A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
James Bailey, “Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of The Third Reich” (2017) A grim and horrifying film, all the more so for its clinical, matter-of-fact tone…
Garrett Ryan, “Drug Use in Ancient Greece and Rome” (Told in Stone, 17 September 2021) An intriguing little video, this episode in Garrett Ryan’s ongoing Told…
Garrett Ryan, “The Lost Greek Cities of Central Asia” (Told in Stone, 4 September 2021) In light of current events in Afghanistan, with the Taliban reasserting…
Carlton Meyer, “The Chaotic Fall of Kabul in 2021” (Tales of the American Empire, 20 August 2021) Using past and current news videos of the US…
Carlton Meyer, “The American Retreat from Vietnam” (Tales of the American Empire, 2020) In the wake of the American retreat from Afghanistan in August 2021, the…
Carlton Meyer, “The American Empire in Asia in the 1800s” (Tales of the American Empire, 9 July 2021) This short history documentary is an excellent entry…
Carlton Meyer, “The Empire enters the Cocaine Trade” (Tales of the American Empire, 25 June 2021) For a nation committed to neo-capitalist ideology – under which…
“What the Media Won’t Tell You About China” (ReallyGraceful, 20 June 2018) This short film is less a historical documentary about China and how it came to…
Korean Films, North American Films
Carlton Meyer, “The United States Started the Korean War” (Tales of the American Empire, 11 June 2021) Most histories on the Korean War (1950 – 1953)…
“What the Media Won’t Tell You about Iran” (ReallyGraceful, 23 November 2017) Back in 2017 I’d been watching short history mini-documentaries on ReallyGraceful’s Youtube channel but…