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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 08:08 PM
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Anyone have a list of good Investigative Documentaries to watch on You Tube?
I used to have a list of various ones DU'ers had linked, but lost it somewhere when I transferred files to my new computer awhile back.

I know there were some good one's on the financial implosion around but was looking for more about war and government investigations. I've seen all the 9/11 stuff...so I'm not looking for those, because I know about them...but it's NEWER STUFF.

Thanks, in advance.

:patriot:
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 08:12 PM
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1. Torturing Democracy, you can stream it...
http://torturingdemocracy.org/

About the documentary:

When the publication of the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq made prisoner abuse an international controversy in April, 2004, both the National Security Archive and Washington Media Associates were already pursuing the story.

Award-winning producer Sherry Jones was in the final stages of editing the first full-length television investigation of the Administration's detention and interrogation policies, with a focus on the detention camp at Guantanamo. That ABC news special, "Peter Jennings Reporting: Guantanamo" aired on June 25, 2004.

The Archive had just published a reference collection of more than 1500 documents on U.S. counter-terrorism policy - from the earliest plane hijacking crises in 1968 through the war in Afghanistan in 2002 - and had filed hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests for Bush administration documents on terrorism and detention policies.

In May, 2004 the Archive was the first to post on the web the historic CIA interrogation manuals that were precursors to the treatment of prisoners in U.S custody during the war on terror. In June and July, 2004 the Archive added the full posting of the administration's legal and decision memos on interrogation policies - from the officially released papers, and the more revealing leaked documents.

Over the next two years, Washington Media would keep in touch with its sources and keep on the story. And the Archive would collect thousands of primary source documents, thanks to a multitude of investigations, leaks, journalistic coups, and successful lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Associated Press, and others. (For a more complete list of sources, see the introduction to the "Entire Archive.")

In January, 2007, the Archive and Washington Media decided to join forces, as we had done on documentary film projects over the past 20 years. The results are seen on this web site: The documentary, "Torturing Democracy," and the first stage of a comprehensive Torture Archive that aims to serve as the online institutional memory of the essential documentary evidence.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 08:31 PM
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2. Thanks. n/t
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 08:41 PM
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4. it's really well done, it lays it all out...very informative--you're welcome nt
Edited on Sat Dec-05-09 08:41 PM by mix
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 09:36 PM
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6. Sounds interesting...thanks..!
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 09:37 PM
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7. Tower 7! Tower 7!
Edited on Sat Dec-05-09 09:37 PM by Capn Sunshine
just fucking with you
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 08:38 PM
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3. pbs.org is loaded with good stuff
I like it because it loads faster than YT and doesn't lock up and rebuffer like YT does.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 09:36 PM
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5. Thanks..the Bill Moyers and Frontline stuff is good...but I'm looking for "Indie Stuff"
that isn't out there in the Usual Places.

Thanks, though!
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-05-09 11:50 PM
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8. Good luck and post what you find.
I like Indy and Documentary. My two fave genres. I'm a dork. :)
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ipaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-06-09 12:12 AM
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9. The century of self
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfqnoT_0qp8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.

Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar.

His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.

It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today's world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self_episode_1.shtml
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-06-09 08:23 AM
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12. Thanks...sounds good. Have read some about Bernays
Edited on Sun Dec-06-09 08:35 AM by KoKo
and didn't know their was a You Tube. :hi:
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-06-09 12:13 AM
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10. www.freedocumentaries.org
Found that on FARK today.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-06-09 08:29 AM
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13. That's an excellent site...It has many of the links I lost and many
other documentaries I've heard about but not seen. This will keep me busy checking out the ones I missed. :thumbsup:
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MinM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-06-09 12:47 AM
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11. The Panama Deception (1992) | Coverup: Behind The Iran Contra Affair (1988
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-06-09 08:34 AM
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14. Thanks, "MinM," for the links to video and articles.
:patriot:
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-06-09 08:50 AM
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15. Top Documentary Films . com
It has everything in one place and its free
Science, history, biography, conspiracy, art and more.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/watch-online/
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