Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occuring.

This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and even a baronetcy in England. A native of Timmins, Ontario, Thomson had a tremendous career as publisher, television magnate, financier, and owner of many newspapers, including leading London dailies. The film is a frank study of an equally frank man.

When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.

An examination of Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ on Camera 3 (1972)

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news and public affairs programs became a great improvement over the scanty information offered by the newsreels. This documentary offers insight into a medium which has disappeared.

This documentary examines the media's coverage of the Canadian federal election of May 1979. Filmed over a 3-week period, it takes a fascinating look at journalists in action and the politicians who attempt to manipulate the media.

This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.

L'inspecteur Harry Callahan continue son chemin pour faire régner l'ordre et la justice. A présent, les médias s'intéressent à lui, après l'avoir dédaigné pendant très longtemps. Au même moment, de terribles meurtres ont lieu dans le milieu des films pornographiques, et une étrange liste survient où sont annoncés les noms des futures cibles. L'inspecteur Harry y figure aussi...

American television programming dominates around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.

Partant du point de vue de Noam Chomsky, célèbre linguiste, sur les médias, et s'appuyant sur ses réflexions réunies dans ses deux récents ouvrages "Illusions nécessaires" et "la Fabrication du consentement", ce film se penche surtout sur les sociétés démocratiques dont les populations non contraintes par la force sont soumises à des formes plus subtiles d'oppression idéologique. Il examine le pouvoir de l'information et les forces qui, dans la société, s'exercent sur sa formulation et sa propagation.

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.

In this Hungarian comedy post communist materialism is satirized. Someone in Hungary has won a large screen TV set. As they live in the country, it must be delivered from Budapest upon the back of an abandoned Russian military truck. The TV is turned on so that all the truck passes will see its perfect picture and hear its messages.

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

Le Dr Alex Hesse a mis au point l'Expectane, médicament miracle censé assurer des grossesses sans risque. Mais le permis d'expérimentation lui est refusé. Son associé Larry lui suggère de se prendre lui-même pour cobaye et dérobe une ovule cryogénisée qu'il injecte après fécondation dans l'abdomen d'Alex premier homme enceint de l'Histoire...

Comment s’exerce la démocratie quand un ministre en fonction, secrétaire général d’un parti politique de première importance, brigue la mairie d’une grande ville de province ? Comment les médias locaux traitent-ils l’illustre parachuté ? Que devient le beau principe de l’égalité de traitement entre les candidats ?Juppé, forcément... décortique une campagne électorale à travers le regard des journalistes et montre à quel point la politique, comme le reste, fonctionne à deux vitesses, « selon que l’on soit puissant ou misérable... »

L'homosexualité vue a travers cent ans de cinéma hollywoodien. Pour les auteurs "The Celluloid Closet" montre comment notre attitude envers l'homosexualité et notre perception des rôles des deux sexes ont évolue au cours de ce siècle.

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations, Hall argues that the process of representation itself constitutes the very world it aims to represent, and explores how the shared language of a culture, its signs and images, provides a conceptual roadmap that gives meaning to the world rather than simply reflecting it. Hall's concern throughout is the centrality of culture to the shaping of our collective perceptions, and how the dynamics of media representation reproduce forms of symbolic power.

Tandis que les Spice Girls se préparent pour leur concert au mythique Royal Albert Hall, Piers, pompeux réalisateur de documentaires, tente de saisir leur rythme et leur esprit. Quant à Kevin McMaxford, puissant rédacteur en chef du « Daily Event », ulcéré par leur succès, a juré leur perte et lance sur leurs traces Damien, un diabolique reporter qui n'a pas son pareil pour compromettre les célébrités avec des photos indiscrètes.

A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.

A man is tortured both mentally and physically by his television. As the man is suffering, the television plays commercials representing his life, both past and present.