Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Documentary’
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WW I: Not What Caused it, but What It Was Like
07 Jun 2017The interest of readers in World War I seems to divide into three main categories: high-level diplomatic threats, promises and…
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The Music of Strangers — Bringing Down the Walls
13 Aug 2016You don’t want to miss seeing, and hearing, The Music of Strangers, a fresh breath of air in this season…
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Where to Invade Next – Michael Moore
09 Mar 2016Despite the contentious nature of his movies Michael Moore has never been a mean or belligerent film-maker. He has seemed…
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1913: Seeds of Conflict in Palestine
10 Aug 20151913: Seeds of Conflict, a 2014 PBS distributed documentary by Ben Loeterman, is a fine, short introduction to the little…
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Salt of the Earth: Sabastião Salgado Looks At Worlds in Trouble and One of Healing
05 May 2015Sebastião Salgado’s photography is among the most stunning in the history of the camera. Many talented and fully engaged witnesses with cameras…
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Restrepo — Documenting Soldiers In A War
15 Apr 2015Hand-held verisimo video has been much in the news lately, bringing, at long last a change in perception about the reality…
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The Prison of Belief
27 Mar 2015“Just because you believe it doesn’t make it true,” reads a bumper sticker I’ve recently seen. It’s not a popular…
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Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One
27 Nov 2014History written in text books is one thing, (hi)stories re-told from father to son, down the line of tribes and…
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Particle Fever – A Movie to See
20 Aug 2014Stepping completely away from WW I (see all the postings below) or other day-to-day concerns, I spent a wonderful 90…
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H2 Worker – Legal Immigrants and Illegal Employers
05 May 2014Update below. As a one-time volunteer for the United Farm Workers (AFL-CIO) the human cost of industrialized field labor has…
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Hidden Battles: War Trauma Across Cultures
10 Feb 2014Hidden Battles is an accomplished documentary bringing us 5 war participants-as-fighters and the years that have followed them: Israeli soldier,…
