"The Rum Diary" er baseret på en historie af Hunter S. Thompson og følger den omrejsende journalist Paul Kemp på en alkohol-fyldt tur gennem den uberørte ø Puerto Rico. Paul lever sig ind i livet på øen og bliver hurtigt betaget af den meget smukke Chenault. Hun er dog forlovet med Sanderson, en amerikansk forretningsmand, som er involveret i en række tvivlsomme udviklingsaftaler. Da Sanderson rekrutterer Kemp til at skrive positivt om sin nyeste usmagelige plan, skal journalisten træffe et valg: vil han bruge sine ord til den korrupte forretningsmands økonomiske fordel, eller vil han bruge dem til at fælde ham.
Walter Huston, far til John og farfar til Anjelica Huston, og en af sin tids største karakterskuespillere, er en fremragende Abraham Lincoln i denne historisk korrekte, men også ind i mellem lidt stillestående filmbiografi om den berømte præsident. Alene for skuespillet er filmen seværdig, selv om det er indlysende, at instruktøren D.W. Griffith fejrede sine største triumfer i stumfilmsperioden, hvor replikkerne ikke, som her, stod i vejen for hans billedmageri.
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"
Auschwitz under 2. Verdenskrig. Hver morgen står fangerne op til en dag, der enten indebærer tvangsarbejde eller døden. Midt i dette helvede på jord bestemmer en gruppe jødiske mænd sig for at indlede en retssag mod Gud, som de mener, har brudt sin pagt med det jødiske folk ved at lade nazisterne begå folkemord. Under hele forløbet er de alle vidende om, at deres skæbne når som helst kan besegles.
In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.
A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.
Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities’ contempt for their viewers come full circle in Spin. TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly-spun fabric of television—a system that silences public debate and enforces the exclusion of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news. Spin moves through the L.A. riots and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.
A budding entrepreneur fights social injustice in his bid to establish his new business.
In a cozy bistro, an increasingly heated discussion between two good buddies reveals their latent sexual prejudices, as one admits to feeling finally set free by a book he has just read.
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.
A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches them that life is debate and DEBATE IS WAR.
Too high, misused, unfair... a large part of the French and Europeans criticize taxes. From tax-rascal to tax revolt, the movement of yellow vests in France has returned to the center of attention the question of consent to tax. How to explain a different resistance to taxes from one country to another without tax pressure being an explanation? Is there a "good" tax? Jean Quatremer takes us on a journey to the tax center across Europe, to meet those who pay it, those who decide it, those who study it... or those who allow to avoid it.
The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.
To stay below a 1.5 degree increase in global temperature, we must leave between 60 and 80% of fossil fuel reserves in the ground. Which energies should be preferred to replace oil, gas and coal? Renewable energies or nuclear energy?
Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Boleyn, who in 1536 became the first queen in British history to be executed.
Set in the cutthroat, boy-dominated world of high school debate where tomorrow’s leaders are groomed, GIRL TALK tells the timely story of five girls on a diverse, top-ranked Massachusetts high school debate team as they strive to become the best debaters in the United States on their own terms.