9/11 films
911: Press for Truth
9/11 Citizens Commission (New York, 9/9/2004)
The Truth and Lies of 9/11
Denial Stops Here
The Great Deception

deep politics
Bush's Brain (about Karl Rove)
Horns and Haloes (also about Karl Rove)
A Very British Coup
House of Cards trilogy: (House of Cards, To Play the King, The Final Cut)
JFK - The Men Who Killed Kennedy - Bob Roberts - Wag the Dog
Brazil by Terry Gilliam
American Blackout, Guerrilla News Network
Stealing America: Vote by Vote

Peak Oil films
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
The End of Suburbia
The Oil Factor - Behind the War on Terror
Peak Oil: Imposed by Nature

Iraq war
Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
I Know I'm Not Alone
Control Room

The Oil Factor - Behind the War on Terror

After a year and a half investigation and a three month trip between Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Gerard Ungermann brings us another excellent documentary.  The film looks at both the human cost and the greater geo-stratic picture of George Bush's "War on Terror". With solid facts and figures, maps, graphics and original footage shot on location. It features such personalities as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Noam Chomsky, The Project for a New American Century Director Gary Schmitt, best-seller 'Taliban' author Ahmed Rashid and the Pentagon's own Karen Kwiotkowski. A must see for anyone who wants to understand what is really at stake with today's "War on Terror".

by the producers of "Hidden Wars of Desert Storm"

Fahrenheit 9/11

most popular film about 9/11 and Iraq, but doesn't discuss the fact that 9/11 was not a surprise attack - (Moore blames the Saudis, accuses Bush of dual loyalties, but ignores the 9/11 war games that paralyzed the air defenses on the East Coast). Farenheit 9/11 is a much better film about the Iraq war than about 9/11.

www.oilempire.us/michaelmoore.html has a review

Uncovered: the Whole Truth about the Iraq War
MoveOn.org

Uncovered does not mention OIL as a motivation for the attack on Iraq, Peak Oil, the fact the war is still going on, US or Iraqi casualties, war crimes against Iraq and Afghanistan, the Project for a New American Century planning for the war before the 2000 election, among other omissions.
www.oilempire.us/moveon.html

Bush's Brain

Liberty Bound

www.libertybound.com

www.bluemoosefilms.com

www.buzzflash.com/orwell/default.htm

www.orwellrollsinhisgrave.com/home.htm

Exception examination of the role of modern transnational corporations. Asks the question: if a corporation legally is considered to have the rights of human beings, what sort of a person would it be? The Corporation compares the medical diagnosis of psychopathy with corporate abuses. www.thecorporation.tv

A Very British Coup
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0094576/

Very fine underrated british drama released in 1988 and now sadly passed into oblivion. ... The story focuses on one Harry Perkins. Former coal miner and popular left wing leader of the british parliamentary labour party. Following a landslide election he is soon to be sworn in as prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, first lord of the treasury and the Kings first minister, with whom he appears to get along fine. Others however take more convincing. His arrival to say the least causes consternation amongst the mandarins of the civil service and their underlings, a few media barons not to mention the white house, britains NATO allies, the head of the BBC and a few others besides. It is not an auspicious beginning. Their main concern of course is how far left the Kings new first minister is going to take them. Old Harry has a few radical policy changes in mind which is sure to rattle a few established institutions and practises of whom he is quite prepared to ignore. He has a manifesto to follow, promises to keep his electorate and more important matters to ponder over. It is then that a few partisan members of his own intelligence service together with a powerful media baron(shades of R.Murdoch) decide to take matters into their own hands and initiate measures to ensure that Harry Perkins is brought back into line. They do this in the most unsubtle ways. Like opening his mail, prying into his past life and even manipulating his bank accounts to show unaccounted deposits. To a wider degree and on a more machiavellian scale they also manipulate the head of one powerful union and there is suspicion about their involvement in the unexpected death of the PM's chief scientific adviser on the eve of an important meeting. Most of this is accomplished through the old boy network within the civil service and other organs of the government where the 'old school tie' comes into prominence. It is the start of a very british coup...! Harry of course is not entirely ignorant of this skullduggery behind his back and pretty much knows who is behind it. He bides his time and with only a few trustworthy helpers in his inner circle including the blunt spoken chief of his security detail, he ponders over how to foil their plans and pinpoint the traitors in their midst. Enough said.

This is an amazingly good drama as only the brits can produce these days. Ray McAnally shines in his portrayal of the politically savvy and down to earth Harry Perkins. It is one of his best roles and sadly one of his last. Alan McNaughton stands out also as Sir Percy Browne the treasonous MI5 chief and Tim McInerney as his able but weasley paranoid assistant Fiennes. It is a story of excessive political manipulation at its worst and written by Chris Mullin at the height of the Thatcher years when despite the economic upturn only a few people were actually benefiting from it. It was also a time when Great Britain had never actually been so close to the USA in their foreign, defence and economic policies. Thatchers close working relationship with Reagan outlined all that very clearly. Hopefully the drama will be released in video form so that others can also appreciate this low budget but very canny political tale.

from "A Very British Coup"

Prime Minister: So a deliberate conspiracy involving all these people?
His assistant: Yes.
PM: but no real evidence
Assistant: Of course not, that's the whole point. These people don't sit in committee and plan the downfall of elected government. They don't keep any minutes, you can't actually prove it. You just have to know how it's done.

