Hello Matthew,
Zeitgeist Films has a number of documentaries that might fit your
proverbial bill:
I'd HIGHLY recommend our latest doc: Let the Fire Burn:
"On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and
controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By
order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives
onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration
that quickly escalated—and resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven
people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes."
More info:
https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=letthefireburn
Also: !Women, Art, Revolution:
"An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !
Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement
through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of
visionary artists, historians, curators and critics."
More info:
https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=womenartrevolution
Paul Goodman Changed My Life:
"Paul Goodman Changed My Life immerses you in an era of high intellect
(that heady, cocktail-glass juncture that Mad Men has so effectively
exploited) when New York was peaking culturally and artistically; when
ideas, and the people who propounded them, seemed to punch in at a
higher weight class than they do now."
More info:
https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=paulgoodman
Trouble the Water:
"Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival,
this astonishingly powerful documentary is at once horrifying and
exhilarating. Directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for
Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Trouble the Water takes
you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The
film opens the day before the storm makes landfall—just blocks away
from the French Quarter but far from the New Orleans that most
tourists knew."
More info:
https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=troublethewater
Hope this helps!!!
My Best,
Ben
Benjamin Crossley-Marra
Director of Theatrical Marketing
Zeitgeist Films Ltd.
247 Centre St, 2nd fl
New York, NY 10013
P: 212-274-1989
F: 212-274-1644
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com
On Jan 24, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Jessica Rosner wrote:
I predict the longest thread of titles in videolib history.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:35 PM, <matthew.wri...@unlv.edu> wrote:
A professor is interested in documentaries on radical, leftist
social movements (not particularly mainstream), on various topics,
environmental, racial, glbt, native american, economic inequality,
etc. We have the following but more film suggestions in this genre
appreciated:
Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners
A Good Day to Die
Nowa Cumig: The Drum will Never Stop.
Thanks,
Matthew
Matthew Wright
Head of Collection Development and Instructional Services
William S. Boyd School of Law
University of Nevada Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 451080
Las Vegas, NV 89154-1080
(702) 895-2409; (702) 895-2410 (fax)
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
issues relating to the selection, evaluation,
acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current
and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It
is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for
video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between
libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
distributors.
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
issues relating to the selection, evaluation,
acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current
and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It
is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for
video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between
libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
distributors.
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
distributors.
