At 10:00 PM Saturday 8/4/2007, jon louis mann wrote: >i would like to recommend some documentaries, which can also be tivoed, >rented, purchased, or viewed online: > >"an inconvenient truth" can be seen on showtime on 8/11. >http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/ > >i saw "who killed the electric car" at the local library. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F > >"maxed out" is about credit/debt and portrays how our government, >bankruptcy courts, banks, credit card companies, credit bureaus, etc. >allow, encourage and even entrap people into amassing debt. >http://www.maxedoutmovie.com/syn/index.html > >"after innocence"s just as egregious and is about wrongly imprisoned >people who have served years in jail until freed by dna evidence. our >system does nothing to compensate >them and basically dumps these people on the street with nothing. >http://www.activevoice.net/afterinnocence.html > >"hacking democracy" is about our electronic voting system in the us. >http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/ > >"a crude awakening: the oil crash" examines our dependency on oil and >is presented from several angles within the industry. >http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/film.html > >"commanding heights: the battle for the world economy" series is about >globalization and world trade. >http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/story/index.html > >finally, any one of michael moore's films: >http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php > >these films have an agenda that needs to be distributed...
There's no question that his so-called non-fiction films have an agenda, but whether it needs to be distributed because it is a positive agenda or because people need to be warned of the agenda is likely to vary depending on who you ask . . . -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