CHRIS MULLIN
A Very British Coup
Coronet, London, 1983
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/very_british_coup.html

Written in 1982, the novel posits the election at the end of the decade of a genuinely socialist Labour government and the means adopted by right-thinking people to neutralize their policies. Currency crises, withdrawal of investments, smear stories, personal blackmail are amongst the tactics employed, together with the mobilization of all the sleeper agents that the establishment has placed in the labour movement.
Now you're not stupid, and you'll have noticed a couple of flaws in this plot. Flaws such as the idea that socialism was capable of taking over the Labour Party, or the idea that socialists would be allowed to win a General Election. Suspend disbelief on these issues, however, and you're in for a fantastic read: a crucial text in understanding the British left during the first Thatcher government, and a still-relevant analysis of society.
At its core are two ideas that remain of profound significance if we're ever going to make something of this country. The first is that Britain is governed by an unelected para-state. The civil service, the military, the media, the police and the judiciary are far more powerful than Parliament, and all owe allegiance not to the elected Prime Minister, but to the Monarch. Secondly, and more controversially, Britain is an occupied country. The presence of American armed forces on British soil is (a) deeply embarrassing (how impotent is a country that doesn't even feel able to defend itself?), and (b) deeply undemocratic.
The Labour government described by Mullin decides it wants to be independent in the Cold War - hasn't done Switzerland or Sweden any harm - and is elected on exactly that promise; it is prevented from implementing the policy by American power. And that's the policy that proves the sticking point: an alternative approach to the economy was one thing, but withdrawal from NATO and the dismantling of the US defence infrastructure on British soil proves one step too far.
The craven attitude of Little Tony Blair to Washington demonstrates that Mullin's analysis continues to carry some conviction.

www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/485767/index.html

Very British Coup, A (1988)

Political victory for Labour in the first episode is followed by personal tragedy in the second, as Foreign Secretary Newsome's (Jim Carter) affair is discovered, and nuclear skulduggery in the third, as Perkins attempts to remove US bases from UK soil. Finally, as Perkins raises the stakes, the hidden state is forced to reveal its true face. McAnally's performance was so powerful that many would have preferred him to what Labour had to offer at the time.
In the end, A Very British Coup is perhaps best seen not as a conspiracy thriller, but as a political fantasy: a story of politicians, not plotting amongst themselves, but trying to do the best for their country and its working-class population, in a world increasingly hostile to the will of the people.

Horns and Haloes

Horns and Halos captures the unlikely connection of three men -- a U.S. president, a discredited author and an underground publisher -- whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in a book.
In October 1999, a short article appeared in the New York Times: St. Martin's Press recalled Fortunate Son, the first published biography of George W. Bush. At the time of its recall, the book was #8 on Amazon.com’s best-seller list -- no doubt due to the book's widely publicized allegations that Bush had been arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. However, Bush wasn’t the only one with a hidden past. Citing distrust of the author, J. H. Hatfield, the publisher pulled the book from stores after learning that he was a convicted felon.
Several weeks later, small underground imprint Soft Skull Press, the self-styled "punk of publishing," announced that it would re-publish the book. But getting Fortunate Son back on the shelves wouldn't prove so easy. Operating out of a tenement basement on New York City's Lower East Side, 29-year-old founder Sander Hicks struggled without significant success for over a year to get the book back into stores and into the national consciousness. After months of lawsuits, bad press, and disagreements with the distributor, Soft Skull made one final desperate attempt to make a splash at the 2001 Book Expo of America. Against the author's wishes, Hicks revealed the sources for the book's cocaine allegations, which leads to electrifying consequences.

The Men Who Killed Kennedy

The History Channel

A medical technician who was at the autopsy states categorically that the body he saw was not the one shown in the official photographs. The mortician who buried Lee Harvey Oswald reveals a startling discovery made 18 years later. A highly decorated Army officer says he was trained to eliminate key witnesses... Forty years after JFK was shot in Dallas, controversy rages around his assassination. The Men Who Killed Kennedy, an authoritative six-part series drawing on exclusive interviews with highly placed government sources and independent investigators, is the most comprehensive examination of the case ever filmed.
The Complete Story in 6 Parts:
The Coup d'Etat - A medical technician casts doubts on the official autopsy photographs, and photo analysis undermines the lone gunman theory.
The Forces of Darkness - See two shadowy figures on the grassy knoll, and find out about the "lost" home movie that contained key evidence.
The Cover-Up - An FBI agent confirms that evidence has been suppressed, and a notorious criminal is confronted about his possible role.
The Patsy - Witness Oswald's reaction when charged with the shooting, and the mortician who buried the alleged assassin reveals what he discovered 18 years later.
The Witnesses - The people who were there - but who the government chose to ignore - tell their versions of what happened at Dealey Plaza.The Truth Shall Set You Free - See conclusive proof that the official autopsy photos were faked, and hear from an Army Colonel who says he was trained to eliminate witnesses to the assassination.