FOLLOWING THE MONEY TO AND FROM WAR
By filmmaker Eugene (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) Jarecki. Featuring John McCain, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, Why We Fight explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Eisenhower warned, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. Click here to reference!
By Robert Greenwald. The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of war and reconstruction profiteering in Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq (Blackwater, Halliburton/KBR, CACI and Titan) and the decision makers who allow them to do so. Click here to reference!
 By Charles Ferguson. NY Times: "Offers an emphatic, well-supported answer to a question that has already begun to be mooted on television talk shows and in journals of opinion: Who lost Iraq? On Mr. Ferguson’s short list are Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and L. Paul Bremer III." LA Times: "As lucid as it is level-headed, the film has a clear thematic focus -- what went wrong in Iraq -- and it identifies the catastrophic turning points with steely precision and a wealth of context. The result, narrated in a grave monotone by Campbell Scott, is a catalog of horrors so absurd and relentless it verges on farce, or Greek tragedy." The question never asked, however, is whether all these uniformly disastrous decisions did not admirably serve another purpose: ensuring that Iraq would always need our occupation and the enraged Muslim world would birth the perpetual enemy the militant corporatists needed to justify endless war. Click here to reference!
MEDIA MALFUNCTION
Orwell Rolls in his Grave By Robert Kane Pappas. "A marvel of passionate succinctness, this documentary critically examines the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy and asks, "Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..." Click here to reference!
Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. Click here to reference!
ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION
 Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections One of the finest and most uplifting (yes, uplifting) Election Integrity documentaries to date by Nashville filmmaker David Earnhardt. The film features segments on and original interviews with citizen heroes of all sorts, including election whistleblowers Stephen Heller and Clint Curtis, Election Reformer champions such as the heroic Emery County, Utah, (and now former) Registrar of Voters, Bruce Funk, Rep. John Conyers, and many many more of the patriots taking action in the EI movement.Click here for website and trailer!
INSPIRING PRECEDENTS
Bringing Down a Dictator documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000, not by force of arms, as many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience. Milosevic was strengthened by patriotic fervor when NATO bombed Yugoslavia in early 1999, but a few months later, a student movement named Otpor! ("Resistance" in Serbian) launched a surprising offensive. Their weapons were rock concerts and ridicule, the internet and email, spray-painted slogans and a willingness to be arrested. Otpor students became the shock troops in an army of human rights, pro-democracy, anti-war, women's groups, and opposition political parties. Their slogan: "He's Finished!" Click here to reference!
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