Enron: 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 4 months 2 weeks ago • 71,308 views • 1:49:31Knowledge
Updated: 1 decade 5 years 5 months 1 week ago
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This is a personal playlist of things I have found to be knowledgeable on the sift. Do realize that this is a personal selection, and as such may conflict with your preconceived ideas.
That is okay.
Here is the Google description: The British public were told that the new information technology, heralded by The Sun's move to Wapping, would bring a greater variety of ... all » newspapers and a more... continue reading
posted by Fedquip 1 decade 7 years 5 months ago • 1,928 views"Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging... continue reading
posted by Fedquip 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 6,024 viewsA 'video crash up' covering the political landscape of the 1960's, featuring mlk, jfk, rfk, malcolm x, ronald reagan, and barry goldwater. Very nicely done, great ending.
posted by deputydog 1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,226 views'Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage... continue reading
posted by johnald128 1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,251 viewsThe awful truth, spoken by the MGM lion.
posted by plastiquemonkey 1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 8,900 views • 5:18Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who... continue reading
posted by wingnut 1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,607 viewsThis is a good introductional video to basic sniping techniques by Lon Horiuchi who is a former U.S. FBI sniper who gained notoriety after his role in the Ruby Ridge shootings and the Waco Siege. The video... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,348 viewsJonathan Cook is a British journalist who has been living in Israel for the last 5 years. His unique perspective on the region forces him to ask questions that most other British journalists don't even... continue reading
posted by aidos 1 decade 7 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 1,688 views“What Barry Says: Animation to the Polemic” was written by Barry McNamara. He says a lot in a 2:40 minutes and presents his thoughts on what he calls “war corporatism.” The graphics are impressive.... continue reading
posted by dotdude 1 decade 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 8,015 views • 2:40An engrossing documentary about the unappreciated & invisible art of film editing. It shows how film editing came about, and explains all the groundbreaking ways it has changed the film watching experience.... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 8,915 viewsHoward Hunt, Richard Nixon, and Edward Bernays (creator of public relations, controlling the "mass mind") help out the United Fruit Company by convincing America the Guatemalan government is Communist.... continue reading
posted by plastiquemonkey 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,321 viewsMax Blumenthal from The Nation swims through the bile at this year's CPAC; it wasn't just Ann Coulter's comments that were ugly.
posted by theo47 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 1,720 viewsThe Up series consists of seven documentary films that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children were selected to represent the range... continue reading
posted by michie 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 2,259 viewsFast-paced musical documentary that visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous "Come September" speech. If there is one thing you will watch tonight, make this sift it, you will not... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,665 viewsThis made me think of Jon Ronson's 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'. A fantastic book about the U.S.A's non lethal weapons programmes. check out testing video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D0U7mfsa9Y
posted by michie 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,546 viewsIslam: Empire of Faith is the epic PBS documentary that charts the history of Islam from its beginnings in Mecca and Medina in the seventh century to the glory of the Ottoman Empire 1,000 years later.
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,728 viewsPhilosopher/Author, Sam Keen discusses his now famous interview with Ernest Becker on his death bed in March of 1974.
posted by pipp3355 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 456 viewsCarl Jung, psychoanalyst, sucessfully predicted the second world war. So they asked him about the possibility of a third...
posted by pipp3355 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 832 views