It's the economy, stupid. It was true in 1992, but the economy has never been more front and center in American's minds than it is now. The extraordinary $700 billion financial rescue plan that President Bush signed into law on October 3rd is at best only the start of a journey to an unknown destination. For some perspective, watch these wide-ranging documentaries that tackle essential elements of our economic crisis, from a look at our nation's addiction to debt, to the struggles of living paycheck to paycheck--from the unbridled corruption on Wall Street, to the environmental impact of profits-first industrial policies.
A divorced mother of two returns to her home and children in Bolivia after 15 years of struggling for a better life in Israel, only to find her family members have become strangers. A WORKING MOM is a story that demonstrates the extremes that individuals will go to in order to save their families--sometimes saving and losing them in the same act.
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Posted 07/08/09 by Jason F.
Sarah Palin, the former Vice Presidential candidate has been making news since the election, most of it not really noteworthy. However, now there’s some Sarah Palin news that’s at least worth a little attention. She has announced that she will resign her post as Governor of Alaska. There hasn’t been a reason given specifically as to why she has resigned the post as Alaska Governor, but it’s rumored that she’s doing it to concentrate on being the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican Candidate, and she’s probably also looking into some instant payday loans for campaign funding. Sarah Palin is loved by some, detested and ridiculed by others, and secured loans for a 2012 Presidential run might not be ill spent.
AUTUMN’S EYES is a compelling documentary about a 3-year-old girl who tries to navigate through the harsh reality of severe poverty, her teenage mother’s incarceration and looming foster care. Charming, obedient, and unable to fully comprehend the severity of her environment, Autumn is shielded from her own reality. Caught between the innocence of childhood and the growing necessity to be an adult, she represents hope to a family of women caught in the cyclical web of abuse, incarceration and poverty. AUTUMN’S EYES captures this impressionable time in this child’s life, and ask the greater question: is there truly hope for a child growing up in these circumstances? Through the perspective of a little girl, AUTUMN’S EYES explores this perilous state of hope.
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Posted 11/04/09 by Charrie
God bless this family in their time of need, the Grandma is right God will not put no more on you than you can bare his will is for you to keep teaching that baby so that she may break this cycle,please continue to feed her mind about how important an education is so she maybe to own her own apple farm one day dreams do come true when you work hard for them ,I was crying as I watched this story your family is amazing please express to your son that selling drugs is not the answer a education is but I do understand he is forced to be the man of the family. Keep your head up to the sky cause God hears your cry.
In America’s earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation. ‘In Debt We Trust’ is the latest film from Danny Schechter, “The News Dissector,” director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media’s role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer’s new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls “Financialization"--the “powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex.” While many Americans may be “maxing out” on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands. And with frightening consequences.
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Posted 10/28/09 by darwind
The amazing thing is this was made in 2006.
The financial crash we see today has all to do with
a crisis of credit. Credit or lack of funds has all to do
with the destruction of the middle class in America. People
are taking equity out of there homes because they are clinging to the decadence of the old America. Watch the I.O.U.S.A documentary on you tube for the full story.
“Skid Row” is a 50-square block area in downtown Los Angeles where an average of 90,000 homeless and transient people live on any given night. More than just a place - it’s a way of life, a mind set, the last resort for those who have given up on society and, in many cases, themselves. In the feature documentary SKID ROW, Pras Michel - one third of the successful hip-hop band The Fugees - lives on the streets of Skid Row for nine straight days and nights as a homeless person. The entire time he and his crew are undercover, using surveillance cameras. His journey is a difficult one, riddled with hunger, exposure to the elements, criminals, drugs and danger. It is also life-changing...as Pras learns not only how to fend for himself, but discovers the dark, very human and, at times, humorous underbelly of Los Angeles.
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Posted 11/05/09 by ANGELICQUE
Just shows you how “invisible” this situation is to those who could actually make a difference. Needs to be done by someone who actually has a phone to make calls for possible change. I say WOW… Takes a lot of heart to trade a five star hotel for a street and a tent… Just to bring awareness? Wow
In this first of its kind “dramatic-documentary-musical,” essayist Lewis Lapham and an all-star cast (including Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Altman, James Baker and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.) take two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power. This “astonishing”, “coruscating” satire poses the question: Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?
Appearing on the screen are a range of leaders and commentators from across the political spectrum, among them: the late Robert B. Altman, James A. Baker III, Bill Bradley, Harold Brown, Hodding Carter III, William T. Coleman, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Barbara Ehrenreich, Vartan Gregorian, Doug Henwood, Mike Medavoy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., John Perkins, (a.k.a., the economic hit-man) Samuel Peabody, Pete Seeger, Lawrence H. Summers, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., William Howard Taft IV, the late Kurt Vonnegut and Howard Zinn.
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Posted 10/29/09 by Amber Case
Great film. Very nice. Great to watch while reading C. Wright Mill’s The Ruling Class.
I love how all of the ads targeted the wrong demographic.
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? follows Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir as they go on a cross-county mission to save the Holidays from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! The Shopocalypse is upon us...Who will be Saved?
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Posted 10/31/09 by Emily
I love how this opens on this website with an add for Walmart.