Movies that tell or teach you something?

[kevlar442]

Repo Man

Apocalypse Now

Brazil

Where The Buffalo Roam

[Coincidence Theorist]

Another on-topic movie I saw just recently is called "The Brotherhood Of The Bell", a 1970 made-for-tv film starring Glenn Ford. Check it out:



Summary: A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brotherhood_of_the_Bell
IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066864/
Torrent: http://btjunkie.org/torrent/The-Brotherhood-of-the-Bell-1970/4432901f72cdc2c19b115808b362a8e8b5c646e7a9a1

[America2]

"A Beautiful Mind" - based on a true story about a scientist who suffered from schizophrenia(John Nash) - Russell Crowe played the part.

OK - it's not THAT NWO(and Nash probably did have this illness), HOWEVER - Hellywood has churned out alot of movies over "crazy" people.

Pt being that recently, I tried telling my mom about some of the NWO's draconian agendas, guess what her response was? "You're like that Russell Crowe guy in that movie we saw".

Has this happened to anyone else? You try to warn them, and they'll bring up some movie to make you look like you're extremely mentally ill?

[Dig]

Repo Men
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men

Plot

In 2025, a corporation called The Union has perfected the creation of artificial organs, which have replaced organ transplants. A potential customer can apply for an organ, which are sold on credit, usually with a large interest rate attached. If the customer is unable to maintain payments after three months, a repo-man is sent to the customer to reclaim their property. The process of the repossession is brutal, and often results in the death of the customer.

Remy is one of the Union's top repo-men, who partners with his childhood friend, Jake, in Toronto, to collect past due accounts. Remy is highly regarded within The Union as their top performer, though his occupation causes problems with his wife, who sees it as unsavory. After she leaves Remy when Jake commits a repossession in front of their home, Remy decides to transfer to a sales job, much to Jake's chagrin.

As his final repossession job, Remy is sent to the residence of a music producer, whose work he happens to admire. After allowing the man enough time to complete a song, Remy prepares to repossess his heart. When he attempts to use a heart defibrillator to stop the unit, the defibrillator malfunctions, sending a large electrical shock through his body and knocking him into a coma. When Remy awakens from his coma, he is informed by Jake and Frank, the Union's CFO, that the shock severely damaged his heart. He can be fitted with a artificial heart, or die. After Remy attempts to flee the hospital, he reluctantly agrees to the procedure.

Remy goes back to work, but is unable to perform his job, due to the fact that he is just like the people he is repossessing from. He attempts to transition into sales, but quickly finds himself behind in payments. Jake takes Remy to the outskirts of Toronto to a nest, which is a collection of people who have past due accounts with the Union, but are fleeing to avoid being repossessed. Remy is again unable to perform a repossession, after which he is abandoned by Jake until he can perform his job. Remy is attacked by a pair of men whom he attempted to repossess, and blacks out.

Remy, upon awakening, encounters Beth, whom he had met earlier in a bar where she was singing. He discovers that she has multiple organs that she is past due on, and is currently suffering from a drug addiction. Remy takes her to a motel room, where he stays with her as she goes through withdrawal. After a failed attempt to clear her account back at the Union's headquarters, Remy destroys all evidence of his life and Beth's before the two leave to live in the outskirts.

The pair live in relative harmony. Remy uses an old typewriter that Beth had given him to type up a narrative of his life, and subsequent conversion. As he finishes, a repo-man arrives to repossess his heart. After a brief struggle, Remy uses the typewriter to save himself and Beth. Using the repo-man's vehicle, Remy sneaks back into his former workplace to obtain a pair of devices that fool organ scanners used by repo-men. He attempts to force Frank to clear his account, only to discover that due to his prior attempt, all accounts can only be cleared back at the Union's central office.

Remy and Beth attempt to flee the country at the airport, but are taken by security when it is discovered that Beth's prostetic knee was damaged due to their earlier fight with the repo-man. Once inside, they are forced to fight against airport security and another pair of repo-men. Remy is able to kill or incapacitate all of them, and while escaping, comes face to face with Jake, who has now been assigned Remy's account. The pair head to a black market doctor, where Beth's knee is replaced. After the procedure, the two are stopped by Jake, who has tracked the pair. A bitter fight ensues, during which it is revealed that it was Jake that rigged the defibulator unit to fail, causing Remy's heart replacement. The two fight, but Jake gains the upper hand, and knocks Remy unconscious by hitting him in the head with a large chain.

Remy awakens, and is hurried to a safe house by Beth, due to a raid by the Union's repo-men. The two survive the night, but Remy is overcome with remorse after finding the corpses of the victims of the Union. He resolves to destroy the corporation and clear the accounts of Beth and himself. After passing his story to his son during a brief meeting on a train, the pair travel to The Union's headquarters, hoping to remove themselves from the system. Remy and Beth are pursued throughout the building, and after an intense battle, arrive at the Pink Door, the main database for the Union. Using Beth's prostetic eye, they are able to seal themselves inside just as Jake and Frank arrive. Once inside, they discover that the server does not have any interface, except for a scanner. Remy realizes that the only way to remove himself from the system is to repo himself. Remy and Beth cut themselves open in order to use the scanner internally, clearing their accounts.

Jake and Frank are able to enter through the use of an organ, seeing Remy trying desperately to resuscitate Beth, who has stopped breathing during the process. Jake asks Remy if she was worth all the hardship and pain that he has put himself through, which he confirms. Frank pulls a gun to kill Remy, but Jake turns on his employer, killing him with a knife. Jake then assists Remy in reviving Beth, after which he deposits two explosives inside the organ retrieval unit. The explosion destroys the Union's mainframe, wiping everyone who has an account with the corporation out of the system.

