The Elephant in the Living Room is an American documentary film about the topic of exotic pets kept in homes in the United States and about the controversy surrounding this topic.
Amazon: What They Know about Us
“They have amassed so much knowledge about us. What we know is a pittance compared to what they can know about us.” Harvard professor
Sicko
Sicko is a 2007 American political documentary film by filmmaker Michael Moore. Investigating health care in the United States, it focuses on the country’s health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the profiteering, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.
The Social Media Beauty Cult
Social media are influencing the way women feel about their own bodies. Young women in particular are constantly being confronted with pictures of beautiful female bodies online – images which have almost always been digitally enhanced.
Searching For Sugar Man
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 Swedish–British–Finnish documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, directed and written by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen “Sugar” Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez’s music, which had never achieved success in the United States, had become very popular in South Africa although little was known about him in that country.
Capitalism: A Love Story
The film centers on the late-2000s financial crisis and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the then-current economic order in the United States and of unfettered capitalism in general. Topics covered include Wall Street’s “casino mentality”, for-profit prisons, Goldman Sachs’ influence in Washington, D.C., the poverty-level wages of many workers, the large wave of home foreclosures, corporate-owned life insurance, and the consequences of “runaway greed”.
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is a 2020 British documentary film[1] narrated by David Attenborough.[2] The film acts a “witness statement”,[3] through which Attenborough shares first-hand his concern for the current state of the planet due to humanity’s impact on nature and his hopes for the future.
Planet of the Humans
The film examines the decision of mainstream environmental groups and leaders to partner with billionaires, corporations, and wealthy family foundations in the fight to save a planet in crisis. A conclusion of the film is that green energy cannot solve the problem of society’s expanding resource depletion without reducing consumption and population growth, as all existing forms of energy generation require consumption of finite resources.
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
The film surveys the effects of disinformation campaigns occurring on social media and the impacts of well known conspiracy theories from Obama birther theories and Jade Helm, to Seth Rich, to Pizzagate, as well as some of the major and minor personalities involved. “Disinformation” is the intentional dissemination of falsehoods.
Spaceship Earth
A look at the group of people who built the Biosphere 2, a giant replica of the earth’s ecosystem, in 1991.
Three Identical Strangers
In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they’re triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
Last Breath
A deep sea diver is stranded on the seabed with 5 minutes of oxygen and no hope of rescue. With access to amazing archive this is the story of one man’s impossible fight for survival.