Noted documentarian Alex Gibney’s Totally Under Control recounts the course of the coronavirus pandemic in America. The film is available @ Hulu (where I saw it) and on demand. There’s a way of thinking about the pandemic in which those who discount its effects condescendingly accuse others of being fearful. I’ll not answer for all…
Documentary
Coronavirus, Documentary, Poverty
Frontline: Growing Up Poor in America (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS •
?? The documentary, “Growing Up Poor in America,” follows three children and their families in the battleground state of Ohio as the COVID-19 pandemic amplifies their struggle to stay afloat. In early 2020, it was estimated that almost 12 million children in America were living in poverty — a burden disproportionately borne by Black and…
Documentary, Film
Film: Knocking Down the Fences
by JOHN ADAMS •
The story of AJ Andrews, the first woman to win a Rawlings Gold Glove.
America, Culture, Documentary, Film, History, Race
A Black Cowboy’s Story
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cowboys are among the most iconic figures of the American West. They’re mythologized as strong, independent people who live and die by their own terms on the frontier. And in movies, the people who play them are mostly white. But as with many elements of Americana, the idea of who cowboys are is actually whitewashed…
Coronavirus, Documentary
Frontline: Love, Life & the Virus (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS •
?? The story of a young mother in a coma battling COVID-19 after giving birth — and the schoolteacher who stepped in to care for the newborn. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Director Oscar Guerra chronicles a 30-year-old mother named Zully and her fight to survive COVID and see her newborn baby,…
Conspiracy Theories, Coronavirus, Documentary
Conspiracy Theories: A Frontline Documentary and Coronavirus Disinformation
by JOHN ADAMS •
Of Alex Jones & Roger Stone, Frontline’s United States of Conspiracy describes how “trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House. [It’s an] investigation of the alliance among conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and the president — and their role in the battle over…
Agriculture, Coronavirus, Documentary
Frontline: COVID’s Hidden Toll (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Coronavirus, Documentary, Federal Government, ICE, Negligence, Public Health
How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embedded above is a video documentary to accompany the reporting of Emily Kassie and Barbara Marcolini on How ICE Exported the Coronavirus (linked at FREE WHITEWATER earlier today.)
Crime, Documentary, Drug War, History, Opioids, Public Health
The Public Health Crisis before the Public Health Crisis
by JOHN ADAMS •
Frontline’s Opioids, Inc. (full film): Pushing opioids. Bribing doctors. Making millions. FRONTLINE and the Financial Times investigate how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller up to 100 times stronger than heroin — and how some Wall Street investors looked the other way. Since 2007, communities like Whitewater have faced a Great Recession, an opioid…
Documentary, Food
To The Surface
by JOHN ADAMS •
Like most things, Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the RI seafood industry. We wanted to explore this topic to raise awareness to the struggles and try to find some common sense solutions to the challenges (while being mindful of safety and social distancing). Our DP Tyler Murgo grew up seeing his family harvest seafood from wild…
Coronavirus, Documentary, Public Health
Frontline‘s Covering Coronavirus: Inside Italy’s COVID War (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS •
A rare and harrowing look inside a hospital hard-hit by the coronavirus in northern Italy, following the stories of an ER doctor, her staff and patients battling COVID-19. With unprecedented and intimate access, FRONTLINE goes inside a besieged hospital unit in the region at the epicenter of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak, where doctors and nurses try…
Business, Corruption, Documentary, Ethics
Netflix Documentary Series: Dirty Money (Season Two Now Online)
by JOHN ADAMS •
?? The overwhelming majority of people in America (and abroad) earn their money through honest means. A few, however, profit through fraud, self-dealing, outright theft, or selfish manipulation of laws and institutions. These few corrupt the public and private spheres they touch. Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney’s second season of Dirty Money, now online…
Documentary, Film, Putin, Russia, Trump, Trump-Russia
Review: Active Measures
by JOHN ADAMS •
Active Measures is a 2018 documentary describing Russian (derived from Soviet) techniques to undermine American democratic institutions, and those of our democratic allies. (Active measures: “A Soviet term for the actions of political warfare conducted by the Russian security services to influence the course of world events.”) The film is now in limited theatrical release,…
China, Documentary, Film, Planning
The Legacy of China’s Family-Planning Rules
by JOHN ADAMS •
The Party does more than blunder – what it touches, it injures & ruins: In the late 1970s and early ’80s, China implemented rigid family-planning measures to slow population growth—the most controversial of which was the one-child policy. In 2015, China announced that it would drop this rule. However, millions of second and third children…