Later, Remy is on a tropical beach, enjoying his freedom with Beth and Jake. His text from earlier in the film has been published into a book, The Repossession Mambo. Remy turns to look at Jake, but sees instead the background flickering and inconherent voices. It is discovered that Remy, in fact, sustained severe brain damage when Jake hit him with the heavy chain earlier in the film. Jake, out of remorse, has paid off Remy's account and has had him placed in a neural network, allowing him to live the rest of his life in a lucid dream. This renders the second half of the film as simply a fantasy of Remy's. Jake finds Remy's manuscript, which he greets with a bitter chuckle, as his former partner is wheeled away, presumably to spend the rest of his life in his fantasy world. The film ends with Frank delivering his sales pitch.

[usefulidiot,uselesseater]

Repo Men
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men

That sounds kind of like:
Repo: The Genetic Opera (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963194/
summary (from imdb)
In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family's mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.

[Mr Grinch]

That sounds kind of like:
Repo: The Genetic Opera (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963194/
summary (from imdb)
In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family's mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.

Its got Paris Hilton in it! 

[Coincidence Theorist]

Its got Paris Hilton in it!  

Downloading the film now...  

[hal 9000]

"Brotherhood of the Bell" looks interesting. Making it even more interesting is that Glenn Ford was a Shriner Freemason.

[Brocke]

"Brotherhood of the Bell" looks interesting. Making it even more interesting is that Glenn Ford was a Shriner Freemason.

The Brotherhood of the Bell - clip 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3CoDKt0ICE

[America2]

Am currently listening to a couple of broadcasts from watchmen talking about Apostasy in the church, and they're talking about the New Apostle Reformation(aka Dominionism) - which is a group of (corrupt)charismatics who are going around with their antics, preaching false doctrine, and trying to deceive everyone into thinking that God chose a special group of people on earth and anointed them "apostles" to clean up the earth spiritually, so that Jesus' 2nd Coming can be ushered in.

Come to think of it - there were NUMEROUS films in the 1980's and early 90's over corrupt charismatic apostles that had these views - "Fletch Lives"(1989) was one of them. I forgot the the guy's name, but the guy on the History Channell's "Mail Call" played a Benny Hinn-type character. And there was "Leap of Faith"(1992), which starred Steve Martin who played a corrupt charismatically antic "apostle" who prophecied lies, and took advantage of a drought-ridden Kansas City to try to ca$h in on an opportunity.

Interesting how the latter film above was set in KC, b/c if I understand this correctly, the NAR Dominionism group was formed in this city(if I'm wrong, please correct me). Hardly a coincidence that since the early 90's especially, the NAR movement has really exploded.

Anyhow - from what I just heard, the NAR Dominionist group wants to take control of everything in the mass media to eductional institutions and are going as far as networking with the United Nations et al.(i.e. Rick Warren, the Pentacostals and Bill Hybels work closely with the UN)

FYI - learned today that the NAR actually started in 2001...the SAME year 9/11 happened!(Yes, Joyner, Bill Bright, et al had "visions" about this as far back as 1975, but they really didn't get a big leg up until 2001)

Coincidence that the same year one big event changed the world(and our constitutional rights started getting stripped in a big way), is also the same year this radical NAR group really got a shot in the arm to start up?

BTW - it has a LARGE group, and it includes even some of these so-called "well respected" pastors...no, not talking about Billy Graham and Rick Warren, but the LOWER profile ones that never get media attention(but are very well respected in Christian circles) like Charles Stanley, Kay Arthur and Beth Moore. I was shocked to hear Stanley is part of this group, b/c I first got saved when I started listening to his messages(with a few exceptions, his messages came off as very biblical, unlike these other radical members who act crazy and spout off "visions" that are unbiblical). Ditto Moore and Arthur - my mom's women's bible study groups do Moore studies, and both of these woman come off as nothing more as average janes.

Overall - I guess I shouldn't be surprised - Stanley over the years has accumulated wealth in his ministry, to the point in recent years his messages have started to get watered down to Calvinism(also, last year when he gave a sermon on "God's Judgement on America", while it was solid, I was shocked to see afterwards, he gave a message how we should support our troops et al...and of course Obama's in office). Ditto Moore - it seemed like as she got popular, she got a big head.

[needguide]

This is sand at the beach but here is a old one.


http://www.movies-links.tv/movies/dr_strangelove/

[needguide]

Another on-topic movie I saw just recently is called "The Brotherhood Of The Bell", a 1970 made-for-tv film starring Glenn Ford. Check it out:



Summary: A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brotherhood_of_the_Bell
IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066864/
Torrent: http://btjunkie.org/torrent/The-Brotherhood-of-the-Bell-1970/4432901f72cdc2c19b115808b362a8e8b5c646e7a9a1

I am on wireless verozen link I only get 5000 MB a month without a big jump in my bill At 755 mb I am taking your recommendation and grabbing the torrent. I hope you have good taste....Just kidding it looks good thanks 

[needguide]

The Last Enemy (British 5 part series)


George Orwell on steroids.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Enemy-Benedict-Cumberbatch/dp/B001H9JBW6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1264191188&sr=1-1

Review:
An intriguing thriller based on the fear that government can and eventually will endorse a 24/7/365 total approach to control and 'right think' a populace ala Orwell's Big Brother.

