L'escalfament global comença a ocasionar desastres per tot el planeta i aboca la Terra cap a una nova era glacial. En Jack Hall, un climatòleg, prova de rescatar el seu fill que s'ha quedat atrapat a Nova York. El viatge comença a Washington, D.C.
Fascinat per Det perfekte menneske, Lars von Trier va convidar Jørgen Leth a portar a terme junts cinc variacions d'aquest curt sobre el comportament humà.
Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country and how their joy in Christ results in a stunning conclusion.
A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.
Documental sobre els aliments i la globalització, sobre els pescadors i els agricultors, sobre els camioners de llarga distància i els executius de grans companyies, sobre la circulació dels aliments, una pel·lícula sobre l'escassetat dins de l'abundància.
From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion, the Paris riots, Dubcek, Che Guevara, De Gaulle, Cohn-Bendrik and more. A dive into the chaos of a turbulent year, featuring fantastic colour footage and the music of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrisson and Bob Dylan.
Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's image: a black man, a soldier, an Indian, and a guerrilla fighter. These courageous individuals, hailed as the harbingers of doom in the tupiniquim lands, valiantly combat the insatiable avarice and oppressive "civilizing" brutality propagated by the formidable John Brahms—a foreign exploiter devoid of morals.
A young backpacker is lured through the third world paradise of Thailand searching for her kidnapped best friend and unknowingly she becomes the object of a sociopath's obsession.
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Ever since she was a little girl, growing up in the fourth world country of Crapistan, Natasha has devoured all things American. Finally, through the wonders of the Internet, she finds her way to a Bel Air mansion and into the loving arms of a socially inept Internet mogul. With her own "How to Be an American" scrapbook as a guide, every week, Natasha, the upbeat optimist, takes on a new, impossible challenge with wide-eyed enthusiasm.
After receiving a letter calling for a secret conspiracy meeting, a woman is mistaken for a controversial policy and kidnapped by a pair of revolutionaries with no money for Uber. The three end up living together and witnessing the end of the world, the alien invasion and military intervention together.
Set in an unspecified Third World country, this animated film, based on a short story by Enver Carim, suggests that "top priority" means different things to governments and to the governed. A drought-stricken family maintains a long and desperate vigil for a cloud of dust on the horizon signalling the arrival of irrigation pipes and pump. They are rewarded with a military convoy instead. Its top priority is a border war with a neighboring state, not pipes for the life-saving water the family must have.
War By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning loans to developing countries from the World Bank which cause them to pay more interest then they ever receive in international aid ("debt as a weapon"). It also analyses Structural Adjustment Programs, which are proclaimed to enable countries to compete in the global economy, but have the effect of lowering wages which results in the transfer of wealth from poor to rich. It features Dr. Susan George, author of The Debt Boomerang.
A fragment of reality about a less affected part of the third world, and how it got to the moon.
Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS independent documentary investigates U.S. and European agribusiness in the Third World. Filmed on five continents, it takes a close look at agribusiness, which is turning the world's food supply into a global supermarket, buying food at the lowest prices-regardless of small farmers and local populations-and selling it at the highest price and the greatest profit whenever possible.
Faux documentary told in first-person narration, about an "adventuress" who sets sail to Guatemala with her father and two male crewmen, rescues them when their fresh-water supply is compromised, finds a treasure map, and attempts to steal a fabulous emerald from a ruined temple, much to the aggrevation of a worshipful native princess and her subjects.
The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
A man finds himself at a spiritual crossroads and must choose which path to take according to his faith.
Cecilia, Anna, Maria i Rodrigo formen una jove companyia teatral, de recent èxit per la seva descarada i transgressora posada en escena, i pel compromís social i polític dels continguts que mostren. Preparen la seva propera estrena, una obra de denúncia sobre com la societat de consum accepta allò inacceptable. Una societat que no qüestiona un sistema polític i econòmic que imposa deutes i empobriment sobre els més dèbils.