Showing posts with label Documentaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentaries. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Griefwalker: Help To Survive Death
"Griefwalker"
Director: Tim Wilson
Runtime: 70min 9s
This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, the leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.
Through his daytime job, he has been at the deathbed of well over 1,000 people. What he sees over and over, he says, is "a wretched anxiety and an existential terror" even when there is no pain.
Indicting the practice of palliative care itself, he has made it his life's mission to change the way we die - to turn the act of dying from denial and resistance into an essential part of life.
Monday, 27 September 2010
Race Supremacy: Revealing Hatred
* First Video:
* Second Video:
Russia Today Channel
September 25th 2010
Donning swastikas and brown shirts, or long white robes and hoods, the attendees of a white supremacist rally are without a doubt a disquieting and memorable sight. Coated with heavy symbolism that pierces deep into the darkest shadows of America's racial history, Klan members, neo-Nazis, and other right wing extremists are easily passed off by most as simply members of a "hate group". But in order to combat the existence of these organizations, we must first understand them. How do members of these groups acquire their beliefs? How does the white supremacist movement exist now, in a country where it is considered by many to be a relic of the past? And what are its goals for the future?
On the other side of the coin, what is it like to be a victim of violence perpetrated by this movement? Or what is it like to attempt to infiltrate or monitor right wing extremism, despite the dangers?
The film "Revealing Hate" will attempt to answer some of these questions, through telling the stories of those who have prosecuted, photographed, protested, infiltrated, and even participated in these organizations. Each individual's story, told separately in a vignette style, will shed more light on these philosophies that continue to run deep within the fringes of our society.
We will begin our journey with someone who is considered by many to be a pioneer of hate group infiltration -- Stetson Kennedy. In the 1940s, Kennedy posed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and infiltrated the KKK in order to gather intelligence on their activities. After bringing his inside information to both the media and the government, he has dedicated his life to fighting for civil rights and social justice. A seasoned historian, and an advocate for equality, we will hear from Stetson about his exploits in the company of the Klan.
We will then hear from Stetson's heirs -- men and women whose lives have purposefully or inadvertently included contact and experience with extremist groups. Like Jamie Bates, a photojournalist from Mississippi who has been documenting the modern KKK in the south for the past seven years. And Paul and Sally Bermanzohn, who are survivors of the 1979 Greensboro attack by the Ku Klux Klan against Klan protestors. Paul and Sally talk about the devastating effect that the shooting attack had on their lives -- crippling Paul for life, and killing five of their closest friends. We'll also tell the story of Angela King, a former neo-Nazi who turned herself around while serving time in jail for a hate crime. She now speaks out against racism alongside Holocaust victims at Student Awareness Days around South Florida..
* Second Video:
Russia Today Channel
September 25th 2010
Donning swastikas and brown shirts, or long white robes and hoods, the attendees of a white supremacist rally are without a doubt a disquieting and memorable sight. Coated with heavy symbolism that pierces deep into the darkest shadows of America's racial history, Klan members, neo-Nazis, and other right wing extremists are easily passed off by most as simply members of a "hate group". But in order to combat the existence of these organizations, we must first understand them. How do members of these groups acquire their beliefs? How does the white supremacist movement exist now, in a country where it is considered by many to be a relic of the past? And what are its goals for the future?
On the other side of the coin, what is it like to be a victim of violence perpetrated by this movement? Or what is it like to attempt to infiltrate or monitor right wing extremism, despite the dangers?
The film "Revealing Hate" will attempt to answer some of these questions, through telling the stories of those who have prosecuted, photographed, protested, infiltrated, and even participated in these organizations. Each individual's story, told separately in a vignette style, will shed more light on these philosophies that continue to run deep within the fringes of our society.
We will begin our journey with someone who is considered by many to be a pioneer of hate group infiltration -- Stetson Kennedy. In the 1940s, Kennedy posed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and infiltrated the KKK in order to gather intelligence on their activities. After bringing his inside information to both the media and the government, he has dedicated his life to fighting for civil rights and social justice. A seasoned historian, and an advocate for equality, we will hear from Stetson about his exploits in the company of the Klan.
We will then hear from Stetson's heirs -- men and women whose lives have purposefully or inadvertently included contact and experience with extremist groups. Like Jamie Bates, a photojournalist from Mississippi who has been documenting the modern KKK in the south for the past seven years. And Paul and Sally Bermanzohn, who are survivors of the 1979 Greensboro attack by the Ku Klux Klan against Klan protestors. Paul and Sally talk about the devastating effect that the shooting attack had on their lives -- crippling Paul for life, and killing five of their closest friends. We'll also tell the story of Angela King, a former neo-Nazi who turned herself around while serving time in jail for a hate crime. She now speaks out against racism alongside Holocaust victims at Student Awareness Days around South Florida..
Sunday, 12 September 2010
The Secret KGB Paranormal Files (2001)
The Secret KGB Paranormal Files (2001)
Down 2% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro.
Writers: Jeremy Cole, Joseph La Jeunesse, Judy Lyness.
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 01:26:00
* Plot:
This film offers an intriguing look at the paranormal activities of the KGB. Included are video footage of the KGB's bizarre psychic experiments, interviews with KGB ghost hunters, and more..
* Cast:
Roger Moore ... Himself - Host
Eugene Alper ... Soviet Soldier
Phil Bowers ... Russian psychic
Stanton Friedman ... Himself
Adolf Hitler ... Himself (archive footage)
Oleg Kalugin ... Himself
John F. Kennedy ... Himself (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy ... Himself (archive footage)
Alim Kouliev ... Egyption cosulate courier
Stanislav Lunev ... Himself / Author, "Through the Eyes of the Enemy"
Edward Naumov ... Himself / Russian researcher
Bryan Nelson ... Smoking Man
Richard Nixon ... Himself (archive footage)
Sheila Ostrander ... Herself / Author, "Psychic Discoverles
Lee Harvey Oswald ... Himself (archive footage)
Allen Perada ... Russian Psychic
Pope John Paul II ... Himself / Pope (archive footage)
Lynn Schroeder ... Herself / Founder, Superlearning
Joseph Stalin ... Himself (archive footage)
Paul Stonehill ... Himself / Aurthor "The Soviet UFO Files
Veniamin G. Vereschagin ... Himself
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