As London has become the de facto standard in regards to CCT video, advances in heuristic computer modeling via known association, and biometric recognition software - 'Enemy' drops a brilliant computer engineer into this coming world via the mysterious death of his estranged brother, a well-known and respected field aid worker helping the less fortunates of the world. A brother that may have stumbled into an international cover-up of a possible global pandemic.

Here is the torrent,This looks to good to pass up, here go's my internet bill, I hate verizon wireless, 5000 mb a month, I think I better get out of this post I already have 1500 worth going...Thanks


http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/1710598/The-Last-Enemy-s01e03-(2-March-2008)-pdtv-(xvid)

[needguide]

The torrent is dead. no seeders oh well.

[America2]

FYI - learned today that the NAR actually started in 2001...the SAME year 9/11 happened!(Yes, Joyner, Bill Bright, et al had "visions" about this as far back as 1975, but they really didn't get a big leg up until 2001)

Coincidence that the same year one big event changed the world(and our constitutional rights started getting stripped in a big way), is also the same year this radical NAR group really got a shot in the arm to start up?

BTW - it has a LARGE group, and it includes even some of these so-called "well respected" pastors...no, not talking about Billy Graham and Rick Warren, but the LOWER profile ones that never get media attention(but are very well respected in Christian circles) like Charles Stanley, Kay Arthur and Beth Moore. I was shocked to hear Stanley is part of this group, b/c I first got saved when I started listening to his messages(with a few exceptions, his messages came off as very biblical, unlike these other radical members who act crazy and spout off "visions" that are unbiblical). Ditto Moore and Arthur - my mom's women's bible study groups do Moore studies, and both of these woman come off as nothing more as average janes.

Overall - I guess I shouldn't be surprised - Stanley over the years has accumulated wealth in his ministry, to the point in recent years his messages have started to get watered down to Calvinism(also, last year when he gave a sermon on "God's Judgement on America", while it was solid, I was shocked to see afterwards, he gave a message how we should support our troops et al...and of course Obama's in office). Ditto Moore - it seemed like as she got popular, she got a big head.

Another thing - the whole "Obama is the Antichrist" buzz initially came out of the NAR, unsurprisingly - but it came to a point where they ended up spinning it like, "Obama is a bigger threat than Satan!".

Ultimately, it was no coincidence that it was this same group that kept on saying how Bush was a born again christian, and then all of a sudden when Obama stormed the world, they shifted their messages to "The Antichrist is here". It was ALL pre-planned.

[nustada]

Thats a movie you watch with your girlfriend

[nustada]

http://www.friesian.com/hicks.htm

^ I don't agree with everything in this movie, but it is thought provoking. He also misses completely the occult aspects of history (probably intentionally).

[nustada]

http://www.friesian.com/hicks.htm

^ I don't agree with everything in this movie, but it is thought provoking. He also misses completely the occult aspects of history (probably intentionally).

^
"nietze and the nazis"
A Personal View by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Forgot to quote the name

[CaptBebops]

There has been some chat about "The Reflecting Pool"  here but I was able to watch it using "watch instantly" on Netflix recently.  It is a film about a journalist investigating 9-11.  It co-stars Joe Culp, Robert Culp's son and I noted Robert Culp is mentioned in the support credits section.

I also watched "Protocols of Zion" a few years ago and thought the real purpose of that documentary is what the director reveals about 2/3s into the movie.

[TOTL]

The Trial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_(1962_film)


The Trial (also known as Le Procès) is a 1962 film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Franz Kafka. Welles stated in an interview with the BBC that "The Trial is the best film I have ever made."[1] The film begins with Welles narrating Kafka's parable, "Before the Law", to pinscreen scenes created by Alexandre Alexeieff.


Details

Josef K. (Anthony Perkins) is awakened in his apartment one morning by two police officers who inform him that he is under open arrest. The officers decline to identify the crime that Josef K. is being charged with, nor do they take him into custody. When the officers leave, Josef K. converses with his landlady, Mrs. Grubach (Madeleine Robinson), and his neighbor, Miss Burstner (Jeanne Moreau), about what transpired. He later goes to his office, where he is reprimanded by his superior for allegedly having improper relations with his female teenage cousin. That evening, Josef K. goes to the opera, but is taken from the theater by a police inspector (Arnoldo Foà) and is brought to a courtroom, where his attempts to confront the peculiar nature of his case are in vain. He later returns to his office and discovers the two police officers who first visited him are being whipped in a small room. Josef K.’s uncle Max recommends that he consult with Hastler (Orson Welles), a law advocate. After brief encounters with the wife of a courtroom guard (Elsa Martinelli) and a room full of condemned men waiting for trial, Josef K. has an interview with Hastler, which proves unsatisfactory. Hastler’s mistress (Romy Schneider) suggests that Josef K. seek out the advice of the artist Titorelli (William Chappell), but this is also not helpful. Seeking refuge in a cathedral, Josef K. learns from a priest (Michael Lonsdale) that he has been condemned to death. Hastler abruptly appears at the cathedral to confirm the priest’s information. On the evening before his thirty-first birthday, Josef K. is apprehended by two executioners and is brought to a quarry, where he is forced to remove some of his clothing. The executioners give the condemned man a knife, but he refuses to commit suicide. The executioners leave Josef K. in a quarry pit and throw dynamite at him. Josef K. laughs at his executioners and throws an object back at them. Then there is an explosion and the smoke from the dynamite billows into the air.[2]

[Coincidence Theorist]

The Trial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_(1962_film)


The Trial (also known as Le Procès) is a 1962 film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Franz Kafka. Welles stated in an interview with the BBC that "The Trial is the best film I have ever made."[1] The film begins with Welles narrating Kafka's parable, "Before the Law", to pinscreen scenes created by Alexandre Alexeieff.

