This documentary is concerned with the unfortunate events that lead three young men from Tipton to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they would spend the two following years. The story begins when the trio decides to attend a wedding of a mutual friend in Pakistan. Upon arrival, the three friends decide to take a trip … Read more
Kristallnacht, or better known as the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians in Nazi Germany. It occurred on the night of November 9th, and lasted until November 10. Many consider it the beginning of the Holocaust. During the event, German authorities looked on without … Read more
How Iran and Saudi Arabia’s rivalry has plunged the Middle East into sectarian war. FRONTLINE traces how a 40-year rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has fueled sectarian extremism across the Middle East for political gain. For this documentary, Correspondent Martin Smith travels to seven countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Yemen to … Read more
“Kosovo: Can You Imagine?” is a 2009 documentary and the director is a Serbian Canadian Boris Malagurski. It revolves around the predicament of Serb groups living in Kosovo at the time the documentary was shot. Among the interviewed parties in the documentary are a former Canadian general Lewis MacKenzie, economist Michel Chossudovsky, former UNMIK officer … Read more
In the 1950s, the United States of America developed the SAGE system, an acronym for semi-automatic ground environment. The name was selected to mean “wise”. This system of large computers and associated networking equipment coordinated data from many radar sites and processed them to produce a single unified image of the airspace over a wide … Read more
In 1983, the United States felt the urge to invade a country with a population of fewer than 100,000 citizens. The island of Grenada, located closely to Venezuela, was ruled by a communist government, and the US had to place a pro-Western government in its place. In just two months, the US managed to overthrow … Read more
There were many heroes during World War II. The most devastating war in history resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people, and few heroes among them. While we all know the Winston Churchill and the Franklin Roosevelts of the world, we know little about the people that helped without getting any recognition. … Read more
The War on Democracy is a 2007 narrative film coordinated by the British movie producers Christopher Martin and John Pilger, who likewise composed the portrayal. Concentrating on the political conditions of countries in Latin America, the film is a censure of both the United States’ intercession in outside nations’ household governmental issues and its “War on Terrorism“. The film was … Read more
Diego Garcia is an island overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is the largest of 60 small islands compromising the Chagos Archipelago. It was first discovered and named by the Portuguese, and then settled by the French in the 1790s. British got the island after the Napoleonic Wars. In 1966, the population of the … Read more
The Panama Deception is a 1992 American narrative film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film is condemning of the activities of the US military amid the 1989 intrusion of Panama by the United States, covering the clashing purposes behind the attack and portraying the US media as one-sided. It additionally … Read more