Hawai‘i Pacific UniversityViewpoints Films Available for Classroom Use

Fall 2004–Spring 2010 Compiled by Phyllis Frus

Note: Films with titles not bolded are related to Viewpoints but were not shown as part of the weekly series.

AFRICAChocolat (1988, 106 min) PCH 773 Dir. Claire Denis. A young woman raised in a French colony (now Cameroon) returns for a visit and remembers her childhood in a flashback, focusing on the relationship between her mother and Protée, the family’s loyal servant.

Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998, 70 min) PKI 863 Dir. Michel Ocelot. Animated film recounting the tale of a clever, courageous boy born in an African village under a terrible curse.

Moolaadé (2004, 124 min) PMO 860 Set in Burkina Faso, this feature film by famed Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène tells the story of a woman who takes on the village elders to oppose female circumcision.

Throw Down Your Heart (2008, 97 min) MTH 032 Dir. Sascha Paladino. Follows American banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little-known African roots of the banjo and record an album. This boundary-breaking documentary celebrates the beauty and complexity of an Africa that is rarely seen in the media today.

Tsotsi (2005, 94 min) PTS 859 Dir. Gavin Hood. Winner of the Oscar for best foreign-language film, Tsotsi depicts a homeless South African boy’s journey after he commits a violent crime. Although it is based on Athol Fugard’s only novel, written in English, Hood chose to film in Tsotsitaal, a hybrid patois widely spoken in South African townships, which he calls “ghetto” or “gangster” language.

War Dance (2007, 105 min) BWA 185Dir. Sean Fine and Andrea Nix. Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country’s national music and dance festival.

ANIMÉ Grave of the Fireflies (See films about War.)

Kirikou and the Sorceress (See films about Africa.)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (See Dystopian Visions.)

Persepolis (See films about Iran.)

Scanner Darkly, A (See Dystopian Visions.)

Spirited Away (2001, 124 min) PSP 756 Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. In the middle of her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by witches and monsters, where humans are changed into animals.

Waltz with Bashir (See films about the Middle East.)

ART, MUSIC, THEATER Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides (2004, 90 min) NRI 065 Dir. Thomas Reidelsheimer. This beautiful documentary shows the work process of an artist who specialized in ephemeral sculptures using environmental features.

Cats of Mirikitani, The (2006, 74 min) HCA 730 Dir. Linda Hattendorf. The story of a homeless 85-year-old Japanese-American artist living on the streets of New York in the months before 9/11. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing power of art.

Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005, 93 min) PSH 908 Dir. Hank Rogerson. An upbeat documentary that follows the presentation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest by Kentucky prison inmates.

Shut Up and Sing (See films about US Politics.)

Throw Down Your Heart (2008, 97 min) MTH 032 Dir. Sascha Paladino. Follows American banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little-known African roots of the banjo and record an album. This boundary-breaking documentary celebrates the beauty and complexity of an Africa that is rarely seen in the media today.

ASIANGrave of the Fireflies (See films about War.)

Hero (2002, 99 min) PHE 776 Dir. Yimou Zhang. A martial-arts epic starring Jet Li told in Rashomon-like flashbacks.

State of Mind, A (2004, 93 min) DST 181 Dir. Daniel Gordon. A British documentary that follows two young North Korean girls as they prepare for the Mass Games, the world’s largest choreographed gymnastics performance.

Up the Yangtze (2007, 93 min) DUP 190 Dir. Yung Chang. When the Three Gorges Dam makes life hard for the Yu family, daughter Yu Shui must take a job aboard a cruise ship, where she enters into a dizzying microcosm of modern China. Meanwhile, her parents face the rising waters of the Yangtze.

ASIAN AMERICANCats of Mirikitani, The (See films about Art.)

Halving the Bones (1996, 70 min) PHA 886 Dir. Ruth Ozeki. An exploration of the meaning of family, history and memory, and cultural identity through three generations of women. The film looks autobiographical but is actually a faux documentary, much like Bontoc Eulogy, another Asian American film in the LAC.

