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Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
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The life and times of Howard Zinn: the historian, activist, and author of several classics including "A Peoples History of the United States". Archival footage, and commentary by friend, colleagues and Zinn himself.
This rousing documentary uses Howard Zinn's life to tell the ...
Marjoe
Marjoe is a 1972 American documentary film produced and directed by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan about the life of evangelistMarjoe Gortner. It won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Marjoe was a precocious child preacher with extraordinary talents, who was immensely popular in the American South. His parents earned...
The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain
The week before Kurt Cobain was found dead from a single gunshot, he went missing. His whereabouts for that week has remained a mystery until now. But for the first time, the story of what happened to him can now be told, using the testimony of people who knew him, the witnesses who saw him in that last week and the ordinary people who found themse...
I Knew Bin Laden
On May 2, 2011, Barack Obama, the US president, announced that Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, was shot dead in a raid by US special forces on a compound about 60km north of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. The death of bin Laden ends a ten-year manhunt for the world’s most wanted man.
Before his death, the last known sighting of bin Laden...
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Produced for the PBS series American Experience, Stanley Nelson’sJonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples’ Temple, written by his frequent collaborator Marcia Smith, examines the infamous religious cult formed by Jim Jones and the events that led to the group’s horrifying mass suicide in 1978. The film traces Jones’ history from his un...
The World’s Greatest Money Maker: Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is the greatest investor of all time. His decisions about buying shares and companies have beaten the stock market year after year and made him the richest person in the world – thought to be worth 37 billion dollars.
Yet Buffett lives modestly in his native Oma...
Skinheads USA: Soldiers of the Race War
This documentary takes you inside to an actual neo-Nazi Skinhead organization for a extended look at the methods and mentality that fuel the White Power youth movement in America. Focusing on the Alabama-based Aryan National Front and its leader, Bill Riccio, this special features behind-the-scenes footage of group members in their rural commune, a...
