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‘Farmageddon’ Documents Threats to Freedoms

June 14th, 2011 · No Comments

Loyal readers of this blog know how much I respect individuals like Janet Allquist and Jayna Davis who take hardline stands for freedom, justice and the American way. After reading a Health Freedoms report, I think I can add Kathy Canty to the list for her work on the documentary, “Farmageddon,” for which a four-minute [...]

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Michael Behenna Documentary Premiere June 11 (Update)

June 5th, 2011 · 4 Comments

The world premiere of Michael Wilkerson’s powerful, hour-long documentary about Army Ranger 1LT Michael Behenna and his platoon, entitled “PURPLE HEARTS – A REQUIEM FOR MAD DOG 5,” is set for June 11 at the deadCENTER Film Festival in downtown Oklahoma City. Lieutenant Behenna, the subject of some four-dozen posts on this blog during the [...]

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Director Admits He Withheld Key Evidence From Final Cut of Oscar-Nominated Documentary (Update)

June 1st, 2011 · 6 Comments

Josh Fox, the director of Gasland, an Oscar-nominated documentary, has admitted he withheld evidence that showed gas can occur in water naturally and is not a result of fracking, the natural gas drilling technique that enables recovery of natural gas from previously-untappable rock formations.  The video below captures Fox’s disclosure: In the documentary, Fox claims [...]

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Revisited: Filmmaker’s Claim That He Found OBL

May 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Remember when Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker behind the “Super Size Me,” said he had found Osama Bin Laden?  Makes you wonder if this fast-food-familiar guy had anything to do with helping the U.S. Navy SEALs locate the Al-Qaeda leader said to be the mastermind of the terror events of Sept. 11, 2001.  [...]

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Education Documentaries Ride Wave of Publicity

October 20th, 2010 · 13 Comments

While Waiting for Superman is getting a lot of attention these days as a documentary that exposes the broken state of public education in the United States, another documentary is worth a look as well.  The subject of a segment on Fox & Friends this morning, it’s called Not As Good As You Think: The [...]

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Chevron Request for ‘CRUDE’ Footage Approved (Update)

May 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Courthouse News Service reported Monday that Chevron Corp. asked a federal judge Friday to order the release of outtakes from Joseph Berlinger’s 2009 documentary, “CRUDE” (trailer below).  Today, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan granted the San Ramon, Calif.-based oil giant’s request, leaving one question unanswered:  Will the footage exonerate the company and bring an end [...]

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Blogger Approached About Appearing in Documentary Special About Militia Movement

December 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments

What is it with me and this bond I seem to have with the militia movement? On March 18, I was inspired to write and publish a mostly-humorous post under the headline, Yikes, I Might Be Part of the Militia Movement! The inspiration came in the form of news that the Missouri Information Analysis Center [...]

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