-Documentary Film EssaysIn the spirit of free speech and a healthy free flow of information.

Compiled 1- 2012

Due to the decrease over the last ten years of open and free investigative journalism in the main stream media, independent social, political and environmental documentary films have burst on to the scene to fill the missing void. This list of recent documentary films is an attempt to act as a counter weight to what main stream media finds either offensive or just not profitable enough to report on or cover.

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Main Documentary Sites:

http://documentaryheaven.com/ http://freedocumentaries.org/ http://thoughtmaybe.com/ http://www.documentarywire.com/ http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ http://wardocumentaryfilms.com/ http://moviesfoundonline.com/documentaries.php#history http://www.hulu.com/documentaries?src=topnav http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=documentaries&aq=0 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ http://billmoyers.com/video/

Specific Documentaries:
The Media:
Orwell Rolls in His Grave http://freedocumentaries.org/teatro.php?filmID=87&lan=en&size=big Spin http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/spin/ Power, Propaganda and the Silence of Writers (John Pilger) http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/power-propaganda-and-the-silence-of-writers Out Foxed http://www.freedocumentaries.org/teatro.php?filmID=43&lan=undefined&size=undefined Rupert Murdoch scandal http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMn52LFmSWw 1) News Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dq56hm_aGk 2) News Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR1wv-HvoDA 3) Fox Spin http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJEvXHPLM5o&feature=related

Social Issues:
The Century of the Self (In 4 parts) A must see documentary. The PR work of Edward Bernays http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/the-century-of-the-self Daniel Ellsberg on Occupy movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2werPtMP2tI Big Brother, Big Business http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/big-brother-big-business/ Hacking Democracy http://documentaryheaven.com/hacking-democracy/ Unprecedented http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/unprecedented-the-2000-presidential-election/ Voter Gate http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/votergate/ History of Human Experimentation (History Channel) http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/history-of-human-experimentation The Secret Government PBS Bill Moyers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sstDwKTCpM Manufacturing Consent

http://documentaryheaven.com/manufacturing-consent/ Conspiracy of Silence (this is relevant to the current Penn State sex scandal) http://documentaryheaven.com/conspiracy-of-silence/ The Trap (Three parts) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-trap/ Naomi Wolf The closing down of an open society. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc

Food:
Scientist Under Attack (Trailer only) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl17bh_scientists-under-attack-part-1_tech Food Inc. http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/food-inc The Future of Food http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/the-future-of-food King Corn http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/king-corn Big Sugar http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/big-sugar/ The Cost of Coke http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-cost-of-a-coke/ The world according to Monsanto http://documentaryheaven.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/ Patent for a Pig http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/patent-for-a-pig/ David Vs Monsanto http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/david-vs-monsanto The Slow Poisoning of India http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-slow-poisoning-of-india/

Environment:
Silent Spring Rachel Carson (6 parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-NAUkyIg-M Poison Fire http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/poison-fire/

The Cove (Preview only) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQHAMWFkb8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsOIwQmotf0 The Battle of Chernobyl http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-battle-of-chernobyl/ Chernobyl Heart http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/chernobyl-heart/ An Inconvenient Truth http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/an-inconvenient-truth/ Science Under attack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz02bK237q8 Who Killed the Honey Bee http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/who-killed-the-honey-bee Silence of the Bees - PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/silence-of-the-bees/video-full-episode/251/ A World With Out Water http://documentaryheaven.com/a-world-without-water-documentary/ The Fight For Water http://documentaryheaven.com/the-fight-for-water/ Flow For Love of Water http://documentaryheaven.com/flow-for-love-of-water/ Blue Gold http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/blue-gold-world-water-wars/ Hot Planet http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/hot-planet/ Toxic Sludge is good for you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHsIjMPP2M8 Main feature: http://www.documentarywire.com/toxic-sludge-is-good-for-you DDT is good for you, so they said... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhkRXPd2AdA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQzx2ZyaSbw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcXXbuR244&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP3ZLNSJu5g&feature=related

Health:
Sicko http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/sicko/ Big bucks, big Pharma http://documentaryheaven.com/big-bucks-big-pharma-marketing-disease-pushing-drugs/ Marketing of Madness are we all insane http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/marketing-of-madness-are-we-all-insane/ Psychiatry: An Industry of Death http://freedocumentaries.org/teatro.php?filmID=363&lan=en&size=big Making a Killing Psychotropic Drugs http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/making-a-killing-the-untold-story-of-psychotropicdrugging/ Prescription for Disaster http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/prescription-for-disaster/ Dead Wrong http://www.documentarywire.com/dead-wrong The tobacco conspiracy http://documentaryheaven.com/the-tobacco-conspiracy/ The History of Asbestos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2H2oixjNzU Economics: The Corporations http://www.hulu.com/watch/118169/the-corporation?c=News-andInformation/Documentary-and-Biography Triangle Fire 1911 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/triangle/player/ Who Killed The Electric Car? (1 of 10) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39K36Rw7LYc Enron: The smartest guys in the room http://documentaryheaven.com/enron-the-smartest-guys-in-the-room/ The fall of Lehman Brothers http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/fall-lehman-brothers/ The Secret of Oz http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-secret-of-oz/

