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Boer Project: South Africa a Reversed Apartheid? (2018)
Incredible Production Value On A Film Covering A Vital Subject
The plight of the people who founded the nation of South Africa is an issue that should be near and dear to the hearts of people the world over. As such any effort to raise awareness about what is going on there deserves some attention and credit. But this film is in a league all its own. For the effort that has been made here by Jonas Nilsson and his team is not just an excellent journalistic work, but a fantastically well-produced documentary to boot.
IndoctriNation (2011)
Powerful. Poignant. Prescient.
All the activism and self-education a person can pursue in a dozen lifetimes is trivial so long as we entrust the education of our children to the very machine that is the instrument of our oppression.
Colin Gunn offers up a masterwork of reason in his film addressing the issue of public schooling in America.
The vision of the film is compelling. The message is clear and concise. The facts are laid bare for the viewer. A staple of excellence in documentary production is to not just bring attention to an issue, but explain in some capacity both how we got into the mess to begin with and what we can do about it.
All of this and more is addressed in IndoctriNation as Gunn takes us back to the very roots and foundations of modern public education in America, candidly and objectively examines the fruits of it, analyzes the arguments for and against it--and from *there* moves on to its conclusion.
I am yet to see so thorough and compelling a dissection of the plight of modern education in America that simultaneously offers real and tangible solutions to the problem.
What in the World Are They Spraying? (2010)
A Well-Produced and Impassioned Appeal to Reason
Before seeing this film, Michael Murphy was a name I had never heard.
That he is one of the few journalists by trade I have ever heard of who addresses the subject of geoengineering would have been enough to make me sit up and take notice, but this film is what really established him as man to watch in the the alternative media.
What In the World Are They Spraying is not a mainstream production. It did not have a multi million dollar budget like "Fed Up" or other recent documentaries in the infotainment genre. The films that deal with the most important issues are usually like that--and yet, while addressing a vital subject and laying out a powerful case arguing that geoengineering is not just a "thing" in the modern vernacular but a real and present danger to use holds its own in production quality as well.
Sure, it's not as flashy and chock full of beautiful visuals and info-graphics as bigger budget films but the footage is excellent and the interviews piercing and insightful.
Not many films can boast the collaboration of icons of the truth movement like G. Edward Griffin (of World Without Cancer and Creature of Jekyll Island renown) and Paul Wittenberger--a newer comer on the scene (like Murphy) but one who very quickly established himself nonetheless as filmmaker as talented as he is visionary and piercingly relevant.
It's a mid-budget film with more substance than all the big budget productions I've seen combined that paved the way for newer and better offerings like Why In the World Are They Spraying and the upcoming film, An Unconventional Shade of Gray.
9/10 unnatural cloud formation -- Would watch again. (Already have a dozen times.)