Top Ten Documentary Recommendations

This list will keep evolving. Notice #1 is at the bottom. Make the time.

#10. Jenin, Jenin (2003) directed by Mohammed Bakri, NR: Netflix or Amazon

#9. The War on Democracy (2007) directed by Christopher Martin, John Pilger, NR: Available Online

#8. Gitmo: The New Rules of War (2005) directed by Erik Gandini, NR: Netflix or Amazon

#7. The Take (2004) directed by Avi Lewis, NR: Netflix or Amazon

#6. God Grew Tired of Us (2005) directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn, PG: Netflix or Amazon

#5. War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007), directed by Loretta Alper, NR: Available Online or Netflix or Amazon (and the book)

#4. My Country, My Country (2006) directed by Laura Poitras, NR: Netflix or Amazon

#3. The Prisoner or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2006) directed by Michael Tucker, PG-13: Netflix or Amazon

#2. Control Room (2004) directed by Jehane Noujaim, NR: Available Online (low qual) or Netflix or Amazon

#1. Why We Fight (2005) directed by Eugene Jarecki, PG-13, Available Online or Netflix or Amazon

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Also, Dateline NBC: “The Human Cost of Bargain Prices”

Be sure to check out the brief (three-part) Dateline NBC report “The Human Cost Behind Bargain Shopping” (scroll down). They visit a Wal-Mart sweatshop in Bangladesh, focusing on one young worker, and then they bring this young woman to the US to see her work on the rack. Quite intriguing.

They’ve broken the shot report into three parts — Part One (8:52), Part Two (8:02), Part Three (9:33). But the whole report is just under 27 minutes.