The Rum Diary cuenta la historia cada vez más desquiciada de los viajes del periodista Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Cansado del ruido y la locura de Nueva York a finales de la época Eisenhower en los Estados Unidos, Kemp decide viajar a la isla virgen de Puerto Rico para escribir en un periódico local de San Juan. El cual está dirigido por Lotterman, un escritor que hace años también recorrió un camino similar. Adoptando el estilo de vida empapado en ron en la versión de los años cincuenta de Hemingway. Pronto llegará el amor a la vida de Paul, iniciando una relación con una atractiva mujer estadounidense, Chnault (Amber Heard). Aunque ella tiene una relación con un hombre de negocios involucrado en oscuras especulaciones urbanísticas locales.
La primera película hablada del maestro D.W. Griffith hace un repaso a la vida del famoso presidente norteamericano.
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!
'Best of Enemies' es un documental sobre la legendaria serie de debates televisados a nivel nacional en 1968 entre dos grandes intelectuales públicos, el liberal Gore Vidal y el conservador William F. Buckley Jr. pensado como comentario a las cuestiones de su día, estos encuentros explosivos llegaron a definir la era moderna del discurso público en los medios de comunicación.
En la tradición judía es habitual discutir sobre Dios, un grupo de prisioneros judíos en Auschwitz deciden poner a Dios en tela de juicio.
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.
The Secret Life of Brian muestra la realización y posterior controversia de “Life of Brian”. Acusaciones de blasfemia, manifestaciones en contra y todo lo que conllevo una de las películas mas provocadoras jamás realizadas.
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.