Three years of fighting in Darfur have destroyed hundreds of villages, displaced 2.2 million and led to more than 400,000 deaths. President ... all » Bush has accused the government of Sudan of genocide,... continue reading
posted by James Roe 1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 2,553 viewsPolitics & History
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A playlist for all interesting political or historical Sifts...
An award winning fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, investigating the unsolved assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. Combining real archival footage with a credible... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,502 viewsPolitical philosopher and visionary, husband and father, dynamic orator and militant minister. In his lifetime, Malcolm X was many men. Born Malcolm Little, he later became "Detroit Red" and "New York... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 8,694 views • 2:18:38This documentary describes the glorious rule of Muslim Moors in what is now Spain. A forgotten history is remembered.
posted by wildmanBill 1 decade 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,745 viewsRageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning. Rageh travels across medieval Muslim Europe to... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 6,447 views'The Trap - What Happened To Our Dream Of Freedom?' is a new documentary by the BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis. It looks at how models of human behaviour shaped by Cold War logic have come to control... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 4,369 views • 59:36"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 5,106 viewsThis is the film by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick. An introduction to the life, work and ideas of Noam Chomsky that takes in a wide variety of subjects to show how the media chooses what and how much... continue reading
posted by colinr 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 3,699 viewsA unique combination of politics, hip-hop, and animation, courtesy of the great Public Enemy, filmmaker Memo Salazar, and indie production company the Film Shack.
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 2,838 viewsDescribing himself as a "libertarian anarchist", Mark Thomas is a hilarious comedian and sharp political activist in one - as shown by him holding the Guiness World Record for Most Number of Political... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 751 viewsA fantastic and fascinating documentary by Errol Morris, where former defense secretary Robert McNamara delivers an account of his political life in the form of a confession, at times weeping. A perfect... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 9,181 viewsEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a study of one of the largest... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 6 months ago • 71,312 views • 1:49:31