BBC Panorama: What Facebook Knows About You – a lesson in how news documentaries shouldn’t be done
Maurice May, “BBC Panorama: What Facebook Knows About You” (2017) Half an hour for a
Tag: Interviews
Italian and Italian-language Films
Extraordinary revelations about foreign involvement in Maidan 2013-2014 events in “Ukraine: the Hidden Truth”
Gian Micalessin, “Ukraine: the Hidden Truth” (2017) A short but very pithy Italian documentary, “Ukraine
Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 7: Adam Ruins College): how financially naive young adults end up in the grip of neoliberal economic ideology
Paul Briganti, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 7: Adam Ruins College)” (2017) Aiming squarely
Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 5: Adam Ruins Art): the hermetic world of fine art is dashed to pieces by loudmouth comic
Matthew Pollock, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 5: Adam Ruins Art)” (2017) In this
Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 3: Adam Ruins the Hospital): challenging beliefs and misconceptions about hospitals and medical treatments
Tim Wilkime, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 3: Adam Ruins the Hospital)” (2017) Hosted
Chinese and Chinese-language Films | Korean Films
US Missile Base Upsets the Morning Calm: a sketchy report on the insidious effects of US military activity on a South Korean village and farming region
Yoichi Shimatsu, “US Missile Base Upsets the Morning Calm (Lens.tv Report: THAAD Deployment in South
Australian and New Zealand Films
David Bowie Iconic: an unedifying trio of interviews with rock star legend
?, “David Bowie Iconic” (2016) From the packaging, I thought this DVD was supposed to
Australian and New Zealand Films
The Family: a moving documentary on a bizarre religious cult that preyed on social utopian ideals and yearnings for a better life
Rosie Jones, “The Family” (2016) For over 20 years, the quiet town of Eildon and
Australian and New Zealand Films
The Coming War on China: a hard-hitting documentary drawing on the history of US relations with the western Pacific
John Pilger, “The Coming War on China” (2016) Two years in the making with literally
British Films | Russian and Soviet Films
A significant political interview of amazing revelations in “Secret World of the US Election: Julian Assange Talks to John Pilger”
John Pilger, “Secret World of the US Election: Julian Assange Talks to John Pilger” (RT.com,