The second edition of “Loose Change” is now out out on DVD, for those who want a high-quality version of the provocative 9/11 documentary which has been a Top 100 Google Video success since its first upload in April 2005.
The film implicates the US government in the planning and execution of 9/11, using evidence derived from news footage, and interviews with eyewitnesses and survivors. The film unwraps a very convincing version of the truth using common sense logic. It was made by 22-year-old Dylan Avery of Oneonta, New York, on a string budget of $8,000.
The inspiration for the film came from a photograph of a controlled building explosion seen alongside the collapse of the Twin Towers - and the similarities were just too obvious for Avery to ignore. With over 3 million views on the internet, the film has been subtitled into several languages by volunteers, and released on DVD.
Watch the film for free at: Googe Video - Loose change (55 min.)
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has launched a website to air its documentary shorts on conflict. Uganda, Darfur, Angola, and Niger are among the featured countries, while female genital mutilation, malaria and the Pakistan earthquake are the focus of some thematic pieces.
Visit the film site and watch videos.
Directed by Andrew Levine, the Day My God Died is a feature-length documentary that presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade. They describe the day they were abducted from their village and sold into sexual servitude as “The Day My God Died.”
Narrated by Tim Robbins and Winona Ryder, the film provides actual footage from the brothels of Bombay, known even to tourists as “The Cages,” and weaves the stories of girls into a compelling examination of the growing plague of child sex slavery.
Continue reading ‘Recommendation: The Day My God Died’
In a two-part Channel 4 documentary, Richard Dawkins makes a “visual” intervention in the religion vs. science debate. The author of bestselling books “The Selfish Gene”, and the “God Delusion”, Dawkins now experiments with the documentary format to challenge what he calls a “process of non-thinking, called faith”.
He describes his astonishment that at the start of the 21st century, religious faith is gaining ground in the face of rational, scientific truth. Science, based on scepticism, investigation and evidence, must continuously test its own concepts and claims. Faith, by definition, defies evidence: it is untested and unshakeable, and is therefore in direct contradiction with science.
Great film, the one problem is its basic setting - due to its focus and style, it may only be watched by the already converted.
The films are now online too. Watch Episode 1 - The God Delusion on Google Video – Watch Episode 2 - The Virus of Faith on Google Video
The official Richard Dawkins website.