Inequality Documentary

Bridegroom (2013) Movies

Posted by MirrorsMaker at Nov. 20, 2013

Bridegroom (2013)
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 404 | x264 @ 765 Kbps | English AAC 2.0 @ 160 Kbps | 79 min | 561 Mb
Genre: Documentary

BRIDEGROOM tells the emotional journey of Shane and Tom, two young men in a loving and committed relationship - a relationship that was cut tragically short by a misstep off the side of a roof. The story of what happened after this accidental death - of how people without the legal protections of marriage can find themselves completely shut out and ostracized - is poignant, enraging and opens a window onto the issue of marriage equality like no speech or lecture ever will. On May 7, 2012, the anniversary of Tom's death, after a year of documenting his own grief, Shane decided to make a video tribute to his partner entitled "It Could Happen To You." This film, posted on YouTube, received over 3.2 million hits and inspired over 50 thousand e-mails and comments on YouTube and Facebook. The impact of Shane's original film and the raw nerve it touched, tells us this is an important story that needs to be brought to the world stage.

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BBC - Lucy Worsley Investigates: Series 1 (2022) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 14, 2024

Lucy Worsley re-investigates some of the most dramatic chapters in British history. She uncovers forgotten witnesses, re-examines old evidence and follows new clues. Who killed the Princes in the tower in 1483? What actually caused the Black Death? Why did a witch craze sweep 16th century Britain? Was George III really mad? These are some of the most enduring and perplexing questions that have baffled academics and fascinated history fans for years - and this series sees historian Lucy Worsley turn sleuth by reopening and completely re-evaluating these infamous mysteries. The factual series unfolds like a thrilling investigation - keeping audiences guessing at every twist and turn.

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BBC - Lucy Worsley Investigates: Series 1 (2022) Movies

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HC. - 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers (2023) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 22, 2023

Executive Produced and featuring Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, “761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers” will tell the true story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first Black tank unit to serve in combat during WWII, and explore in-depth the major battles they faced both overseas while in combat and back home in the United States. It features an interview with one of the last surviving members of the 761st Battalion, as well as the current and first Black Secretary of Defense, Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, alongside new and archival interviews, period footage, still photographs and new commentary and stories from family and relatives of the Black Panther soldiers.

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BBC - Surviving Progress (2012) Movies

Posted by vivid23 at July 7, 2012

Documentary telling the double-edged story of the grave risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress. With rich imagery the film connects financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with the sustainability of mankind itself.

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Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me (2013) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Dec. 2, 2017

Documentary made by a young South African filmmaker before Nelson Mandela's death which raises important questions about the iconic leader's legacy. Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and also those who criticised him. Global thinkers, politicians and artists including the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger and Ariel Dorfman talk about the effect of his policies and his decision making. Their thoughts are weighed equally with ordinary South Africans like Charity Kondile, who refuses to forgive her son's apartheid operative murderer.

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BBC Storyville - Mandela: The Myth and Me (2013) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Feb. 26, 2014

Documentary made by a young South African filmmaker before Nelson Mandela's death which raises important questions about the iconic leader's legacy. Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and also those who criticised him. Global thinkers, politicians and artists including the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger and Ariel Dorfman talk about the effect of his policies and his decision making. Their thoughts are weighed equally with ordinary South Africans like Charity Kondile, who refuses to forgive her son's apartheid operative murderer. Through these interviews, completed in the last months of Mandela's life, Matabane interrogates for himself the meaning of freedom, reconciliation and forgiveness. By doing so he challenges Mandela's enduring impact in today's world of conflict and inequality. Thought-provoking and reflective, Mandela, the Myth and Me is a moving film which frames Mandela from a fresh, deeply personal perspective.

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Machines (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 3, 2019

Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain's debut documentary — winner of the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival — takes audiences into the labyrinthine passages of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, India. Jain's camera wanders freely between pulsating machines and bubbling vats of dye to create a moving portrait of the human laborers who toil away there for 12 hours a day to eke out a meager living for their families back home. Interviews with these workers and the factory owners who employ them reveal the stark inequality and dangerous working conditions brought about by unregulated industrialization in the region.

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What the Fuck Is Going On? (2019) Movies

Posted by MegoNecia at Nov. 27, 2019

What the Fuck Is Going On? (2019)
WEB-DL | MKV | 1080p (FullHD) | 1920x1080 @ 6190 kbps | Español AC3 5.1 | 1:26:42 | 3.98 GB
Subtitles: English, العربية, Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, Español, Español, Suomi, Français, עברית, Magyar, Italiano, Bokmål, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Português, Русский, Svenska, Türkçe
Genre: Documentary

Featuring extensive interviews, this documentary takes a critical look at the gender inequality in Spain as the feminist movement aims to shift reality.

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ZED - Bastille Day: Chronicle of a Revolution (2022) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 13, 2024

Summer 1789: Louis XVI knows that civil war is close and assembles a force of 25,000 soldiers to establish his authority. One of France's most famous battles is about to begin. Paris, July 14, 1789. The kingdom has been in crisis for months, and the city is seething with unrest. The citizens are angry and have had enough of inequality, unemployment and hunger. At 9am, the French people establish their plan of attack and head for the Bastille, a symbol of royal absolutism. Armed with axes, pitchforks, knives and rifles, they storm the fortress. At 5pm, the Bastille falls to the people, and with it, brings down the foundations of the French monarchy.

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