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The Last Colony
Rating: 3 of 5
The financial crisis currently facing Puerto Rico lends particular urgency to this documentary by Juan Agustín Márquez. While sketching the island's history since the United States seized control during the Spanish-American War of 1898, the film ... Read more
Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Filmmaker Andy Wakefield's investigative documentary focuses on a severely autistic teenage boy named Alex Spourdalakis, whose challenging life was made all the more difficult by a series of successive failures by doctors and hospitals in his nat... Read more
Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds
Rating: 3.5 of 5
This disturbing documentary from filmmaker M. Sean Kaminsky examines the crisis surrounding the corporate patenting of seeds—our most crucial source of food, fuel, and fabric. Despite millennia of dependence on seeds without any proprietary claim... Read more
Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes
Rating: 3.5 of 5
John Wellington Ennis's insightful documentary probes the quid pro quo relationship between government and major political donors, particularly lobbyists, corporations, and political action committees (PACs). What Ennis discovers is that the retu... Read more
Mobilize
Rating: 3.5 of 5
What are the long-term health consequences from daily use of cellular phones? No one really knows, since widespread cell phone use is fairly new. Still, filmmaker Kevin Kunze's documentary Mobilize makes a strong case that persuasive evidence has... Read more
Boredom
Rating: 3 of 5
Filmmaker Albert Nerenberg takes an irreverent, sometimes illuminating, sometimes obvious look at the subject of human boredom in this somewhat persuasive documentary. Beginning with the question of what exactly is boredom, Nerenberg explores the... Read more
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Provocateur filmmaker Robert Greenwald's chilling and heartbreaking documentary challenges claims made by the Central Intelligence Agency and White House that America's use of drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan follows a rigorous application of s... Read more
Greedy Lying Bastards
Rating: 3 of 5
According to this documentary by filmmaker and activist Craig Rosebraugh, climate change has been anticipated for at least a couple of generations. In fact, segments from a 1950s educational video here predict much of what has come to pass, inclu... Read more
War on Whistleblowers
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald's timely documentary looks at the experiences of four American whistleblowers whose involvement with U.S. government programs led them to reveal disturbing facts through the press. Greenwald's first subject, Franz Gayl,... Read more
The Exorcist in the 21st Century
Rating: 3 of 5
Coming after Matt Baglio's nonfiction exorcism book The Rite (turned into a drably fictionalized movie starring Anthony Hopkins), this Norwegian documentary examines the Roman Catholic practice of exorcism, which is approved by modern Church auth... Read more
We Are Egypt: The Story Behind the Revolution
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Better than most news agencies did, an embedded filmmaker here explains the players and issues involved in the climactic "Arab Spring" Egyptian uprising in early 2011, which overthrew the long-entrenched National Democratic Party (NDP) ... Read more
Koch Brothers Exposed
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Robert Greenwald's Koch Brothers Exposed makes no claims of journalistic impartiality. From the director of Outfoxed and Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, this is advocacy documentary filmmaking all the way—overwhelming, passionate, and commi... Read more
When Strangers Click: Five Stories from the Internet
Rating: 3 of 5
In this HBO-aired documentary, director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) explores modern dating habits, with an emphasis on the Internet. Interspersed among the five stories featured here are interesting observational tidbits, such as “Women are afraid... Read more
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Talk about niche marketing: Jools and Lynda Topp are farm-raised yodeling country singers and character-based comedians from New Zealand; they're also “out” lesbian twins who've been political activists for the length of their career, which has b... Read more
Car Bomb
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Car bombs, which wreak harrowing damage for little cost, have become a game-changer in contemporary times according to this sadly convincing documentary, which also concludes that no sure defense exists against them. Based on the book Buda's Wago... Read more
Tapped
Rating: 2.5 of 5
This docu-exposé assails the bottled-water industry without so much as a drop of Michael Moore–esque humor to make the alarmist data go down easier as it decries the corporate takeover of one of humankind's essential commodities. Labels such as D... Read more
Laughology
Rating: 2 of 5
“I didn't know you could lose your laugh, but when I did, I wanted to learn everything I could about laughter,” explains journalist and filmmaker Albert Nerenberg at the outset of this documentary, adding that “Maybe if I knew what laughter was, ... Read more
World Cup Soccer in Africa: Who Really Wins?
Rating: 2.5 of 5
In this polemic documentary, filmmaker Craig Tanner argues that bringing the 2010 World Cup to South Africa was a moral and economic mistake. Indeed, World Cup Soccer in Africa: Who Really Wins? goes to great lengths to detail various crises—chro... Read more
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time
Rating: 3 of 5
Danny Schechter's documentary—or, more accurately, cinematic essay—is essentially a jeremiad against the banking and investment machinations that created the subprime mortgage bubble and led to the financial meltdown of 2008. Composed of archival... Read more
MoveOn: The Movie
Rating: 3 of 5
Even those who disagree with what MoveOn.org stands for (or, while sympathetic to their cause, think the activist group's in-your-face methods are counterproductive) should find this documentary worth watching. Although highly positive (intended ... Read more