פול קמפ הוא עיתונאי עצמאי שמוצא עצמו בנקודת מפנה קריטית בחייו בעת כתיבה לעיתון עלוב באיים הקריביים. פול נאלץ להתמודד עם אתגרים שונים בעודו מנסה לסלול דרך בטוחה עבורו בהיותו מוקף בקבוצה של נשמות תועות בעלות הרס עצמי. הספר, שנכתב ב-1959 ויצא לאור ב-1998, מבוסס על חוויותיו של הסופר המנוח שהיה עיתונאי עצמאי בסוף שנות ה-50 בפורטו ריקו. תומפסון היה היהלום הכי משוגע בעיתונות האמריקאית, והוא המציא ז'אנר חדש, אישי להפליא, פרוע להחליא, ושלוח רסן של כתיבה עיתונאית, שכונתה כתיבת גונזו. גם חייו היו פרועים, ומלאי סקס, אלכוהול ומכונות ירייה.
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
אסירים יהודיים באושוויץ מחליטים להעמיד את אלוהים על דוכן הנאשמים. ביקום הנשלט לכאורה על ידי בורא נדיב ורב עוצמה, כיצד ניתן להסביר שמתקיימות מאורעות כמו השואה. זו השאלה המוצגת בידי חבורת אסירי מחנה הריכוז באושוויץ, בדרמה הזו שנכתבה בידי פראנק קוטרל בויס. בהבינם שחיסולם בידי הנאצים קרוב, מנסים האסירים למצוא הגיון במה שקורה להם, בהעמידם את אלוהים למשפט. איך יכול לקרות שהישות אותה הם מכנים "הכל יכול" תנטוש את בניה הנבחרים בעת צרה? כשברקע נשמעים קולות הובלת אסירים אל תאי הגז, מתנהל המשפט בו עולות שאלות יסוד קשות ומסובכות. וכשמתקרבת השעה בה יעמדו גם הם לפני מותם בידי הצוררים, האסירים המהורהרים והמתלבטים, פוסקים לבסוף את פסק דינם.
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!
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.
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?"
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 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.
A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.
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.
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 budding entrepreneur fights social injustice in his bid to establish his new business.
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.
There are people who think it is more important to choose a philosophical side or team and to stick to its fundamentals, rather than allow free thinking and debate.
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?
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.
On October 3rd of 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama, Professor Richard Dawkins and his Oxford University colleague Professor John Lennox engaged in a lively debate over what is arguably the most critical question of our time: the existence of God. The debate centered on Dawkins's views as expressed in his best-seller, The God Delusion, and their validity over and against the Christian faith. Both presenters agreed to the format and topics of discussion. It was one of the great debates of the last 100 years and is well worth watching and studying.