Documentaries

Here is a current list of recommended documentaries along with links for online streaming. If there are any broken links report, and feel free to add your own Documentaries (with links if possible) to make this grow.

Capitalism: A Love Story Michael Moore documentary  centering on the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general.

Chicago 10 At the 1968 Democratic Convention, protestors, denied permits for demonstrations, repeatedly clashed with the Chicago Police Department, who waged a week-long terror campaign that resulted in riots witnessed live by a television audience of over 50 million.

Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy – Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3 PBS The purpose of this site is to promote better understanding of globalization, world trade and economic development, including the forces, values, events, and ideas

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Fuel Director Josh Tickell takes us along for his 11 year journey around the world to find solutions to America's addiction to oil.

Food Inc  The veil on our nation's food industry is lifted, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

The Future of Food The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

Home It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet

Human Resources It’s a documentary about Social Control.

Occupation 101 Award-winning documentary film on the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

If A Tree Falls Part 1, Part2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation and radicalization of one of its members. (Incomplete)

Century of the Self (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) The Century of the Self is an award winning British television documentary film. It focuses on how Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments have thought about, dealt with, and controlled people.

Workers Republic  In December of 2008, laid-off Chicago factory workers occupied their vanishing workplace, Republic Windows & Doors, declaring they would not leave until the owners and creditors agreed to pay them the severance that they were owed. They held the factory for six days.

The Take In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats, and refuse to leave.

The End of Poverty A feature length documentary film that asks why poverty still exists.

Frontline: The Warning Long before the meltdown, one woman tried to warn about a threat to the financial system

A Place Called Chiapas (Online Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10) documentary film of first-hand accounts of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) the (Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas) and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky In Our Times (Online Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)

Noam Chomsky Imperial Grand Strategy

Noam  Chomsky Manufacturing  Consent

Why We Fight (Online Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8) 'Why We Fight' is an unflinching look at the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.

Taxi To The Dark Side-BBC Full Length Documentary  Controversial death in custody of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar who 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.

Weather Underground The rise and fall of the American radical organization The Weathermen, a radical group committed to overthrow the government

The World According to Monsanto

The Trials of Henry Kissinger ( Online Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8) This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor, as well as the assassination of a Chilean leader in 1970.

The Corporation THE CORPORATION takes its audience on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures.

Zeitgeist - The Federal Reserve Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 , Part 5

ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD A 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 subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy"

Zeitgeist Addendum The second documentary film, Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution.

Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices a feature length documentary that uncovers a retail giant's assault on families and American values.

Battle in Seattle (2007) Battle in Seattle is a 2007 film and the directorial debut of actor Stuart Townsend. It is based on the protest activity at the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999

This is What Democracy Looks Like This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there.

The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically.

The American Dream (30 minute animated short on the financial institutions and the Fed)

I Am Not Moving Occupy Wall Street

Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) (Amazing behind the scenes look at OWS community)

Inside Job (2010) (Documents 2008 Financial crisis)

Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark a television documentary produced by Qatar -based news channel Al Jazeera English about the 2011 Bahraini uprising.

Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychiatric Drugging

Confessions of an Economic Hitman Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

The Gunpowder Plot, Pt. 1 - Roman Catholic Jesuit Conspiracy Part 1, Part 2

BBC Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot, 1605 Part 1, Part 2