The New Watchdogs explores the role of the media in shaping public opinion and the ethical dilemmas faced by journalists. It delves into issues like self-censorship, media concentration, and the corrupting influence of capitalism. Through interviews and archive footage, the documentary exposes the conflicts of interest and political debates that occur in the world of television journalism.
Transcendent Man is a documentary that explores the life and ideas of inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. It delves into topics such as human-versus-machine, futurology, death, immortality, ageing, mortality, life-expectancy, mind-uploading, knowledge, the future, technology, transhumanism, robotics, genetics, nanotechnology, science, optimism, exponential growth, evolution, technology and human interaction, artificial intelligence, technological singularity, nanobots, the journey of human evolution, and the concept of singularity.
The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of the Hudson's Bay Company is a documentary film that provides an Indian perspective on the activities and impact of the Hudson's Bay Company. It examines themes such as small business, poverty, oppression, native American rights, and exploitation within the context of the fur trade and the company's economic power.
Utopia is a powerful documentary that exposes the systemic issues faced by the Aboriginal people in Australia, including poverty, lack of access to basic amenities, and government policies that perpetuate racism and inequality. The film takes a critical look at the historical and contemporary factors that have contributed to the marginalization of the indigenous population.
Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 101-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil, a laughter yoga expert, or an elder porn star? Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters alongside those of health, fitness and life-extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, How To Live Forever evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.
This Theatre of Life short focuses on heart disease, and how bad diet, lack of exercise, and the stress of fast-paced living contribute to the rising rates of heart disease and heart attacks.
Welcome to Australia is a 1999 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, which was directed and produced by Alan Lowery, and charts the history of injustice endured by indigenous Australians in the context of the build-up to the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
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