Title: Control Room (2004)
Director/Writer: Jehane Noujaim/Julia Bacha & Jehane Noujaim
Cast: Samir Khader, Josh Rushing, George W. Bush, Hassan Ibrahim, Deema Khatib, Tom Mintier, Donald Rumsfeld, and David Shuster.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 84 minutes
Languages: English and Arabic, with hard English subtitles.
Description: Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) directs Control Room, a documentary investigating the ethics of media-managed wars. This film particularly focuses on the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Noujaim and her film crew travel to the headquarters of Al-Jazeera, the media leader in the Arab world, to find out what the news looks like in Iraq. She interviews several journalists and producers involved in war reporting for Al-Jazeera, including senior producer Sameer Khader, journalist Hassan Ibrahim, and producer Deema Khatib. Noujaim also interviews American correspondents David Shuster from NBC and Tom Mintier from CNN. Control Room premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the American Spectrum program.
Source: DVDRip. Pulled from some public torrent.
File size: 700MB | Resolution: 576 x 304 (36:19 or 1.895)
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Audio: 48kHz 111kbps 2-channel Joint stereo mp3
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Millhouse: A White Comedy (1971)
Title: Millhouse: A White Comedy (1971)
Director: Emile de Antonio
Cast: Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon, and Richard Nixon.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 92 minutes
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: Largely comedic, and a not entirely unsympathetic characterization, de Antonio's portrait of Richard Milhous Nixon was a surprising departure from his previous work. As the film satirizes Nixon's manipulative side, it also reveals a resourceful Horatio Alger figure, a "poor boy from the lower middle classes with burning desire and energy" (de Antonio). Millhouse is also a continuation of de Antonio's work in compilation documentary. Just before the '68 election, de Antonio sought, in vain, for a print of Nixon's 1952 telecast "Checkers Speech," which he wanted screened in theaters, to remind viewers about the "old Nixon." Two years later, an anonymous delivery of hundreds of cans of news film – including a complete kinescope of the 1952 broadcast – became the core material for Millhouse: A White Comedy.
Source: VHSRip. Taken from a torrent @ CG by user gsbird1065.
File size: 1.45GB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (4:3 or 1.333)
Video: 1878kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 384kbps 2-channel Stereo AC3
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Director: Emile de Antonio
Cast: Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon, and Richard Nixon.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 92 minutes
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: Largely comedic, and a not entirely unsympathetic characterization, de Antonio's portrait of Richard Milhous Nixon was a surprising departure from his previous work. As the film satirizes Nixon's manipulative side, it also reveals a resourceful Horatio Alger figure, a "poor boy from the lower middle classes with burning desire and energy" (de Antonio). Millhouse is also a continuation of de Antonio's work in compilation documentary. Just before the '68 election, de Antonio sought, in vain, for a print of Nixon's 1952 telecast "Checkers Speech," which he wanted screened in theaters, to remind viewers about the "old Nixon." Two years later, an anonymous delivery of hundreds of cans of news film – including a complete kinescope of the 1952 broadcast – became the core material for Millhouse: A White Comedy.
Source: VHSRip. Taken from a torrent @ CG by user gsbird1065.
File size: 1.45GB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (4:3 or 1.333)
Video: 1878kbps XviD 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 384kbps 2-channel Stereo AC3
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Underground (1976)
Title: Underground (1976)
Directors: Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler.
Cast: Billy Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Emile de Antonio, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, Haskell Wexler, and Cathy Wilkerson.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 87 minutes.
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: On May Day, 1975, three filmmakers recorded interviews with Weatherpeople Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Jeff Jones, and Cathy Wilkerson at a "safe house" near Los Angeles. The film they completed a year later was much more than long sequences of talking heads, intercutting a well-scavenged collection of footage that was not 'archival' so much as it was a compendium of leftist documentaries from that moment in history. With excerpts from works by Chris Marker, Third World Newsreel, Jane Fonda's Indochina Peace Campaign, and others, Underground now serves as a double-barreled time capsule. We see deep into the interior of the Weather Underground and broadly sample the texture of documentaries of dissent.
