Tag Archives: Documentary Film

Saturday Matinee: Mediastan

Posted on April 20, 2019 by

A small group of Wikileaks journalists make their way through Central Asia interviewing newspaper editors. Their real goal: to find local media outlets to publish secret US diplomatic cables. This intelligent, guerrilla-style doc follows their fascinating journey from Afghanistan to … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)

Posted on March 16, 2019 by

SACCO AND VANZETTI brings to life the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. The ordeal of … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: I fight, therefore I am

Posted on March 9, 2019 by

I fight therefore I am (in french: Je lutte donc je suis) is a documentary film about social and political struggles in Greece and Spain which provides an overview of the struggles in Europe against austerity, capitalism and fascism. A … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Posted on February 2, 2019 by

Source: Top Documentary Films The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup) is a 2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. A television crew from Ireland’s Radio Telifís … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The Minds of Men

Posted on January 26, 2019 by

By By Aaron and Melissa Dykes Source: TruthstreamMedia.com “The Minds of Men” is a 3+ year investigation into the experimentation, art, and practice of social engineering and mind control during the Cold War – a mind-bending journey into the past … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: Bluefin

Posted on November 17, 2018 by

Film synopsis from BullfrogFilms.com: BLUEFIN is a tale of epic stakes set in “the tuna capital of the world,” North Lake, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The film explores the baffling mystery of why the normally wary bluefin tuna no longer … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: The Sunshine Makers

Posted on October 20, 2018 by

A real-life Breaking Bad for the psychadellic set, The Sunshine Makers reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!!

Posted on July 28, 2018 by

“I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!!” (2015) is a short documentary directed by Charlie Tyrell and narrated by the late Jonathan Demme. It focuses on an underappreciated underground cartoon from the 1970s called Reid Fleming: The World’s Toughest … Continue reading →

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