The end of the line The end of the line is a part of a new wave of documentaries that not only seek prizes at Film Festival and wasn’t just primarily made to make money but change the opinions of dozens of people. What is happening to the world fish stocks is an under reported issue and End of the Line seeks to address this problem and make the issue reportable. The film was directed by Rupert Murray and narrated by Ted Danson. But the whole film is based on a book By Charles Clover himself
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The Waiting Room Documentary is a story and a symbol of our national community and how our common vulnerability to illness binds us together as humans. It is a type of film that uses unprecedented access to go behind the doors of Oakland’s Highland Hospital‚ a safety-net hospital fighting for survival. Baring the struggles and determination of both a community and an institution functioning with limited resources and no road map for navigating a health care. According to Adam Grossberg‚ the hospital
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The entire purpose of this documentary The Untouchables was to seek an answer to an abbreviated question: why has no Wall Street executive been criminally prosecuted for fraud tied to the sale of mortgages. But the unabbreviated question and the one that infuriates us as Americans is: why has no executive of a major Wall Street firm been criminally prosecuted for anything. Containing interviews with top prosecutors of the DOJ‚ government officials and industry whistleblowers‚ Frontline reports allegations
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In the documentary “The Devils Playground” the Amish youth are allowed out of their community to experience the world. The devils playground is known to the Amish as the “English world’. This process is known to the Amish as a runspringa. The purpose of this process is to give the youth a chance to decide whether or not they want to be Amish. According to the documentary this process can take anywhere from six months to two years depending on the person. Once a person accepts the Amish life they
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nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi and the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plants. In the documentary – Children of the Tsunami directed by Dan Reed (2012)‚ it provides a glimpse into the life of the younger victims‚ the children‚ who survived the triple chain disasters and how their lives were impacted. It is record on the ‘03/11’ disaster‚ narrated through the eyes of the children. The documentary demonstrates how the tsunami has destroyed the children’s schools‚ playgrounds and home‚ where
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I came across this documentary on PBS titled “A League of Denial” (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/). This documentary explores the unreported and hidden concussion related injuries in the NFL. “A League of Denial” piques my interest. It begs the question why were these injuries hidden; who knew‚ why they did nothing‚ and how could the players do nothing? Of course‚ one obvious answer is money‚ but I would like to analyze how sports tend to perpetuate this machismo persona
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causing a short life-span. The two curiously decide to move to Iowa and commence their adventure to find out if this rumor is actually true and educate others how corn has infiltrated the food most Americans eat at this present time. With this documentary‚ Ian and Curtis are able to let the truth be known to all who watch the film. One of the land owners receives a letter from Curtis and Ian‚ requesting that they would like to purchase
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possibility to be violent in nature. In the documentary‚ “The Difference Between Us:- The Power of an Illusion.” it talks about how genetically we are not that different from one another compared to other species‚ but because we live in a racialized world our similarities in biology are forgotten. During the video‚ a class of students was all using their own DNA to compare who they were
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Sifferlin‚ Alexandra‚ and Alexandra Sifferlin. "Hungry in America: Documentary Exposes the Growing Problem of Starvation Amid Plenty | TIME.com." Time. Time. Web. 21 June 2015. This article describes many causes of hunger and unhealthy eating habits in the United States that explored in documentary “A Place at the Table”. The author explains that poverty is one of the major contributing factors of obesity because poor families cannot provide healthier meals. I will use this article to
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Documentary Response - In Sickness and In Wealth Based on the information provided in the text‚ determinates of health are directly related to the socioeconomic status. Access to health care often depends on one’s position in the socioeconomic stratification. Depending on your achieved or social status you have different opportunities for life chances. The probability of having health insurance and access to health care are factors directly relating to your life chances and the likelihood
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