WORLD CHANGING DOCUMENTARIES
Mindblowing Documentaries that will drop you into a world you didn't know before, turning the light onto an unwritten path of humanity that we all influence
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- DirectorPeter JosephStarsPeter JosephRobert SapolskyGabor MatéA feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society.This is going to drop you into an entire new world of possiblities and realizations. The eye opener of our times.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w - DirectorPeter JosephStarsJacque FrescoRoxanne MeadowsJohn PerkinsZeitgeist: Addendum attempts to locate the root causes of the pervasive social corruption, while also offering a solution.Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg
- DirectorMat WhitecrossMichael WinterbottomStarsJanine HuardEwen CameronNaomi KleinAn investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.Tearing up your eyes to a world of spreading ultra capitalism accelerated by neoliberalism and its traces through history and current proceedings - especially war.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iW1SHPgUAQ - DirectorErrol MorrisStarsRobert McNamaraJohn F. KennedyFidel CastroThe story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.Huge insights into the machine from the necessary 'other' perspective. Do not watch without having watched the Zeitgeist Movies and therefor an alternative to the overall construct.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkQk50qtTwo - StarsSigourney WeaverDavid AttenboroughNikolay DrozdovA documentary series on the wildlife found on Earth. Each episode covers a different habitat: deserts, mountains, deep oceans, shallow seas, forests, caves, polar regions, fresh water, plains and jungles. Narrated by David Attenborough.Watch first episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rnKywpwFxE
- StarsMason PettitKevin WarwickRichard BransonBounty of future technologies providing a highly underrated interface between the viewer in the now and the many possiblities and risks our species will face in the coming decades
- DirectorMark AchbarPeter WintonickStarsNoam ChomskyMark AchbarKarin Aguilar-San JuanA film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhEBCWMe44
- DirectorAlan LoweryJohn PilgerStarsJohn PilgerStuart EwenMelvin GoodmanThought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.Watch it here: http://vimeo.com/67739294
- DirectorCharles FergusonStarsCampbell ScottGerald BurkeAli FadhilA comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.
- DirectorMarie-Monique RobinStarsDavid BakerKen CookDavid CarpenterYou do not have to believe that God exists, but you will after this movie know that the devil poster! Monsanto is the largest global company that produces agricultural products: pesticides, hormones in raising animals, and genetically modified soybean seeds, corn and other crops. Monsanto has made some of the toxins that are responsible for many diseases, cancer, dementia and the rules are and say Napalm was used in the Vietnam War or PCB oils of which turned out to be a carcinogen as a small atomic bomb.Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_DbVdVo-k
- DirectorMitch SchultzStarsJoe RoganRalph AbrahamJoel BakstAn investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found in nearly every living organism and considered the most potent psychedelic on Earth.Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4FaDMak-TQ
- StarsTad StørmerBrian CoxBrian Cox reveals the rich and controversial past of sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium to uncover how the commercial exploitation of these products hooked the worldWatch the part about the Opium Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTQWc6G3vwo
- DirectorYann Arthus-BertrandStarsYann Arthus-BertrandGlenn CloseJacques GamblinWith aerial footage from fifty-four countries, 'Home' is a depiction of how Earth's problems are all interlinked.Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
- DirectorDror MorehStarsAmi AyalonAvraham ShalomAvi DichterA documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.German version can be watched here: http://vimeo.com/62026407
- DirectorJoshua OppenheimerAnonymousChristine CynnStarsAnwar CongoHerman KotoSyamsul ArifinA documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
- DirectorJérôme FritelMarc RocheStarsSteve BannonA French documentary about one of the worlds biggest banks and its influence in everyday life.Germans can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/49730552
- DirectorBayley SilleckStarsMorgan FreemanWhere do we fit in with the universe? This film seeks to explore our place among the ever-expanding universe.Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T066znLSfak&hd=1
- DirectorRelicStarsJiddu KrishnamurtiThe Dalai LamaGeorge CarlinOwned & Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the Internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the normal rules of social interaction, causing excitement in those who are not served by the current system... and fear in those who are pampered by it.Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njSV5LtVmR4
- StarsPeter JosephDutch MerrickScott DennettA satirical yet serious expression that challenges various cultural phenomena existing today which most of society seem to take for granted.Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vNCpGaxWno
- StarsAdam CurtisRobert ReichAnn BernaysA documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
- StarsAdam CurtisStewart BrandAl GoreA series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don't realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
- DirectorMichael GillStarsKenneth ClarkTwo Dawns of European Civilization expounded from the Classical Greco-Roman Worlds unto the aftermath of Germanic Invasions of Early Middle Ages (500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.) by focusing on the Arts, not the standard History of Works and Words.
- StarsAleks KrotoskiStephen FryBill GatesVirtual Revolution charts two decades of profound change since the invention of the World Wide Web, weighing up the huge benefits and the unforeseen downsides.