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In the 1990s following California's passing of the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate American car companies began producing electric cars for mainstream consumption. GM's EV1 which was by all accounts quiet fast and capable of driving up to 80 miles on one charge used no gasoline and quickly developed an intensely devoted following in California. But even as its popularity grew car manufacturers were fighting the mandate; it was overturned and by 2005 just about every single EV1 had been recalled crushed and shredded. GM put its resources into the Hummer instead. WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? looks at the tangled web of interests behind the car's untimely demise laying out convincing cases against the auto industry big oil corrupt federal and state governments and consumers themselves. Chris Paine's directorial debut is not especially stylish but it is effective. He leads viewers through the twisty maze of politics and profit that surrounds the main story taking time to dwell on the passionate attachment that many

Documentarian Errol Morris directs THE FOG OF WAR a captivating look at Robert S. McNamara who served as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The movie does not exclusively focus on this part of McNamara's career however and instead gives a broad overview of the man he was his multitude of roles--a Harvard Business School graduate a Colonel in the Air Force during WWII president of Ford Motor Company--and his opinions on a variety of historical topics. Inspired by two books written by McNamara--IN RETROSPECT 1995 and WILSON'S GHOST 2001--Morris gives McNamara a forum to talk about the decisions he made and the influence he had during his career. At the age of 85 McNamara has gained necessary perspective to do just that. Sharp as a tack loaded with charisma and generally fascinating McNamara easily carries the film with his revealing interviews. Meanwhile Morris's use of archival footage--along with maps and other effective visual aids--add context to McNamara's comment

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns undertakes the task of documenting one of the most unique founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson. In classic Burns fashion, see hundreds of archival materials and hear the words of Jefferson and his contemporaries. Explore the sometimes contradictory life of the country's third President.

Filmmaker and leftist activist Michael Moore asks some serious questions as he probes the depths of America's trigger-happy gun culture in the insightful and amusing documentary BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. Guns in America are used to kill an average of more than 11000 people per year. This death toll is obscenely out of balance with other first world countries which generally average a total in double digits. Experts and analysts have pointed to America's bloody history as a reason but how does that explain the lower murder rate in Germany? Violent entertainment has also been fingered but how does this account for staggeringly low numbers in Japan home of the most violent entertainment video games on the market. Moore's trademark comedic tone is razor-sharp as his quest leads him everywhere from Littleton Colorado's Columbine High School to the home of NRA President Charlton Heston. Moore oddly enough a lifetime NRA member makes his main target the news media but also fires away at inefficient welfare programs Dic

A personal and comical account of the tough times of Moore's hometown of Flint Michigan the birthplace of General Motors. When GM closed several plants 35000 of the 150000 residents lost their jobs.

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man's violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again.

Fair and balanced" How about anything BUT?!?! For the first time ever, this documentary reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed." "Outfoxed" examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. "Outfoxed" first examines media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Australian company, News Corp., tracing how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) helped Murdoch break the rules to establish a fourth network in the United States. The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR), Bob McChesney and Chellie Pingree, provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society. The team behind "Outfoxed" created a system to monitor Fox News 24 hours a day for months to discover exactly how its shows worked. A team of volunteers around the country scrutinized every hour of Fox News programming, noting examples of bias in its coverage. The result is an intense examination of Fox News and the lie inherent in its favorite motto: "Fair and Balanced.

Century of the Self (ADAM CURTIS)

DOCUMENTARY DESCRIPTION
Episode 1: Happiness Machine
Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent
Episode 3: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

CENTURY OF THE SELF asks the deep questions about the roots and methods of consumerism and representative democracy and the implications of the two. The foundation of this documentary is the idea that public relations and politicians have used the theories of Sigmund Freud to engineer a society of consent.

This series is about how those in power have used Freud s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy. Adam Curtis

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"The man Rothschild chooses that man will become President of the United States," Texe Marrs was told by an insider. So, who was Rothschild's Choice in 2008? The answer is obvious: Barack Hussein Obama!

The fourth Baron de Rothschild, Lord Jacob Rothschild of Great Britain, has been called the 21st Century's "King of Israel." He and other Rothschilds preside over the planet's greatest banking cartel, and Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, and others bow to Rothschild dictates. Politicians in world capitals, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, and Tokyo grovel before their awesome power.

Rothschild's Choice documents the astonishing rise of a young, half blood "Prince" of Jerusalem, a Communist adept named Barack Obama who won Rothschilds' favor and was rewarded for his slavish devotion to their sinister Agenda.

Here are the revelations that dissolve the mystery of Obama's meteoric, virtually unheralded rise to global prominence and his elevation to the highest seat of superpower government the White House.

Col. Phillip J. Corso, a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and Head of the U.S. Army's Foreign Technology Division at the Pentagon speaks candidly of overseeing the recovery of alien spacecraft and the harvesting of technology from recovered crash debris of extraterrestrial origin.

Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell reveals that the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 was a real event and discusses the 50 years of cover-up that followed. Command Sgt. Major (ret.) Robert O. Dean, former intelligence analyst, discusses a top secret study conducted by NATO in the 1960s entitled 'An Assessment', classified as 'Cosmic Top Secret'. William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Reagan and Bush confirms the existence of Area 51.

All this and more is revealed for the first time in this explosive award winning program. Includes 60 minutes of BONUS FOOTAGE.

Includes complete and unedited interviews with Philip J. Coroso and Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell.