At the end of 2002 Ethiopia faced yet another devastating famine, despite a booming worldwide coffee industry, worth in excess of $80 billion, Ethiopian coffee farmers were facing bankruptcy, extreme poverty and starvation. The Francis brothers spent two and half years following Fair Trade coffee representative, Meskela on his worldwide travels to secure buyers for his co-operative's coffee at a fair price. Black Gold is an affecting, galvanizing and deeply informative documentary without becomi
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DEAR WHITE PEOPLE (2014)
Certification15 Our Rating
An ivy league college becomes an explosive battle ground for racial tensions that have been simmering away for decades after a horrendous Halloween party is thrown in poor taste by the affluent, over-entitled, racist white kids. Hilarious and right on the money, make time for it.
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SICKO (2007)
Certification12 Our Rating
Mr Moore is at it again, trashing the core values of ‘The Land of the Brave and the Free', this time it's the ripoff American health service, a system which despite its huge cost is one of the least effective in the ‘developed' world. Moore compares it with the health services of Canada, Britain, France and Cuba as examples of how a system should be run, but, and this is always the flaw in Moore's documentaries, you never get a truly rounded argument. However the man's mission is to address the
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WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
A hard-hitting case against Wal-Mart, the market leader amongst American supermarkets, who've taken up the cause of destroying the soul of small town America by setting up huge warehouses just outside city limits, in order to avoid taxes, and undercutting the business of all those small shopkeepers who've hitherto provided the rationale of the town centre. Charges against Wal-Mart include vicious union busting, exploitation of undocumented workers, outsourcing to inhumane factories abroad, racia
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