Category: Documentaries
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From Lecture Halls to Movie Theaters: How Films Enhance Student Learning
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Read more: From Lecture Halls to Movie Theaters: How Films Enhance Student LearningDiscover how incorporating films into educational settings can boost student engagement and understanding. Explore effective strategies today!
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Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
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Read more: Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)When the free market is law, abandon all hope. Darwin’s Nightmare, Hubert Sauper’s new documentary, is so punishing in its bleakness, in fact, that it acts as a white flag for all further endeavors
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple
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Read more: Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s TempleJim Jones — preacher, con man, pervert, and, ultimately, instigator of mass murder/suicide — is not the sort of man I fear as I close my eyes.
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Sharkwater (2006)
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Read more: Sharkwater (2006)Tigers are killed for their penises so that pathologically insecure gentlemen might tap into some mystical power of seduction…
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Army of Shadows (1969)
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Read more: Army of Shadows (1969)On its surface, this is a precise examination of the French Resistance, shot in a documentary style on location.
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Russian Ark (2002)
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Read more: Russian Ark (2002)95 minute unbroken shot Russian film. Breathtaking Beauty. The Results? Empty theaters, indifference, deathly silence.
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The Summit (2012)
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Read more: The Summit (2012)Here we have yet another mountain climbing documentary where on August of 2008, 25 dare-devils headed for the summit, but 11 climbers never came back, meeting their death on a mountain, nicknamed The Savage Mountain, also known as K2. Here at Ruthless, our fascination and disdain for born-rich fools who pollute our beautiful mountains with…
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The Ghost Army (2013)
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Read more: The Ghost Army (2013)The Ghost Army is an amazing documentary that vividly shows how WWII was a complete and total effort from every corner of American and Allied creativity. Surely, as has been unanimously proclaimed, this was “The Greatest Generation”, and I am still learning every day just how great they were.
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Cocaine Cowboys
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Read more: Cocaine CowboysEssential Americana in sun-kissed blood-drenched glory.
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Into the Abyss: A Documentary by Werner Herzog
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Read more: Into the Abyss: A Documentary by Werner Herzog“ The fact that a believer is happier than a Skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober man.”-George Bernard Shaw This documentary centers on death row inmates in Huntsville, Texas, the state that leads the nation in executions, no real surprise here. As…