Free Online Documentary

McLibel is a documentary movie which tells the story of political activists, Helen Steel and Dave Morris who were taken to court by the McDonalds fast food chain for claims they had made about the company. The couple had accused McDonalds of paying low wages for staff, poor treatment of animals, environmental damage and advertising to children.
The trial which followed turned into the longest in English legal history and pitted the pair against the companies £10 million legal team.

A fascinating documentary looking at the increasing power of large global businesses and the impact this is having on society.

A John Pilger film exploring the negative impact of globalisation.

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

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.

As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill.

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.

A very well made documentary film which combines traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework showing how international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade affect the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact. Focusing on the lives of ordinary workers & farmers on the island of Jamaica, this film contends that free-trade is of greatest benefit to the rich.

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.

Through a series of interviews, this film argues that the bizarre events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and the equally bizarre prosecution of the so-called “war on terror”, can be more credibly understood in the wider context of an imminent divergence between the supply and demand of global oil.