In this documentary filmmaker Jeremy Seifert discovers the shocking amount of wasted food dumped in America while many struggle below the poverty line. While Jeremy digs through the dumpsters of L.A. it's a global issue that needs to be addressed.
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@DocsFansThursday, April 23, 2015 Tags :Odd,
Society
In 2008 a picture from Brazil went viral of a Tribe in the Amazon. The image showed a tribe who appeared to be aiming arrows at the plane from which the photo was shot. Questions were asked as to if this was a tribe of people that time forgot, could there in the 21st century be a people that have never been discovered by the outside world. In the documentary we travel to track down the photographer that took the picture and hunt for The Tribe In The Picture.
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In this BBC Documentary we learn the harsh reality of Britain's insane asylums, how they operated for over 100 years and their eventual closure. Those who were locked up in these bleak Victorian buildings were held like prisoners and subjected to experimental treatments often comparable to torture. Among the extreme treatments were electroconvulsive therapy, insulin therapy and frontal lobotomies.
Many of the patients had simply been 'Dumped' in the asylums when family's could no longer, or no longer wanted to look after them even though their ailments were often minor. In the film we hear from ex-patients, doctors and nurses about the history inside the madhouse.
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It may seem strange that we find Tom Shadyac the director of comedyfilms such as Ace Ventura and The Nutty Professor making a serious (although scattered with lighthearted moments) documentary about what's wrong with the world. Shadyac might never have taken this road had he not taken a fall on another road, a serious bicycle accident in 2007 left him with Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS). With PCS the symptoms of concussion linger long after the accident leaving sufferers with constant headaches, irrational thought and other emotional issues.
By the time the symptoms subsided Shadyac had a different view on life or at least a stronger connection to the view that there is something wrong with the world. At the heart of the film is the question Is there an underlying problem that leads to our consumer culture, the way we act, treat our fellow man and our planet? In the film he tells his story and meets with spiritual leaders, scientists, environmentalists and philosophers such as Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Coleman Barks, Elisabet Sahtouris, David Suzuki and Howard Zinn to get their opinions.
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The Dark Side Of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary in which Danish reporter Miki Mistrati sets out to highlight child labour and trafficking in Chocolate production. In 2000 The BBC produced a programme on Slavery still occurring around the world including in the cocoa industry which led to an immediate response from the Chocolate Manufacturers Association. The BBC had showed child labour and evidence of human trafficking on cocoa plantations in Africa, the Chocolate Manufacturers subsequently signed an agreement in 2001 to eradicate such labour.
Miki Mistrati wants to show the Chocolate Manufacturers have not took the steps promised and after asking chocolate vendors in Germany if they knew were there chocolate was sourced he left for Africa. Often using hidden cameras to capture footage Mistrati visits the cocoa plantations in Mali and The Ivory Coast to find evidence of children being forced to work.
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Born Into Brothels looks at the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi India, Sonagachi is thought be be Asia's largest red light district. The film by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman won the 2004 Academy Award For Best Documentary Feature. Briski a photographer had gone to Sonagachi to stay with and photograph the prostitutes and while there she thought the kids who had shown an interest in taking pictures how to work a camera. Indeed she gifts each of the kids a camera of their own and it's their photos that show the unseen side of growing up in a Brothel.
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This 2012 BBC documentary series titled "Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs" looks at the million servants still working in stately homes across the United Kingdom at the beginning of the last century. With the huge popularity of the TV showDownton Abbey many have asked if the life of Servants is properly portrayed in the show. Downton by no means suggests servant life was easy but those old enough to remember and evidence available shows a harder life and darker side to treatment of Servants. We know Downton Abby is set in the years from 1912, in the first episode news of the Titanic sinking reaches the house and it's there the documentary starts as well.
The show has three episodes all in the playlist below, presented by Dr. Pamela Cox they are No Going Back, Class War and Knowing Your Place.
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Anonymous is a something of an online vigilante group or as many members refer to themselves as hacktivist's. In the documentary we follow the story of the group from forming on website 4chen and carrying out early pranks to more organized actions against those they perceived to stand in the way of online freedom. Formed in 2003 over the following years as the groups reach expanded so did their actions, online they carried out hacks on religions bodies such as the Church of Scientology, Government websites around the world and corporate sites such as PayPal and MasterCard.
Anonymous also brought their protests to the streets wearing the now familiar Guy Fawkes masks as a disguise similarly done in the Wachowskis film V For Vendetta. So who is behind Anonymous and what is their purpose ? Can their actions be justified and what are their plans for the future ? The documentary tries to answer these questions, an important note for the video it is hosted on the official Anonymous YouTube channel so whether this constitutes a bias toward the group you can decide for yourself.
Spellbound is a much celebrated 2002 documentary, nominated for an Academy Award and listed 4th in the IDA top 25 documentaries ever. The premise is simple, follow eight of the teen competitors in the American National Spelling Bee, a competition that tests the brightest kids spelling ability's. The kids must qualify from their schools then regional competitions before going to the high octane Scripps National spelling championships. The spelling Bee will be 110 years old this year (2015), during principle filming in 1999 among the past winners we meet the first ever winner from 1925 Frank Neuhauser.
In the documentary we see the time, work, frustration and pressure the kids endure in the quest to progress and have a shot at the nationals. But it's the pressure that makes you feel for them most, be it from Teachers, Family, themselves or the structure of the competition that seems organized to add to it. All from very different backgrounds brought together because they can spell words they often don't understand, Film Maker Jeffrey Blitz who later would go on to direct The Office created a gem that can leave viewers Spellbound.
@DocsFansSunday, February 22, 2015 Tags :Science,
Society
What the Bleep Do We Know!? originally titled What the #$*! Do We Know!? is a 2004 documentary that through interviews, graphics and the case of a character called Amanda looks at the world in a different way. The film was made by students of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment an American spiritual school and uses quantum physics to try explain some of the questions of life. When the film gained attention through viral marketing a distributor took it on thus giving the film a much larger audience. The film has been questioned by scientists claiming some of the content is factually incorrect.
Prussian Blue was the name used by two teen twin girls Lynx and Lamb Gaede for their pop music duo act with a difference. The girls had all the look and sound of a regular teen pop act until we hear the subjects covered in the the songs, White nationalism. In the 2007 documentary James Quinn meets not just the two girls then 14 years old but the entire family who have a background of white supremacy and racism. Can two young girls really have such strong opinions on race or are we seeing the influence of their mother and grandfather at work ?
In 1980 TV cameras were for the first time allowed to film a prison death row when they visited Florida State Prison. We meet three inmates sentenced to death, they tell us their story as they await their destiny. With the footage shot over 30 years ago it is in many ways a look back at the penal system and attitudes to the death sentence at the time, although many of the issues survive today.
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