godblossom13 asked:


Can’t find much as to why, other than just doing it, Walt Disney made the films for the government.

Doc Adams asked:


“Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore’s controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.

The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.

Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is unfit for schools because it is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and ’sentimental mush’.

He wants the video banned after it was distributed with four other short films to 3,500 schools in February.

Mr Justice Burton is due to deliver a ruling on the case next week, but yesterday he said he would be saying that Gore’s Oscar-winning film does promote ‘partisan political views’.

This means that teachers will have to warn pupils that there are other opinions on global warming and they should not necessarily accept the views of the film.”

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23414833-details/Schools+must+warn+of+Gore+climate+film+bias/article.do
What will happen if US schools try the same thing?

Wolfpacker asked:


After watching the news films of the Democrats (wearing Obama shirts to identify) protesting in St Paul, I am confused as to the blatant disregard for the law. They fought with the police, broke windows, vandalized cars & even stole - how is this a good political statement.
They were embarrassing to watch - out of control & seemed to feel justified in their behavior. Why??

RLP THE QUEEN OF HEARTS asked:


http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-952735&Lang=E

TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here.

This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.

MiMi asked:


This was an example of business as usual shown by those we have put on the hill. This was an economic bailout to save the country from financial ruin, wasn’t it? What does a maker of wooden arrows, the Exxon Valdez payout, the Puerto Rico and Virgin Island Rum Producers, small and medium size film and TV producers and so on have to do with saving our financial institutes? If this action does not outrage us as a nation to start demanding accountability from our elected officials then we as a nation will continue to be deemed as weak, complacent and ignorant by the world community.

ShortBus 43 asked:


It took 4 years for the CIA to release the film.

SitizenX asked:


here is a film that only uses existing News cast footage.. When George stephanopoulos says clearly ..”Then thats when the explosion in the subway blew us back” … it’s pretty hard to laugh it off.. watch it no matter your opinion about that day… if nothing else to keep it fresh in your mind…
You need to Know what people are capable of..
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=explosive%209%2F11&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
Use this link, that first one is wrong…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5481842742632193840&q=explosive+9%2F11&ei=Q4ZcSLOND4T-qgL98NW1Aw&hl=en

nickthaniel1 asked:


Is the media kowtowing to extremists? What heppened to freedom of speech?

starberries asked:


What does the film say about the relationship between news, politics and the entertainment industry?
3) What year was the film released? What political scandal occurred in January 1999 that resonates with the film?

Jean R asked:


Newmarket Films set itself an unusual challenge when it decided to release the controversial faux investigative documentary “Death of a President” just six weeks after acquiring the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival last month.

But it might face an even more formidable obstacle because several major theater chains are refusing to play the film, which mixes real news footage with dramatized segments depicting the fictional 2007 death of President Bush.

Newmarket, the 12-year-old Los Angeles-based film financing, production and distribution company, plans to open the film October 27, just in time for the November 7 election.

“Yes, it’s controversial,” Newmarket co-founder Chris Ball said. “It’s quite a compelling political thriller. In many ways it is sympathetic to George Bush. It talks about a rush to judgment. In no way is it a call for violence.”

But the country’s largest theater chain, Regal Entertainment Group, has passed on playing the film, citing
I most definitely would not. I wouldn’t go no matter who the President was.