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BURMA VJ (2008)

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'Burma VJ' is an amazing collection of footage shot by Democratic Action for Burma activists as the 2007 popular attempted up-rising against the evil military junta took place and is both about the demonstrations and, more succinctly, about the brave Burman reporters who filmed them and transmitted the footage to the outside world. The resultant edit by Danish film-maker Anders Ostergaard has won more awards than you've had hot pies. Must watch stuff. find out more...

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Goodnight And Good Luck takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America, chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Murrow, his news team and, indeed, CBS itself made a defiant and impassioned stand against McCarthy's increasingly delusional, corrupt and fear-fueled rants and this, George Clooney's second turn in the director's chair, is a beautifully suc find out more...

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'Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia', 'Nicaragua - A Nation's Right to Survive', 'Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War', 'Flying the Flag - Arming the World'. find out more...

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'Vietnam - The Quiet Mutiny' (1971), 'Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy' (1994), 'Inside Burma - Land of Fear', 'Welcome to Australia'. find out more...

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'Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq' (2000), 'Palestine is still the Issue' (2002), 'Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror' (2003) find out more...

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'Stealing a Nation' (2004), 'John Pilger at the Guardian Hay Festival' (2006) find out more...

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In March 2003, as Bush's stormtroopers were set fare to invade Iraq, Dixie Chicks lead singer, Natalie Maines, while playing the Shepherds Bush Empire, casually quipped 'we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas'. Once picked up by the media this played rather badly in their Country and Western homeland, resulting in mass burnings of their CDs and their blacklisting from many radio stations. "Shut Up And Sing" follows the events, the band's private lives and their evolv find out more...

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With over two years of investigation, including the collection of a million and a half words of interview transcript, 'Standard Operating Procedure', from director Errol Morris, is the story behind the infamous photographs taken by US soldiers in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Not as interesting or revelatory as you might hope, and hamstrung as Morris is by the fact that most of those interviewed aren't that bright or able to verbalise why they did what they did, and are only clear that they were hun find out more...

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Starting with the murder in an Afghan prison of an innocent taxi-driver by American soldiers, this brilliant documentary outlines the lines of command from Cheney and Rumsfeld down to those on the front line. We learn about the techniques of torture and who authorised which methods. We hear about some of the history of CIA torture methods, the irrelevance of torture to extracting information and its use as a weapon of terror and political posturing by those in power in Washington. find out more...

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Britain is under the grip of a brutal totalitarian regime but while the people live in wilful ignorance of their lack of basic freedoms one man is determined to bring about revolution and wreak vengeance on those that created him. Taking Guy Fawkes as his inspiration V sets in motion a chain of bloody and explosive events designed to bring the government to its knees and provide the populace with an opportunity to seize back their free will, should their apathy and fear allow them. Adapted fr find out more...