Bowling For Columbine

Posted in Politics, Society by - Nov 26, 2011
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Bowling For Columbine

Filmmaker, author, and political activist Michael Moore trains his satirical eye on America’s obsession with guns and violence in his third feature-length documentary, which gets its title from a pair of loosely related incidents.

On April 20, 1999, shortly before they began their infamous killing spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attended their favorite class, a no-credit bowling course held at a bowling alley near the school, the same bowling alley which would become the scene of a robbery and triple homicide two years later.

Michael Moore’s superb documentary (following in the footsteps of Roger …

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An Inconvenient Truth

Posted in Environment, Politics by - Nov 26, 2011
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An Inconvenient Truth

Former vice president Al Gore lends an appropriately sober face to the issue of global warming in this arresting documentary.

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim offers a fairly straightforward adaptation of Gore’s well-honed lecture, effectively enhancing it with elaborate graphics. Gore’s data is concise and accessible, thanks in large part to a state-of-the-art, slide-show presentation that includes computer-model charts, photos – including distressing before-and-after shots of shrunken glaciers and otherwise degraded land masses – archival footage, and even cartoons that dramatically illustrate the impact of global warming.

His alarming point: that man made pollution has wrought more drastic changes in a few decades than …

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9/11 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy

Posted in 9/11, Politics by - Nov 25, 2011
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9/11 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy

There is an abundance of scientific and forensic evidence to support alternative theories, yet the BBC and other mainstream news corporations have continued to dismiss this information as conspiracy theory.

‘The Conspiracy Files’ and the BBC in general have failed to objectively present the detail of this evidence.

9/11 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy – new documentary by Adrian Connock and David Shayler about the BBC’s selective and distorted 9/11 coverage.

With particular reference to the Conspiracy Files programme aired on BBC Two on February 18th 2007.

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The Most Hated Family In America

Posted in Religion by - Nov 25, 2011
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The Most Hated Family In America

The Most Hated Family in America is a TV documentary written and presented by the BBC’s Louis Theroux about the family at the heart of the Westboro Baptist Church. At the heart of the documentary is the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the website GodHatesFags.com, and GodHatesAmerica.com, and other websites expressing condemnation of LGBT, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Sweden, Ireland, Canada, The Netherlands, and other groups.

The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, and classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has achieved national …

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