $1 membership fee in the pocket of his flannel shirt. SDS in those days was still the "Student Department of the League for Industrial Democracy," an old-line left-labor group headed by Norman Thomas, whose statement on the back of the card made it clear the organization was nonviolent and anti-communist. Within a few years, SDS would be captured by a far-left faction which became the Weather Underground, the most violent protest group in modern American history. The new documentary "The Weather Underground" chronicles those early days of idealism, and their transition into a period when American society seemed for an instant on the point of revolution.

The Weathermen orchestrated a string of bombings, called for the "Days of Rage" in Chicago, were in a vanguard of a more widespread anti-war movement that saw National Guard troops on the campuses, the Pentagon under siege by protesters including hippies who vowed to levitate it, and the infamous Chicago 7 trial. Whether the protest movement hastened the end of the Vietnam War is hard to say, but it is likely that Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run for re-election was influenced by the climate it helped to create. One crucial moment documented in this film is when SDS, with 100,000 members an important force among American young people, was essentially hijacked at its 1969 national convention in Chicago by the more radical Weather faction.

"Institutional piracy," Todd Gitlin called it; one of the founders of SDS and later the author of a landmark book about the student left, he watched in dismay as the Weather faction advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Their program of terrorist bombings, he said, "was essentially mass murder." When a innocent person was killed in one of its early bombings, the group however decided that was "a terrible error," and took care that nobody was injured in a long series of later bombings, including one at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. But a Greenwich Village townhouse used by the Weathermen as a bomb factory was destroyed in an accidental explosion that killed three bombmakers.

The Weathermen tactics were "Custeristic," Black Panther leader Fred Hampton sardonically observed at the time. When the Weathermen called for Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969, he said they were "taking people into a situation where they can be massacred." He was right, but he was himself soon massacred, in a still-controversial shooting that Chicago law enforcement officials described as a shoot-out but which physical evidence indicated was an assassination. (After the Tribune cited "bullet holes" proving Hampton had fired back, a Sun-Times team ran photographs revealing the holes to be nailheads.) The documentarians, Sam Green and Bill Siegel, are too young to remember this period personally--and, indeed, many viewers of the film may discover for the first time how ferociously the war at home was fought. The film interviews surviving players in the drama, including Bernadette Dohrn, her husband Bill Ayers, Naomi Jaffe, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert, Brian Flanagan and Gitlin. Dohrn, today the head of a program for juvenile justice at Northwestern University, still burns with the fire of her early idealism, as do Ayers and Jaffe, and you can hear in the voice of Gilbert (serving a life sentence for his involvement in a fatal robbery of a Brinks truck), the pain he felt because his country was committing what he considered murder in Vietnam.

Ironically, many charges against the Weathermen had to be dropped because the FBI had violated the law with its "Cointelpro," a secret agency to discredit the left. After the war ended and the Weatherman movement faded away, Dohrn and Ayers lived in hiding for several years with their children--an existence some say inspired the 1988 movie "Running on Empty." Eventually they turned themselves in, and today are leading productive, unrepentant lives.

I see Dohrn at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado, where she is as angry about the unnecessary criminalization of poor (often non-white) American young people as she was then about the war. She has, you must observe, the courage of her convictions.

Celestial

What In The World Are They Spraying? http://metalogicon.com/documentaries/#whatspray

You nominated a bunch, that's great! The voting and nominations for this week are over, that's what the Update was. However, I'll post another thread on Monday for next week's voting and nominations, please come back and nominate these movies or others on that thread.

Why In The World Are They Spraying? http://metalogicon.com/documentaries/#whyspray

HIV = AIDS, Fact or Fraud? http://metalogicon.com/documentaries/#aids

9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out http://metalogicon.com/documentaries/#expertsspeakout

This is an interview of William Pawelec.

Short description

William (Bill) Pawelec had a long career working on top secret security projects around the world. In 2000, he shared some of those secrets in a video interview for Dr. Steven Greer’s “Disclosure Project.” There was one stipulation; the video could not be released until after Pawelec’s death.

Since we are all on /r/conspiracy here, let me propose one to you. This bull crap is made to make you believe that you are powerless to make some waves.

Last week to get in a good watch of Cars 2 while it still seems like an innocent kids movie.