In July 2006, Israel attacked Lebanon in an attempt to weaken Hezbollah and push it North of the Litani River, creating a buffer zone along Israel's northern border. Israeli war planes pounded Lebanon from the air, dropping 5,000 bombs a day for 33 days. 130,000 homes were destroyed and over 1 million refugees created, but Israeli ground troops took heavy casualties and were unable to reach the Litani River. Military combat ended with both Hezbollah and Israel declaring victory, but the real winner may not be clear for some time. The Israeli army was frustrated on the ground, but their bombs and bulldozers depopulated the South. The day of the ceasefire an arm of Hezbollah began taking on this daunting task, it is called Jihad al Bina'a - Jihad Construction.
United States of America
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This documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.
UntitledUniversity professor Laird demonstrates how we need rest and relaxation to be at our best. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is ten hidden behind the media curtain.)
UntitledUsing a fragment of 1970's porn, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has worked frame by frame upon the film body. This erasure creates a new pornography, a film in which the woman exists only as an empty, animated hole.
Opposed to the official view and censored, Report presents full images of Kennedy's protocol events, establishing an association between bullfighting festivals, rituals of self-assurance and political struggle for life.
The fictions-performances inside and outside of Starbucks coffee shops and Disney stores often end with the Reverend being arrested. He calls it stepping into somebody's imagined box. The police call it illegal trespassing. The Reverend claims that social change always begins with civil disobedience and includes as his heroes the civil rights, peace and labor movements.
UntitledA documentary on the eclectic and inventive survival strategies of residents of one of the most impoverished and marginalized areas of the United States, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
From the tribal conflict to thermo-nuclear war.
Rod Coronado is a Yaqui Native American who explains how the massacre of his people went hand in hand with the massacre of animals. The two are deeply interrelated, with the same aggressor: a system, a predatory culture. This realization led him to take an active part in ALF actions to protect animals from cruelty, slavery and extermination: “There was no time for those animals suffering in labs and fur farms and factory farms to wait to exhaust more legal means. I could see already that people for many, many years had chosen that path and although it is effective at times, it was not bringing about results quick enough for those animals now suffering. So I became involved in direct action with the Animal Liberation Front.
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