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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS1984 (1984, 113 min) PNI 899 Winston is a government bureaucrat trying to fight the system in a dystopian society of the future where “Big Brother” scrutinizes people’s everyday activities in order to control their thoughts and beliefs. Based on George Orwell’s classic novel.

Blade Runner (1982, 117 min) PBL 851 Dir. Ridley Scott. In 2019, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth. Harrison Ford stars in a film that has been called one of the most influential American films of the late 20th century.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1985, 116 min) PNA 847 Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.

Scanner Darkly, A (2006, 100 min) PSC 900 Dir. Richard Linklater. A story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly monitored by intensive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic.

ECONOMICSCorporation, The (2004, 145 min) HCO 671 Dir. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. A Canadian documentary that ranges from third-world sweatshops and Monsanto petrochemical atrocities to the targeting of kiddie consumers and U.S. corporate collusion with Nazi Germany.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004, 109 min) HEN 674 Dir. Alex Gibney. Based on the book of the same name that traced the events that brought down Enron in 2001, the documentary is an indictment of corporate greed.

Small Fortunes (2006, 60 min) HSM 715 A documentary on microfinance, featuring the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mohammed Yunus. The film shows viewers how to get involved.

Take, The (2005, 87 min) PTA 764 Dir. Avi Lewis. After the collapse of the Argentine economy in 2001, unemployed workers moved into the dormant factories and brought them back to life as collectively run enterprises. This documentary narrated by activist Naomi Klein tells their story. (Thanks to Carlos Juarez of International Studies for contributing to the purchase of the DVD.)

ENVIRONMENTDarwin’s Nightmare (2004, 107 min) SDA 012 Dir. Hubert Sauper. A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.

Flow: For Love of Water (2008, 84 min) TFL 052 Dir. Irena Salina. From both local and global perspectives, this documentary examines the harsh realities behind the mounting water crisis. It reveals how politics, pollution, and human rights are intertwined in this important issue that affects every being on Earth.

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Go Further (2003, 80 min) GGO 095 Award-winning documentary director Ron Mann joins actor/activist Woody Harrelson as he pilots a hemp-fuelled bus on an eco-consciousness-raising excursion down the Pacific Coast.

Grizzly Man (2005, 103 min) QGR 484 Acclaimed director Werner Herzog explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell, who left extensive video footage of his interactions with the bears over thirteen summers.

Next Industrial Revolution, The: William McDonough, Michael Braungart and the Birth of the Sustainable Economy (2001, 55 min) NE 675 This documentary tells the story of the movement led by architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart to bring together ecology and human design. Features college buildings (the Oberlin College Environmental Studies Center) and businesses (Ford’s Rouge River plant) that manage to work with nature while remaining profitable.

Planet Earth (2007) QPL 483 Eleven one-hour episodes of the highly acclaimed series are available on five disks.

Rachel’s Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer (1997, 107 min) RRA 781 Dir. Allie Light and Irving Saraf. This documentary follows a group of breast cancer activists and survivors. Seeing themselves as spiritual heirs of author Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned of the dangers of DDT exposure, they focus on issues including chemical contamination, radiation, and electromagnetic exposure to find breast cancer’s causes

Sharkwater (2007, 89 min) QSH 491 Documentarian Rob Stewart dives into shark-filled seas to disprove fear-based stereotypes and raise awareness of the world’s dwindling shark population. But he ventures into dangerous waters when he battles shark poachers in this award-winning film.

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, 256 min) QWH 481 The powerful Spike Lee documentary on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Age of Stupid, The (2009, 92 min) QAG 496 Dir. Franny Armstrong. This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: “Why didn’t we stop climate change when we still had the chance?”

Inconvenient Truth, An (2006, 100 min) QIN 480 This Oscar-winning documentary, directed by Davis Guggenheim, follows former Vice President Al Gore as he gives his lecture on global warming.

