WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

How can Americans be so blind to what corporations, media monopolies and Right Wing attacks on the Constitution and Bill of Rights are doing to our economy, our environment, our freedom and our Democracy?

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were prophetic when they worried that the Constitution wouldn't protect our government from being taken over by Capitalism.  However, they also said that when that time came, the People would have the tools they needed to rise up and take the government back.  That moment is now, and our tools are our computers, the Internet, cell phones and video cameras.

Here is a growing list of films that call our government's actions and character into question. Host a screening to get people talking!!

Syriana - Everything is connected
(Fiction)
A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it.  Funny how life imitates art - or is it the other way around?

Good Night and Good Luck
(Fiction)
Chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee.

WalMart: The High Cost of Low Price
(Documentary)
Robert Greenwald shines a bright light on the WalMart-ization of America at the cost of human dignity in the US and abroad.  This film will show you why and how to stop WalMart from destroying Main Street economies.

The World According to Bush
(Documentary)
The 1000 days of George W. Bush's presidency from the 9/11 attacks to the iraqi quagmire. How a bunch of people influenced by neo-cons hawks took control of the US foreign policy.

Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
(Documentary)
Greg Palast has been following the Bush family around for years as an investigative reporter for the BBC. This is some of the information he has found, as recorded in his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."

Manchurian Candidate
(Fiction)
In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

She Hate Me
(Fiction)
Spike Lee attacks corporate greed

Weapons of Mass Deception
(Documentary)
Was there a connection between the US media's war coverage and the FCC? Did the US media wave the flag so the government would wave media ownership rules?  WMD, a 100 minute non-fiction film, explores this story with the findings of a gutsy, media insider-turned-outsider, former network journalist, Danny Schechter, who is one of America's most prolific media critics.

Highjacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and Selling of the American Empire
(Documentary)
Examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home.

Bush's Brain
(Documentary)
Introduces the country to Karl Rove, the man known as Bush's Brain, the most powerful political figure America has never heard of.

Fahrenheit 9/11
(Documentary)
The temperature where freedom burns. 

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
(Documentary)
Did you know that 3/4 of the world's population gets some form of news or commentary from Rupert Murdoch's publications or media companies?

Unconstitutional: Civil Liberties After 9/11
(Documentary)
"We created Unconstitutional to show Americans the extent to which our civil liberties and our freedoms have been trampled upon by our government since 9/11," said Robert Greenwald, the film's executive producer. "The more Americans understand what is at stake, and what has already been lost, the more determined we become to protect our rights."

USA The Movie
(Documentary)
A journey inside the essence of a Superpower; a country that shocks the world with its might, bringing out envy, anger and hatred in the hearts of other nations.

Hunting of the President
(Documentary)
The ten-year campaign to destroy Bill Clinton.

The Corporation
(Documentary)
Look at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

Uncovered: The Whole Truth about Iraq War
(Documentary)
The story of how truth became the first American casualty in Iraq.

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
(Documentary)
The battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America.

Orwell Rolls in His Grave
(Documentary)
Explores what the media doesn't like to talk about .. itself.

Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror?
(Documentary)
The hypocrisy of the U.S. government is powerfully scrutinized in Distorted Morality, a scathing, well-documented thesis presented by renowned scholar Noam Chomsky.

Day After Tomorrow
(Fiction)
Cinematic masterpiece of one possible fate for humanity.

Movies From When We Should Have Been Paying Attention

The Distinguished Gentleman
Eddie Murphy as a Florida con man impersonating a Congressman, shows the line legislators have to walk between the needs of their constituents and the pressure (or temptation) of special interests.

Wag The Dog
A Presidential scandal breaks two weeks before the election, so the spin doctors hire a Hollywood producer to stage a war.

All The President's Men
When journalists weren't afraid to question the truth.

1984 - George Orwell's prophecy onscreen
(The reviews said the VHS was better than the DVD)