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Examining the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who are then unable to meet the crippling interest charges.

Investigating the discrepancies between American and British claims for the ‘war on terror’ and the facts on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington.

Michale Moore’s movie was released free onto the internet in an attempt to get the youth of America away from their televisions and into the polling booths for the last US Election

This chilling documentary film examines the relationship between the media, corporate America, and government. In a country where the ‘top 1% control 90% of the wealth’, the film argues that the media system is nothing but a ‘subsidiary of corporate America.

The genre-busting documentary that started a flood of issue-oriented documentaries exposes the right wing bias of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News which has been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. An in-depth look at the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the media.

An outstanding documentary that shows the little known history from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations . Filmmaker Errol Morris uses archival material, including taped conversations from the Oval Office, to discover the real reasons behind the US commitment to the Vietnam War. Also looks at the bombing of Japan during the Second World War and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Often described as one of the most powerful and disturbing documentary movies ever made, this film by Peter Davis was a landmark documentary which confronted the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Explosive, persuasive, and shocking, watching this movie is a deeply emotional experience which shouldn’t be missed.

A harrowing, hard-hitting documentary which shows the devastating effects of the “globalized” economy on the residents of a fishing village in Tanzania. The story starts four decades ago when a species of huge fish is introduced to Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. The fish are now harvested, chopped into filets and shipped to European and Japanese consumers while the Africans who catch and process them are left with rotting carcasses – and very little else. This film focuses on the fish for gun trade that has arisen and the impact it has had on life in the area.

The Bush family are on their way out of the White House and this documentary movie will make you glad of the fact. Following the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team’s spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq. These are the hard-hitting reports that have been seen in films like Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, broadcast internationally on BBC Newsnight television, and are found in Palast’s international bestselling book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

The first documentary movie/dramatization to take a look inside the notorious Guantanamo detention camp. The Road to Guantanamo is a terrifying first hand look at the life of three British citizens who were held for over two years before eventually being released without any charges being brought against them. This film is highly critical of both the American and British government and sparked a fair amount of controversy when it was first released.