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- In the early days of the system, that came to be known as Capitalism, political economists of all stripes struggled to understand the laws that govern the flow of capital - and of Capitalism's related activities. As a result, a critical assessment and sketchy understanding of how Capitalism worked began to emerge. But in recent times, as the system, and the world, has grown a hundredfold more complex we have veered away from the pursuit of any clear, critical understanding of the phenomenon. Economic departments in most major universities in the English-speaking world have abolished courses in the history of Economic and political economy. We are left with incomprehensible mathematical models whose relevance to the real world is hotly disputed. We were told very little about Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus yet their names have been used to give legitimacy to contemporary economic activities. To further obscure the issues, this « econo speak » has been supplemented by endless superficial news reports, pundits discussions and analysis filled with clichés and superficial information. Our series intends to puncture this veil of opacity to go beyond the current « econo- speak » to re examine the ideas which have been used in the past 40 to reshape the world. Is today's economic crisis a temporary blimp on the road to progress or a symptom of a deeper crisis of the system as a whole? Can the big ideas of the at the heart of our Economic system help us understand today's economic crisis, or obscure it? And more importantly - can they show us a way out?
- The story of the Yellow Wasps, a Serbian paramilitary unit operating in Bosnia in 1992, and the crimes they committed in Eastern Bosnia provides frightening insights into the microcosm of the "Ethnic Cleansing" campaign.
- An exploration of non-violence as the means to achieving social reforms, focusing on the downfall of Pinochet in Chile, the Palestinian Intifada, and Cory Aquino's "people power" revolution in the Philippines.
- Presents four vignettes of Philippine life, dramatizing conditions in which the people live and which led to the peaceful revolution, and which must be improved if the new government is to succeed.
- A filmmaker's search for his family past in the Warsaw Ghetto has been transformed into a personal meditation on the interaction between history, memory and pictorial representation.
- This 2-part documentary is a sweeping picture of history, changing lives, occupations and displacements on the West Bank, and political division within the Israeli Jewish community.
- Set under the background of the Salvadoran Civil War, the story of the November 16, 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter in El Salvador. Salvadoran Army soldiers killed them at their residence on the campus of José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA El Salvador) in the capital city. The film juxtaposes the story of the priests, told by Jon Sobrino their surviving colleague, and one of the murderers, Jesuit-educated Lieutenant Espinoza. It's also an homage to the murdered priests and a study of the power of religious commitment.
- An Israeli settler was given a camera and was asked to make a video diary, recording his life in the months leading to the 1992 Israeli legislative election where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (of the Labor Party) was elected.
- A unique documentary feature chronicling the first year of the implementation of the Israeli-Palestinian accords. Three Palestinians and three Israelis were given video cameras to document over six months their lives and the lives of their communities during this dramatic and turbulent period.
- A three part documentary mini-series which examines how the Ethiopian famine was portrayed on Western Television, analyses the promotion of the Live Aid event, and looks at the media coverage of hunger in America.
- Examines the history and effects of suicide bombing in conflicts around the world, from Iran to Sri Lanka, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States.
- An international documentary mini-series about national tendencies in modern societies (as observed in Italy, France, and ex-Yugoslavia).
- Explores the influence of biotechnology on agriculture and outlines how the development of artificial sweeteners derived from corn has lead to the decline of the sugar cane industry and the increase in the incidence of malnutrition, disease and starvation on the Negros Island in the Philippines.
- A massive Israeli national self-documentation project in which 31 video cameras were distributed to Israeli citizens from every walk of life who were asked to document their everyday lives.
- The interactive Web series documentary "Havana/Miami" examines life on both sides of the US-Cuba border by exploring the lives of 12 individuals in Havana and Miami.
- After fighting as an Israeli soldier in the 1973 war, and troubled by the nation's obsessive mixing of the Bible with politics, the filmmaker left for America, which he considered a "safe haven" because of its separation between church and state. Thirty-five years later, alarmed by the prominent role of religion in the 2008 American presidential campaign, he decides to make a road trip, to try and understand the phenomenon. Rather than follow the candidates, however, Ziv decides to meet with religious activists supporting the Democratic and Republican candidates. From the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries to Super Tuesday in Oklahoma, JESUS POLITICS shows the efforts of Baptist activists for Obama, Catholics and evangelicals for McCain, Christian conservatives for Huckabee, as well as the political efforts of evangelical organizations such as Christians United for Israel.
- Shot over two years, the film follows the arrest and trial on murder charges of two foreign priests in rural Philippines.
- Explores the human rights of the indigenous population in Guatemala, reconstructing the story of one refugee from the Guatemalan highland, then living in a refugee camp in Southern Mexico.
- An engaging portrait of Omer Mei-Dan, Israel's premier, and likely only daredevil jumper who is one of the world's most daring extreme sports and base jumping athlete.
- Following Rajan Sharma, an American lawyer born in India, as he and the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, struggle to bring their case against Union Carbide, a US multinational, in front of an American jury and find a legal closures after twenty years of litigation.
- A first ever portrait of the Israeli elite Black Hawk Chopper rescue squadron.
- Describes the coalition formed by fundamentalist U.S. Christians and militant Israeli Jews to destroy Islam's third holiest shrine, the Dome of the Rock, and build a new Jewish Temple in its place.
- This short documentary analyzes the Madison Avenue style media barrage employed by rival parties during El Salvador's 1989 presidential campaign.
- Topical video letters directed by kids at risk from Peru, India, South Africa., Philippines, New York City and Brazil, working in collaboration with professionals, provide personal perspectives on the civil and human rights of the child.
- The human stories behind Israel's most dangerous forms of transportation: a bus.
- A medium-length documentary exploring, during the 80's guerilla war in Peru, the controversial murder of eight journalists set against the counter insurgency war they died covering.
- Sept 6, 1970 the Popular Front for the Liberation hijacked four planes to attract attention to the Palestinian cause and secure the release of several of their comrades, then they blew them up.
- 1990–199659mTV EpisodeThe controversial situation of the Jewish settlers in Palestine (beyond the "green line"), is represented through the everyday life of the Oppenheim family. The action goes back 15 years before the 1992 Israeli legislative election.
- The program explores the extent to which United Nations officials and commanders in Bosnia put the safety of their troops ahead of their responsibility to the civilians in Srebrenica. Although Srebrenica was designated as a United Nations safe haven, the Serbian forces apparently massacred Bosnian Muslims after they captured the city in July, 1995.
- After years of witnessing first hand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv traveled to Chile, the Philippines and the West Bank to explore the development of "People Power" and to reexamine his own long-held belief in the necessary evil of violence to overthrow repressive governments. Set against the background of a predominantly nonviolent transformation of Eastern Europe, this is the first film to examine and evaluate nonviolence as an effective strategy for political change.