Nice! I'd never seen this before, and I think it's time I did. Thanks for the recommendation, TOTL!

I just found this seeded, but slow, torrent:  http://www.kickasstorrents.com/orson-welles-the-trial-1962-dvdrip-sirius-share-t484452.html

[TOTL]

The Stranger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(1946_film)

The Stranger (1946) is an American film noir/drama film starring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. Welles also directed the film, which was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel was the film's producer, and the film's musical score is by Bronisław Kaper. It is believed that this is the first film released after World War II that showed footage of concentration camps.

The film was made by Independent International Pictures, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The copyright on the film is The Haig Corporation and the film has been in the public domain since the producers failed to renew the copyright in 1973.[1]


Plot

In 1946, Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) of the United Nations War Crimes Commission is hunting for Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), who has effectively concealed all evidence which might positively identify him. He has secretly assumed a new identity, Charles Rankin, and landed a job as a prep school teacher in a small town in the United States. There, he marries Mary Longstreet (Loretta Young), who is the daughter of Supreme Court justice Judge Adam Longstreet.

Wilson releases Kindler's former associate Meinike (Konstantin Shayne), hoping the man will lead him to Kindler. Wilson follows Meinike to the town of Harper, Connecticut, but loses him before he meets with Rankin. When Rankin and Meinike do meet, Rankin realizes that his secret is threatened by Meinike's presence and strangles him.

Eventually, Wilson deduces that Rankin is Kindler, but without having witnessed the meeting with Meinike, he has no proof. Mrs. Rankin is the only person who knows that Meinike had come to meet with her husband. To get her to admit what she knows, Wilson must convince her that her husband is a war criminal — before Rankin decides to do her in to eliminate the last remaining threat to him.

[attietewd]

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[Kilgore Trout]

Got another one - "Erin Brockovich" - yet more propaganda blaming business for contaminating our environment(i.e. air and water), when in fact it's the GOVERNMENT that's been doing so.

Again - conditioning, conditioning, conditioning with more lies, lies, lies...it's no surprise that not only did they award the Best Actress Oscar to the woman who played this role, but the lady Erin Brockovich herself got reborn as an over-night sensation to help promote the NWO agenda during a time period(the year 2000 and beyond) when the NWO has done the most damage - it's no coincidence.

Yeah but isn't it government with their lax regulations that allow business to pollute? So yes the government may allow something though if a "corporate citizen" is not responsable I blame them as well.

[Mr Grinch]

The Stranger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(1946_film)

The Stranger (1946) is an American film noir/drama film starring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. Welles also directed the film, which was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel was the film's producer, and the film's musical score is by Bronisław Kaper. It is believed that this is the first film released after World War II that showed footage of concentration camps.

Its public domain now.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?num=10&so=0&q=public+domain+duration%3Along&start=0#q=public+domain+duration%3Along+the+stranger&so=0&view=3
http://video.google.com/videosearch?num=10&so=0&q=public+domain+duration%3Along&start=0#

[Protean]

AMAZING PUBLIC DOMAIN FILMS WEBSITES!

Legal and free downloads--------

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http://www.publicdomainflicks.com/newest/1/

http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films

If you love classic films, turkeys, and obscure little gems, welcome to paradise.
 

[Zed]

Amerika

Synopsys:
America has been bloodlessly taken over by the Soviet Union, leading to slave-labor camps for some, collaboration for others and rebellion for others.

Amerika criticized American society in the 1980s, implying that apathy and an unwillingness to defend freedom on the part of many citizens made the Soviet takeover rather easy. At one point, a key Soviet official observes that their plans for conquering the United States succeeded far beyond their wildest dreams, because once the nation had been defeated, Americans turned inward, not caring about national issues, seeking only to retain a piece of the prosperity that had once been theirs. “It (the Soviet coup) worked because you lost your country before we ever got here,” says the Soviet leader. “You had political freedom, but you lost your passion … How could we not win?”

At the time it was telecast, Amerika was the most controversial television event ever broadcast by ABC. The network received more mail and phone calls about Amerika before it was on the air than the total pre- and post-broadcast viewer reaction of any other program in the history of ABC, including the end of the world story, The Day After.

Amerika, USA 1987 miniseries, 689 minutes

Here's The Entire Sires.
These are in Divx Format so you will need the Divx Codec & Divx Web Player to Watch/Download them.

To Save the Video, Wait for it to Stream Completely, then right click the video window & select "Save Video As", then save it either as a .divx file or a .avi (.avi plays in more programs).

Part 1: http://stagevu.com/video/srdgffndypas
Part 2: http://stagevu.com/video/omtvjkddftvm
Part 3: http://stagevu.com/video/btopoonjsugi
Part 4: http://stagevu.com/video/jqygerpgvelx
Part 5: http://stagevu.com/video/zoeshsqlbgio

[Captain Koolaid]

Moon

[Brocke]

A truth is stranger than fiction documentary. This has NWO all over it. A Zionist scheme to confuse and humiliate Jewish Holocaust survivors? A CIA psi-op? I have yet to see this one but it is on my list as a piece of history that very few know about or remember.


