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No End in Sight (2007)
, 1h42Directed by Charles H. Ferguson
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Films about terrorism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Campbell Scott
Un nouveau regard - percutant et désespérant - sur la guerre en Irak, où comment le président américain George W. Bush et son administration, en l'occurrence la CIA, manipulèrent les masses.
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
, 1h39Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Musical films, Political films
Actors Tariq Ali, Walter Cronkite, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, David Peel, Gore Vidal
Alors que la guerre du Viêtnam suscite de plus en plus la polémique, que les manifestations s'intensifient et que le gouvernement américain multiplie les opérations d'espionnage et d'écoute, un chanteur célèbre décide de militer pour la paix. Il doit alors faire face aux représailles du gouvernement américain.
A Place in the Sun (2019)
, 1h16Directed by Gilles Perret, François Ruffin
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Politique, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Road movies
Actors François Ruffin, Gilles Perret
Au volant de sa Citroën Berlingo, François Ruffin, accompagné par Gilles Perret et sa caméra, sillonne les routes de France, du nord au sud, pendant six jours à la rencontre de Gilets jaunes sur les ronds-points, les péages ou les parkings d'hypermarchés. Les deux hommes traversent ainsi neuf départements : l'Oise, la Saône-et-Loire, l'Ardèche, l'Isère, la Haute-Savoie, la Drôme, le Gard, les Bouches-du-Rhône et l'Hérault.
Battle in Seattle (2007)
, 1h40Directed by Stuart Townsend
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors André 3000, Jennifer Carpenter, Woody Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Ray Liotta, Connie Nielsen
The film depicts the protest in 1999, as thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999. The World Trade Organization is considered by protesters to contribute to widening the socioeconomic gap between the rich and the poor while it claims to be fixing it and decreasing world hunger, disease and death.
The War Room (1993)
, 1h36Directed by Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
The film follows James Carville and George Stephanopoulos at first during the New Hampshire Primary, and then mostly in Little Rock, Arkansas, at Clinton Campaign Headquarters. The film follows several key 1992 Campaign events, such as the Clinton Campaign's attack on "Read my lips: no new taxes", the Gennifer Flowers scandal, the New Hampshire primary upset, and others as they played out inside of the Clinton 1992 Campaign.
I.O.U.S.A. (2008)
, 1h25Directed by Patrick Creadon
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
The film follows Bixby and Walker who describe systematically four serious deficits shaping the U.S. economy: budget, savings, the balance of payments, and leadership. As of the early 2008 release of the film they had created a national debt of over $9.6 trillion, $30,000 for each American.
Up the Yangtze (2007)
, 1h33Directed by Yung Chang
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Political films
Actors Yung Chang
The setting of the film is a riverboat cruise ship floating up the Yangtze river. Two young people are the focus of the film as they work aboard the ship. One is a sixteen-year-old girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named "Cindy" Yu Shui. She is followed as she leaves her family to work on one of the cruise ships serving wealthy western tourists at the same time as her family is being forced from their home due to the flooding that accompanied the building of the dam. The film shows her acclimatization to the consumer economy of tourism as well as modern technology of the cruise ships, juxtaposed with her family and other older citizens who are displaced from a rural lifestyle to cities where they must pay for the vegetables they used to grow on their own.
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Alternate history films
Actors Charles Frank
The Act of Killing (2012)
, 2h39Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, Joshua Oppenheimer
Origin Danemark
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry
The film focuses on the perpetrators of the Indonesian killings of 1965–66 in the present day; ostensibly towards the communist community where almost a million people were killed. When Suharto overthrew Sukarno, the President of Indonesia, following the failed coup of the 30 September Movement in 1965, the gangsters Anwar Congo and Adi Zulkadry in Medan (North Sumatra) were promoted from selling black market movie theatre tickets to leading the most powerful death squad in North Sumatra. They also extorted money from ethnic Chinese as the price for keeping their lives. Anwar is said to have personally killed 1,000 people.
The Big One (1998)
, 1h31Directed by Michael Moore
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes La mondialisation, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Documentary films about business, Documentaire sur l'altermondialisme, Documentary films about politics, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Political films
Actors Michael Moore, Garrison Keillor
The Big One est un documentaire américain de Michael Moore réalisé en 1997 lors de la tournée de promotion de son livre Downsize This! à travers les États-Unis. À chaque ville traversée le film montre la réalité sociale et le chômage en allant à la rencontre des salariés et des dirigeants d'entreprise. Il dénonce les pratiques de multinationales qui licencient leur personnel alors qu'elles font des bénéfices, ou comme Nike, dont certains sous-traitants utilisent le travail des enfants.
The Queen of Versailles (2012)
, 1h40Directed by Lauren Greenfield
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about politics, Political films
David Siegel is the wealthy owner of Westgate Resorts, a timeshare company in Florida. His wife Jackie Siegel, thirty years his junior, is the 1993 winner of the Mrs. Florida pageant and has a computer technology engineering degree. They begin construction on the Versailles house, a mansion modeled on the Palace of Versailles. Located on the outskirts of Orlando, it would be one of the largest single-family detached homes in the United States if completed (the largest being the Biltmore Estate at 178,926 square feet).
Red Army (2014)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Ice hockey films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Sports d'hiver
Dans une première partie Red Army traite du recrutement et de la formation des joueurs professionnels de hockey sur glace durant l'ère soviétique. Puis il suit l'histoire de l'équipe nationale dans les années 1980 à travers le parcours des cinq joueurs vedettes de l'époque avec une emphase sur la carrière de Viatcheslav Fetissov le joueur le plus célèbre de cette formation. Tous ces joueurs faisaient partie du club Armée Rouge de Moscou rattaché à l'Armée soviétique. Les thèmes traités dans le documentaire portent sur le poids de la propagande soviétique, le caractère dictatorial des entraineurs mais également sur la finesse du jeu des joueurs soviétiques. Enfin, à travers le destin des joueurs vedettes, il montre les conséquences de la Pérestroïka et de l'éclatement de l'Union soviétique sur le sport professionnel soviétique.
, 1h27Directed by George Butler
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
, 2h10Directed by Alex Gibney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Politique, Documentaire sur les médias, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Political films
Actors Alex Gibney, Michael Moore
The 1989 WANK worm attack on NASA computers, originally thought to threaten the Galileo spacecraft, is depicted as the work of Australian hackers, including Assange. The founding of Wikileaks in 2006 is followed by coverage of several key events: its 2009–2010 leaks about the Icelandic financial collapse, Swiss banking tax evasion, Kenyan government corruption, toxic-waste dumping, Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning's communications with Adrian Lamo, uploads to Wikileaks of the Iraq and Afghanistan war documents, diplomatic cables, and video, exposure to the FBI by Lamo, and the accusations of sexual assault made against Assange. Interview subjects include Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Heather Brooke, James Ball, Donald Bostom, Nick Davies, Mark Davis, Jason Edwards, Timothy Douglas Webster, Michael Hayden, Adrian Lamo, J. William Leonard, Gavin MacFadyen, Smári McCarthy, Iain Overton, Kevin Poulsen and Vaughan Smith.
The Weather Underground (2002)
, 1h35Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Lili Taylor
Pendant la guerre du Vietnam, une poignée d'étudiants aux idéaux communs se rassemblent pour créer The Weather Underground, une formation armée révolutionnaire qui a pour but de renverser le gouvernement de Nixon alors en place.