5 years into the war in Iraq, there is no end in sight. 200 US soldiers meet outside of Washington DC, sharing first-hand accounts of the war on-the-ground and of growing GL resistance.

A documentary that examines America's policies regarding making war, most recently the Iraq war and what is termed “the Bush doctrine”, which includes pre-emptive strikes. The author suggests that this policy has been in the works for many years, reviewing past wars in the 20th century. A variety of individuals are asked “Why de we fight?” and, predictably, come up with a variety of answers. This is followed by a look at today's U.S. military/industrial complex via interviews with individuals involved in it.

On August 6th and 9th, 1945, two atomic bombs vaporized 210,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those who survived are called “hibakusha” -people exposed to the bomb- and there are an estimated 200,000 living today. Today, with the threat of nuclear weapons of mass destruction frighteningly real -the world's arsenal capable of repeating the destruction at Hiroshima 400,000 times over-, filmmaker Steven Okazaki revisits the bombings and shares the stories of the only people to have survived a nuclear attack.

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another. The film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.

In 2003 the reality of war set in, amd the roar of the mainstream media seemed to deafen ours ears and stifle our voices. Hudson Mohawk Independent Media center respond by coming together to make these three documentaries. Independent Media in a time of war, Voices Against War, Women's fast for peace.

The days of the Gulf War seen from the window of a television in Brooklyn.

This film, shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), shatters the silence that surrounds the use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict. Many tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson travels through the DRC to understand what is happening and why.

The US military's progress report on Iraq is in and it's mostly bad news. But there is one unexpected success story: in the heartland of the Sunni insurgency, a group of tribes has joined with the Americans to fight Al Qaeda. The Americans report that attacks on US forces have dropped dramatically and claim that life is beginning to return to normal. The leader and symbol of this movement that the Americans claim is rapidly securing Anbar province is a sheik named Sattar Abu Risha. But is Abu Risha all he claims to be?.

A brutal look at the atrocities commited by Sierra Leona rebels and the complicity of the international diamomd cartels, cut to the haunting music of Peter Gabriel.

Since the invasion, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been detained by the US, one and a half million Iraqis have had an immediate family-member detained, almost every Iraqi knows someone who has been through the US detention system. Few American institutions affect the lives of ordinary Iraqis more directly and profoundly than the US detention system.