Documentaries

Mozambique: Not Then But Now

July 12, 2010
Mozambique: Not Then But Now

I first knew Mozambique through close contact in Dar es Salaam with FRELIMO in the early and difficult years – the 1960s and the first-half of 1970s – of its armed liberation struggle. Then Mozambique was seeking both to unite itself and to find political and military purchase against an intransigent and arrogant Portuguese...
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Global Financial Collapse: Experience from Argentina

May 28, 2009
Global Financial Collapse: Experience from Argentina

In 1900, Argentina was one of the richest, most promising countries in the world. Just 100 years later it was, well…Argentina. A beautiful, cultured, wonderful place that’s such an economic basket case that many of its promising young people emigrate to Mexico to find work and opportunities. What happened to this country so rich...
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Rehab for Terrorists?

May 23, 2009
Rehab for Terrorists?

Should terrorists be treated with open arms and an open heart? Robert Lacey, best-selling author and journalist investigates the surprising success of Saudi Arabia’s approach to dealing with terrorists and extremists – without torture or water-boarding. Given extraordinary access to the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry and its practices, Lacey visits terrorist rehabilitation camps that...
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Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis

May 12, 2009
Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook This is a six-part professional-quality video that is over two hours in length. Each part consists of a lecture by Richard C. Cook on the economic crisis and its solution. This is the most in-depth and complete critique of our debt-based monetary...
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Fiat Empire: Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution

May 6, 2009
Fiat Empire: Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution

Are you aware that the U.S. Constitution states that only Congress has the authority to create money; this money must be backed by gold and silver; and “bills of credit,” also known as Federal Reserve Notes, are illegal under Article I? Are you aware that our government is violating all of these stipulations at...
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In Debt We Trust: America Before The Bubble Bursts

May 5, 2009
In Debt We Trust: America Before The Bubble Bursts

Emmy-winning journalist Danny Schechter investigates America’s mounting debt crisis in this latest hard-hitting expose. The film reveals the unknown cabal of credit card companies, lobbyists, media conglomerates and the Bush administration itself who have colluded to deregulate the lending industry ensuring that a culture of credit dependency can flourish.
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Money as Debt : What money is and how it is created?

May 5, 2009
Money as Debt : What money is and how it is created?

Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. In many nations debt is becoming a serious problem, with a huge proportion of people living in a world of loans and credit cards, building up unmanageable debts....
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How the Gold Market is manipulated by Central Banks

May 3, 2009
How the Gold Market is manipulated by Central Banks

The value of gold is kept low to keep the value of the dollar high. Traditionally the value of a currency is measured in gold. Current economic policy (Monetarism) advices to infuse new money into the economy to stimulate economic growth. For the last few years money growth in the US has been over...
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The Capitalist Conspiracy: An Inside view of International Banking

May 3, 2009
The Capitalist Conspiracy: An Inside view of International Banking

The Capitalist Conspiracy: An Inside view of International Banking Written and narrated by G. Edward Griffin (1960′s) An old film, made sometime in the 60′s. This is an adaptation of a documentary filmstrip tracing the history of a small group of people who control the money systems of the world. It shows how this...
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The Money Masters

May 3, 2009
The Money Masters

The Money Masters is a documentary, produced by Patrick S. J. Carmack and directed and narrated by William T. Still. It discusses the concepts of money, debt, and taxes, and describes their development from biblical times onward. It covers the history of fractional-reserve banking, central banking, monetary policy, the bond system, and the Federal...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup)

May 3, 2009
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup) is a 2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. A television crew from Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ happened to be recording a documentary about Chávez during the events of April 11, 2002. Shifting focus,...
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‘Iraq isn’t a war about oil’. The bottom line. ‘It is about oil’.

May 2, 2009
‘Iraq isn’t a war about oil’. The bottom line. ‘It is about oil’.

Bill Moyers on Big Oil and Iraq “Oh no, they told us, Iraq isn’t a war about oil. That’s cynical and simplistic, they said. It’s about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from WMD. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire,...
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