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Catastroika – The Privatization of Everything

documentary.net staff — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:24:31 +0000

The 87 minutes feature length documentary uncovers the forthcoming results of the current sell-off of the Greek public assets, demanded in order to face the country’s enormous sovereign debt. Turning to the examples of London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Rome, CATASTROIKA predicts what will happen, if the model imposed in these areas is imported in a country under international financial tutelage. (with English subtitles)

Slavoj Zizek, Naomi Klein, Luis Sepulveda, Ken Loach and Greg Palast talk about the austerity measures, the Greek government as well as the attack against Democracy on Europe, after the general spreading of the financial crisis. Academics and specialists like Dani Rodrik, Alex Callinicos, Ben Fine, Costas Douzinas, Dean Baker and Aditya Chakrabortty present unknown aspects of the privatization programs in Greece and abroad.

Just like Debtocracy, CATASTROIKA is co-produced by the public, which contributed both financially and with ideas to its creation. The documentary is available free of charge, under creative commons license. High-resolution files will be available for TV and cinema broadcasts in various languages.

From the creaters of Debtocracy, a documentary viewed by millions of people around the world.

97% Owned – Monetary Reform Documentary

documentary.net staff — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:30:55 +0000

97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked, questions like; where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does this mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when the monetary, and financial system, breaks down?

Produced by Queuepolitely and featuring Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the “HBOS Whistleblower” Paul Moore, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from the Jubliee Debt Campaign.

Political philosopher John Gray, commented, “We’re not moving to a world in which crises will never happen or will happen less and less. We are in a world in which they happen several times during a given human lifetime and I think that will continue to be the case”
If you have decided that crisis as a result of the monetary system is not an event you want to keep revisiting in your life-time then this documentary will equip you with the knowledge you need, what you do with it is up to you (Description by the filmmakers).

Panama: Village of the damned

documentary.net staff — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:15:35 +0000

Away from its busy capital city and famous canal, Panama is one of the world’s most ecologically diverse nations. Yet huge new hydroelectric dam projects now underway are seeing pristine rivers damned and virgin rainforest flooded. The government says it is vital for economic growth, big business is cashing in and even the UN has awarded carbon credits on the basis that the resultant energy will be ‘sustainably’ produced. But for the indigenous Ngabe people – whose homes are vanishing under water – it is a catastrophe. So they have been fighting back. Filmmaker Glenn Elis went to Panama to find out more.

The KaChing! Dynasty

documentary.net staff — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:13:34 +0000

The Chinese economy is booming at a blistering pace. It is driven largely by the Fudai: the superrich who call the superpower home. Many are just in their forties. From building 30-storey towers in just 14 days, to amassing a luxury fleet of sports cars or a private jet – China’s million millionaires and 600 billionaires are helping to change the country’s landscape. And China’s mad rush to urbanisation is only helping these elites get richer and richer.

Paradise or Oblivion

documentary.net staff — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:32:52 +0000

This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders and detrimental symptoms caused by our current established system. This video presentation advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer, Futurist, Inventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco, which he calls a Resource-Based Economy.

The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods of politics, law, business, or any other “establishment” notions of human affairs, and use the methods of science, combined with high technology, to provide for the needs of all the world’s people. It is not based on the opinions of the political and financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies, but on maintaining a dynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundance for all people.

Paradise or Oblivion, by The Venus Project, introduces the viewer to a more appropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring and holistic approach to benefit human civilization. This alternative surpasses the need for a monetary-based, controlled, and scarcity-oriented environment, which we find ourselves in today.

Occupy Wall Street – History of an Occupation

documentary.net staff — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:00:51 +0000

In the fall of 2011, New York’s Zuccotti Park grabbed the world’s attention as the hub of Occupy Wall Street, a movement that set off a chain of rage against the country’s financial and political elite. Even in the face of police repression and media ridicule, the movement mobilised thousands of people fed up with the deep economic divide in the US. And within two months hundreds of Occupy Wall Street camps swept across the country changing the political discourse in the US.

“People were upset about the economy, people were upset about the foreclosure crisis, people were upset about the bailouts, and about the fact that it looked like elected officials were working for big business rather than for the people who they’re supposed to be working for,” says activist Max Rameau from Take Back the Land. AlJazeera tells the history of Occupy Wall Street from its early days through the movement’s rapid spread up to the brutal crackdown by state authorities.

Fukushima Fallout

documentary.net staff — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:43:39 +0000

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake unleashed a devastating tsunami destroying whole Japanese towns and villages. It also hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, damaging four reactors and leaking radiation. As the toxic fallout affects health, safety and morale, Japan faces its biggest-ever backlash towards nuclear power.

