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American Dream (Documentary/ .avi)

Category: Documentary
Description:
Director Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning rendering of a crippling strike at a Minnesota meat-packing plant may look dated, but the underlying theme of individuals crushed by big business remains all too timely. Using a briskly engrossing combination of first-person interviews, news broadcasts, and fly-on-the-wall encounters, Kopple creates an indelible document of a community's dissolution at the hands of larger forces. (The film is clearly on the side of the workers, but at the same time it refuses to ignore the petty infighting that eventually helped contribute to their ruin.) An alternately depressing, uplifting, and often profanely funny film that, at times, echoes Michael Moore's Roger and Me , but without that movie's distancing smarm. A movie's title has never seemed quite so bitterly apt. The director, who had previously won an Oscar for the equally arresting Harlan County USA, would later go on to document yet another traumatic event with Woody Allen's Wild Man Blues. --Andrew Wright
Seeders: 22
Leeches: 16

Before Stonewall (1984)

Category: Documentary
Description:
Director: John Scagliotti & Greta Schiller Year: 1984 Genre: Documentary Country: USA Language: English IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088782/ Video File Name: Before Stonewall-1984-John Scagliotti and Greta Schiller.avi File Size (in bytes): 713,821,878 bytes Runtime (# of frames): 1:26:24 (155338 frames) Video Codec: XviD 1.1.2 Final Frame Size: 710x480 [=1.315] FPS: 29.970 Video Bitrate: 927 kb/s Bits per Pixel: 0.091 bpp B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC ......: []...[N-VOP]...[]...[] Audio Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Sample Rate: 48000 Hz Audio bitrate: 160 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR audio Interleave: 107 ms No. of audio streams: 1 Plot summary: New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots. Review: I have lost count of the number of times I have seen this wonderful documentary. The archival material alone -- film clips and still photographs of gay life in America between 1900 and the '60s -- is enough to make this film a treasure; but it is the interviews with survivors of the pre-Stonewall era that make Before Stonewall a priceless heirloom of gay studies and a must in the personal education of any socially conscious person interested in gay culture.
Seeders: 1
Leeches: 10

The Iron Wall (2005) (Israeli-Palestinian Conflict)

Category: Documentary
Description:
"If you ever wondered why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so complicated, but were afraid to ask, then this is the film to see" - CURRENT Magazine "As the most succinct and up to date documentary on Israel's settlement program, The Iron Wall is essential viewing for anyone wanting to understand the underlying dynamics of the Israeli-Palestine conflict …" Green Left Weekly In 1923, Vladimir Jabotinski - father of the Zionist right - wrote: "Zionist colonization… can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population - behind an IRON WALL, which the native population cannot breach" From that day on, these words became the official and unspoken policy of the Zionist movement and later, the State of Israel. Colonies, often referred to as "settlements," were used to solidify the Zionist foothold throughout historic Palestine. Following the 1967 occupation of the West Bank an Gaza, more than 200 settlements and outposts have been built in these territories, in violation of international law. The Iron Wall exposes the phenomenon and follows the timeline, size and population of the settlements, reveal how their construction has been a cornerstone of Israeli policy and demonstrates how the Wall secures them as permanent and irreversible facts on the ground. This documentary warns that a contiguous and viable Palestinian state is becoming no longer possible and that chances for a peaceful resolution of the conflict are slipping away. The Iron Wall features interviews with prominent Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and political analysts, as well as Israeli settlers and soldiers and Palestinian Farmers
Seeders: 21
Leeches: 12