Any documentaries you guys recommend?

[RadioRaheem84]

I have seen The Corporation, George Orwell Spins in his Grave, New Rulers of the World and the Fog of War.

Any other anti-corporate, anti-media or anti-free market docs that I have missed?

[flyingpants]

Plenty.
The Fourth World War is about the anti-globalisation movements around the world.
DAM-age, a short film by Arundhati Roy, about dams displacing millinos of indians.
"Zapatista" is about the EZLN resistance in Chiapas, Mexico.
"Outfoxed" is a critique of FOX News. Very well done, strongly recommended.

Most importantly (imo) you've missed out Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent

You might also be interested in documentaries about war and US foreign policy.
Why We fight
The War Against the Third World

[Coggeh]

http://freedocumentaries.org/
Great site , loads of political documentaries

[bezdomni]

"Eight glorious years of people's war" about the revolution in nepal.

[R_P_A_S]

google "Salud!" Cuban Health Care

[Jimmie Higgins]

See "Harlan County U.S.A." - it's about a mining strike in the 1970s.

I don't know if you're from the U.S., but for me it was like watching a bunch of regular people I see everyday go from being just ordinary workers with and ordinary grab-bag of ideas to becoming radicalized and contemplating the use of rifles to defend themselves on the picket line.

The film-makers actually caught footage of the company's hired goons shooting at picketers. It really destroys all notions that US workers can never become radical.

[Digitalism]

Robert Greenwald's documentaries are pretty informative. "Outfoxed" has been posted already, I would recommend you check out his others

he does a good exposes on the Iraq war and Bush's administration.

A new documentary I've seen that's been nominated for an Oscar this year is "No End In Sight" it's pretty much about the whole Iraq war and what happened once the US invaded and the shit they did over there that pretty much CAUSED all the violence in Iraq that previously never existed there.

also if you haven't seen it, check out Michael Moore's "SICKO" his new doc on healthcare in US.

[More Fire for the People]

The Take

[#FF0000]

The War On Democracy is a fantastic one about the United States and it's hand in crushing popular movements and governments that didn't allow them to have their way with Latin America.

There's also a wonderful book called Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins that details his life working as a private contractor, whose job was to give wildly overblown economic forecasts to poor countries, making the few at the top wildly rich, while making the rest of the people even poorer, and driving the country into debt, thereby forcing them into political alliance with the US until they pay up.

EDIT: ALSO, I recommend Occupation: 101, which looks at the various injustices suffered by the Palestinian people because of Israel.

[NoGodsNoMasters]

Great site , loads of political documentaries

I've never found that site before. Great stuff! Thanks for posting it.

Getting away from just documentaries are there any movies with a socialist/communist theme.

I'd like to know for my own viewing but I'm also trying to show a rather open minded friend the problems with free market capitalism. I'm particularly interested in movies with an emphasis on harm done to families.

[which doctor]

The Take

And for those who enjoyed this movie I would suggest the book Horizontalism. It provides a rather comprehensive view of working-class reaction to the economic crisis in Argentina through the eyes of the members themselves.

[Labor Shall Rule]

Sir, No Sir

[rouchambeau]

Paris is Burning.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6329107839163654611&q=paris+is+burning&total=457&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

[robot lenin]

'Zeitgeist' is a really good documentary on conspiracy theories. It has 3 sections:

1) How Jesus is a reincarnation of other previous deities of other faiths
2) WTC attacks and if/how they were faked
3) How the bankers control the world via finance

It may not all be correct, but it is fantastically well made and convincing.

[Aduro]

If you're british, then 'Taking liberties since 1997' might be of interest. It's about how the labour party are taking away our right to free speech (not that it ever existed).

[Digitalism]

i watched The Corporation last week. man, that was one good documentary. Thanks to this thread btw.

[Saorsa]

"The Green Guerillas", about the New People's Army in the Philippines and it's work with indigenous moutnain people to defend the rainforests from logging companies.

"Hacienda Lucita", about a massacre that took place in the Philippines when the army shot down striking farm workers.

"Death of a Nation" by John Pilger, about Indonesia's occupation of East Timor and the West's role in it.

"People of the Shining Path", about the people's war in Peru shortly before the capture of Chairman Gonzalo.

That's enough for now... :P

[jake williams]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, about Hugo Chávez.

[Fedsoc]

Any of the documentaries by Adam Curtis are truly amazing.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Jammoe, that's about the best one -- next to Pilger's War on Democracy.

Sicko is excellent too.

Mark Steel on Che, is very good. I'll find the link.

I have posted a load at my YouTube page (including the entire The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, and the Mark Steel videos):

http://uk.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=600610659E528606

Ok, the Che link is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA9KQAAHZmc

[oujiQualm]

See the Murder of Fred Hampton. Youtube

[lvleph]

Big Sugar. I just watched in on Google Video.

[NoGodsNoMasters]

While not specifically communist/socialist, I found The Corporation an interesting and informative documentary.