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5) Citizen Koch
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set against the rise of the Tea Party in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, a citizen uprising to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker collides with the Tea Party-aligned "Americans for Prosperity," a group founded and lavishly financed by two of the world's richest men -David and Charles Koch. As Republican working class voters find themselves in the crosshairs of their own party and its billionaire backers, they are...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
If you ever wondered how the great public ambitions of postwar America collapsed into a permanent tax revolt (cue the Tea Party) and the election of a so-called populist president, look no further than Howard Jarvis, whose 1978 ballot initiative, Proposition 13, changed everything in California and beyond. "THE FIRST ANGRY MAN," a new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Jason Cohn and Camille Servan-Schreiber ("Eames: The Architect and the Painter"),...
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In September 2011, The Occupy Wall Street movement propelled issues of economic inequality into the spotlight. 99% - THE OCCUPY WALL STREET COLLABORATIVE FILM goes behind the scenes of the movement, definitively revealing what happened, and why. Personal stories imbue analysis of big picture issues with the real-world struggles of those compelled to take action, speak up, march, and risk arrest.
10) McCain
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
McCain is an exploration of Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.)'s complicated relationship with President Trump and the Republican Party, as well as his life and politics. Drawing on both new interviews and FRONTLINE's deep archive of reporting, McCain traces the conservative standard-bearer's motivations and his political history - from his experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, to speaking out against torture during the Bush administration, to his...
11) Weiner
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sexts, lies & Carlos Danger. Get an inside peek at one of the biggest political scandals ever: Anthony Weiner's wild "comeback" mayoral run. Winner, Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
12) Life on Parole
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Follow former prisoners through the challenges of their first year on parole. With unique access, the film goes inside the effort to change the way parole works in Connecticut and reduce the number of people returning to prison.
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
16) The Mayor
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A small mountain town in southern California elects a dog for its mayor. his eccentric owners and the general population of the town believe that Mayor Max has brought nothing but sunshine, happiness and rainbows to a town previously divided by partisan politics.
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In KINGDOM OF SHADOWS, Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the U.S.-Mexico "drug war", weaving together the stories of a U.S. drug enforcement agent on the border, an activist nun in violence-scarred Monterrey, Mexico, and a former Texas smuggler, to reveal the human side of an often misunderstood conflict.
19) Cocaine Prison
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
COCAINE PRISON follows the lives of three Bolivians who work at the lowest levels of the cocaine trade. Two inmates of a prison film their daily experiences, while one inmate's sister must decide whether to traffic cocaine or pursue a college education. The film bridges the ever-widening gap between the North and the South and brings a new perspective to the War on Drugs being waged in the Andes.
Publisher
MSNBC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
MSNBC Films presents THE TURNING POINT, a new documentary series from MSNBC Films and executive producer Trevor Noah. 'The Daily Show' host is no stranger to unpacking big political and cultural stories with his nightly monologue and news satire program. It's no easy task finding the funny in the dumpster fire of news. So, it makes sense that Noah's next projects won't suffer from a lack of ambition. MSNBC Films, Time Studios, Noah's Day Zero Productions,...
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