As he did with the occupation of Iraq in 'No End in Sight' Charles Ferguson shines a light on the global financial crisis. Accompanied by narration from Matt Damon and beginning and ending in Iceland, a flourishing country that thought they’d give American-style banking a try, Ferguson looks at the spectacular rise and cataclysmic fall of deregulation in the United States. A superb, riveting, depressing and enraging peak under the covers of global finance that leaves you with the un-equivocal re
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JESUS CAMP (2006)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Jesus Camp is both about the tactics of the Evangelical Christian right and how impressionable young minds can be. We follow Levi, Rachel, Tory and other children in a first-ever look at a Christian fundmentalist summer camp, in North Dakota, an intense training ground that recruits underage kids to become an active part of America's political future. There's no dialectics here, no promotion of free thought, and tots as young as six are brainwashed to become dedicated soldiers in God's army and
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MANUFACTURING DISSENT: UNCOVERING MICHAEL MOORE (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This is a very good deconstruction of the political polemicist Michael Moore, a man who's made a lot of money out of feeding liberals entertainment and whose cupboard rattles with skeletons. The film goes into a number of details of gross inaccuracies, and betrayals of the people he pertains to support, in order to further his career. In particular we learn about lies told in 'Roger and Me', eg about the supposed apathy of the locals and about being unable to talk to Roger. We hear about the len
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ROGER AND ME (1990)
Certification15 Our Rating
A highly personalised documentary account of one filmmaker's frustrated attempts to interview the Chairman of General Motors when he closed down 35,000 jobs in his hometown. Instead he focuses on the drastic and wry effects on the town. The result is incisive, witty, and (surprisingly) very, very funny. A Must!
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THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK (2007)
CertificationE Our Rating
The Devil Came On Horseback exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former US Marine Captain Brian Steidle. His is an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction
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THE LEADER HIS DRIVER AND THE DRIVER'S WIFE (1991)
CertificationE Our Rating
Fascinating account of Nick Broomfield's attempts to make a film about South African neo-Nazi party leader Eugene Terreblanche. Broomfield's relentless pursuit of this supremely arrogant scumbag makes for viewing which is at turns hilarious, hair-raising and deeply disturbing. Our deepest thanks to Nick Broomfield for giving us one of his spare copies - if you are ever in this neck of the woods we owe you a drink (The Staff).
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WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? (2006)
CertificationPG Our Rating
General Motors EV-1 electric car was a revelation, a non-fossil fuel form of transport that offered a genuine alternative to the gasoline guzzlers that choke America's roads. So why were they all sent to the knackers' yard? 'Who Killed The Electric Car?' is a fascinating, sad and scarily predictable tale of the oil industry's determination to keep profits up regardless of the short and long term global consequences.
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