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Dirty Wars

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind Obama's expanding covert wars in Yemen & Somalia, among others. (2013, 86 mins.)

The Putin Interviews

Showtime & Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone were granted unprecedented access to Russian president Vladimir Putin during more than a dozen interviews over two years, with no topic off-limits. This remarkable four-part documentary series provides intimate insight into Putin's personal and professional lives, and his relations with four U.S. presidents (PART 1, 2017, 57 mins,)

Coups R Us

We - Visualizing the Words of Arundhati Roy

"We" is a fast-paced documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest. (2006, 62 mins.)

The Shock Doctrine

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. (2009, 78 mins)

Harvest of Empire

A feature-length documentary that reveals the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. (2012, 90 mins.)

Ukraine on Fire

Oliver Stone interviews Ukraine's ousted President, Vladimir Putin & others, exposing the role the US played in the coup in 2014. (2016, 94 mins,)

US Support of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine - video compilation

Shocking and insightful videos detailing the neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, ultra-nationalist movement in Ukraine. The videos examine the ongoing US support of these groups, including the Svoboda party and Right Sector. (2014, 62 mins.)

Standing Army

Targeting Iran

Documentary based on the book by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, it focuses on the complexities of past and current US/Iranian relations. (2013, 68 mins.)

Iran is Not the Problem

A feature length documentary film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between the US and Iran (2008, 79 mins,)

Our Brand is Crisis

Award winning documentary. James Carville and a team of American political consultants launch a media savvy campaign for a Bolivian presidential candidate in 2002.  (2005, 87 mins,)

The Kill Team

This provocative, bold, and deeply moving documentary profiles Adam Winfield, a soldier-turned-whistleblower who returns from the battlefield to expose shocking war crimes that the U.S. Army will do anything to cover up. (2013, 79 mins.)

The Tillman Story

The Syria Deception: Al-Qaeda Goes to Hollywood

This investigative mini-documentary exposes the cynical deceptions and faux humanitarianism behind the campaign to sell the dirty war on Syria.  (2018, 25 mins,)

CIA: America's Secret Warriors

Relying on commentary by former top officials, this film paints a frighteningly candid portrait of the practices, history, and power of the CIA.  Part  1: "Brotherhood". (1997, 101 mins,)

Hawaii's Last Queen

The story of Hawaiian Queen Lili'uokalani and the intrigues and events that led to her loss of sovereignty. Along with her native people she struggled against colonial forces to save the island nation only to be forced from her throne by powerful plantation owners and business leaders backed by U.S. Marines. Produced for PBS's THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE series.  (2006, 56 mins.)

The Untold History of the United States

From Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone, this ten-part documentary series looks back at human events that at the time went under reported, but that crucially shaped America's unique and complex history over the 20th century.  (2012, 58 mins. each)

Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space

Today the technology exists to weaponize space, a massive American industry thrives, and nations are maneuvering for advantage. PAX AMERICANA tackles this pivotal moment. Are war machines already orbiting Earth? (2009, 85 mins.)

Yemen: America's Dangerous Game

This Al Jazeera special examines the covert war in Yemen and asks if the US is creating more enemies than it can capture or kill. (2012, 25 mins.)

South of the Border

Oliver Stone sits down with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba) to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America. (2010, 77 mins,)

The Panama Deception

This Academy Award-winning documentary takes a critical look at Operation Just Cause, the 1989 US invasion of Panama. The film details the consequences for civilians of using military force in a densely populated urban area, and argues that US media coverage of the invasion accepted the Pentagon’s version of events. (1993, 102 mins,)

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal - allegations documented in Hitchens' book of the same title - based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia. (2002, 57 mins,)

The Power of Nightmares

Three-part BBC documentary by Adam Curtis comparing the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. (2004, 3 parts, each 59 mins,)

The War You Don't See

John Pilger documentary analyzing propaganda as a weapon in selling wars. The title refers to censorship by omission and the collusion of journalists in nominally free societies such as Britain and the United States.  (2010, 96 mins,)

Obama & Empire

Journalist John Pilger argues that, under Obama, liberals are silent on Americanism: an ideology distinguished by its myths and the denial that it exists. President Obama is its embodiment. (2009, 32 mins,)

Stealing a Nation

Award-winning reporter John Pilger exposes how the British Government expelled the population of a group of islands, including Diego Garcia, so the US could build a military base. (2004, 56 mins,)

The War on Democracy

John Pilger documentary exploring the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. (2004, 94 mins,)

Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the 'war on terror' and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington, DC.  (2003, 52 mins,)

Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

In a hard-hitting special report, award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger investigates the effects of sanctions on the people of Iraq and finds that ten years of extraordinary isolation, imposed by the UN and enforced by the US and Britain, have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan.  (2000, 74 mins,)

Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

In 1975, Indonesia secretly - and with the complicity of the US, the UK, and Australia - invaded the small nation of East Timor. In 1993, with the Indonesian army still occupying the country, John Pilger and his crew slipped into East Timor and made this film using clandestine footage. In the intervening 18 years, an estimated 200,000 East Timorese - 1/3 of the population - had been slaughtered by the Indonesian military. (1994, 76 mins,)

Aristide and the Endless Revolution

Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

The culmination of a two year investigation answering questions about the Persian Gulf War using documents never before seen on television and backed by interviews with Desert-Storm Commander General Norman Schwarzkopf, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, former UN Iraq Program Director Dennis Halliday, former chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. (2000, 63 mins.)

Attack of the Drones: Is War Becoming a Video Game?

Al Jazeera looks into the growing role that drones play in peacekeeping and military endeavours. (2012, 23 mins.)

The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War

Powerful film giving soldiers' perspectives of the Iraq War, and how they are being treated upon returning home. It goes beyond the war stories to look underneath our American tradition of going to war and then abandoning the warrior. (2004, 28 mins,)

Sir! No Sir!

Award-winning documentary by Displaced Films about the antiwar movement within the ranks of the US Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. (2005, 83 mins.)

I Know I'm Not Alone

Frustrated by the lack of media coverage about the human side of the wars in in the Middle East, musician and peace activist Michael Franti travelled to Iraq, Palestine & Israel with a guitar and a camera.  (2005, 95 mins,)

AIPAC: The Israel Lobby

Based on the controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy', this film examines how AIPAC, Israel, the US Congress and White House seem to have ended up in a suffocating embrace.  (2011, 50 mins,)

Hollywood and the War Machine

Al Jazeera film examines the symbiotic relationship between the movie industry and the military-industrial complex. (2012, 49 mins.)

Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land

This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites - working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies - exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  (2004, 79 mins,)

Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the War on Drugs

A look into the US government’s costly and ineffective battle against the Colombian narcotics trade, financed by the US taxpayer. (2002, 58 mins,)

Mission Against Terror: The Cuban Five

Follows the case of the Cuban Five — men from Cuba who in 1998 were imprisoned in the U.S. for attempting to prevent terrorism against the Cuban people. (2006, 43 mins,)

Michael Parenti: The US war on Yugoslavia

This talk by Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of Clinton's war in Yugoslavia, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy (1999, 77 mins,)

Unmanned: America's Drone Wars

A Robert Greenwald film investigating the impact of US drone strikes at home and abroad, observing their effect on the War on Terror, the lives of individuals, and U.S. foreign policy (2013, 100 mins,)

Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers

Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq, uncovering the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so. (2006, 87 mins,)

War is Sell

Documentary that delves into the history and tactics of war propagandists - soldiers armed not with guns, but with words, pictures and commercial advertising techniques in their "battle to win hearts and minds". (2004, 56 mins)

Taxi to the Dark Side

Oscar-winning documentary exploring the American military's use of torture by focusing on the unsolved murder of an Afhgani taxi driver who, in 2002, was taken for questioning at Bagram Force Air Base. Five days later, the man was dead. Taking this case as a jumping-off point, the film examines wider claims of torture that occurred at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay during the Bush administration. (2007, 106 mins)

An Army of One

Hotdocs Best Feature Documentary 2004, social commentary on American youth fed on television idols. They are searching for an instant identity because they don’t know who they are. The army, with its slick ad campaigns, seems like an attractive answer, but can become a devastating trap. (2004, 70 mins)

Radio Bikini

This Oscar-nominated doc chronicles the jingoistic rush to test atom bombs on the Pacific island of Bikini Atoll following World War Two and the devastating effects on natives and US soldiers. (1988, 56 mins.)

Shadow Company

In the late 20th Century the distinction between soldier and mercenary became blurred. This groundbreaking investigation into the secretive world of private military contractors explores the moral and ethical issues these companies create for the Western governments they work for. (2006, 85 mins.)

No End in Sight

A rigorous, devastating critique of the U.S. war in Iraq, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. (2007, 101 mins.)

The US and the new Middle East: The Gulf

Al Jazeera travels to Bahrain and asks why the US backs democracy in one Arab country, but not another.  (2011, 24 mins.)

Chavez, Inside the Coup

(a.k.a. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised)

In 2002, a television crew from Ireland happened to be recording a documentary about Venezuela's Hugo Chávez when a US-supported coup attempt broke out. (2003, 74 mins.)

Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez’s strongly-worded criticisms of the US government have made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad.  Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Chavez’s controversial presidency, this documentary takes a journey into the heart of Venezuela’s revolution to listen to the voices of the people driving the process forward. (2009, 64 mins.)