Films that demonstrate how governments or quasigovernmental groups have violated or promoted the values in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
BUSH’S “POODLE DOG” TONY BLAIR IS ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES IN THE GHOST WRITER The words “war crimes” are not allowed on American media. When Jack Cafferty and Jon Stewart used them accusatorily, they were forced to retract. Not so in Europe, where a German court has ruled that the Iraq War is illegal, a […]
AVATAR IS THE MOST PROFOUND ANTI-IMPERIAL FILM OF THE YEARObsoletorium is necessary for the human race to survive, filmviewers of Avatar are told, so an expedi-tion goes to the planet Pandora in 2154 to get the substance. Humanoidlike creatures, the Na’vi, inhabit the area where the substance can be mined, but the expedition is heavily
FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING DEPICTS NORTHERN IRELAND AT ITS WORST The title of the film Fifty Dead Men Walking, as explained at the end of the film, refers to the number of British police and soldiers whose lives were saved by Martin McGartland (played by Jim Sturgess), who spied for the British while working undercover
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STORM REVEALS THE POLITICS OF THE BOSNIAN WAR CRIMES TRIALS Heinous acts were committed in the Bosnian Civil War, so the UN Security Council set up a special war crimes tribunal to bring the major perpetrators to justice. The procedure was for a prosecutor’s office to compile information about persons to be tried from documents
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD—IF ONLY THEY COULD! Another installment in the capers of Andy Bichlbaum and Michael Bonnano, who codirect The Yes Men Fix the World, tells lies that should be true and upsets the elites as usual. First, they set up a website for Dow Chemical Company and await an invitation to
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SKIN REVEALS THE FATE OF SANDRA LAING Directed by Anthony Fabian, Skin is a biopic of Sandra Laing that differs in important ways from the 1977 documentary The Search for Sandra Laing. In the documentary, journalists try to find Sandra’s whereabouts, so they inquire at various places featured in news reports, ultimately finding her in