Goodnight And Good Luck takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America, chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Murrow, his news team and, indeed, CBS itself made a defiant and impassioned stand against McCarthy's increasingly delusional, corrupt and fear-fueled rants and this, George Clooney's second turn in the director's chair, is a beautifully suc
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JOHN PILGER DOCUMENTARIES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (1979)
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'Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia', 'Nicaragua - A Nation's Right to Survive', 'Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War', 'Flying the Flag - Arming the World'.
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JOHN PILGER DOCUMENTARIES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (1979)
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'Vietnam - The Quiet Mutiny' (1971), 'Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy' (1994), 'Inside Burma - Land of Fear', 'Welcome to Australia'.
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JOHN PILGER DOCUMENTARIES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (2003)
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'Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq' (2000), 'Palestine is still the Issue' (2002), 'Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror' (2003)
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JOHN PILGER DOCUMENTARIES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (2004)
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'Stealing a Nation' (2004), 'John Pilger at the Guardian Hay Festival' (2006)
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MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA (1992)
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This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States' populace. Travelling with Chomsky through Canada, Japan, Europe and across the USA, the documentary bears witness to a tireless man informing, challenging, and being confronted by the public and the press. Fascinating, distu
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MANUFACTURING DISSENT: UNCOVERING MICHAEL MOORE (2007)
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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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OUTFOXED (2004)
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‘Fast, Fair and Balanced'. So the FOX News credo goes. This compelling (if slightly overcooked) documentary about the systematic bias inherent in Murdoch's Neo-Conservative news channel is a must see to anyone with a passing interest in how They take Their news over There. From explaining how FOX's misinformation led to a massive percentage of its viewers believing there was a proven link between Iraq and Al Quaeda to a sensational interview with the belligerent Bill O'Reilly chastising the son
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REDS (1982)
Certification15 Our Rating
The film is based on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World. The film works both as a history of the American left and as an epic romance, between Reed and Louise Bryant, an important feminist and radical journalist in her own right. After involvement with labour and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the 1917 October Revolution and, inspired, return to the US, hoping to
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SALVADOR (1986)
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A totally brilliant movie. A down on his luck photo-journalist and his 'out for kicks' buddy head down to El Salvador to earn some money and have a good time. They soon find themselves caught-up in a bloody civil war. Violent, compelling and politicaly right-on. The best thriller for years! See it.
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