Oasis of the Pacific: Time is Running Out (2005, 58 min) POA 757 Dir. Adam Bromley. This beautiful documentary takes viewers on a revealing journey through the stunning, yet endangered undersea world of the Hawaiian Islands, explaining the threats posed to marine life by shoreline sprawl, pollution, and over fishing.

Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific (2004, 60 min) QRI 437 Through interviews and personal stories of Pacific Islanders living in Kiribati, Samoa, Hawai’i, and the atolls of Micronesia, this documentary illustrates how the Pacific Islands are already feeling the effects of rising sea levels caused by global warming

Strange Days on Planet Earth: Invaders and The One-Degree Factor (2005, 120 min) QST

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456 Edward Norton narrates two one-hour documentaries produced by National Geographic about invasive species and global warning, respectively. Disk 2 includes Predators and Troubled Waters.

FOOD

Food, Inc. (2008, 94 min) QFO 494 Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

Future of Food, The (2004, 88 min) SFU 006 Dir. Deborah Koons Garcia. A reviewer called this documentary “An engaging and lucid presentation of not only the science of genetic engineering but the people and the politics behind what looks to be a pitched battle to control the global food supply.”

Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawai’i (2008, 30 min) A documentary produced for Earthjustic, a nonprofit public interest law film, that details the threat posed by experimental pharmaceutical crops and interviews local farmers and activists about the fight to protect the Islands’ food supply. QIS 488 (The ETC also has a copy.)

King Corn (2007, 88 min) HKO 728 Dir. Aaron Woolf. Two friends move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. They plant an acre of corn and follow it from seed to market; what they find after it enters the food supply raises troubling questions about what we eat .

My Father’s Garden (1995, 56 min) HMY 715 Dir. Miranda Smith. An engrossing, emotionally charged documentary about the use and misuse of technology on the American farm. Made more than a decade before the current interest in sustainable agriculture, the film shows the sharp contrast between chemical and organic farming.

Real Dirt on Farmer John, The (2005, 82 min) SRE 011 Dir. Taggart Siegel. The epic tale, based partly on his own home movies, of an unconventional farmer who saves the acres he inherited by transforming it to community-supported agriculture (CSA) and farming in a sustainable way.

Super Size Me (2004, 100 min) RSU 709 To draw Americans’ attention to what they are eating, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock spent a month eating nothing but McDonald’s food, three meals a day, with dire results.

World According to Monsanto, The (2008, 109 min) HWO 736 Dir. Marie-Monique Robin. Monsanto Company is the world’s leader in agricultural chemicals, seed and genetically modified crops, as well as being one of the most controversial companies in industrial history. This documentary uses previously unpublished documents and testimonies of victims, scientists, and politicians to expose Monsanto’s lack of care in protecting the environment and the health of those exposed to their products.

OIL

Being Caribou (2005, 72 min) QBE 460 In 2003, Leanne Wilson and her wildlife biologist husband migrated on foot with the caribou to the strip of land within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska that has been the calving grounds for the endangered Porcupine Caribou Herd for 27,000 years and is threatened by advocates of oil drilling.

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Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow (2005, 66 min) QOI 461 Dir. Nadja Drost. A documentary about the resistance of Ecuadorans to a Canadian oil company’s exploitation of their land. Update Fall 2009: Joe Berliner, a documentary filmmaker, made Crude, which explains why the indigenous people are suing Chevron for environmental and health devastation as a result of toxic spills.

End of Suburbia, The: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (2004, 78 min) HEN 684 Dir. Gregory Greene. A timely documentary about our dependence on cheap energy and how we will be affected by the coming peak in world oil production.

Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream (2007, 95 min) HES 727 Filmmaker Gregory Greene follows up The End of Suburbia, which condemned America’s oil dependency, by focusing his camera on individuals across the country who are challenging their communities to serious change.

Oil on Ice (2004, 90 min) QOI 461 Dir. Bo Boudart and Dale Djerassi. Documentary about the effect drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would have on the indigenous people of Alaska.

Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006, 92 min) TWO 050 Dir. Chris Paine. The life and mysterious death of the EV-1, one of the fastest and most fuel-efficient cars ever made.

GENOCIDECounterfeiters, The (2007, 98 min) PCO 893 Dir. Stefan Ruzowitsky. The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, a Russian Jew captured by the Nazis in 1944 who agreed to help them in an organized counterfeiting operation set up to finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit-money scam of all time. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

Devil Came on Horseback, The (2007, 85 min) DDE 187 Dir. Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. The genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan, as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. marine who returns home to make the story public.

God on Trial (2008, 84 min) PGO 897 Dir. Andy De Emmony. Based on the true story of a group of Auschwitz prisoners who decide to put God on trial during WWII. The inmates convene a rabbinical court to determine how such evil could exist in a God-centric universe as they await the determination of their own fate.

Hotel Rwanda (2004, 121 min) PHO 762 Dir. Terry George. This feature film tells the true story of Hutu Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of a four-star, French-owned resort hotel who evolved into the Oskar Schindler of Rwanda by housing over a thousand Tutsi refugees during the genocide of 1994.

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2004, 90 min) HSH 673 Dir. Peter Raymont. A documentary about Canadian Lt. Gen. Dallaire and his command of the UN mission to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.

GLOBALIZATIONChina Blue (2005, 86 min) HCH 737 Dir. Micha X. Peled. Documentary following the life of a young girl working in a Chinese denim factory.

Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005, 72 min) HMA 717 Dir. David Redmon. This documentary examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads

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from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City.

IMMIGRATION AND MIGRATIONBroken English (1996, 90 min) PBR 774 Dir. Gregor Nicholas. When a young Croatian woman living in Auckland takes a Maori lover, her father tries to break it up. In the background are Tongans, the close-knit Croatian community, and a Chinese couple seeking legal status for the husband so that they can “make little kiwis.”

In This World (2002, 88 min) PIN 858 Dir. Michael Winterbottom. A documentary-like feature film about two boys from an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan who are smuggled through Turkey and Italy, to live in London.

James’ Journey to Jerusalem (2003, 87 min) PJA 777 Dir. Ra’anan Alexandrowicz. A Christian man from Africa makes a pilgrimage to Israel. Like Broken English, this feature is about xenophobia, immigrants’ dreams, and the harm that stereotypes inflict.

Lost Boys of Sudan (2003, 87 min) ELO 038 Dir. Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk. This documentary follows three young Dinka tribesmen from refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya to their new lives in Houston.

Rain in a Dry Land (2006, 82 min) ERA 074 Dir. Anne Makepeace. Documentary follows two Somali Bantu families who leave behind a legacy of slavery in Africa and find new homes in urban America.

Under the Same Moon (2007, 110 min) PUN 889 Dir. Patricia Riggen. Rosario works illegally in the United States to provide a better life for her son Carlitos, who remains at home in Mexico. Longing for his mother, Carlitos stows away on a van that’s headed for the border.

INDIGENOUS FILMSLand Has Eyes, The (2004, 87 min) GPE 090 Director/Writer Vilsoni Hereniko introduced the film, which interweaves one family’s story with that of Warrior Woman, the origin myth of Rotuma, the Fijian island where the film is set.

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002, 94 min) PRA 638 Dir. Philip Noyce. Feature based on the true story of a young aboriginal Australian girl who leads her younger sister and cousin in an escape from an official government camp.

Whale Rider (2002, 101 min) PWH 606 Dir. Niki Caro. A young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize in this feature film.

IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, PAKISTANAfghan Stories (2002, 60 min) DAF 163 Dir. Taran Davies. A documentary that interviews a member of the Afghan royal family once tortured by the Taliban, a refugee couple stuck in no man’s land, a revered elder dedicated to peace and his soldier son, an international aid worker, US soldiers, and Afghan warlords.

Beauty Academy of Kabul, The (2004, 74 min) TBE 049 Dir. Liz Mermin. A documentary about American women who set up a beauty school in Afghanistan. (See Deborah Rodriguez’s account of her experience in the book Kabul Beauty School.)