Anti-nuclear activism in Japan has been on the rise with a call for a change in energy policies. And from being the world’s third-highest user of nuclear energy, the country now has only five of its 54 reactors working.

But have Japan’s energy policies changed?

From parliamentary plans to sell nuclear plants abroad, to lengthening the time-span of its oldest reactors by 20 years, 101 East explores Japan’s contradictory energy strategies.

Oil of L.A.

documentary.net staff — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:57:12 +0000

Twenty billion barrels of oil sit beneath Los Angeles. Hidden in plain sight, thousands of wells pump day and night all over the city covered by hollow office buildings, camouflaged next to high schools, and concealed behind shopping malls. We went exploring.

Design the New Business [TRAILER]

documentary.net staff — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:45:16 +0000

Design the New Business is a documentary that explores the relationship between design and business and how they are affecting each other. Full film release date March 6 2012. Check back!

As our world changes, the challenges to business grow. Old ways of thinking are being replaced by open minds and creativity. Design is playing a central role in helping solve problems and drive the future. We invite you to see how design is shaping the new business.

Pirate Fishing (Part 2)

documentary.net staff — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:57:10 +0000

In the second part of this investigation into the multi-million dollar illegal fishing trade and its impact on some of West Africa’s poorest people the team identify one of the trawlers involved and confront the crew with evidence of their crime. Brilliant investigation by reporter Juliana Ruhfus and producer Orlando von Einsiedel.

Part 1

Dreamwork China – New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers

documentary.net staff — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:08:16 +0000

In the suburbs of Shenzhen, in Guangdong province, young workers talk about their lives, existences built on a precarious balance between hope, struggles and wishes for the future. Around them activists and NGOs strive to give sense and meaning to words like rights, dignity and equity.

Dreamwork China is a multimedia project aimed at giving voice to the new generation of Chinese migrant workers. This short video is an excerpt from the full length documentary (55 min) directed by Tommaso Facchin and Ivan Franceschini

Pirate Fishing (Part 1)

documentary.net staff — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:21:59 +0000

The precious marine resources of some of the world’s poorest people are being targeted by industrial-scale pirate fishing operations, to feed the seafood hungry markets of Europe and Asia. The problem is particularly acute in West African waters where fish is a vital – and often the only – protein source for millions of people.

In a special two-part investigation, reporter Juliana Ruhfus and producer Orlando von Einsiedel set out to identify and expose some of those involved in the multi-million dollar trade and to look in particular at its consequences for the impoverished West African nation of Sierra Leone.

Detroit Lives – Johnny Knoxville explores the new D

documentary.net staff — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:40:59 +0000

The Motor City has been declared dead more times than Rasputin. But over the last few years, while The News Media (and Dutch tourists) were hemming and hawing over a few neglected streets that had started to look more like meadows, a bunch of creative badasses were quietly buying abandoned 9-story buildings, filling them with everyone they knew, and making Detroit actually pretty incredible. Johnny Knoxville paid a visit to the D to explore for himself.

The News Corp. Hacking Saga

documentary.net staff — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +0000

As the phone hacking investigation that ripped through UK politics and media moves to the US, what next for Murdoch media, and how will the story develop in 2012?
An in-depth look at what was the biggest media story of last year – the tabloid phone hacking scandal that shook the world’s most powerful media corporation and is sure to cause more tremors in the year to come.

The big turning point in the Guardian newspaper’s investigation into phone hacking at the Murdoch tabloid News of the World came on July 4, 2011. A front page report revealed that the extensive phone hacking operation at the News of the World had not targeted just film stars, sportsmen and politicians, but even victims of crime like the 13-year-old British school girl Milly Dowler who was murdered in 2002.

The report boosted what had been a serious but low profile journalistic investigation into a mega media story that ensnared not only News Corp, the Murdochs and some of their key employees, but also exposed the ugly nexus between British police, the British political establishment and Murdoch media.

Banking on the Future

documentary.net staff — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:40:30 +0000

Tens of thousands of children live on the streets and in the public spaces of Delhi, the capital of India. A few hundred of them come within the orbit of Butterflies, an organization determined to equip for them for a better life. Butterflies gives homeless boys shelter from the elements, protection from violence and a chance to get an education that has been denied to them. And in this developing economic superpower, the street boys are encouraged to become financially independent. Some of them are even given the opportunity to become a bankmanager.

A film by Geoff Dunlop