Film & Activism
For educators and activists who wish to inform people through film, Dr. Asimakopoulos recommends the following in his ‘Crushed by Capitalism’ film picks.
“Well I mean, we’re a consumer society, aren’t we? She got consumed…”
Ted Danson, Mad Money 2008
Drama/Fiction/Sci-fi
1984
American Beauty
Animal Farm
Barbarians at the Gate (RJR Nabisco)
Blood Car
Boiler Room
Crash
Death of a Salesman
The Educators (Foreign)
Falling Down
Fight Club
GATTACA
Matewan
Network
Office Space
On the Waterfront
Pumpkin
Requiem for a Dream
Slacker
Salt of the Earth
SLC Punk
The Spook who sat by the Door
Thank you for Smoking
V is for Vendetta
The Wall
Wall Street
White Man’s Burden
Documentaries/News
American Dream
American Hardcore
The Big One
Bowling for Columbine
Bush’s War (Frontline/PBS)
Control Room
The Corporation
Enron: the smartest guys in the room
Is Wal-Mart Good for America (Frontline/PBS)
Life and Debt
Maxed Out (Frontline/PBS)
The Merchants of Cool (Frontline/PBS)
Noam Chomsky. Rebel without a pause
Noam Chomsky and the Media
Noam Chomsky Distorted Morality
Noam Chomsky Power and Terror- Noam Chomsky in our Times
Negros with Guns: Rob Williams & Black Power
Outfoxed
The Patriot Act
Roger and Me
The Secret History of the Credit Card (Frontline/PBS)
Sicko
Startup.com
The Take
The Tank Man (Frontline/PBS)
Tax me if you can (Frontline/PBS)
Wal-Mart: the high cost of low price
Members’s Film Recommendations for Social Justice … and Fun!
Eco-films (Recomended by CyberBrook – Brook {at} california(.)com)
A Civil Action
Advertising and the End of the World
Affluenza & Escape from Affluenza
An Inconvenient Truth
Arctic Tale
Being Caribou
Bhopal
Blue Vinyl
Borderline Cases
Brother Bear
Chernobyl Heart
Chicken Run
China Syndrome
Chinatown
Diet for a New America
Deadly Deception
Earthlings
Energy Crossroads
Erin Brockovich
Everything’s Cool
Fast Food Nation
Ferngully
Fire Down Below
Free Willy
Green is the New Red, White, and Blue
Gorillas in the Mist
Hoot
King Corn
March of the Penguins
On Deadly Ground
Out of Balance
Peaceable Kingdom
Recyclergy
Super Size Me
Syriana
Taken for a Ride
Texas Gold
The Day After Tomorrow
The Denial Machine
The End of Suburbia & Escape from Suburbia
The Future of Food
The Great Warming
The Lorax
The Power of Community
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Thirst
Too Hot Not to Handle
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
Trashed
Up Close and Toxic
Whale Rider
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
What Would Jesus Buy?
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Winged Migration
11th Hour
