7.7

Bigger Stronger Faster*

2008, USA

• Actors: Chris Bell, Hank Aaron, Lyle Alzado, Joshua Amsden, Ben Aukes, Kelly Beecher, Mark Bell, Mike Bell, Rosemary Bell, Sheldon Bell, Joe Biden, Mike Blanton, Christian Boeving, Barry Bonds, Jim Bunning, George Bush, George W. Bush, Jose Canseco, Jeff Carwile, Carlon Colker, Rick Collins, Meave Cox, Jay Cutler, Eric Dodson, Jason Ellis, Wade Exum, Norm Fost, Mark Gordon, Gene Haislip, Orrin G. Hatch
• Genre: Documentary, Sport
• Director(s): Chris Bell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Director Christopher Bell explores America's win-at-all-cost culture by examining how his two brothers became members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream.

  6.6

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

2008, France, USA

• Actors: Morgan Spurlock, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Daryl Isaacs, Alexandra Jamieson, Donald Rumsfeld, Laken James Spurlock
• Genre: Documentary, Comedy, War
• Director(s): Morgan Spurlock
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When Morgan Spurlock and his wife find out they are expecting a child in an unsafe world that faces multiple terrorist and environmental threats, Morgan decides to track down the world's most wanted and dangerous terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, undergoes self-defense training, takes all required medical shots, and sets out to travel to Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan amongst others to try and locate the man who has managed to elude the American army for nearly a decade. His fears, generated due to biased media coverage that Muslims and Arabs are hostile, are laid to rest when he does encounter friendly, and quite refreshingly well educated, hospitable, politically matured men and women, who are well aware of America's faulty 'foreign policy', and do not subscribe to Jihad nor to the Taliban nor Osama's terror-tactics. But he does encounter some hostility, quite ironically, in two of America's allies -- Israel and Saudi Arabia -- and it is on the soil of Pakistan -- his country's ally against the so-called War Against Terror -- that he eventually hopes to find Osama. The questions still remain: will he able to find him where many others have purportedly failed? And most importantly will he be allowed to remain alive after finding him?

  7.6

I.O.U.S.A.

2008, USA

• Actors: Robert Bixby, Humphrey Bogart, Warren Buffett, George Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Kent Conrad, Ander Crenshaw, Bing Crosby, Douglas Durst, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Alan Greenspan, Judd Gregg, Yoni Gruskin, Kay Harms, Sue Herrera, Chrissy Hovde, John F. Kennedy, Steve Kroft, George Miller, Richard Nixon, Paul O'Neill, Chris Parnell, Ron Paul, Peter G. Peterson, Ronald Reagan, Diane Rehm
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Patrick Creadon
• Available languages:
  • English English.

I.O.U.S.A. examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. As the Baby Boomer generation prepares to retire, will there even be any Social Security benefits left to collect? Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions. Throughout history, the American government has found it nearly impossible to spend only what has been raised through taxes. The film blends interviews with both average American taxpayers and government officials to demystify the nation's financial practices and policies. The film follows U.S. Comptroller General David Walker as he crisscrosses the country explaining America's unsustainable fiscal policies to its citizens. The film interweaves archival footage and economic data to paint a profile of America's current economic situation. The film also proffers potential financial scenarios and propose solutions about how to recreate a fiscally sound nation for future generations.

  7.8

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

2008, USA, UK

• Actors: Eric Alterman, Lee Atwater, George Bush, George W. Bush, Connie Chung, Joe Conason, Tom DeLay, Sam Donaldson, Michael Dukakis, Tucker Eskew, Howard Fineman, Bryant Gumbel, Willie Horton, Chuck Jackson, Mary Matalin, Terry McAuliffe, Jim McCabe, Robert D. Novak, Rich Peterson, Ronald Reagan, Ishmael Reed, Ed Rollins, Karl Rove, Joe Sligh, Roger Stone, Tom Turnipseed
• Genre: Documentary, Biography
• Director(s): Stefan Forbes
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The Murrow, Polk, and IDA Award-winning documentary Boogie Man is about Lee Atwater, a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star. He mentored George W. Bush and Karl Rove while leading the Republican party to historic victories, helping make liberal a dirty word, and transforming the way America elects our Presidents. In interviews with Republicans and friends of Atwater, Boogie Man examines his role in America's shift to the right. To Democrats offended by the 1988 Willie Horton controversy, Atwater was a remorseless political assassin dubbed by one Congresswoman "the most evil man in America." The film examines his irreverent sense of humor, his understanding of the American heartland, and his unapologetic vision of politics as war. It ends with a portrait of a cynic's deathbed search for meaning.

