Click here to get to the new blog http://criticaldocs.wordpress.com/

“After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world’s most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost literally everything: major national companies have been sold well below value to foreign corporations; the proceeds of privatizations have been diverted into the pockets of corrupt officials; revised labour laws have taken away all rights from employees; in a country that is traditionally an important exporter of foodstuffs, malnutrition is widespread; millions of people are unemployed and sinking into poverty; and their savings have disappeared in a final banking collapse. The film highlights numerous political, financial, social and judicial aspects that mark out Argentina’s road to ruin.” (Written by Eduardo Casais)

The following online version of the documentary is spoken in Spanish and does not have subtitles. However, for the downloadable version, English subtitles are available, which can be downloaded using the link below.

Download the documentary (Spanish) (English subtitles can be downloaded from here)

“Memorias del Saqueo” @ IMDb

The official movie site @ www.pinosolanas.com

Related posts @ Critic Docs:

• The Take (2004)

• The Fourth World War (2003)

• The Shock Doctrine (2007)

Following my post about the documentary “We Feed The World (2005)“, I would like to present another impressive documentary about the industrial food production,  “Our Daily Bread” directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The film depicts how modern food production companies employ technology to maximize efficiency, consumer safety and profit. It consist only of images and sounds, no narration or interviews are employed, allowing the viewers to form their own opinion on the subject based only on what is shown.

“Despite this lack of narration, Our Daily Bread never fails to enthrall because of the impeccable eye — for composition, for color, for movement within the frame — of filmmaker Geyrhalter.” (Los Angeles Times)

Watch the documentary online or use the link below to download it.

Download the documentary

“Our Daily Bread” @ IMDb

“Our Daily Bread” @ Wikipedia

The official site

Review by the “The New York Times“

“Surplus” is a film I would not necessarily classify as a documentary, but more as a video clip (as we may now it from music TV channels), which tries to show that the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, are not really being fulfilled. I personally found this film quite funny and ironical, but at the same time very critical about the subject.

Watch the film online (German subtitles) or download it using the link below.

Download the film (swedish subtitles)

“Surplus” @ IMDb

“Surplus” @ Wikipedia

Official site

Since Tony Blair’s New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy, free from interception of communications has been severely curtailed. The ability to travel without surveillance (or those details of our journeys being retained) has disappeared.

Indeed, as Henry Porter (the Observer journalist famous for his recent email clash with Tony Blair over the paring down of civil liberties) reveals in this unsettling film, our movements are being watched, and recorded, more than ever before (text taken from here)

Download the documentary

” Suspect Nation” @ IMDb

Official page

McDonald’s loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organisations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologised. But then they sued gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris. In the longest trial in English legal history, the “McLibel Two” represented themselves against McDonald’s £10 million legal team. (…)  Seven years later, in February 2005, the marathon legal battle finally concluded at the European Court of Human Rights. And the result took everyone by surprise – especially the British Government. McLibel is not just about hamburgers. It is about the importance of freedom of speech now that multinational corporations are more powerful than countries. Filmed over ten years by no-budget Director Franny Armstrong, McLibel is the David and Goliath story of two people who refused to say sorry. And in doing so, changed the world. Written by Lizzie Gillet (taken from here).

Helen Steel and Dave Morris are true heros of our time.

Download the documentary (torrent)

“McLibel” @ IMDb

The case McLibel @ Wikipedia

www.mcspotlight.org

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act – The Take – has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.

Another great work by Naomi Klein and her husban Avi Lewis.

Watch the documentary online or use the links below to download it.

Download the documentary [700MB] (spanish version can be downloaded here [700MB]) (torrent)

“The Take” @ IMDb

“The Take” @ Wikipedia

The official homepage

Ilha das Flores is a short film that is a sort of social documentary with biting criticism of civilization’s hierarchical system (meritocracy out of control with no empathy) and capitalism sprinkled with irony. Though ostensibly about the journey of a tomato, it’s beautiful and devastatingly horrific and truthful. The film ends with an ironic reference to a poem by the Brazilian bourgeois poet Cecília Benevides Meireles, who is considered one of the most important poets of the second phase of the Brazilian Modernism:

“Freedom” is a word that fires the dreams of human beings. No-one can explain what it means, and no-one understands it.

(text stolen and slightly modified from here)

Download the short-film (torrent)

“Ilha das Flores” @ IMDb

“Ilha das Flores” @ Wikipedia

This site has moved! Please click here to get to the new site.

From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, ‘the North’ from Seattle to Genova, and the ‘War on Terror’ in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in the Fourth World War.

“The Fourth World War” brings together the images and voices of the human victims of this global conflict.

“A powerful, radical cry from the frontlines of the war on people” (Naomi Klein)

You may watch the movie here or download it with several subtitles using the link below.

Download the documentary (subtitles in English, French, German, Portuguese and Slovak included)

“The Fourth World War (2003)” @ IMDb

the4thworldwar.blogspot.com