Wal-Mart the high cost of low prices http://documentaryheaven.com/wal-mart-the-high-cost-of-low-price/ Santas Workshop http://documentaryheaven.com/santas-workshop-inside-chinas-slave-labor-toy-factories/ The Light Bulb Conspiracy Planned Obsolescence http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/light-bulb-conspiracy/ General Motors History Taken for a ride http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xg8h9kPfaQ The Diamond Empire Frontline - PBS http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/frontline-the-diamond-empire/ The Money Masters http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-money-masters/

Fossil fuel Issues The Concept of Peak Oil:

Peak Oil Aron Wissner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mKZcCVIPI&feature=related Peak Oil Explained http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHKp5vF_VoE Oil Production Has Peaked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ig2hCHFxws&feature=related Oil Reserves Dr Colin Campbell Geologist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVI1ixYsGbg&feature=related Oil, Smoke and Mirrors http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/oil-smoke-mirrors/ Energy War http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/energy-war/ Crude Awakening http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/crude-awakening Blind Spot http://documentaryheaven.com/blind-spot/ The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/the-power-of-community-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil Fuel http://documentaryheaven.com/fuel/

The Oil Factor http://documentaryheaven.com/the-oil-factor-behind-the-war-on-terror/ Crude Charges against Chevron for polluting Ecuador http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSonToHe8i4 The Spill Deepwater Horizon Explosion http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/thespill/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=bigimage&utm_source=bigimage The Spill (Interview with Mark Williams) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6795538n&tag=contentMain;contentBody Collapse by Michael Rupert (His conclusions are very radical and controversial not to mention, very disturbing could things really get this bad? the worst case?) http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/50078/Collapse__part_1_/

Gas Drilling Hydro fracking or Fracking in Pennsylvania and the mid west:
1) Gasland Deep gas extraction Fracking in Pennsylvania and the mid west. http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/gasland 2) Facts On Fracking Dr Tony Ingraffea from Cornell (The best orientation to fracking) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWmXpEkEPg 3) Faults With Fracking James Northrup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Ozcl7lV_g&feature=related 4) Gas Fracking James Northrup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGgOIsCbHbU

War:
Eisenhower Speech 1961 Warns us of the military industrial complex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY Why We Fight http://documentaryheaven.com/inside-burmas-secret-war/ The Fog of War (Robert McNamara) -A Must Seehttp://documentaryheaven.com/the-fog-of-war/ Bushs War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/view/ Hearts and Minds http://documentaryheaven.com/hearts-and-minds-1974/ Occupation: Dreamland

http://wardocumentaryfilms.com/browse/iraq/occupation-dreamland/ The Wounded Platoon http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/view/ Braking The Silence: Truth and lies in the war on terror (John Pilger) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/breaking-the-silence/ The War on Democracy - Venezuela (John Pilger) http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy Year Zero The Silent Death of Cambodia (John Pilger) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/year-zero/ War by Other Means (John Pilger) http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/war-by-other-means The road to Guantanamo http://documentaryheaven.com/the-road-to-guantanamo/ Uncovered The War on Iraq http://documentaryheaven.com/uncovered-the-war-on-iraq/ The New American Century http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/the-new-american-century Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/iraq-for-sale-the-war-profiteers/ War Made Easy http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/war-made-easy/ Control Room http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/control-room Chaneys Law http://moviesfoundonline.com/cheneys_law.php The Dark Side http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/ The Trials of Henry Kissinger http://documentaryheaven.com/trial-of-henry-kissinger/ Promo http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=110 Daniel Ellsberg http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/16/the_most_dangerous_man_in_america

Set 1 - The War You Dont See (John Pilger) http://thoughtmaybe.com/video/the-war-you-dont-see Set 2 - Bradley Manning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIPGRUL1CU Set 3 -The incident videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49nF7cdfNwA&feature=related

John Pilger: Website A film journalist from AustraliaHe has been covering our wars from the 70s in Vietnam to the present. He is one of the finest and one of the last in the line of free independent journalist. Now that big net work news very rarely engages in true open investigative journalism John Pilgers documentaries are all the more important... On his site click on the button Watch all John Pilgers films here http://www.johnpilger.com/ JWL