STALAGS - film by Ari Libsker

Holocaust and Pornography in Israel \ Documentary \ Israel 2007
Stalags(in Deutsch: "POW camp") were pocket books whose stories revealed lusty female SS officers sexually abusing camp prisoners. During the 1960s, parallel to the Eichmann trial, sales of this pornographic literature broke all records in Israel as hundreds of thousands of copies were sold at kiosks.

The popularity of the Stalags only declined after a much-reported trial, in which their authors were accused of distributing anti-Semitic pornography. The film examines this notorious phenomenon, exposing the creators of this literary genre for the first time. Moreover it posits that pornographic aspects appears in canonic Holocaust literature and continue to be spreaded as part of the representation of the Holocaust in Israel, in schools, books and trips to Auschwitz.
 
Director Ari Libsker, born in an orthodox kibbutz in the north of Israel, is a financial journalist and documentary filmmaker. Behind him are the works "Circumcision"(Israel 2004) and "The Home Poem" (Israel 2006).

Director and Co.Pro: Ari Libsker
Producer: Barak Heymann
Editor: Morris Ben-Mayo

http://stalags.com/


Fictitious memory

Not only did these books break taboos relating to pornography in Hebrew fiction - they broke taboos that had existed with regard to the literary treatment of the Holocaust, according to Eshed.

By Nirit Anderman

A few years ago, a book in a Tel Aviv used-book store caught the eye of documentary filmmaker Ari Libsker. The book, written in Hebrew, featured hard-core pornography, but what attracted his attention was its setting and the identity of its characters. The story tells of a Nazi prison camp commanded by women, and includes descriptions of their abuse of prisoners of war - some of them sexual.

That same bookstore visit sparked Libsker's interest in "stalagim," pornographic books published in Israel during the 1960s that describe sadistic relations between beautiful Nazi women, who commanded Third Reich prison camps, and their tortured prisoners. In these books, the prisoners are usually American and British, rather than Jewish. Libsker adds that in the books' narratives, the protagonist is usually a prisoner who describes the humiliation, torture and rape he experiences in the camp.

His interest in this subject led Libsker to Eli Eshed, a researcher of popular Israeli culture and pulp literature, who examined the "stalag" phenomenon. In an article Eshed published in the Ha'ayal Hakoreh online publication in 2001, he cited dozens of titles belonging to this genre, which were released in Israel between 1961 and 1964. The first publication of the series, "Stalag 13," was printed seven times and sold a total of 25,000 copies.

Not only did these books break taboos relating to pornography in Hebrew fiction - they broke taboos that had existed with regard to the literary treatment of the Holocaust, according to Eshed.

"It is no accident that 'stalagim' began to appear in 1961, in the shadow of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem," Eshed writes. "The bitter and widely publicized testimony gave rise to a renewed public discourse on the Holocaust."

It was the exposure to this literary genre that led to Libsker's decision to make a documentary film to examine the phenomenon.

Filming, which began a year ago, mainly focuses on interviews with people who wrote these books under pseudonyms, and their readers. "The film will expose the inventor of this genre, who was interviewed for the first time," Libsker says.

Two weeks ago, Libsker interviewed Uri Avnery, editor of the now defunct Haolam Hazeh weekly news magazine that devoted the back pages of two editions to "stalagim." Avnery also referred to the Eichmann trial as a turning point in Israel's approach to the Holocaust. He believes the "stalagim" developed as a sado-masochistic, public response to the horrors described in the trial.

"The film attempts to identify the backdrop to which this fiction was created, and the reason it became so popular," Libsker says. "It also examines how these books influenced the generation that read them - people now in their 50s and 60s - and how the books shaped their memory." He maintains that for many "stalag" readers, the boundaries between fact and fiction became blurred. "Although these are fictional books, members of that generation absorbed the 'stalagim' as part of the collective memory of the Holocaust," he says.

Libsker says it was hard to find the books' writers and to persuade them to grant interviews for the film. Readers were also reluctant to expose their reading habits on camera.

According to Libsker, many find the subject intimidating and some interviewees demanded that he conceal their identities on film. In some scenes, he asked readers to read passages from the books aloud, as he documented their responses to the text. He says many of them remembered the books as soft pornography and were surprised by the extremely graphic details of sexual abuse (that include the amputation of genitalia, for example).

The years that passed not only softened the memory of the pornographic details in the readers' minds. According to Libsker, many switched the roles and sexes of the characters: Readers, who have matured since reading these books, often remember them as stories about Nazi men raping and torturing Jewish women, rather than the opposite.

The filming of the documentary, temporarily entitled "Stalagim," will be completed in the coming days. Barak Heiman co-produced the movie with Libsker and the film was funded by the "Yes Doco" television channel and the New Fund for Film and Television in Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/fictitious-memory-1.211005


Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial

Pocket books called Stalags were practically the only pornography available in the conservative Israeli society of the early 1960s. Though it was claimed that the Stalags were translated from English, they were actually created and written by Israelis.



By ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: September 6, 2007

JERUSALEM, Sept. 5 — It was one of Israel’s dirty little secrets. In the early 1960s, as Israelis were being exposed for the first time to the shocking testimonies of Holocaust survivors at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a series of pornographic pocket books called Stalags, based on Nazi themes, became best sellers throughout the land.


Hitler made a rare appearance on the cover of a Stalag.

Read under the table by a generation of pubescent Israelis, often the children of survivors, the Stalags were named for the World War II prisoner-of-war camps in which they were set. The books told perverse tales of captured American or British pilots being abused by sadistic female SS officers outfitted with whips and boots. The plot usually ended with the male protagonists taking revenge, by raping and killing their tormentors.