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Blood of My Brother: A Story of Death in Iraq (2005, 90 min) PBL 845 Dir. Andrew Berends. Documentary showing the war in Iraq from the perspective of an Iraqi family grieving the loss of a son killed by Americans.

Control Room (2004, 84 min) DCO 164 Dir. Jehane Noujaim. This fascinating verité documentary began as a behind-the-scenes look at Al Jazeera, the Arabic news network based in Qatar, but with the invasion of Iraq Western viewers got a chance to see through Arab eyes.

Crimson Gold (Iran, 2003, 95 min) PCR 760 Dir. Jafar Panahi. A humble Iranian pizza deliveryman feels humiliated by the injustices he sees in contemporary Tehran. This feature film, based on a true story, follows Hussein, a pizza delivery driver, as he discovers the deep inequities between rich and poor in modern Iran.

Dateline Afghanistan: Reporting the Forgotten War (2007, 54 min) DDA 184 Dir. Bill Gentile. Interviews with some of the journalists covering the war; more than 100 had been killed by 2007.

Daughters of Afghanistan (2004, 58 min) HDA 722 Dir. Robin Benger. The lives of four women and one girl are followed as they pursue liberation.

In This World (See films about Immigration and Migration.)

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006, 85 min) DIR 182 Andrew O’Heir in Salon calls this documentary by Robert Greenwald an “exposé of the remarkable levels of greed and corruption that accompany our partly privatized overseas war. . . . Greenwald offers an amusing comeback to those critics . . . who have complained that he never gets responses from the object of his attacks.”

Kandahar (Afghanistan, 2001, 85 min) PKA 692 Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf. This fact-based film tells the story of Nafas, a journalist who fled Afghanistan for Canada as a child. Now Nafas must return in secret to her Taliban-controlled home in Kandahar to save her sister, who has lost both legs in a land-mine explosion and has sent a letter threatening to kill herself.

My Country, My Country (2006, 90 min) DMY 182 Dir. Laura Poitras. Called the definitive documentary on Iraq, this Academy Award Nominated movie depicts the war from the Sunni point of view; a doctor at a free clinic runs for office in the 05 elections.

Offside (2006, 93 min) POF 862 Dir. Jafar Panahi. Feature film about a group of Iranian girls who try to enter Tehran’s Azadi Stadium dressed as boys in order to watch a big football match.

Osama (Afghanistan, 2003, 83 min) POS 763 Dir. Siddiq Barmak. Inspired by a true story, this feature film depicts a young girl living under the Taliban who is forced to pose as a boy in order to work and support her family.

Persepolis (2007, 95 min) PPE 892 Dir. Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi. This animated feature film tells the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Based on the stirring graphic novel memoirs of Marjane Satrapi.

Road to Guantánamo, The (2006, 95 min) PRO 846 Dir. Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross. Part drama, part documentary, this film focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.

Silent Waters (Pakistan, 2003, 95 min) PSI 761 Dir. Sabiha Sumar. Set in a small Pakistani village in 1979, this feature film reveals the effects of displacement and the violence against Sikhs and against women that was part of the partition of India and Pakistan.

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Taxi to the Darkside (2007, 106 min) HTA 729 Dir. Alex Gibney. An in-depth look at the case of an Afghan taxi driver who died in U.S. custody 2002 that explores the role of torture in the “war on terror.” Winner of the 2008 Oscar for best documentary.

Turtles Can Fly (2004, 98 min) PTU 905 Dir. Bahman Ghobadi. A young boy in a Kurdish refugee camp at the border of Turkey and Iraq helps clear minefields and installs satellite dishes while residents await news of the impending U.S. invasion. A timely film about children struggling to survive in an endless war zone.

Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004, 84 min) DUN 188 Dir. Robert Greenwald. CIA analysts, UN weapons inspectors, Pentagon officials, politicians, and others from both sides of the aisle dissect the evidence offered by the Bush administration for leading the United States into war with Iraq.

