"We Steal Secrets": Alex Gibney's New Documentary Explores the Story of...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, and we are broadcasting from Park City, Utah, at the Sundance Film Festival. This today—we begin today’s program with We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, a...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Legal Adviser: "We Steal Secrets" Overlooks Key Facets of Julian...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Park City, Utah, from the Sundance Film Festival. To talk more about the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, we’re joined by Jennifer Robinson,...
View ArticleAfter Tiller: 40 Years Since Roe v. Wade, Abortion Providers Continue Work of...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting live from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. This week marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that established the...
View ArticleAt Sundance Film Festival, Documentaries Shine Light on Overlooked Stories of...
AMY GOODMAN: We conclude today’s broadcast by looking at the Documentary Film Program here at Sundance Film Festival. Observers have long noted documentaries are the strongest component of the...
View Article"Gideon's Army": Young Public Defenders Brave Staggering Caseloads, Low Pay...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. We turn now to a new film that looks at the struggles of public defenders, lawyers who dedicate themselves to...
View ArticleWho Is Dayani Cristal?: Gael García Bernal Traces Path of Migrant Worker Who...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Park City TV, from Utah. We’re broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival, which is wrapping up this weekend. And we end today’s show looking at a new documentary...
View ArticleFruitvale: Ryan Coogler's Debut Film on Bay Area Police Slaying of Oscar...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Park City TV in Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, as we turn now to one of the most buzzed-about films here at Sundance. It tells a story that you might...
View Article"The Square": Jehane Noujaim's New Film Captures Egypt's Ongoing Revolution...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. And we are here again at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. And a new documentary has captured the immediacy...
View Article"Running from Crazy": Mariel Hemingway Tackles Family History of Suicide,...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to today’s interview. We’ve just returned from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where the new documentary Running from Crazy premiered. The film chronicles the...
View ArticleDirty Wars, Documentary on U.S. Covert Warfare Abroad, Wins Sundance...
AMY GOODMAN: In the documentary track, Blood Brother won the jury and audience prize for best documentary. Several films featured on Democracy Now! last week also won awards. Gideon’s Army_, about...
View ArticleFruitvale, Depiction of Oscar Grant's Last Day of Life, Takes Top Prizes at...
AMY GOODMAN: A dramatic film portraying the last day of Oscar Grant’s life won top honors at the Sundance Film Festival. Directed by first-time filmmaker, 26-year-old Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale tells the...
View ArticleThe Gatekeepers: In New Film, Ex-Shin Bet Chiefs Denounce Occupation, Compare...
AARON MATÉ: For our first segment, we turn to Israel and the Occupied Territories, where Israeli forces have begun the year with a spate of killings of unarmed Palestinian civilians. So far this month,...
View ArticleRedemption: Oscar-Nominated Doc Follows the Working Poor Who Survive on...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We end today’s show with a new documentary that looks at those who have quietly slipped into poverty and now live on the margins of society. The film is called Redemption, and it’s...
View ArticleIsrael, Palestine and the Oscars
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Academy Awards ceremony will make history this year with the first-ever nomination of a feature documentary made by a Palestinian. “5 Broken Cameras” was filmed...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Rarely Seen Film "King: A Filmed Record" Traces MLK's Struggle...
AMY GOODMAN: This week marks the final week of Black History Month, and this year, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of a pivotal year in America’s civil rights movement. On August 28th, 1963, an...
View ArticleUnited by Loss, Israeli & Palestinian Dads Call for a Joint Nonviolent...
AARON MATÉ: The death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody has sparked new protests in the occupied West Bank and even talk of a third intifada. The Israeli government claims the prisoner,...
View Article"Makers: Women Who Make America": New Film Chronicles Past 50 Years of...
AARON MATÉ: We turn now to a major new documentary that tells the story of how women have shaped the U.S. over the last 50 years through political and personal empowerment. It’s called Makers: Women...
View Article"Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement": Film Portrays Lesbian Couple Behind...
AMY GOODMAN: We end our show today by looking more at the remarkable woman behind the case challenging the constitutionality of DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the case officially called...
View Article"Shadows of Liberty": New Film Explores How Corporate Control of Media Erodes...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn right now to our last segment of the broadcast. We’re here at the National Conference on Media Reform, here in Denver, Colorado. Last night was the premiere of a film that talks...
View ArticleFilmmaker Robert Greenwald on "War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to whistleblowers and the unprecedented attack they’ve...
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