After decades in dusty back rooms and closets, the Stalags, a peculiar Hebrew concoction of Nazism, sex and violence, are re-emerging in the public eye. And with them comes a rekindled debate on the cultural representation here of Nazism and the Holocaust, and whether they have been unduly mixed in with a kind of sexual perversion and voyeurism that has permeated even the school curriculum.

“I realized that the first Holocaust pictures I saw, as one who grew up here, were of naked women,” said Ari Libsker, whose documentary film “Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel” had its premiere at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July and is to be broadcast in October and shown in movie theaters. “We were in elementary school,” he noted. “I remember how embarrassed we were.”

Hanna Yablonka, a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, says the film highlights what she calls the “yellow aspects of nurturing the memory of the Holocaust.”

“Are we taking it into the realm of semipornography?” she asked. “The answer is, we are.”

The Stalags were practically the only pornography available in the Israeli society of the early 1960s, which was almost puritanical. They faded out almost as suddenly as they had appeared. Two years after the first edition was snatched up from kiosks around the central bus station in Tel Aviv, an Israeli court found the publishers guilty of disseminating pornography. The most famous Stalag, “I Was Colonel Schultz’s Private Bitch,” was deemed to have crossed all the lines of acceptability, prompting the police to try to hunt every copy down.

The Stalags went out of print and underground, circulating in specialty secondhand bookstores and among furtive groups of collectors.

Mr. Libsker’s 60-minute documentary puts the Stalags under a spotlight for the first time and exposes some uncomfortable truths. One is that the Stalags were a distinctly Israeli genre, created by Israeli publishers and penned by Israeli authors, although they had masqueraded as translations from English and were written in the first person as if they were genuine memoirs.

Until the Eichmann trial began in 1961, the voices of the Holocaust had hardly been heard in Israel. The survivors sensed the ambivalence of the old-timers who blamed them for not having emigrated in time, and questioned what immoral deeds they might have done in order to stay alive.

In the movie, the publisher of the first Stalag, Ezra Narkis, acknowledges that it was the trial, in all its sensational and often gory detail, that gave momentum to the genre.

More provocatively, the movie contends that Stalag pornography was but a popular extension of the writings of K. Tzetnik, the first author to tell the story of Auschwitz in Hebrew and a hero of the mainstream Holocaust literary canon. K. Tzetnik “opened the door,” and “the Stalag writers learned a lot from him,” Mr. Narkis said.

K. Tzetnik was a pseudonym for Yehiel Feiner De-Nur. The alias, short for the German for concentration camper, was meant to represent all survivors, a kind of Holocaust everyman. One of K. Tzetnik’s biggest literary successes, “Doll’s House,” published in 1953, told the story of a character purporting to be the author’s sister, serving the SS as a sex slave in Block 24, the notorious Pleasure Block in Auschwitz.

Though a Holocaust classic, many scholars now describe it as pornographic and likely made up.

"It was fiction," said Na'ama Shik, a researcher at Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. "There were no Jewish whores in Auschwitz."

Yet “Doll’s House” and other writings of K. Tzetnik, who died in 2001, are treated as historical fact by many in Israel, and are included in the high school curriculum. Mr. Libsker’s movie shows the vice principal of an Israeli school guiding a group of teenagers through Auschwitz, pointing out Block 24 and quoting from K. Tzetnik.

This approach to Holocaust education is being eschewed by an increasing number of Israeli academics. “The Holocaust was bad enough, without making things up,” Dr. Yablonka said.

Sidra Ezrahi, a professor of comparative Jewish literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said, “His books were so graphic and so barbaric.” Maybe at first they had an important impact, she said. “But over time,” she added, “if this is what they have chosen to leave in the Israeli curriculum, it’s a scandal.”

For many Israelis, the most dramatic part of the Eichmann trial was the testimony of K. Tzetnik. His true identity was revealed for the first time on the witness stand, where he passed out. Simultaneously, the Stalags were reaching the peak of their commercial success.

Yechiel Szeintuch, a professor of Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University, rejects any link between the smutty Stalags and the writings of K. Tzetnik as “an original sin.” He insists K. Tzetnik’s work was based on reality.

But Mr. Libsker, 35, himself the grandson of Holocaust survivors, contends that it is the same mixture of “horror, sadism and pornography” that serves to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust in the Israeli consciousness to this day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/world/middleeast/06stalags.html?_r=2

[Coincidence Theorist]

Excellent Documentary!

Erasing David (2009)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1395183/

David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear - a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state by two ruthless private investigators, on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy - and the loss of it.

http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=17394

[Coincidence Theorist]

MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY IN YEARS!

The Secret Of Oz (2009)



Thirteen years ago, in a documentary called "The MoneyMasters", we asked the question why is America going broke. It wasn't clear then that we were, but it is today. Now the question is how can we get out of this mess. Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is skyrocketing - and this is only the beginning. America's economy is on a long, slippery slope from here on. The bubble ride of debt has come to an end.

What can government do? The sad answer is - under the current monetary system - nothing. It's not going to get better until the root of the problem is understood and addressed. There isn't enough stimulus money in the entire world to get us out of this hole.

Why? Debt. The national debt is just like our consumer debt - it's the interest that's killing us.

Though most people don't realize it the government can't just issue it's own money anymore. It used to be that way. The King could just issue stuff called money. Abraham Lincoln did it to win the Civil War.

