Videocracy (2009)
• August 28th, 2009 • 1h 25min
Documentary
Overview
In a country where bella figura is a national pastime, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the maestro of media manipulation. Having risen to political primacy with the aid of his Mediaset empire, he now controls 90% of the bel paese’s television channels including the state-run RAI network. Quantity, it seems, does not equal quality. Fed on a diet of semi-naked dancing girls, inane competitions and rickety reality shows built around the most ridiculous of premises, is it any wonder that Italians are becoming a nation of fame-hungry wannabes?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Pixies: Gouge
Released on: 2004-04-27
Music, Documentary
Gouge - a documentary tracing The Pixies' story featuring interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yo...
The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights
Released on: 2009-09-18
Documentary, Music
In 2007 the legendary American duo White Stripes toured Canada. Besides playing the usual venues the...
Suicide Killers
Released on: 2006-08-27
Documentary
A documentary that examines the psychopathology behind suicide bombers - which ultimately reveals wh...
Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare
Released on: 2017-10-13
Documentary
A filmmaker's lifelong dream quickly becomes his worst nightmare when he attempts to make a low budg...
Algeria in Flames
Released on: 1958-01-02
Documentary, War
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
Night and Fog
Released on: 1956-01-29
Documentary, History
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
The Order of Myths
Released on: 2008-07-25
Documentary
In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters...
Up the Yangtze
Released on: 2007-09-30
Documentary
At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up emp...
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Released on: 2006-03-31
Documentary, Music
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/...
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Released on: 2006-08-04
Documentary
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produ...
Fuel
Released on: 2008-11-14
Documentary, Drama
Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues define our...
VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media
Released on: 2016-06-20
Documentary, Comedy, History, Horror, Science Fiction
This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media from the origin of film all the...
Cirque du Soleil: Quidam
Released on: 1999-12-26
Documentary, Music
A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...
No End in Sight
Released on: 2007-07-27
Documentary
Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the ...
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Released on: 2006-09-15
Documentary
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed f...
Man on Wire
Released on: 2008-08-01
Documentary
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rig...
Thot-Fal'N
Released on: 1978-06-27
Documentary
This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...
Nobody Wants Your Film
Released on: 2005-05-06
Documentary
Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking proce...
State of Bacon
Released on: 2014-05-15
Comedy, Documentary
State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading u...