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Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

Written on 23 Mar, 2010 at 10:05 in Culture | viewed 9 times | 0 Comments
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

Hip-hop’s rise from an underground party scene dominated by Bronx youth to a billion-dollar-generating worldwide phenomenon that has transcended genre and geography and defined an entire generation has spanned nearly four decades.... (Watch this Video)

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The Modern Racist Paradigm

Written on 31 Jan, 2010 at 0:35 in Insight | viewed 14 times | 0 Comments
The Modern Racist Paradigm

The documentary addresses many modern-day internalized racist psychological dispositions (subconscious forms of internalized racism) which are unknowingly passed down from generation to generation... (Watch this Video)

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A Classroom Divided

Written on 30 Jan, 2010 at 4:16 in Insight | viewed 70 times | 0 Comments
A Classroom Divided

One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting... (Watch this Video)

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Grass: The History Of Marijuana

Written on 30 Jan, 2010 at 0:50 in Drugs | viewed 11 times | 0 Comments
Grass: The History Of Marijuana

Released in 2000, This film explores the history of the American government's official policy on marijuana in the 20th century.... (Watch this Video)

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Hippies

Written on 29 Jan, 2010 at 17:24 in Culture | viewed 4 times | 0 Comments
Hippies

"Tune In, Turn On, and Drop Out" was the motto of the hippie movement, a significant counter-cultural phenomenon in the 1960s and early 1970s that grew partially out of young America's growing disillusionment with U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.... (Watch this Video)

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Explorer: World’s Most Dangerous Gang

Written on 24 Jan, 2010 at 23:02 in Culture | viewed 15 times | 0 Comments
Explorer: World's Most Dangerous Gang

You've seen the graffiti, the tattoos, the headlines documenting their brutality. What is driving the rapid spread of the ultra-violent gang MS-13? National Geographic Explorer takes you inside this burgeoning criminal enterprise now terrorizing 33 states and six countries. ... (Watch this Video)

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Why We Fight ?

Written on 24 Jan, 2010 at 18:11 in Conflict | viewed 6 times | 0 Comments
Why We Fight ?

A documentary film about the military-industrial complex. The title refers to the World War II era eponymous propaganda movies commissioned by the U.S. Government to justify their decision to enter the war against the Axis Powers.... (Watch this Video)

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IRAN

Written on 23 Jan, 2010 at 14:26 in Conflict, Politics Now | viewed 5 times | 0 Comments
IRAN

This 79 minute documentary features Antonia Juhasz (The Bu$h Agenda), Larry Everest (Oil, Power, and Empire), and other activists and Iranian-Americans. The goal of this movie is to promote dialog and change the debate on Iran, so please consider organizing... (Watch this Video)

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The Denial Machine

Written on 23 Jan, 2010 at 12:00 in Environment | viewed 11 times | 0 Comments
The Denial Machine

The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the activities of a group of scientists, some of whom previously consulted for Big Tobacco, and who are now... (Watch this Video)

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HBO: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Written on 23 Jan, 2010 at 3:30 in Conflict | viewed 3 times | 0 Comments
HBO: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Rory Kennedy's "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" is an examination of what was perhaps the most disgraceful episode in U.S. military history - the prisoner abuse scandal involving US soldiers and detainees at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison in the fall... (Watch this Video)

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