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Death of a Wonder Drug: The Vioxx Recall

answer, additional sources were consulted. In the documentary, several of the experts who were interviewed make the point that s...

Witness to Jonestown, An Analysis

Witness to Jonestown, provides a film that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of an event that is indelibly etched in the memo...

Overview of Food, Inc.

particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...

Documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello

documentary effectively tells the story of his life and death, and his concern for others and good works. Sergio Vieira de Mello...

A Perfect Candidate/Film Review

directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...

Corporations and Globalization

150 years ago, corporations had an insignificant impact on human society. However, after Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendmen...

Summation and Review/Brother's Keeper

in 1992 and directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for New Video Group. It concerns the fate of Delbert Ward, one of four ba...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

Modern Masculinity/Tough Guise

of women include cosmetics, clothes, anything having to do with food preparation or childrearing. Products sold using images of me...

Last Abortion Clinic/ A Frontline Documentary

This research paper describes a documentary, "The Last Abortion Clinic," which aired on PBS's Frontline in 2005. Eight pages in le...

Profit Motive and the Destruction of Health in "Food, Inc."

determined to adopt sustainable practice, more attention than ever is being leveled at what we eat. Some experts believe that ther...

Erotic Journeys and the film Maid in America

portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...

'Sicko' Michael Moore's Film Commentary on Healthcare

in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...

Violence in American/Bowling for Columbine

the stats that Moore cites about gun deaths, which compares the US to other countries. Yearly, there are "381 (gun deaths) in Germ...

Reaction: “The Heart Broken in Half”

that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...

Summary of the PBS Documentary Myths and the Moundbuilders (1980)

this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...

Reaction Paper on Michael Moore’s 2004 Film, Fahrenheit 9/11

narrative of Fahrenheit 9/11, then-Texas Governor George W. Bush was able to steal the 2000 presidential election with the help of...

Palestinians as Victims of War in Paradise Now, Making Of, and Palestine

acknowledging responsibility for their own deaths if Israeli forces fired upon them (Twair 56). Abu-Assad later revealed that his...

Michael Moore's Academy Awards' Exercise of Free Speech

duties of an American to question leadership within the foundation of democracy, a reality that is fraught with consequences when ...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

Civil Rights and Federalism

inclination to foster, improve or, quite frankly, deal with. Programs such as welfare and education have been placed back in the h...

The American Capitalists, Carnegie, and Alger

despite Dicks destitute life, he ends up all right in the end. Hes considered the consummate hero, the ideal rags-to-riches boy (o...

America's Documents

war as Protestantism spread through the Middle Atlantic and Southern states (1990). Since that time, Protestantism has been influe...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Social Reality and Documentaries

documentaries ever made. Chronicling the 1934 session of Nazi Party Congress, Triumph of the Will has long been interpreted as pr...

Video Documentary of The Best Boy/The Best Man

capable while living in a group home. In the end, it is the cousin who does convince the rest of the family to allow him to live ...

Michael Moore's "Sicko" - Health Care That Harms Rather Than Helps

head of the largest Anti-Michael Moore website announced that he had to delete the website because his wife had cancer and the ins...

Bowling for Columbine

emotions and sympathy for the Columbine victims and families. For example, it is difficult not to agree with Moore that the decisi...

What I’ve Learned About Foreign Policy by Dorrel

former U.S. Attorney General and is in Segment 9, illustrates how Kissinger, in relationship to the Iran/Iraq War claimed that the...