No, today, in our crazy money system, the government has to borrow our money into existence and then pay interest on it. That's why they call it the National Debt. All our money is created out of debt. Politicians who focus on reducing the National Debt as an answer probably don't know what the National Debt really is. To reduce the National Debt would be to reduce our money - and there's already too little of that.

No, you have to go deeper. You have to get at the root of this problem or we're never going to fix this. The solution isn't new or radical. America used to do it. Politicians used to fight with big bankers over it. It's all in our history - now sadly - in the distant past.

But why can't we just do it again? Why can't we just issue our own money, debt free? That, my friends, is the answer. Talk about reform! That's the only reform that will make a huge difference to everyone's life - even worldwide.

The solution is the secret that's been hidden from us for just over 100 years - ever since the time when author L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."

If you like this film, please support the makers by purchasing an official DVD, by spreading the word about the movie, by making a donation on their web page, or by other means available to you. Thank you!

http://www.secretofoz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=79

Or...

To watch it for free, before purchasing and supporting this very important work by Mr. Still , here's a free torrent download link:
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/The-Secret-of-Oz/4358c6ced08faf65c052bbce4bccd7b14cc347ff6ef4

[TheCaliKid]

^ Very, very good. I watched it a few months ago.

[37]

The Package (1989)

Want to see how they set up someone like Tim McVeigh?

One character is a rather ignorant Army Sargeant who is recruited to infiltrate white supremacists in Chicago.  He is set up as an Oswald like patsy.  This movie was made 6 years before the OKC bombing.

Gene Hackman is the star, but Tommy Lee Jones plays the assassin using the patsy's ID.

Pretty good movie regardless, but rather insightful also.  Available instantly on Netflix.

[America2]

The Package (1989)

Want to see how they set up someone like Tim McVeigh?

One character is a rather ignorant Army Sargeant who is recruited to infiltrate white supremacists in Chicago.  He is set up as an Oswald like patsy.  This movie was made 6 years before the OKC bombing.

Gene Hackman is the star, but Tommy Lee Jones plays the assassin using the patsy's ID.

Pretty good movie regardless, but rather insightful also.  Available instantly on Netflix.

Very, very underrated film - I was in high school when it was released, but I remember having only a minimum 2 week run b/c noone wanted to see it(the reviews were good, but just about every movie critic said "The plot was poor and muddled", which pretty much kept everyone away).

Also - the movie pretty much gave off the message that this whole "Cold War" was NOTHING but a false patriot/communist paradigm. Both sides were actually good buddies, but the ULTIMATE GAME was grabbing nukes and building up a Military Industrial Complex.

[Brocke]

Full Signal

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZSczgtK9o

Genre: Documentary | Run Time: 61 minutes | Premiere: December 2009



Since 1997 and the onset of GSM telephony, more and more cellular antennas have been popping up in neighborhoods all around the world to support an ever-growing number of cell phone users.

In fact they have become so prolific in some parts of the world that they disappear into the landscape with the same subtlety as cars on the street. And those that don't 'disappear' are cleverly disguised as chimneys, flagpoles, or water towers.

Full Signal talks to scientists around the world who are researching the health effects related to cellular technology; to veteran journalists who have called attention to the issue for decades; to activists who are fighting to regulate the placement of antennas; and to lawyers and law makers who represent the people wanting those antennas regulated.

Filmed in Ten countries and Six US states, Full Signal examines the contradiction between health and finance, one of the many ironies of the fight to regulate antenna placement.

http://www.fullsignalmovie.com/

[Mr Grinch]

Amerika

Here's The Entire Sires.
These are in Divx Format so you will need the Divx Codec & Divx Web Player to Watch/Download them.

To Save the Video, Wait for it to Stream Completely, then right click the video window & select "Save Video As", then save it either as a .divx file or a .avi (.avi plays in more programs).

Part 1: http://stagevu.com/video/srdgffndypas
Part 2: http://stagevu.com/video/omtvjkddftvm
Part 3: http://stagevu.com/video/btopoonjsugi
Part 4: http://stagevu.com/video/jqygerpgvelx
Part 5: http://stagevu.com/video/zoeshsqlbgio

Thanks, watched ep 1 and was nearly knocked off my chair at about 40 min mark.

[Dig]

Check out this plot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gathering_of_Eagles

Plot

The Inspector General of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), Major General "Happy Jack" Kirby (played by Kevin McCarthy), lands unannounced in a KC-135 at the fictional Carmody Air Force Base near San Francisco, California (a role actually filled by the real life Beale AFB), home of the 904th Strategic Aerospace Wing. Accompanied by a thirty-man inspection team, he demands that the Air Police take him directly to the wing's command post and once there announces a no-notice Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI). As the inspection continues, General Kirby receives a score report from a member of his team. With this in hand, he calls the commanding general of SAC at his Omaha headquarters and soberly informs him, "It doesn't look too good so far, sir."

The general agrees and, without further ado, summons to his office his new aide, Colonel Jim Caldwell (Rock Hudson) USAF, who at the time is conducting a tour of visiting dignitaries through the central alert room of SAC Headquarters at Offutt AFB. Colonel Caldwell reports to his boss's office, and General Hewitt (Leif Erickson) coolly informs him that the wing commander at Carmody "didn't have what it takes" and must be replaced. Hewitt offers the job to Caldwell, who enthusiastically accepts. To Caldwell, this is a highly enviable career move, one made more auspicious when he discovers that his good friend and Korean War buddy, Colonel Hollis Farr (Rod Taylor), is the vice wing commander. Barely able to conceal his excitement, he telephones his English wife Victoria (Mary Peach) to tell her the news.

