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Publisher
Blair & Associates/VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will, and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to use the voting strength of the clubs to bludgeon his...
Publisher
CBS Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations. The series stars Emmy Award Winner, Kiefer Sutherland as private espionage operative John Weir, who finds himself in the midst of a battle over the preservation of democracy in a world at odds with misinformation, behavioral manipulation, the surveillance...
4) Dark money
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana, a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Uncover the true story of the seven-week period that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, a violent and bloody pro-democracy demonstration ended, leaving thousands dead, and laying the foundation for China's future. Includes never-before-seen Chinese television archival materials, exclusive interviews, and eyewitness accounts.
Publisher
Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Offers a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of an independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma. While 100,000 people (including thousands of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the repressive regime that held the country hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned from entering the country and the Internet was shut down. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document...
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