Source: VHSRip. Taken from a torrent @ CG by user gsbird1065.
File size: 1.45GB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (4:3 or 1.333)
Video: 2195kbps XviD 29.970fps
Audio: 48kHz 168kbps 2-channel Joint stereo mp3
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Directors: Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler.
Cast: Billy Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Emile de Antonio, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, Haskell Wexler, and Cathy Wilkerson.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 87 minutes.
Languages: English; no subtitles.
Description: On May Day, 1975, three filmmakers recorded interviews with Weatherpeople Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Jeff Jones, and Cathy Wilkerson at a "safe house" near Los Angeles. The film they completed a year later was much more than long sequences of talking heads, intercutting a well-scavenged collection of footage that was not 'archival' so much as it was a compendium of leftist documentaries from that moment in history. With excerpts from works by Chris Marker, Third World Newsreel, Jane Fonda's Indochina Peace Campaign, and others, Underground now serves as a double-barreled time capsule. We see deep into the interior of the Weather Underground and broadly sample the texture of documentaries of dissent.
Source: VHSRip. Taken from a torrent @ CG by user gsbird1065.
File size: 1.45GB | Resolution: 640 x 480 (4:3 or 1.333)
Video: 2195kbps XviD 29.970fps
Audio: 48kHz 168kbps 2-channel Joint stereo mp3
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Iraq in Fragments (2006)
Title: Iraq in Fragments (2006)
Director/Writer: James Longley
Cast: Mohammed Haithem, Suleiman Mahmoud, etc.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 93 minutes
Languages: Arabic and Kurdish, with hard English subtitles.
Description: Filmmaker James Longley offers three thumbnail sketches of Iraq as the nation struggles to its feet following the American Invasion in this documentary. In the film's first chapter, Mohammed Haithem is an 11-year-old forced to make his own way in Bagdhad after the disappearance of his parents. Mohammed earns his keep working in an auto-repair shop, though he would prefer to go back to school, and has developed a precocious cynicism about the presence of U.S. troops along with a fear of the ongoing battles between Sunni and Shia forces. Elsewhere, the struggle of the Kurdish people of Iraq is personified in a handful of people working together on a farm, where they tend crops, make bricks, and look to their blighted past as well as hoping for a brighter future. And the fundamentalist Shiite cabal of Moqtada Sadr is profiled as they travel from Najaf to Naseriyah, promoting government based on a strict interpretation of Muslim law. As Moqtada Sadr's military cadres enforce the rule they have set down, they clash with American soldiers, further dividing an already polarized populace.
Source: DVDRip, I think. Don't know the release name.
File size: 700MB | Resolution: 704 x 400 (44:25 or 1.760)
Video: 876kbps H264 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 160kbps 2-channel Joint stereo mp3
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Director/Writer: James Longley
Cast: Mohammed Haithem, Suleiman Mahmoud, etc.
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 93 minutes
Languages: Arabic and Kurdish, with hard English subtitles.
Description: Filmmaker James Longley offers three thumbnail sketches of Iraq as the nation struggles to its feet following the American Invasion in this documentary. In the film's first chapter, Mohammed Haithem is an 11-year-old forced to make his own way in Bagdhad after the disappearance of his parents. Mohammed earns his keep working in an auto-repair shop, though he would prefer to go back to school, and has developed a precocious cynicism about the presence of U.S. troops along with a fear of the ongoing battles between Sunni and Shia forces. Elsewhere, the struggle of the Kurdish people of Iraq is personified in a handful of people working together on a farm, where they tend crops, make bricks, and look to their blighted past as well as hoping for a brighter future. And the fundamentalist Shiite cabal of Moqtada Sadr is profiled as they travel from Najaf to Naseriyah, promoting government based on a strict interpretation of Muslim law. As Moqtada Sadr's military cadres enforce the rule they have set down, they clash with American soldiers, further dividing an already polarized populace.
Source: DVDRip, I think. Don't know the release name.
File size: 700MB | Resolution: 704 x 400 (44:25 or 1.760)
Video: 876kbps H264 23.976fps
Audio: 48kHz 160kbps 2-channel Joint stereo mp3
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