Soon after he arrives, noting a number of problems in the wing that indicate a low state of training, he institutes measures that Colonel Farr immediately questions—restoring a seven-day alert cycle that isolates flight crews from their families, freezing all promotion recommendations, and making it clear that no member of the 904th may consider his job secure. This includes the Base Commander, Colonel Bill Fowler (Barry Sullivan), who, as Caldwell soon learns, drinks heavily. Eventually, Caldwell forces Fowler to retire early, and tells him straight-out that his drinking is the cause. He also alienates a maintenance officer by telling him that he must learn to delegate authority and when that officer applies for a transfer, Caldwell refuses to act on it. Farr protests that Caldwell is "going out on a limb," to which Caldwell replies with a biting rhetorical question, "What's wrong with that?"

Caldwell's harsh policies soon alienate even Victoria, who has befriended Fowler's wife. Eventually, morale at the upper echelons goes from bad to worse. First, Bill Fowler shoots himself, under circumstances that could be accidental but probably are not. Then, after Farr gives leave to a squadron commander whose unit is not in good shape, Caldwell asks the air division general to replace Farr as vice wing commander. He says, "I inherited the most popular wing vice commander in SAC but one who will not assume responsibility!" He then sharply contradicts Farr's rosy approval of the wing's performance during a post-mission critique of B-52G and KC-135A aircraft commanders and their crews as a prelude to informing Farr that he is fired. This almost causes the final breach between Caldwell and his wife, especially since gossip has had Farr and Victoria drifting into an affair a rumor to which Caldwell lends no credence, but one that Victoria has heard, leading her to think that she is in some way responsible for Farr's impending dismissal.

Soon after, while Caldwell visits Fowler in a San Francisco hospital to snap him out of his depression, he receives a call from the operations chief saying that "an unidentified KC-135" is "on final approach, no emergency declared." Suspecting another ORI, Caldwell orders the officer to notify the battle staff at once. Caldwell cannot return to base fast enough, however, and Farr must assume command in his absence. In this capacity, Farr makes a key decision: to launch a B-52 which cannot produce full power on one of its engines, a violation of peacetime flight safety regulations, because "We're simulating wartime conditions."

After another B-52 must abort its mission, General Kirby's "score" of that mission will make the difference between passing and failing. Kirby confronts Farr about the decision, and Caldwell immediately defends it, stating he would have made the same call. But Kirby surprises both by saying that he, too, would have done the same, and that he will not score the mission as an abort. Tellingly, he actually smiles at Caldwell as he says this. Caldwell congratulates Farr in a manner strongly suggesting he will retain Farr as his vice commander, saying that Farr has finally learned "how...it feels out on that limb" and "might actually get to like it out there". Victoria, for her part, realizes the value of Caldwell's policies especially when General Kirby wants to see her about the base's Family Support Program.
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Background/Production

General Curtis LeMay USAF (former head of the Strategic Air Command and serving at the time as Air Force Chief of Staff) used his considerable influence to allow Producer Sy Bartlett and Director Delbert Mann unprecedented access to various SAC facilities, in the belief that this film would play a vital role in reminding Americans that the Air Force did indeed have its weapons of mass destruction under tight control in sharp contrast to the impressions that the movies Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe (both based on novels written prior to 1963 whose premise was that accidental nuclear war caused by SAC was not only possible but likely) would give. Mann, who had won an Academy Award for his first film (Marty), was eager to demonstrate that he could direct serious material, and not merely light-hearted comedies which had not been as nearly well-received.

The film was made at Beale Air Force Base, California, using the facilities, aircraft, Titan I missile sites, and personnel of the 456th Strategic Aerospace Wing. [Why was this allowed? A movie showing the commies our package? The entire cold war is a fricking fraud!]

Tom Lehrer wrote one original song for this film, called "The SAC Song." Rod Taylor, as Hollis Farr, performs this song at a party for officers and their wives. Most of Lehrer's work is satirical, and the lyrics and music for this song are quite typical of Lehrer.

As Sy Bartlett and Delbert Mann were filming at SAC Headquarters at Offutt AFB in Omaha, they noticed that SAC personnel were unusually tense. They would later learn, when President John F. Kennedy would make this fact public, that SAC had recently learned of Nikita Khrushchev's plan to introduce nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles into Cuba.[1]

[true_story1011]

You wanna talk about something that mirrored McVeigh --

check out the movie - Arlington Rd.

[Viper]

ABBA -The Movie (1977) Bluray, 1080i visual, 4600k sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqXfvDFDeyw

[true_story1011]

Arlington Rd. (1999)


Michael Faraday is a recently widowed college history professor living alone with his ten-year-old son Grant in the suburbs of Washington, DC. The death of Michael's wife Leah, an FBI agent killed in the line of duty, continues to haunt both father and son. Michael and Grant are soon befriended by the Langs, a vivacious, All-American family new to the neighborhood. The parents, Oliver and Cheryl Lang, go out of their way to draw Michael into their lives. Soon, Grant and young Brody Lang become inseparable friends. The Faradays' long period of mourning seems finally to be over. As the two families become closer, Michael begins to have misgivings about the gregarious Oliver. After catching Oliver in a few insignificant lies, the more Michael learns about Oliver, the more his uneasiness grows. With Grant spending more and more time at the Langs, Michael decides to check into the background of his neighbors. What he discovers deepens the mystery, arousing suspicions that shake Michael to the core of his existence. The Langs are definitely not who they claim to be; but who are they? Why have they come to Washington, DC?