A feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas and the prospects of a contemporary neofascism. The film focuses on the political economy of these forms, drawing on Rajani Palme Dutt’s view that fascism represented an organisation of capitalist decay, to illustrate the various different laws of motion which condition the development of reactionary political movements.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film’s final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.
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TimeScapes
Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the American South West.
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The Secret History of the British Garden
Monty Don explores the fascinating history and evolution of the British garden, from the seventeenth century through to the modern day.
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An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1 and Science, as well as spin-off books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel, so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they stay in the United Kingdom and monitor his progress.
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Bush: Alleys and Motorways
Documentary featuring the British alternative rock band Bush on tour.
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Penguins: Life on the Edge
A witty and tenacious team of filmmakers brave the Antarctic to film Disneynature’s “Penguins.”
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One From the Heart: The Story of the 1990-91 Pittsburgh Penguins
Documentary chronicling the Penguins’ 1990-91 season and first Stanley Cup run. Features some great clips of the players inside the team plane and talking about each game and what it felt like to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in their careers.
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March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
A young penguin, driven by his instinct, embarks on his first major trip to an unknown destination.
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The Penguin King
South Georgia – alone in a vast ocean. 900 miles from Antarctica, and a mere 100 miles long. A wild rugged landscape with mountain ranges, vast glaciers, windblown plains half buried beneath snow and ice. Three years ago, the Penguin King left home. Now he is returning to the place where he was born and raised: Penguin City. One of the most densely-packed, sought-after pieces of real estate in the entire southern hemisphere and somehow he must establish his own place in it. He must find a mate.