Documentaries and Videos
Here’s a growing list of related films - things that have influenced me, moved me, and informed me over the years… I’ll add links as I have time. Enjoy!
Online Videos
The Adventures of Urban Scout: 24 minutes… very well done and quite funny!
Afterworld: A post-apocalyptic animated series of shorts. Well done.
Amerikan Lullaby: 8 minutes… moving, chilling, beautiful.
Amerikan Lullaby 2: more great stuff. And thank you, Mr. Olbermann…
Civilization - *Some Restrictions Apply: by John R. Baldridge. Great!
Greensumption: Buy your way to a healthy planet!
The Meatrix: A trilogy of flash animations about factory farming.
Meet the Filmmakers: “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire”: 28 minutes… Peak Moment Television interviews Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett.
The Myth of Biofuels: 89 minutes… a presentation by David Fridley. Good stuff!
The Secret of Sustainability: 11 minutes with Derrick Jensen and Urban Scout.
The Shock Doctrine Short Film: 7 minutes … by Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuaron. Excellent and disturbing.
Something in the Air: 4 minutes… Thunderclap Newman and a great old song.
The Story of Stuff: 20 min… Annie Leonard mixes information with passionate appeal. A good primer for the uninitiated.
The Transition Town Movement - A Primer:Â 6 minutes with Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement.
Documentaries
America: Freedom to Fascism
An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning
Baraka
Beyond Treason
The Big Buy: Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress
The Big One
Bowling for Columbine
Bush’s Brain
The Corporation
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Crude Impact
Dark Days
The End of Suburbia
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Fog of War
Grizzly Man
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire
Horns and Halos
In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
Money as Debt
Naqoyqatsi
Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Roger & Me
Soldiers Speak Out
Unconstitutional
Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
The Weather Underground
When the Levees Broke
Why We Fight
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Winged Migration
The Yes Men
Narrative Films - There are so many great films to choose from. Here’s a list of favorites that speak to our time…
12 Monkeys
A Boy and His Dog
Brazil
Children of Men
A Clockwork Orange
The Day After
Deep Impact
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Edukators
Fast Food Nation
Fight Club
The Fisher King
The Heston Trilogy: Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man and Soylent Green
Little Big Man
Logan’s Run
The Matrix
My Dinner With Andre
Silent Running
The Terminator
Testament
They Live
V for Vendetta
The Village
Waking Life
Walkabout