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Bloody Cartoons

Bloody Cartoons is a documentary about how and why 12 drawings in a Danish provincial paper could whirl a small country into a confrontation with Muslims all over the world. He asks whether respect for Islam combined with the heated response to the cartoons is now leading us towards self-censorship. How tolerant should we be, he wonders, of the intolerant. And what limits should there be, if any, to freedom of speech in a democracy.

The director films in Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Qatar, France, Turkey and Denmark, talking to some of the people that played key roles during the cartoon crisis.

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FOR GOD, TSAR AND THE FATHERLAND

Mikhail Morozov is a Russian patriot, good Christian and successful businessman. He owns Durakovo - the "Village of Fools" - 100 km southwest of Moscow. People come here from all over Russia to learn how to live and become 'true' Russians. When they join the Village of Fools, the new residents abandon all their former rights and agree to obey Mikhail Morozov's strict rules. "What we have here is a society that respects the vertical of power, this is what our country needs most of all," says Morozov quoting his idol President Putin. The whole spectrum of power - political, spiritual and administrative "is represented in the village and people gather for semi-private meetings with Morozov. They discuss the future of Russia, their ambitions and their goals. For God, Tsar and the Fatherland shows what drives Russian patriotism today and why these citizens are against democracy.

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IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA

After fourteen years of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On January 16, 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was inaugurated President, following a hotly contested election which she won with the overwhelming support of women across Liberia. She is the first elected female head of state in Africa. Since taking office she has appointed other extraordinary women to leadership positions in all areas of government, including the Police Chief and the ministers of Justice, Commerce and Finance.

Can the first female Liberian president, backed by other powerful women, bring sustainable democracy and peace to such a devastated country?

Iron Ladies of Liberia gives behind-the-scenes access to President Sirleaf's first year in government, providing a unique insight into the workings of a newly elected African cabinet.

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Taxi to the Dark Side

Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the "war on terror". Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was considered an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic village. So when he was detained by the U.S military one afternoon, after picking up three passengers, denizens wondered why this man was randomly chosen to be held in prison, and, especially, without trial? Five days after his arrest Dilawar died in his Bagram prison cell. His death came within a week of another death of a detainee at Bagram. The conclusion, with autopsy evidence, was that the former taxi driver and the detainee who passed away before him, had died due to sustained injuries inflicted at the prison by U.S. soldiers. The documentary, by award-winning producer Alex Gibney, carefully develops the last weeks of Dilawar's life and shows how decisions taken at the pinnacle of power in the Bush Administration led directly to Dilawar's brutal death. The film documents how Rumsfeld, together with the White House legal team, were able to convince Congress to approve the use of torture against prisoners of war. Taxi to the Dark Side is the definitive exploration of the introduction of torture as an interrogation technique in U.S. facilities, and the role played by key figures of the Bush Administration in the process.


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And3h
Thanks mark, good doc.
mark8
Taxi to the Dark Side added
stealthy
QUOTE(mark8 @ Feb 18 2008, 02:39 PM) *
Taxi to the Dark Side added


Taxi to the Dark Side is a dead link.

Can you re-up please.
stoner
QUOTE(smarrie @ Feb 29 2008, 10:16 PM) *

this is part of the "why democracy?"-series

merged
stealthy
QUOTE(smarrie @ Feb 29 2008, 11:16 PM) *


Thanks
Taktic
adding fresh google link for taxi to the dark side. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2987535946644608661
mark8
bluepanic
"An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002."

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=...Side+&hl=en
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An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.S. policy toward suspects in the war on terror. Soldiers, their attorneys, one released detainee, U.S. Attorney John Yoo, news footage and photos tell a story of abuse at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. From Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzalez came unwritten orders to use any means necessary. The CIA and soldiers with little training used sleep deprivation, sexual assault, stress positions, waterboarding, dogs and other terror tactics to seek information from detainees. Many speakers lament the loss of American ideals in pursuit of security.






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kuys
Why is this getting a 1 star rating?

Do people really not care that an innocent man was falsely accused then tortured to death by the US government?

Lack of empathy is the definition of a psychopath.
SYLver
Why is this getting a 1 star rating?

The truth hurts? unsure.gif
smarrie
QUOTE(SYLver @ May 27 2009, 11:26 AM) *
Why is this getting a 1 star rating?

The truth hurts? unsure.gif

American network news ('home home on the range where never is heard a discouraging [anti-corporate] word') have just completed a week long 'booga-booga' propaganda counter campaign against the recent reality of just who "the worst of the worst" were...innocent. NBC aka GE (profits diversified in the business of war and homeland security) were the most outspoken. They all featured Dick Cheney as their shining star, for his take on the 'absolute' truth, aka deceit. Cheney is currently feeling the heat from his long list of "absolutely, absolutely" absolutes: 'Gitmo detainees revealed Iraq-al Qaida link'
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestne...ex.php?id=13904

Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café' (exposing the dark underbelly of ideology) captures the present dilemma with residual clarity: 'There is a significance to our sad and sorry fickle state. By demolishing our sense of values we become a nation of deviants. Our trust was betrayed and yet we have chosen to become trivial informers (collaborators) in our moral make-up rather than having the integrity of being informed. There were no blindfolds, hands were never tied and we were not frog-marched anywhere; and yet we languish in some dark cell of ignorance while retaining an insouciant attitude. Stupidity could never qualify us as victims.'

Bush continually capitalized American democracy with 'deceit' - one's right to know the truth was consistently and systematically stolen...any wonder at the 'inevitable evil' of his legacy as a pestilential president.

'The Denial Machine' is an excellent case example of just how easily we get 'played'
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Truthiness
Many episodes playlisted, and growing.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=84...7A4F&page=1
smarrie
QUOTE(Truthiness @ Jun 15 2009, 09:42 PM) *
Many episodes playlisted, and growing.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=84...7A4F&page=1

The series still shines on, though 'Taxi' stole the show with an oscar, they are all just as deserving of merit and a merge! Nice YTp find T.
eziona
Taxi to the Dark Side - BBC - Uploaded for www.pacman.pt.vu Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 Academy Award-nominated documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney. The film focuses around the controversial death in custody of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar.[2] Dilawar was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention at the Bagram Air Base. Taxi to the Dark Side also goes on to examine America's policy on torture and interrogation in general, specifically the CIA's use of torture and their research into sensory deprivation. There is description of the opposition to the use of torture from its political and military opponents, as well as the defence of such methods; the attempts by Congress to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention forbidding torture; and the popularisation of the use of torture techniques in shows such as 24. The film is said to be the first film to contain images taken within Bagram Air Base. On November 19, 2007, Taxi to the Dark Side was named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of 15 films on its documentary feature Oscar shortlist, and was ultimately one of five films nominated for a prize in the "Best Documentary Feature" category.



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An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0854678/



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1.Bloody cartoons
On 30/9/05 cartoons of Mohammed were published in a Danish newspaper; inciting Muslims to burn Danish flags/embassies all over the world. This documentary examines the consequences of that fateful event & the cost to our democratic freedom of expression.

http://www.guba.com/watch/3000095714

2.For God Tsar and the Fatherland

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=332...llage+of+fools#

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