Tag: political
Wal Mart Nation
(Long Version, director cut). Wal-Mart's emergence as a global corporate powerhouse has triggered an unprecedented political backlash. No company has ever faced such angry...
Letters from Iran
In 2009, in the aftermath of an election that saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad controversially returned to power as president of the Islamic Republic, millions took...
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
An autobiography about the director's life, career and ultimate disillusionment with The People's Republic of China.
Iran and the West
Iran and the West is the name of a three part British documentary series shown in February 2009 on BBC Two to mark the...
The Power behind the Throne
Is Britain truly a democracy, or are the unelected members of the monarchy the true political power players? The Power behind the Throne attempts...
Bhutto
A riveting documentary of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, a polarizing figure in the Muslim world. Following in her father's footsteps as a pillar...
The Science of Marijuana
Montana PBS's new documentary, Clearing the Smoke, reveals how cannabis acts on the brain and in the body to treat nausea, pain, epilepsy and...
The Day India Burned: Partition
Partition of India and provides a good overview of the fateful events leading to that cataclysmic decision by the British and the catastrophic suffering...
In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko
It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former...
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
In the dark recesses of recent history lies a chapter that continues to haunt the collective conscience – the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu...
