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?
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...
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Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the ...
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed f...
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In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produ...
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L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes le...
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A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.
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