Recommended Films and Documentaries for International Studies 201
Note:
This list of possible films was created by Rosie David, a graduate teaching assistant with “Introduction to International Studies.”
Globalization:
- Life and Debt
- Fog of War
- Why We Fight
- The Ugly American
- The New Rulers of the World
- The Corporation
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
- Not My life
- Treble Army
- How to State a Revolution
- Who Killed the Electric Car?
- The Ascent of Money
- Fahrenheit 451
- Brave New World
- Gas Land
- Inside Job
- Zeitgeist Trilogy
- Food Inc
- The Weight of Chains
- Qatsi Trilogy
- The Shock Doctrine
- Le Monde Selon Monsanto (The World According to Monsanto)
- Flow-For Love of Water
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars
- The Story of Stuff
- Samsara
Asian Focus:
- Saigon, USA
- Monkey Dance
- Carved in Silence: Chinese Immigration
- Becoming American
- Little Manila: Filipinos in Calfornia’s Heartland
- Carved in Silence: Chinese Immigration During Exclusion
- Daughter from Danang
- China: Triumph and Turmoil
- First Person Plural
- The Cove
- Approved for Adoption
- From a Different Shore: The Japanese-American Experience
- Crime and Punishment
- Spiral Staircase of Harbin
- Shooting for Democracy
- Give Up Tomorrow
- Seasons of Migration
- The Sprouts of Capitalism in China
- Ordinary Lives
- Pleasing God Series
- 40 Years of Silence
- A Model for Conservation
- Burma Diary
- Manufactured Landscapes
- Don’t Fence Me In: Major Mary and the Karen Refugees from Burma
- Threads of Life: Hemp and Gender in Hmong Village
- Trading Women
- Inside: Undercover in North Korea
- S21; the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
- Born into Brothels
- Children of the Secret State
Latin American Focus:
- Brazil – 1985
- The Revolution Will not be Televised-Chavez: Inside the Coup
- When the Mountains Tremble
- Our Brand Is Crisis
- Onibus 174
- The Island of Flowers
- Che Part I and II
- Plan Colombia
- Nicaragua: A Nation’s Right to Survive
- The War on Democracy
- The Take
- The Panama Deception
- Americas in Transition
- Conquistadors
- Death Squadrons: The French School
- The Gringo in Mañanaland
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- Latin America’s Challenges to U.S. Domination: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
- Ser Madre En América Latina
- Afrogentinos = Afroargentines
- Aleida Guevara Remembers her Father, Che
- Burnt Oranges
- Presumed Guilty
- Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
- Bolivia, La Coca, Alimento de los Pobres
- Can’t do it in Europe
- Coca and the Congressman
- Cocalero
- The Devil’s Miner
- The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story
- Favela Rising
- Granito de Arena
- Quilombo Country
- Waste Land
- The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People
- The Pinochet Case
- Scrapes of Life
- Threads of Hope
- Coca Mama: The War on Drugs
- Castro” Man and Myth
- Fidel
- Cubanos, Life and Death of a Revolution
- ¡Luchando! Cuba’s Struggle to Survive
- Fidel: The Untold Story
- The Invisibles
- 1932, Scars of Memory
- The Houses are Full of Smoke
- Devils Don’t Dream
- Alonso’s Dream
- The Battle of Chile
- The Take
- The Aztecs
- Street Lives
- Sin Nombre
- De Nadie
- Maquilapolis
- Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out
African Focus:
- Stealing Africa
- War and Peace
- Invisible Children
- Searching for Sugar Man
- War Dance
- Blood Coltan
- Africa Addio
- The Act of Killing
- Blood in the Mobile
- The New Rulers of the World
- War by Other Means
- Blood Diamonds
- God Loves Uganda
- Mandela
- Darfur Now
- A Small Act
- Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
- Lost Boys of Sudan
- Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
- Call Me Kuchu
- Darwin’s Nightmare
- Motherland
- A Small Act
- Black Gold
- A Lot Like You
- The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
- Algeria, Unspoken Stories
Middle East Focus:
- 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs
- Alone in Tehran
- Waltz with Bashir
- Promises
- Age of Terror: A Survey or Modern Terrorism
- Algeria: Women at War
- Authority and Change
- Battle for the Holy Land
- Five Broken Cameras
- Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk about their Lives
- Beirut to Bosnia: Muslims and the West
- Beyond the Veil
- Beyond the Mirage: The Face of the Occupation
- Breaking Bread
- Brothers and Others: The Impact of September 11th on Arabs, Muslims and South East Asians in America
- Children of Fire
- Control Room
- Edward Said on Orientalism
- Edward Said: The Last Interview
- Egypt: From Christianity to Nasser
- Gaza Under Siege
- Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends but the Mountains
- Inside God’s Bunker
- Islamic Fundamentalism and Democracy
- Justice and Jihad
- Long Road to War
- Media and Democracy in the Arab World
- Muslims in America: The Misunderstood Millions
- Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
- Not Without My Veil: Women in Oman
- Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said
- A Veiled Revolution
- Women and War
- Slums of India
- Fire in the Blood
- Softwaring Hard
- Powerless/Katiyabaaz
- The Power of Nightmares: Part I: Baby It’s Cold Outside
- The Power of Nightmares: Part II: The Phantom Victory
- The Power of Nightmares: Part III: The Shadows in the Cave
European Focus:
- The Power of Nightmares: Part I: Baby It’s Cold Outside
- The Real Face of the European Union
- The Finland Pheonomenon
- Shoah
- Once Brothers
- War Photographer
- Into Eternity
- Debtocracy
- The Gleaner and I
- The Great Euro Crash
- Debt and Redemption
- Everyday Rebellion
- Catastroika
- Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story
- The Great Euro Crisis
- London-The Modern Babylon.
- La Roca