Movies & Videos
Movies & Videos
9/11 and the Belligerent Empire
Abby Martin examines the two major wars launched under the “Global War on Terror” — their historical development and their aftermath. Featuring former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, this episode digs into the tragedy of a region shaped by Empire.
Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy
Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80’s through the senseless stalemate that was occurring before Biden’s sudden removal of the troops in 2021.
This documentary uncovers such topics as: Gulf War Illness, the use of depleted uranium (with a half life of 4.3 billion years) on the battlefield, biological experiments, experimental vaccines, and other such projects.
A 2014 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that Western politicians have manufactured a simplified story about militant Islam into a good vs. evil argument, informed by and a reaction to Western society’s increasing chaos and disorder, which they neither grasp nor understand. The film attempts to explain several complex and interconnected narratives, of of which is how past governments, with their continued, largely failing, interventions in Afghanistan, keep repeating such failures, without properly understanding the country’s cultural background or its past political history and societal structure.
Tells the amazing story of Lorna Tychostup, a single mother and photojournalist who travels to Iraq continuously for nine years to put a human face on a horrific global tragedy. Visiting military units and Iraqi families beyond the green zone, she evolves from naive civilian to established journalist. Through Lorna’s personal journey, Bordering On Treason explores the complexities of this war and the possibility of hope.
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
Highlights the hypocrisy and double standards of the American and British adventures of 2001-3, which led to the deaths of more than a million people.
Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us
How the Bush administration marketed the Iraq war, and how the press and journalist played into selling an invasion of Iraq in the aftermath of 9/11 to the American people.
We have fundamentally changed the rules of the game and the rules of engagement in the War on Terror. Drone strikes, night raids, and U.S. government condoned torture occur in corners across the globe, generating unprecedented civilian casualties. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command, the most secret fighting force in U.S. history, exposing operations carried out by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. No target is off-limits for the JSOC kill list, not even U.S. citizens. This is a chilling battle cry for the soul and conscience of an America few of us know exists.
The film documents the use of weapons that the documentary asserts are chemical weapons, particularly the use of incendiary bombs, and alleges indiscriminate use of violence against civilians and children by military forces of the United States of America in the city of Fallujah in Iraq during the Fallujah Offensive of November 2004.
Examines the abuse, torture, and murder of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison at the hands of U.S. military police in the fall of 2003 and debunks the “bad apples” theory. The film asks: how can decent young soldiers take these actions, and, what orders came from the chain of command.
A controversial documentary about the War in Iraq, and what is described as the false pretenses that caused our nation to enter into our most unpopular war since Vietnam.
Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers
Produced while the Iraq War was in full swing, this film deals with the alleged war profiteering and negligence of private contractors and consultants – including Blackwater, K.B.R.-Halliburton, CACI and Titan – who went to Iraq as part of the US war effort, over-billing the U.S. government and doing substandard work while endangering the lives of American soldiers, Iraqi civilians, and their own employees.
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.
This 72-minute film shows the evolution of the U.S. government’s case for military action against Saddam Hussein’s regime, leading to the Iraq War which began in 2003, and is comprised entirely of archival news footage – without commentary, without voiceover – presented chronologically from President Bush’s State of the Union address in January, 2002 (the “axis of evil” speech), and continuing up to the announcement of formal U.S. military action in Iraq on March 19, 2003.
Making Sense of the War on Terror
presented by Christopher Bollyn
Bollyn discusses the dual deception of 9/11 and the War on Terror and explains the hidden strategic plan behind America’s longest and costliest war.
No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent Into Chaos
George W, had always wanted to be a “Wartime President” and by hook or by crook he got his wish, much to the detriment of the Iraqi people. The candor of the hoodwinked members of the outgoing administration is unparalleled to this day. Federal employees whose only mistake was to think that they were in their lofty positions to make a positive difference in the growing chaos that was Iraq were left holding the body bags of hundreds of thousands of innocent “collateral damage” civilians.
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
After assessing today’s dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, “The Oil Factor” questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle-East and Central Asia where 3/4 of the world’s oil and natural gas is located.
Poison Dust: Depleted Uranium Munitions
This is a full-length documentary film that takes a close look at the dangers of radioactive Depleted Uranium Weapons to innocent civilians and our own troops. Could U.S. troops serving in Iraq or elsewhere come home severely damaged — even if they avoided getting killed or wounded? Poison Dust tells the story of young soldiers who thought they came home safely from the war, but didn’t.
The Secret History of Al Qaeda
by James Corbett
We all know the story of bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the story that was repeated ad nauseam in the days, weeks and months after the catastrophic, catalyzing events of 9/11. So often was that story repeated that the hypnotized public forgot that it was, at base, just that: a story. . . .
This documentary explores 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. The medical examiner claimed the driver died from excessive physical abuse. Taking this case as a jumping-off point, the film examines wider claims of torture that occurred at bases like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay during the Bush administration.
The family of professional football player turned soldier Pat Tillman sets out to explore and uncover the real story behind their son’s death in April 2004 when he was serving in Afghanistan. Tillman, killed not by the Taliban as had first been reported, but instead by friendly fire, left a million-dollar career to serve the United States. But, while searching for the truth, his family uncovers more than the real story — they expose a shocking propagandistic military cover-up.
FRONTLINE traces the roots of the Iraq war back to the days immediately following September 11, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the creation of a special intelligence operation to quietly begin looking for evidence that would justify the war. The intelligence reports soon became a part of a continuing struggle between civilians in the Pentagon on one side and the CIA, State Department, and uniformed military on the other – a struggle that would lead to inadequate planning for the aftermath of the war, continuing violence, and mounting political problems for the president.
A highly acclaimed, gripping examination into the fear-tactics, scare-mongering and politics of manipulation the American government employed to justify their reasons for going to war with Iraq. It investigates the validity of the evidence and information sold to the US Congress and the American public in the run-up to war.
Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars
Investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad, observing their effect on the War on Terror, the lives of individuals, and U.S. foreign policy. The film features more than 70 interviews, including a former American drone operator, drone strike victims’ families, investigative journalists, and top military officials.
A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centers in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James Coffman, worked with Steele and reported directly to General David Petraeus, who had been sent into Iraq to organize the Iraqi security services.
Presented by John Pilger
Powerful investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of ’embedded’ and independent reporting.
A documentary film about the February 2003 global day of protest against the Iraq War, directed by Amir Amirani.
There were two wars going on in Iraq – one was fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and remove WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass Deception.