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62) Trust WHO
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The World Health Organization (WHO) was founded with the aim of building a healthier future for people all over the world. Whether it’s the effects of smoking, the Swine flu pandemic or a nuclear disaster, the WHO is the body we rely on to advise on and resolve a public health crisis. But can it be trusted? TRUST WHO documents filmmaker Lilian Franck’s quest to discover what lies behind the altruistic façade of the world’s largest public health...
64) Hornet's Nest
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The HORNET'S NEST is a groundbreaking and immersive feature film, using unprecedented real footage to tell the story of an elite group of U.S. troops sent on a dangerous mission deep inside one of Afghanistan's most hostile valleys. What was planned as a single day strike turned into nine intense days of harrowing combat against an invisible, hostile enemy in the country's complex terraine where no foreign troops had ever dared to go before. Two embedded...
Publisher
Hole in the Media Producttions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Explores the kind of media censorship that is occurring as the corporate-controlled media ignore or under report important news while featuring a steady stream of sensational and irrelevant stories. Highlights the work of Project Censored to draw attention to the methods and motivations of corporate news media and to its failure to adequately report on stories of national and global importance. Suggests how citizens can organize and take action to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"W.H. Auden famously wrote: "Poetry makes nothing happen." Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at TIME magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to the 20th century's extraordinary cast of characters-statesmen and dictators, saints and heroes, liars and monsters, and the reporters, editors, and publishers who interpreted their deeds. He shows...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Independent journalists like Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Matt Taibbi are changing the face of journalism, providing investigative, adversarial alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets. Cameras follow as they expose government and corporate deception; just as the ground-breaking independent journalist I.F. Stone did decades ago.
69) Reportero
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This film follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at Zeta - a Tijuana-based independent newspaper as they stubbornly ply their trade in one of the deadliest places in the world for members of the media. As the drug war intensifies and the risks to journalists become greater, will the free press be silenced?
71) Network
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A television newscaster's mental breakdown turns him into a celebrity when the network tries to profit from his illness.
74) Mad As Hell
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed film documents the tumultuous, at times hilarious, and altogether astonishing trajectory of Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks’ main host and founder, as he traverses from unknown Public Access TV host to internet sensation by way of YouTube.. When he ventures into national television by landing the 6 PM timeslot on MSNBC, Cenk’s uncensored brand of journalism is compromised as he becomes a thorn in the side of traditional news media;...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine, founded in 1865 and now in its 150th year, has long been considered one of America’s definitive journalistic voices. Hot Type, the new film by Barbara Kopple, a two-time Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature, tells the riveting and surprising story of The Nation.. The film captures daily life at the magazine, introduces staff writers and editors past and present, and follows members of...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Media bias has been a hot-button issue for several decades, and it features prominently in the post 2016 political conversation. Yet it receives only spotty treatment in existing materials aimed at political communication or introductory American politics courses. Evaluating Media Bias is a brief, supplemental resource that provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias....
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Legendary newsman Mike Wallace unflinchingly interrogated the twentieth century's biggest figures in over 50 years on the air, and his aggressive reporting style and showmanship redefined what America came to expect from broadcasters. Unearthing decades of never-before-seen footage from the 60 Minutes vault, this documentary portrait explores what drove and plagued this restless reporter, whose storied career was entwined with the evolution of journalism...
Publisher
Brave New Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Documentary on reported Conservative bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel (FNC), which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced". Material includes interviews with former FNC employees and the inter-office memos they provided.
79) Slow News
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A man punches a kangaroo: animal rights activists get shocked. Trump’s tweets. Chemtrails, anti-vaxxers, breaking news: we are drowning in an information overload. Every 60 seconds we share millions of items on Facebook, we watch millions of videos on Youtube, we write billions of tweets. False newspapers with true hoaxes, real newspapers with fake news. People believe everything and nothing at the same time. Around the world, some journalists are...
Publisher
3Boxmedia International Sales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Mexico is one of the most dangerous places on Earth for journalists. In the last few years more than 100 have been killed and those responsible have remained unpunished. Reports of injustice and cases of corruption or drug trafficking end up in cold-blooded murders allegedly ordered by politicians police officers and drug traffickers.
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