War Tapes, The (2006, 97 min) DWA 185 Winner of the Tribeca Film Festival, this film is composed of footage shot by National Guardsmen from New Hampshire who were given cameras to document their tour of duty. Director Deborah Scranton filmed the families they left behind.

LESSONS IN WATCHING FILMCinema Vérité: Defining the Moment (1999, 102 min) PCI 850 Dir. Peter Wintonick. A documentary about the direct-cinema movement of the 1950s and 60s, driven by a group of rebel filmmakers tired of stilted documentaries who wanted to show life as it really is: raw, gritty, dramatic. Rich in excerpts from verité classics with commentary by filmmakers, the film captures the influence of the revolutionary movement in everything from TV news to music videos to Webcams.

September 11 (11.9.01) ( 2002, 122 min) Eleven filmmakers from 11 different countries contributed a film of 11 minutes, 11 seconds and one frame responding to the day’s events.

Visions of Light (1992, 92 min) TVI 043 The story of cinematography as seen through the lenses of the world’s greatest filmmakers and captured in classic scenes from more than 125 movies.

LOCAL INTERESTMassie Affair, The (2005, 60 min) PMA 775 Dir. Mark Zwonitzer. Documentary about a sensational 1931 Honolulu case that exposed racial tensions beneath the surface of this apparent paradise.

Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i (2008, 82 min) DNO 192 Dir. Anne Keala Kelly. In the Hawaiian language, hewa means “wrong” and noho means “to occupy.” This documentary is a contemporary look at Hawaiian people, politics and resistance in the face of their systematic erasure under U.S. laws, economy, militarism, and real estate speculation.

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2009, 57 min) EPA 077 Dir. Kimberlee Bassford. In 1965, Patsy Mink became the first woman of color in the U.S. Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the U.S. presidency and co-authored Title IX, the landmark legislation that opened up higher education and athletics to America’s women. This documentary tells the story of this dynamic trailblazer who, battling racism and sexism, redefined American politics.

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Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai‘i (2009, 60 min) PPI 907 Dir. Marlene Booth. Born on sugar plantations and spoken by more than half of Hawai‘i’s population, the Pidgin language -- part English, part Hawaiian, with influences from other languages -- captures the essence of multi-ethnic Hawai‘i . This film traces the history of pidgin from its rise as plantation jargon to a source of Island identity and pride.

MEDIAGood Night and Good Luck (2005, 93 min) PGO 867 Dir. George Clooney. Chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America.

Myth of the Liberal Media, The: The Propaganda Model of News (1997, 60 min) HMY 551 Dir. Sut Jhally. (VHS) A documentary in which Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky (co-authors of the book Manufacturing Consent) demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture: the idea of the “liberal media”.

Orwell Rolls in His Grave (2004, 84 min) POR 693 Dir. Robert Kane Pappas. A documentary that shows the dangers of media monopolies and questions whether Americans are being given enough information for democracy to survive.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (2004, 87 min) POU 694 Dir. Robert Greenwald. Uses the inflammatory tactics of the Fox News Channel to demonstrate the conservative bias that’s handed down by Fox’s owner, media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

MICHAEL MOORE DOCUMENTARIESBig One, The (1997, 91 min) HBI 682 Moore visits 47 cities in search of one corporate maven who can explain to him why, if his company isn’t in trouble, he needs to dump his workers for Third World labor.

Bowling for Columbine (2002, 120 min) PBO 569 Oscar-winning documentary in which Michael Moore asks, Why do Americans kill each other more often than people in any other democratic nation? He focuses his quest around the shootings at Columbine High School and of one 6-year-old by another near his own hometown of Flint, Michigan.

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004, 124 min) EFA 061 One of the most controversial films of 2004, the documentary was released in summer in the hope that it would influence voters to defeat Bush’s re-election bid. It won the Palme d’Or (Best Film Award) at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Roger and Me (1989, 91 min) JRO 031 In Moore’s first film and, to many, still his best, the young director pursues GM CEO Roger Smith to confront him about the harm he did to his hometown, Flint, Michigan, by closing plants and laying off workers in the eighties.

