AGH The Essential Documentaries
by Austin392hemi | created - 05 Dec 2016 | updated - 06 Dec 2016 | PublicThis is not conspiracy BS albeit some of them slant left or right. Warning: The truth is rather scary and its so much easier just to watch Seinfeld reruns.
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1. Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary, News
A documentary that exposes what corporations and governments learn about people through Internet and cell phone usage, and what can be done about it ... if anything.
Director: Cullen Hoback | Stars: Max Schrems, Moby, Mark Zuckerberg, Orson Scott Card
Votes: 6,541 | Gross: $0.06M
If you are unaware of what that title means then you will be shocked. My synopsis of the movie's point. "Orson Wells book/prediction "1984" was about 20 years off. Big Brother is not coming. He has been here since at least 2004. And he never archives any data." Of special note (to me) was the story and interviews with Thomas Andrews Drake. This guy tried to blow the whistle on NSA abuses before Ed Snowden. Drake was squelched but Snowden learned valuable lessons on how to get the info out there. And there is a very short clip of senate hearings held by Al Franken on smart phone privacy. He bar-b-ques some executive from phone co.
2. We Steal Secrets (2013)
R | 130 min | Documentary
A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Julian Assange, Adrian Lamo, John 'FuzzFace' McMahon, Alex Gibney
Votes: 8,176 | Gross: $0.16M
This Alex Gibney documentary is not just another expose on Julian Assange. In fact, it paints him as rather pathetic. Of special interest are the candid interviews with Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden. Also included is the back story on Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning) who was the young man who blew the whistle on the all many abuses and often illegal actions of the US in Iraq.
3. Inequality for All (2013)
PG | 89 min | Documentary
A documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.
Director: Jacob Kornbluth | Stars: Robert Reich, Conan O'Brien, Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin
Votes: 7,018 | Gross: $1.21M
Entertaining and funny, Robert Reich (secretary of labor for Clinton's first term) has been trying to save the middle class since the 70s!!
4. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
R | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: John Beard, Tim Belden, Barbara Boxer, George W. Bush
Votes: 20,109
Old news but the devil is in the details. Details of the absolute unbridled greed of these white collar thugs.
5. Inside Job (2010)
PG-13 | 109 min | Documentary, Crime
Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
Director: Charles Ferguson | Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason, Sigridur Benediktsdottir
Votes: 78,955 | Gross: $4.31M
The story of what and who REALLY brought about the 2008 financial meltdown. And not one individual was criminally charged. In fact, many are back in power again.
6. We're Not Broke (2012)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
An exposé on how the government has allowed U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes and the growing wave of discontent that it has fostered.
Directors: Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes | Stars: James S. Henry, Chuck Collins, Bernie Sanders, Edward Kleinbard
Votes: 552
You won't find this info on the 6pm news. And if this one begins to upset you then you probably should stop now. The rest of this list just gets progressively darker.
7. The Fog of War (2003)
PG-13 | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Robert McNamara, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon
Votes: 25,046 | Gross: $4.20M
A candid interview with the Secretary of Defense during Vietnam. He almost apologizes.
8. The Unknown Known (2013)
PG-13 | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris
Votes: 4,291 | Gross: $0.28M
A NOT candid interview with the Secretary of Defense during Iraq War. He does not apologize and in one sequence he makes a cavalier statement on the failures there (paraphrasing) like "Sometimes Stuff Happens". The highlight is when he reads "The Swamp Memo". You just cannot make this stuff up!!
9. Hearts and Minds (1974)
R | 112 min | Documentary, History, War
A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
Director: Peter Davis | Stars: Tin Chan, Chau Diem, Ngo Dinh Diem, John Foster Dulles
Votes: 6,105 | Gross: $0.03M
History does repeat itself.
10. The Prosecution of an American President (2012)
101 min | Documentary
Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi makes the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking argument of his storied career. In "The ... See full summary »
Directors: David J. Burke, Dave Hagen | Stars: Vincent Bugliosi, George W. Bush, Elizabeth de la Vega, Alan Dershowitz
Votes: 39
If you buy in to Vincent Bugliosi's evidence, this movie is about as dark as dark can get. Bugliosi succinctly points out the evidence to charge Bush 43 with murder due to lying about reasons for Iraq War.
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