  7.8

Superpower

2008, USA

• Actors: Christy Johnson, Max Carter, Harry S. Truman, Eric L. Haney, Jeff W. Jones, Karen Kwiatkowski, Mohammed Mossadegh, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Noam Chomsky, Morgan Reynolds, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Robert Griffiths, William Blum, Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Victor Archibong, Hugo Chavez, Harvey M. Sapolsky, Jack Hoffmann, Chalmers Johnson, Sergei Khrushchev, Eric Prince, Rich May, Barbara-Anne Steegmuller, Howard Coble, Osama Bin Laden, Madeleine Albright, Kathe Latham
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Barbara-Anne Steegmuller
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Superpower is a well-executed and comprehensive film that asks tough questions and goes behind the scenes of America's national security apparatus and military actions. Far from a conspiracy film about the dangers of government secrets and regime change, this well-balanced film straddles the philosophical divide and allows viewers to understand the US quest for global dominance through economic and military strategy that is exposed through review of historical events, personal interviews, and analysis of US foreign policy.

  7.0

Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement

2007, USA

• Actors: Jim Tucker, Daniel Estulin, Alex Jones, Michael Coffman, Col. Arthur Peterson, Ron Paul, Hank Gilbert, James Wolfensohn, David Rockefeller, Richard Holbrooke, George Pataki, Queen Beatrix, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Francis Galton, Jeremy Wright, Gina Parker Ford, David Van Os, Idi Amin, Franco Bernabé, George Bush, George W. Bush, Smedley Darlington Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Juan Luis Cebrián, Ahmad Chalabi, Dick Cheney, Winston Churchill, Bill Clinton
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Alex Jones
• Available languages:
  • English English.

For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker Alex Jones reveals their secret plan for humanity's extermination, Operation: ENDGAME

  7.1

The Kingdom

2006, USA, Germany

• Actors: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven, Richard Jenkins, Tim McGraw, Kyle Chandler, Frances Fisher, Danny Huston, Kelly AuCoin, Anna Deavere Smith, Minka Kelly, Amy Hunter, Tj Burnett, Omar Berdouni, Raad Rawi, Mahmoud Said, Hezi Saddik, Uri Gavriel, Nick Faltas, Ahmed B. Badran, Elie Khoury, Tom Bresnahan, Yasmine Hanani, Trevor St. John, Ashley Scott, Sarah Hunley
• Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Peter Berg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After a terrorist attack to an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and the spy Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the South Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt to revenge their friend and try to find the responsible for the bombing. The agents find all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi that advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.

  7.8

An Inconvenient Truth

2006, USA

• Actors: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Davis Guggenheim
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change.  A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way.  "Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny and engaging style, and by the end has everyone on the edge of their seats, gripped by his haunting message," said Guggenheim.  An Inconvenient Truth is not a story of despair but rather a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share.  "It is now clear that we face a deepening global climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly, and wisely," said Gore.  

  7.6

Fahrenheit 9/11

2004, USA

• Actors: Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder, George W. Bush, James Baker III, Richard Gephardt, Tom Daschle, Jeffrey Toobin, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein, George Bush, Ricky Martin, Byron Dorgan, Osama Bin Laden, Craig Unger, Larry King, Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Jack Cloonan, Bill Clinton, James C. Moore, Robert Jordan, Dan Briody, John Major, Helen Thomas, Carol Ashley, Thomas Kean, Rosemary Dillard, Richard Clarke, Paul Wolfowitz
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Michael Moore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Following up on 'Bowling for Columbine', film-maker Michael Moore provides deep and though-provoking insights on the American security system, the level of paranoia, fear, uncertainty, false values and patriotism, which all combined together to set a stage for George W. Bush to launch a war on Iraq instead of focusing on getting the real culprit(s) behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This documentary also focuses on how some Saudis were safely and secretly flown out of America while planes were ostensibly grounded after the attacks. Archived film footage, candid interviews with politicians, and an overall waste of public funds for a war that was initiated on false pretension to wit: a weapon of mass distraction - to take the focus away from the real enemy and get Americans glued to their TV sets to watch innocent Iraqis and Afghans getting killed. And a war that would eventually alienate the U.S.A. and it's citizens from almost every country on Earth.

