On the streets of Jerusalem, Abby Martin interviews Jewish Israeli citizens from all walks of life. In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held views about Palestinians and their future in the region.

Israeli-born human rights activist and anti-Zionist, Ronnie Barkan, explains why these attitudes dominate Israeli society.

Unfortunately, the folks at PBS decided to interview Hillary "Superpredator" Clinton for this, but otherwise the doc seems to more or less tell it like it is.

available wherever you get y'alls torrents

HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

Documentary on a guy who was sanctioned by the government to kill in indonesia in the 1960's

Feels like contra-luddite propaganda

Anyone know where I can watch this? Channel 4 won't let me register 🙁

I have even less respect for the BBC after watching this.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20616665

@MaxBlumenthal

Our documentary shredding Israel's genocidal post-Oct 7 lies, Atrocity Inc., is now live

@TheGrayzoneNews

Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells The Destruction Of Gaza

Watch @MaxBlumenthal's new documentary takedown of the media deceptions and hoaxes Israel pushed to manufacture consent for its genocidal assault on Gaza

In collaboration w/ @propandco & @sutjhally

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Atrocity Inc.

A documentary by Max Blumenthal that takes us through the events of October 7th and the meticulously manufactured lies that came out of Israeli media. Atrocity Inc. takes a deep look at the mechanisms behind the propaganda created to serve Israeli goals.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1843320308654387634

Director interviews ordinary people and ask some basic questions in order of their age.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16794596

A musician's unusual, controversial hobby: trying to befriend members of KKK, many of whom never met a black person.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12168002

Defamation (Hebrew: השמצה‎; translit. Hashmatsa) is a 2009 documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Shamir. It examines antisemitism and, in particular, the way perceptions of antisemitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. A major focus of the film is the Anti-Defamation League. Defamation won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Photo Ark

Renowned photographer Joel Sartore's quest to document and save animals at risk of extinction.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7181320/?ref%5C_=fn%5C_al%5C_tt%5C_1

@documentaries
#photography
#animals
#EndangeredSpecies

A screenshot from the documentary:

George Church hopes to bring back the woolly mammoth.

From Human Nature (2019) documentary about gene editing.

@documentaries
#GeneEditing

Terra – a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Animals are the refugees we often forget. In this documentary by GoodPlanet and OMEGA, directors Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot examine the human relationship with other species on Earth. With a global population of 7 billion people, let’s have the courage to change the way we share our planet. Available on Netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pMScorWcyU

@documentaries
@animals
#animals
#evolution
#fungi
#ArthusBertrand
#Earth

I'm an enthusiast for public transit. Everyone buying two tons of steel and glass is simply not a sustainable transportation plan. It's helped bring us to the looming collapse of what's quaintly called 'western civilization'.

The National City Lines scandal is an aspect of this that most people are only peripherally aware of.

If you saw the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, you might remember that old-time Los Angeles had a fabulous streetcar system that went virtually everywhere in the metroplex. The movie's bad guys bought the streetcar company in order to shut it down, so people would need to buy cars and oil and build freeways instead. What Roger Rabbit forgot to say was, it's based on a true story.

In 1936, acting through proxy companies to keep things cloaked, General Motors established a new business called National City Lines (NCL). Also backed by Standard Oil, Mack Trucks, Phillips Petroleum, and Firestone Tire, NCL took control of numerous privately-owned transit systems all across America, simply to shut them down.

Clean, cheap, reliable streetcars were replaced with soot-belching city buses that run far less frequently and more slowly.

This documentary from PBS delves into the NCL scandal, and if any of the above is news to you, you should watch Taken for a Ride.

The filmmakers talk with old people (doubtless dead now) who were there as all this happened. Workers remember seeing their 'Rolls Royce' transit system obliterated, and an NCL exec admits that shutting the streetcars down was always the only plan.

NCL lost a lawsuit over it, so all this is factual, but there's also the argument that cars were becoming more and more popular anyway, so we would've lost America's streetcar infrastructure with or without GM's nefarious plot. I've been on the fence about that for long enough that the fenceposts are drawing blood out of my butt, but this line from fabulously bald former San Francisco Mayor Joe Alioto resonates:

"I cannot accept the argument that rapid-transit systems broke down because of their complete inefficiency to serve the public, because the experience of western Europe and Japan belies that argument. ...

"If it is true that the streetcar companies were breaking down of their own weight, why was it necessary for General Motors to join with Standard Oil and the [Firestone] tire company to go in and buy the systems and tear up the tracks?"

Other than that succinct quote and a new love for Alioto, I didn't get much from the film, but that's because of my head start — I've always gobbled up info on public transit. Heck, I've been aware of the NCL scandal since before Roger Rabbit.

Only half of the documentary is about NCL. After that, it's an overview of the disaster that followed — freeways and cars everywhere — which is also worth watching, and mourning over.