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Eight Shock-Docs
The documentaries that might change your world
This week, scathing financial crisis documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, the latest polemic from Michael Moore, arrives on these shores to hold bankers to account / ransom (delete according to net worth) and attack Wall Street. In keeping with Moore's aim to get people talking, we bring you the most brain-itching, mind-changing, life-altering documentaries of the last few years...

WORDS JAMES WHITE

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An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

What does it tackle? Global warming or, to give it a slightly more accurate title given the frosty winter, Climate Change, and the role that mankind's carbon emissions play in the same.

Thoughts? It certainly presents a compelling argument for the dangers of ignoring environmental issues, and it boasts plenty of evidence to back up its case, all presented by Al Gore with the aid of a mechanical lift and a PowerPoint presentation.

Controversy? It might have won an Oscar and netted Gore a Nobel Prize to boot, but it's still bitterly debated, with climate sceptics nitpicking the science (fair) and complaining about Gore's jet-setting ways (fair, but hardly the point). Still, it finally got climate discussion into the media mainstream and out of the crusty corner, and for that Mr Gore deserves enormous praise.

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1 Re:this film is not yet rated
Posted on Thursday August 26, 2010, 11:09 by Therese_D
United states movie <a title="Many wonder why an R-rating would be suggested for smoking in a film" href="http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010 /08/23/smoking-in-films-r-rating/">rating specifications</a> have always been pretty controversial. This Movie is Not Yet Rated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made its stance by saying all movies with smoking in them shouldn’t be seen by young teens and kids, therefore giving the films an “R” rating. Read More

2 RE:
Posted on Thursday March 11, 2010, 20:00 by TheSpleen
L: MonkeysDad The Aristocrats, anyone? es! Nothing shocking about Super Size Me. It's unhealthy to eat Maccies everyday for every meal. No shit! Read More

3 RE:
Posted on Friday March 5, 2010, 10:40 by rancorpuppet
'Capturing the Friedmans' is an appalling ommission, as is 'Loose Change', a film absolutely savaged by the military industrial complex and the puppet mainstream media it operates.  'Until the Light Takes Us', a recent documentary on the Norwegian Black Metal movement that went awry and resulted in murders among its musicians said more about  the "pseuds" who like the off-the-peg agent-provocateur stylings of Michael Moore and, like Moore, ultimately profit from them, making many millions from Friday-night-che-guevaras with low-budget, poorly researched and supercilious films.   Read More

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Posted on Thursday March 4, 2010, 01:40 by bentgaga
I agree about Bowling for Columbine.. that got to me more than Farenheit 9/11 Read More

5 RE: Eight Shock-Docs
Posted on Tuesday March 2, 2010, 14:50 by MASTERD
I think that Bowling for Columbine should have been up there. Americas love affair with the gun brought brutal truthes home to us all i think. Read More

6 Some opinions..
Posted on Monday March 1, 2010, 14:42 by Cilliandrew
...interesting to see "An Inconvenient Truth" up there, given all the recent controversy and suggestions it's all a farce. "Supersize Me" is about the dumbest documentary i've ever seen. Mike Moore went a tad too far with the end of "Fahrenheit 9/11". I appreciate what he was trying to say, but man he went overboard in trying to say it. "Wal-mart: The High Cost of Living": I appreciate EVERYTHING said here, except i originate from a small-town where receiving a Wal-mart WAS actually a huge boon for the city and actually was a benefit to the smaller businesses (that otherwise were attracting NO business). A total counterpoint to what the film was trying to argue. Read More

7 Some opinions..
Posted on Monday March 1, 2010, 14:10 by Cilliandrew
...interesting to see "An Inconvenient Truth" up there, given all the recent controversy and suggestions it's all a farce. "Supersize Me" is about the dumbest documentary i've ever seen. Mike Moore went a tad too far with the end of "Fahrenheit 9/11". I appreciate what he was trying to say, but man he went overboard in trying to say it. "Wal-mart: The High Cost of Living": I appreciate EVERYTHING said here, except i originate from a small-town where receiving a Wal-mart WAS actually a huge boon for the city and actually was a benefit to the smaller businesses (that otherwise were attracting NO business). A total counterpoint to what the film was trying to argue. Read More

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Posted on Monday March 1, 2010, 13:41 by MonkeysDad
The Aristocrats, anyone? Read More

9 Deliver us from Evil
Posted on Monday March 1, 2010, 02:52 by sir_dandan
Surprised "Deliver us from Evil" didn't make this list. A interview with a former catholic priest who openly discusses being a pedophile. But that's not the most shocking part of the Documentary, more shocking that the priests actions is the evidence that suggests the Catholic church not only knew what he was doing, but actually relocated him to various parishes around the United States in an attempt to cover up his crimes. Read More

10 Great Docs at the Oscars
Posted on Sunday February 28, 2010, 18:38 by musicalfox
Try Burma VJ and The Cove, both nominated for this years Best Documentary category. The Academy (AMPAS) always chooses a fine slate of documentaries annually and I highly recommend their selection. Read More

11 RE:
Posted on Saturday February 27, 2010, 15:12 by Jisonfire
No 'Capturing the Friedmans' ?!  Read More

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Posted on Friday February 26, 2010, 18:23 by batmandi
Has anyone at Empire watched Food, inc ??? biggest shocker of all, its not about knowing that the States is the fatest country on earth but the meat industry, the horrendous and diabolical conditions the animals are kept it, the workers are treated no better, how currupt the U.S government is, how e.coli can be found not just in your meat but in your spinach (if anyone in the states actually ate veg it could be a bigger problem than it is - though e.coli is found repeatedly in every state, within the meat, and instead of cleaning the conditions to get rid of the e.coli they just plow more money into keeping people quiet) Didn't think you could patent the soybean? well you can if you genetically modifiy it, then send spys out ruining the small farmer if they save a soybean for the next season or the wind from a neighbouring farm blow the seed into your natural soybean farm. Shocking!!!! Read More

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Posted on Friday February 26, 2010, 15:49 by bish10
Should Spinal Tap be in here? Thats a shock documentry, right? Read More

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Posted on Friday February 26, 2010, 15:45 by bish10
Should Spinal Tap be in here? Thats a shock documentry, right? Read More

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Posted on Friday February 26, 2010, 15:27 by crabman32
Zeitgeist should be number one. Although, I think the reason it may not be on the list is because it didn't get shown theatrically. Read More

16 RE:
Posted on Friday February 26, 2010, 13:35 by Parkie
You're thinking of 'The Thin Blue Line' by Errol Morris.....I'm very surprised that it is missing from the list tbh Read More

17 what about...
Posted on Friday February 26, 2010, 13:09 by armando
Zeitgeist anyone?? Read More

18 Top Docs - Dear Zachary
Posted on Friday February 26, 2010, 12:29 by pixeedude
I really think you should add this film to the listing; too sentimental for some but you cannot deny the strength of the message. Read More

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Posted on Friday February 26, 2010, 12:22 by chris wootton
Mention has to go to the doc that (and shoot me, but i can't remember the damn name of it) proved that a man on death row for murder was in fact innocent. Can anyone help me out here? I'd like to see it Read More


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