  8.1

Why We Fight

2004, USA, France, UK, Canada, Denmark

• Actors: Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush, George W. Bush, Robert Byrd, Frank Capra, Dick Cheney, Joseph Cirincione, Bill Clinton, Anh Duong, Gwynne Dyer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John S.D. Eisenhower, Susan Eisenhower, Donna Ellington, Dennis Hastert, Saddam Hussein, Chalmers Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Ayatollah Khomeini, William Kristol, Karen Kwiatkowski, Charles Lewis, John McCain, Richard Nixon, Bill O'Reilly, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Richard Perle
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Eugene Jarecki
• Available languages:
  • English English.

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

  8.1

Bowling for Columbine

2002, Canada, USA, Germany

• Actors: Jacobo Arbenz, Mike Bradley, Arthur A. Busch, George Bush, George W. Bush, Michael Caldwell, Richard Castaldo, Dick Clark, Steve Davis, Ngo Dinh Diem, Byron Dorgan, Mike Epstein, Joe Farmer, Mike Fasolo, Denny Fennell, Barry Glassner, John Harris, Dick Herlan, Charlton Heston, Jeremy Hicks, Ernest F. Hollings, Jimmie Hughes, Dick Hurlin, Amanda Lamante, Mary Lorenz, Marilyn Manson, Daniel Mauser, Tom Mauser, Evan McCollum, Timothy McVeigh
• Genre: Documentary, History
• Director(s): Michael Moore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.

  6.6

Courage Under Fire

1995, USA

• Actors: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Bronson Pinchot, Seth Gilliam, Regina Taylor, Zeljko Ivanek, Scott Glenn, Tim Guinee, Tim Ransom, Sean Astin, Armand Darrius, Mark Adair-Rios, Ned Vaughn, Manny Perez, David McSwain, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ken Jenkins, Kathleen Widdoes, Christina Stojanovich, Lucky Luciano, Erica C. Newman, Jamal A. Mays, Ashlee Jordan Pryor, Michole White, Jeffrey Waid, Patrick Young, Jimmy Ray Pickens
• Genre: Action, Mystery, War
• Director(s): Edward Zwick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The pilot of a rescue copter, Captain Karen Walden, died shortly before her helicopter crew was rescued after it crashed in Desert Storm. It first appears that she made a spectacular rescue of a downed helicopter crew, then held her own crew together to fight off the Iraqis after her copter crashed. LT Colonel Serling, who is struggling with his own demons from Desert Storm is assigned to investigate and award her the Medal of Honor. But some conflicting accounts, from her crew and soldiers in the area, cause him to question whether she deserves it.

  6.3

Under Siege

1991, France, USA

• Actors: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Colm Meaney, Patrick O'Neal, Andy Romano, Nick Mancuso, Damian Chapa, Troy Evans, David McKnight, Lee Hinton, Glenn Morshower, Leo Alexander, John Rottger, Brad Rea, Michael Welden, Bernie Casey, Rickey Pierre, Raymond Cruz, Duane Davis, Eddie Bo Smith Jr., Richard Jones, Tom Reynolds, Tom Muzila, Kirk Burroughs, George Cheung, Jim Chimento, Craig Dunn, Daniel Dupont
• Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Andrew Davis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The battleship Missouri is about to be decomissioned. Casey Ryback is Captain Adam's personal cook. And Ryback is always butting heads with the ship's XO Commander Krill but the Captain always intercedes. One day, after the President visits the Missouri, which is also the Captain's birthday, the Captain learns that a helicopter has been cleared to land on the ship by Commander Krill, which he was not informed of. When questioned Krill tells the Captain that it's a surprise for his birthday, the Captain then allows it. Later after another one of their scuffles, Krill has Ryback locked in the freezer. During the party, the rock band reveals themselves to be mercenaries, led by William Stranix, a CIA operative, who is in league with Krill to unload all of the ship's nuclear warheads. They lock up all of the crew and make preparations to remove the warheads. And Krill remembers Ryback, Stranix sends two of his men to take care of Ryback, only thing is that Ryback took care of them. Upon discovering their bodies, Stranix deduces that Ryback is more than a cook. He then sends Krill to check on him, and Krill discovers that Ryback's a NAVY SEAL, who got busted down to a cook after an incident in Panama. And Ryback continues to create trouble for them, so Stranix tries to hunt him down. Along the way, Ryback meets Jordan, a former playmate, who was supposed to entertain at the party but was also forgotten.