"Democracy"
In the Name of Democracy
The first officer in the United States Army to refuse deployment to Iraq on moral grounds, and attempts to clarify the issues that prompted Lt. Watada to choose the course he did in order to protest an immoral and, to him, unconstitutional war.
Le Pakistan, les talibans et moi
Dans une chronique originale, autant par son sujet que par sa forme et son ton, le cinéaste Mohammed Ali Naqvi revisite près de quatre décennies de l'histoire tragique récente du Pakistan. Guidé par une interrogation personnelle, il réunit archives, analyses et interviews, et pose son regard singulier sur l'inaccessible conquête de la démoc..
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
How to Fix Democracy
Directed, written, and narrated by Andrew Keen, the How To Fix Democracy film is a documentary about the contemporary crisis of liberal democracy. Filmed in Europe and the United States, it features dozens of interviews from some of the world's top experts on democracy from academia, media, and government. The documentary charts the rise of illiber..
Qu'est-ce que la démocratie?
Donnant la parole à diverses personnalités - éminents théoriciens, chirurgiens traumatologues, militants, ouvriers d'usine, demandeurs d'asile, anciens premiers ministres et autres -, Qu'est-ce que la démocratie? fait le lien entre passé et présent, entre ce qui est d'ordre émotif, intellectuel, personnel et politique pour susciter la réfl..
Democracy Is ...
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?
Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes
John Ennis follows the money in elections to piece together the cycle of pay-to-play politics.
Haiti: Dreams of Democracy
This film captures a key moment in the country’s history, as its people celebrate the ousting of the authoritarian Duvalier regime. Music is central to the film, with performances from street drummers and politically engaged artists interwoven throughout, capturing the hearts and hopes of the Haitian people.
A Challenge To Democracy
An examination of the living conditions at Japanese-American relocation centers.
Bloodless: The Path to Democracy
In the course of history, only a few revolutions have been successful, let alone those without Bloodshed. Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former journalist and political prisoner, galvanized support among the youth and women, by using non-violent civil disobedience protests and social media. In a short period of 6 weeks, a corrupt oligarchy was topp..
The Choice - The Risks of Web Democracy
Italy’s biggest political party, the Five Star Movement, promotes direct democracy through internet voting. Five Star Movement uses a digital platform named Rousseau, that allows Movement’s members to vote online and express their opinion on various issues. But who governs this data?
Trumping Democracy
Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States by winning three key states, a victory engineered by an ultra-conservative faction that quietly mapped its way to power using fake news, lies and psychometrics. This explosive documentary follows the money to the elusive multi-billionaire Robert Mercer who bought Breitbart News and funded ..
Democracy – Equality or Privilege
Covers the disagreements between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the 1790s on how our new government should be conducted.
The French Democracy
The French Democracy is a short film by French filmmaker Alex Chan. The film was made in the 2005 PC game "The Movies," a business simulation game that allowed users to create their own films using pre-rendered scenes and tells the story of three Moroccan immigrants in France who turn to rioting after facing different forms of discrimination. The f..
African Democracy/Hopes and Challenges
After more than a decade of interviews and research, this documentary film “African Democracy: Hopes and Challenges” offers an expansive examination of the development of democracy in select countries on the world’s second-largest continent. This is the culmination of an 11-year journey across Africa which I took along with various teams of s..
Democracy Road
After living in exile for 20 years, Aye Chan Naing can finally return to Myanmar's homeland. As chief editor of the radio and television station The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), Naing, together with reporter Than Win Htut and their colleagues, fought for democracy and freedom of speech from an office in Oslo. The journalists go home to test the..
When Democracy Works
The first educational media project to examine the related policy initiatives of the radical right wing and illustrate how their hatred and bias hurts ordinary people. It presents three case studies of the democratic right: racist David Duke's electoral bids in Louisiana; the struggle over homophobic Amendment 2 in Colorado, which was ruled unconst..
Winning Back Our Democracy
The victories in electoral reform at the state and local level, at this Town Hall event.
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas
From the communal councils of Venezuela to constitutional assemblies, grassroots movements and cooperatives, filmmakers Silvia Leindecker and Michael Fox explore the many incarnations of democracy across the Americas. The documentary examines democracy in nations such as Brazil, Colombia and Canada, and features interviews with journalists, coopera..
No Democracy Here
Liad, a lefty human rights defender dominatrix, re-educates her right-wing-leaning obedient submissive slaves to follow upstanding leftist ethos and morals by using consensual domination practices.
