movies

Movies

You Might Find Interesting 

We may watch some of these movies in class. The rest are highly recommended.

DOCUMENTARIES

• • Born into Brothels

  • Bus 174 

  • Century of the Self (BBC-Director: Adam Curtis - available on google video)

  • Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago Eight 

  • Distorted Morality

  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room  

  • Harlan County, USA

  • Hearts and Minds

  • Life and Debt

  • Manufacturing Consent 

  • Maxed Out 

  • Orwell Rolls in his Grave

  • Paragraph 175 

  • Power of Nightmares (BBC-Director: Adam Curtis - available on google video) 

  • Power and Terror

  • Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (Bill Moyers - available on google video)

  • Sex Crimes and the Vatican (BBC - available on google video) 

  • Sicko

  • The Agronomist

  • The Charcoal People

  • The Corporation

  • The Cradle will Rock

  • The Magdalene Sisters  

  • The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

  • The Revolution will not be televised (Amnesty International -available on google video)

  • The Trap (BBC-Director: Adam Curtis - available in google video) 

  • The Yes Men

FILM

• • American History X 

  • Battle of Algiers 

  • Burn

  • City of God

  • Dogville 

  • Hudsucker Proxy 

  • I am Cuba 

  • I heart Huckabees

  • Frank Capra's (director) films are magnificent 

  • Look Who's Coming to Dinner 

  • Lord of War

  • M 

  • Magdalene Sisters (based on the documentary)

  • Miss Evers' Boys

  • Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin) 

  • Requiem for a Dream

  • The Big Lebowski 

  • The Battle of Algiers

  • The Kid (Charlie Chaplin) 

  • V for Vendetta

  • Vera Drake

  • Wag the Dog

  • Waking Life 

ANIME 

• • Howl's Moving Castle 

  • Grave of the Fireflies (prepare to cry! but you must watch it with the Japanese subtitles)

  • Samurai Champloo (series)

  • Princess Nausicaa