Sicko (2007, 123 min) RSI 755 Michael Moore’s documentary comparing the highly profitable U.S. health care industry to that of other nations and featuring Americans’ HMO horror stories.

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THE MIDDLE EASTGaza Strip (2002, 74 min) JGA 032 Dir. James Longley. A documentary that uses the techniques of Cinéma Vérité. No voice-over narration or talking-head interviews gives the story of daily life under duress a riveting immediacy.

Goal Dreams (2006, 84 min) GGO 098 Dir. Maya Sanbar and Jeffrey Saunders. Follow the ups and downs of the Palestinian national soccer team as they prepare for the qualifying rounds of the 2006 World Cup. Made up of athletes from around the world who come from different cultures and speak different languages, the team searches for a single identity.

Paradise Now (2005, 90 min) PPA 861 Dir. Hany Abu-Assad. A feature film about two Palestinian friends recruited by an extremist group to blow themselves up in a Tel Aviv attack.

Promises (Palestine-Israel, 2001, 106 min) DPR 165 Dir. Carlos Bolado, B. Z. Goldberg, and Justine Shapiro. Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict.

Rana’s Wedding (feature film, 2002, 90 min) PRA 758 Dir. Hany Abu-Assad. A feature film shot on location in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and at checkpoints in-between. As young woman, with only ten hours to marry, must negotiate her way around roadblocks, soldiers, stone-throwers, and overworked officials

Waltz with Bashir (2008, 90 min) PWA 901 In this award-winning animated documentary, director Ari Folman explores the gaps in his memory about the time he spent as a soldier in the Israeli army during the Lebanese war of the early 1980s.

PROTEST Battle in Seattle (2007, 98 min) PBA 896 Dir. Stuart Townsend. In 1999, during the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, an eclectic group of demonstrators brings the city to a state of near-chaos. Documentary footage blends seamlessly into the story of fictitious, but representative, protestors in this feature film.

Berkeley in the 60s (1990, 117 min) EBE 076 Dir. Mark Kitchell. The 1960s alumni of the Berkeley campus tell their stories about how the quiet school became the site of massive political activism on the part of students fighting for their right of political expression on campus and then against the Vietnam War.

Chicago 10, The (2007, 90 min) KCH 044 Dir. Brett Morgan. Archival footage and animation tell the story of the trial of eight antiwar protesters following the 1968 Democratic National Convention (two defense lawyers were cited for contempt—thus the 10).

Iron Jawed Angels (2004, 124 min) PIR 906 Dir. Katja von Garnier. From 1912 to 1920, a group of fiery young suffragists band together to wheedle the United States into adopting a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. Along the way, they incur the wrath of President Woodrow Wilson and anger other suffragist leaders.

Lives of Others, The (2006, 137 min) DLI 191 Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. In the early 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, an agent of the East German secret police spies on a successful dramatist and his companion, a popular actress. As he observes and listens to the couple, their life fascinates him more and more. Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2006.

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Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008, 72 min) DPR 189 Dir. Gini Reticker. This celebrated documentary film tells the dramatic success story of the women’s peace movement of Liberia: a courageous group of Christian and Muslim women who banded together to pray for peace and demand it from the warmongers, successfully ending a bloody civil war.

Weather Underground, The (2002, 92 min) HWE 732 Dir. Sam Green and Bill Siegel. The rise and fall of a group of radical activists during the 1960s and 70s. Former members (including Bill Ayers, who re-entered the spotlight during the Obama Presidential campaign) speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to “bring the war home” and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI’s most wanted list.

CIVIL RIGHTS

Four Little Girls (1997, 102 min) FFO 043 Spike Lee’s documentary about the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama by white racists opposed to integration.

Great Debaters, The (2007, 124 min) PGR 891 Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South, this feature film tells the story of a group of African-American students, the Wiley College debate team, who took on the Harvard elite in 1935 and helped sow the seeds for the Civil Rights Movement.

