In 2001 Japanese American painter, Jimmy Mirikitani (born Tsutomu Mirikitani), and over 80 years old, was living on the streets of lower Manhattan. Filmmaker, Linda Hattendorf, took an interest and began
Banaz was born in Iraq and moved to England with her family when she was 10 years old. She was married at age 17 with a man 10 years older than her in an arranged marriage. Within months the marriage turned violent. Banaz wanted a divorce and fell in love with someone of her own choosing, this behaviour was found to be shameful by her family leading to her death in January 2006. Banaz went to the police 5 times before her death. Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode of the Metropolitan Police led the investigation to recover the body of Banaz and her killers, securing the first ever extradition from Iraq to Britain.
Thousands and thousands of stray and unwanted dogs are born into the world everyday. When these animals have nowhere to go and no one to care for them, it becomes a situation that society needs to make a decision about. Animal shelters have become one solution for the issue of these homeless animals, but then the question becomes, what do we do with them then? This question is controversial, in that not all of them can be adopted. As a result many animals are euthanized, a fate extremely controversial in itself.
Le documentaire se concentre sur la captivité de l'orque Tilikum, responsable de la mort de trois personnes, et des conséquences de la captivité sur ces cétacés.
Dr. Jennifer Conrad is a veterinarian who treats animals in Hollywood. She focuses on large exotic cats that are used in films, shows or living in animal sanctuaries. One of her patients is the fully declawed tiger who appears in the 2009 film The Hangover. Conrad finds that the cats she is working with are suffering greatly because of elective onychectomy surgeries, commonly known as declawing, that are being performed on them. Often these surgeries are undertaken with the intent on making the animal safer to work with, but, ironically, make the animals more irritable and can change their behavior.
Cowspiracy est un documentaire d'importance majeure. Controversé, il se penche sur l'impact de l'élevage sur l'environnement. Kip Andersen, producteur et directeur du film, révèle des informations exclusives portant sur les politiques de groupes environnementaux comme Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, and Rainforest Action Network en plus de statistiques alarmantes sur les impacts que génèrent la consommation de viande.
Le titre Zeitgeist est une expression allemande qui veut dire « esprit du temps », en faisant allusion à l'expérience du climat culturel dominant. Le site web officiel déclare que Zeitgeist, The Movie et sa suite Zeitgeist : Addendum ont été créés sans but lucratif pour communiquer les conclusions des auteurs. Peter Joseph utilise des appuis historiques et modernes afin de montrer que ces conclusions sont censurées par les institutions sociales actuelles dominantes.
Le film se veut une déconstruction méthodique de trois grands événements ou mythes qui présideraient au fonctionnement des sociétés occidentales
Two women filmmakers from Israel, Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel, initiated this independent project. In the winter of 1994-95 they spent five months in India, doing intensive research on the use of Vipassana as taught by S. N. Goenka as a rehabilitation method and its dramatic impact on foreign and Indian prisoners.The authorities were unusually cooperative, allowing the team free access to two Indian jails. The documentary begins with the story of Tihar Prison - a huge and notorious institution housing 10,000 inmates, 9,000 of them awaiting trial. When a new Inspector General, Kiran Bedi, was posted there in 1993, Tihar entered period of rapid-fire change.