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- The West - Documents from the Documentary
- -Sinclair Group Advertising Against Kerry (StopSinclair.org)
"Between October 21 and 24, Sinclair Broadcast Group will force the local television stations it owns and operates to preempt regular network broadcasts and devote one hour to an anti-John Kerry documentary."
"Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., is one of the largest television broadcasters in the country. By its own count, Sinclair owns, operates, or services 62 local television stations in 39 markets – reaching 24% of television households in the United States." 10-04
- Editorial: Reform Needed in Voting Security (CommonDreams.org)
"On December 4, 2000, in time to change the outcome of the Electoral College vote, Greg Palast published an article in Salon.com, made into a BBC television documentary shortly thereafter, that laid out solid evidence of massive electoral fraud in Florida, perpetrated against the majority-Democratic-voting African American community by Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush. Without this fraud, Gore would have easily carried the state."
"Ironically, the Democratic Party knows how to highlight election fraud and start national movements to bring down administrations that try to steal elections. A Party-affiliated group has helped do it four times in the past four years."
"But not in Ohio, Florida, or anywhere else in the USA."
"Instead, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Madeleine K. Albright, Chairman) has joined up with a similar organization affiliated with the Republican Party (the International Republican Institute - John McCain, Chairman), other NGOs, and US government agencies to support the use of exit polls and statistical analyses to challenge national elections in Ukraine, Serbia, Belarus, and the former Soviet republic of Georgia."
"In three of those four nations they succeeded in not only mounting a national challenge, but in reversing the outcomes of elections."
"The election reversals were accomplished by funding local groups - most made up of a core of activists and college students - who worked to topple regimes that had rigged their own re-elections." 12-04
- John Paul II - The Authoritarian Pope (Alternet.org)
"John Paul II took an institution just beginning to throw off the chains of centuries of insularity and autocracy and to be plain speaking, reshaped it into what can only be described as a totalitarian institution."
"In 1958 Pope John XXIII assumed the papacy. Within months he called for an 'aggiornamiento,' a 'bringing up to date' of the church. Church services began to be conducted in native languages. Priests and nuns and laity were given more participation and authority."
"Pope John XXIII died shortly after Vatican II convened. But the reforms he nurtured took root and flowered under his successor. Journalist Gwynne Dyer recently recalled his impressions after visiting Catholic churches around the world in 1978 in preparation for a televised documentary. 'In southern Africa, Catholics were playing a leading role in resistance to apartheid. In Latin America, the phenomenon of 'liberation theology' was reconnecting the church with the impoverished peasant millions whom it had long ignored. In Europe and North America, the old hierarchies were all under challenge, but especially the hierarchy of gender. Justice and equality were the themes and the energy was astonishing."
" 'Twenty-five years later,' Dyer sadly observes, 'it is all gone.' "
"John Paul II attended the Vatican Council meetings in the 1960s and opposed the changes. Upon taking office he undertook to reverse them. To achieve this goal he dramatically centralized and exercised powers."
"In the 1980s French theologican Marie-Dominique Chenu put it bluntly. John Paul harkens back to the 'prototype of the church as an absolute monarchy.' " 4-05
- Redford Makes Movie About Heroes (MSNBC News)
"Actor Robert Redford's new documentary tracks people around the globe who try to change the world in their own small way." 6-05
- Iroquois Constitution (Ratical.org)
"The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, one of the world's oldest democracies, is at least three centuries older than most previous estimates, according to research by Barbara Mann and Jerry Fields of Toledo University, Ohio."
"Using a combination of documentary sources, solar eclipse data, and Iroquois oral history, Mann and Fields assert that the Iroquois Confederacy's body of law was adopted by the Senecas (the last of the five nations to ratify it) August 31, 1142. The ratification council convened at a site that is now a football field in Victor, New York. The site is called Gonandaga by the Seneca." 7-05
- Social Issues - Study Guides (KidsNet)
Provides guides to support a number of television documentary programs. Available for free on a limited basis.
- -04-06-06 "Judas" Text Discovered (ABC News)
"It is a mystery 2,000 years in the making, buried in the desert and fueled by centuries of debate and doubt, theft and deceit. The question: Was there ever a Gospel according to Judas? And if there was, what did it reveal?
"The mystery began to unravel almost 30 years ago, according to a new National Geographic Channel documentary." 04-06
- Fast Food and Health (MSNBC News)
Describes the decline in health of film producer, Morgan Spurlock. "He decided to make a documentary—his first feature-length film—in which he would, in an attempt to explore why Americans are so fat, eat at McDonald’s three times a day for 30 solid days."
