10 Documentaries that Shocked the World
by Ben P
The September 2007 issue of Sight and Sound: The International Film Magazine has a list of 10 Documentries that Shocked the World and AADL has some of them.
Heshang - The River Elegy (Jun Xia, 1988) China
Minamata: The Victims and Their World (Tsuchimoto Noriaki, 1972) Japan
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002) US
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) US
Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy (John Pilger and David Munro, 1994) Britain
BBC News Ethiopia Report (Michael Buerk and Mohammed Amin, 1984) Britain
McLibel (Franny Armstrong, 2005) Britain
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1936) Germany
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls, 1970) France
For Freedom (Hussein Torabi, 1980) Iran
Then some more that need to be plugged.
The Corporation 2005 US
21 days to Baghdad 2003 US
Before Stonewall 1995 US
After Stonewall 2005 US
The Agronomist 2005 US
Born into Brothels 2005 Inda
Calcutta 1969 Inda
Bus 174 2005 Brazil
The Atomic Cafe 1982 US
The Boys of Baraka 2006 Kenya
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