Iraq for Sale

A Robert Greenwald film about the role of outsourcing in the Iraq War. It also puts a human face on the contractors themselves who are not necessarily soldiers of fortune, but ordinary people such as truck drivers.

Tivia: Computer Sciences Corporation is an outsourcing company used in Iraq, who: flew the defoliation missions that are the centerpiece of Plan Colombia; constituted the core of the police force in Bosnia; protected Afghan president Hamid Karzai; managed the border posts between the US and Mexico and ran Airforce One. They have a website that is indistinguishable from a boring Silicon Valley enterprise software firm.

Running time: 1 hour 16 mins.

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Andy Kauffman hosts the Midnight Special 1981

Running Time: 54 mins.

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Jared Diamond – How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed

The Man with the ultimate Boston (?) accent, talks about his book, Collapse, at the Long Now Foundation.

(I just realized that I went to this lecture).

Running time: 1 hour 14 mins.

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Charlie Mingus in France, early 60s.

Includes a great Clifford Jordan performance on Tenor Sax.

Running time: 34 mins.

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This Strange Eventful History. The Art of Burning Man

Running time: 23 mins.

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The Best Soccer Goals in History

Annoying soundtrack, but some sublime footwork.

Running time: 1 hour 11 mins.

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Abbie Hoffman – Steal This Movie

Dramatized biographical film of 60s radical, Abbie Hoffman

Running time: 1 hour 47 mins.

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Mr Death The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr.

Errol Morris’ complex anti holocaust revisionist film that sometimes gets accused of being the opposite.

Running time: 1 hour 31 mins.

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Soviet Animated Propaganda

Running time: 27 mins.

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Frontline: War in Europe

The excellent Frontline series’ look at Kosovo.

Running time: 1 hour 52 mins.

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