"With regular visits to the doctor, interviews with experts on fast food and chats with regular folk on the road, the viewer gets a front-row seat as the formerly fit filmmaker eats everything on the menu, packing on the pounds, and looking—and feeling—worse in each successive frame. McDonald’s’ response? The home of the Happy Meal declined to comment in the film but has released statements saying that its menu offers an array of choices, some healthier than others."
"My body just basically falls apart over the course of this diet. I start to get tired; I start to get headaches; my liver basically starts to fill up with fat because there’s so much fat and sugar in this food. My blood sugar skyrockets, my cholesterol goes up off the charts, my blood pressure becomes completely unmanageable. The doctors were like 'You have to stop.' ”1-04
- -11-02-06 Baldwin Asks to be Removed from Film About Schwarzenegger (MSNBC News)
"Actor Alec Baldwin wants to be removed as narrator of an Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary called 'Running with Arnold,' saying filmmakers went too far by including images of Nazi rallies." 10-06
- -03-05-07 Veterans Hospitals Unprepared to Treat Brain Injuries of Returning Soldiers (PBS News)
"The Veterans Administration is unprepared to care for brain-injured Iraq war veterans once they leave rehabilitation centers and return home to VA hospitals, a new documentary reports. An advocate and the VA secretary discuss treating the injuries." Also see Iraq Veterans. 03-07
- Iraq War Spawns New Films (Dallas Morning News)
"No End in Sight, a comprehensive look at the war from initial occupation to the present, was joined in the documentary competition by Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, which dissects the torture committed by U.S. interrogators and military police at the infamous Iraq prison. In the dramatic competition was Grace Is Gone, starring John Cusack as the pro-war widower of a woman killed in Iraq. And in the shorts bracket was Fort Worth native Jesus Beltran's The Grass Grows Green, about a Marine recruiter dealing with the combat death of a recruit." 07-07
- Planet in Peril Show (CNN News)
Provides video until the show is presented. "This October, CNN´s Planet in Peril will take viewers around the world in a two–part, four–hour documentary that examines our changing planet. This worldwide investigation looks at four key issues: climate change, vanishing habitats, disappearing species and human population growth." 08-07
- -08-31-07 Movie: The 11th Hour (11thhouraction.com)
AL Gore states: "My friend Leonardo DiCaprio has just produced an amazing documentary on this subject. The film was created using over 150 hours of interviews with some of the brightest minds on the planet, including physicist Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai. Moreover, Leo himself is very eloquent and persuasive in this movie. I recommend it highly." 08-07
- -01-17-08 Jesus "Tomb" Controversy Reopened (Time.com)
"When the Discovery Channel aired a TV documentary last year raising the possibility that archeologists had found the family tomb of Jesus Christ in the hills behind Jerusalem, it caused a huge backlash among Christians." 01-08
- Kamara, Mariatu: Courage Without Hands (WorldPress.com)
"The Bite of the Mango tells her story so far: of having her hands amputated when she was 12; of being raped by a village man just before that, and of having the son resulting from that assault; of spending years wracked with guilt after the infant died at 10 months, convinced she'd killed him by not loving him enough."
"Hers is not an easy story to read. But The Bite of the Mango brings a new perspective among recent accounts of kids caught in Africa's civil wars – that of a girl child."
"Kamara says she is committed to school, so requests for appearances – already coming in from across the country – will be met when possible. Recent international book fairs have created a buzz and it is expected the international book rights will soon be bought."
"As well, she's a UNICEF Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict. She's also featured in an upcoming documentary about child war victims and was filmed on a visit to Sierra Leone last February, where she toured health and educational facilities."
"Kamara recognizes the opportunity, and responsibility, to give back." 09-08
- -03-21-09 Supreme Court to Decide on "Hillary, The Movie (CBS News)
"The justices' review of the slashing documentary financed by longtime critics of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton could bring more than just a thumbs up or thumbs down. It may settle the question of whether the government can regulate a politically charged film as a campaign ad." 03-09
- Witch Hunt (JanaLerner.com)
"Executive Producer Sean Penn proudly presents 'Witch Hunt,' a documentary that brings light to an injustice that took over 20 years to correct. It's the story of John Stoll and dozens of other men and women who found themselves caught in a spiral of fear, ignorance and hysteria. These working class moms and dads were rounded up with little or no evidence, charged and convicted of child molestation."
"Through new interviews, archival footage, and narration by Mr. Penn, the filmmakers construct a film that illustrates a universal point; when power is allowed to exist without oversight from the press, the community or law enforcement, the rights of everyday citizens can be lost for decades." 04-09
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