RELIGIONGeorge W. Bush: Faith in the White House (2004, 70 min) EGE 060 Dir. David Balsiger. Made as a counter message to Fahrenheit 9/11, this is more than an advocacy documentary, as Moore’s film is; it is propaganda. A nonfictional film with no reliable evidence is not a documentary; it is propaganda.

Jesus Camp (2006, 85 min) BJE 125 Dir. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. A documentary about a Pentecostal camp for children who are being taught that they can “take back America for Christ.”

SPORTSHeart of the Game (98 min) GHE 092 Dir. Ward Serrill. Documentary feature film capturing the passion and energy of a Seattle high school girls’ basketball team and the eccentricity of their unorthodox coach.

Goal Dreams (See films about the Middle East.)

Offside (See films about Iran.)

US POLITICSBush’s Brain (2004, 80 min) EDU 070 Dir. Michael Shoob and Joseph Mealey. Based on the book Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, by James Moore and Wayne Slater. Despite its metaphorical title, the documentary rather plainly presents interviews with those who either were slimed by the Rove attack machine (including Sen. Max Cleland) or who observed it (other political strategists and journalists like Molly Ivins).

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Candidate, The (1972, 110 min) PCA 887 Dir. Michael Ritchie. Robert Redford stars as an idealistic young lawyer running for the U.S. senate in this classic 1972 film.

Journeys with George (2002, 79 min) EJO 073 Dir. Documentary account of George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign shows journalists being swayed to cover him favorably.

Secrecy (2008, 85 min) JSE 043 This documentary investigates the vast, invisible world of government secrecy, exploring the profound tensions between our nation’s quest for security and its promise of an open and democratic society.

Shut Up and Sing (2006, 93 min) MSH 031 Dir. Barbara Kopple. A documentary on the uproar surrounding remarks made by the Dixie Chicks critical of President Bush.

This Divided State (2005, 83 min) JTH 037 Dir. Steven Greenstreet. When an announced appearance by Michael Moore at Utah Valley State in 2004 led to debates about the First Amendment, first-time director Steven Greenstreet dropped out of school to film the controversy.

Tying the Knot (2004, 81 min) PTY 759 Dir. Jim de Sève. This documentary by a first-time director is persuasive, says The Onion AV Club’s Keith Phipps, because it presents “same-sex marriage as both an urgent legal concern and a matter of the heart.”

Weather Underground, The. (See films about Protest.)

WARControl Room (See films about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan.)

Dateline Afghanistan: Reporting the Forgotten War (See films about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan.)

Fog of War, The: 11 Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003, 107 min) EFO 057 Dir. Errol Morris. Morris interviews McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds an unsettling viewpoint on much of 20th-century American history.

Grave of the Fireflies (1988, 89 min) PGR 888 Dir. Isao Takahata. An award-winning animated film about two Japanese children who lose their home and mother to an Allied firebombing in the final days of WWII.

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (See films about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan.)

My Country, My Country (See films about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan.)

Reporting America at War (2003, 180 min) PRE 691 Dir. Stephen Ives. This documentary explores the role of American journalists in the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century, from San Juan Hill in Cuba to the beaches of Normandy, from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf.

Road to Guantánamo, The (See films about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan.)

Taxi to the Darkside (See films about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan.)

Turtles Can Fly (See films about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan.)

War Tapes, The (See films about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan.)

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VIETNAM DOCUMENTARIES

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987, 83 min) DDE 166 Dir. Bill Couturié. A documentary based on the book of the same title that comprises letters from soldiers and nurses who served in Vietnam.

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004, 88 min) EGO 062 Dir. George Butler. A documentary on Senator John Kerry’s Navy tour of duty in Vietnam, his contributions to the antiwar movement as a veteran, and the ultimate shape of his future political career.

Hearts and Minds (1974, 112 min) DHE 158 Dir. Peter J. Davis. This Oscar winning documentary examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam and the consciences of some who participated in it.

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