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Jesus, Syria’s civil war has almost destroyed this country. Staggering destruction. So many killed & even more are refugees either in Syria or in Europe.

So many children are victims. Babies too.

I cried at both these documentaries. I admit it.




Excellent documentary that contains loads of unseen footage from the bombing.

So sad to see the people who survived, but now have missing limbs. They are trying to stay strong, but it’s hard for them to do. All this caused by two brothers - both nutcases.
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Amazing what this young woman has done & how people from all over the world are following her because of climate change.



Always thought Scott Peterson was guilty of his wife & unborn son’s murder, but, after watching this multi-part documentary on hulu/A&E, I am not at all sure.

It’s not denied that he was a liar & an adulterer, but there never has been one shred of physical evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Scott is guilty. Yet he got the death sentence, which was eventually overturned, but still has a life sentence of which he has now served 16 years.






2 hours + from Frederick Wiseman. One really has to like ballet to enjoy this documentary.




Murder Among the Mormons (2021)

This is a fascinating 3 part documentary about the bombings and murders of members of Salt Lake City's Mormon Church in 1985. The documents and circumstances that lead up to the killings shakes the origin of the Mormon religion to its core.

The documentary is aided by vintage footage of the era and its participants, and contemporary interviews of those involved. Very nice production design and photography. 7/10 from me. Available on Netflix and various streaming services.



⬆️ “Featuring Margaret Atwood.” Can’t be bad then.
Just seen it a coupe of days ago..... it is practically about the fact that the term of "privacy" doesn't really exist anymore.... just in theory



So far, I've seen three documentaries during the year, so I'm gonna post the links to my reviews here...

One Child Nation -
(review here)

The Serbian Lawyer -
(review here)

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World -
(review here)
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Some good suggestions here-- some that I've seen regarding the internet, corporate/government collusion, etc. IMO a good documentary can be more enjoyable than a good fiction film. The problem is that the majority of them tend to be about PC, SJ, or woke topics, of which I have zero interest. But I'm always on the lookout for the non political or non SJ ones.





The Social Dilemma (2020)

Good Lord almighty! It would be saddening to contemplate that anyone who has seen this revealing shocking documentary would ever return to frequent use (or any use at all) of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, YouTube, and any other widespread social networking platform.

The average user believes that, while these big tech corporations harvest their user's activity so as to more cunningly target them with advertising, they don't see much harm in that, so they put it out of their minds. Many understand that, "If it's for free, then YOU are the product", and all that.

But in fact these nefarious all-seeing, all-knowing, unregulated tech giants are increasingly figuring out and plying brutally efficient ways to influence the user's opinions, and to control their user's thoughts.

10 or 12 high placed former employees of the social media behemoths, along with experts in AI, virtual reality, communications, algorithms, and psychology effectively lay out how the public is being addicted, lead and brainwashed to do the network's bidding. It's going way beyond selling advertising.

The most affected are Gen Z'ers and beyond, but millennials, Boomers, and even seniors are not immune. The more time one spends each day on their Android or I-phone, the more one is completely surreptitiously being controlled. I personally have never used social media because I always believed it to be idiotic and dangerous. But yet every time I've clicked on a YouTube video, or ordered an item through Amazon, it has contributed to a cyber dossier which plots and digests my movements in order to use them in attempts to manipulate me.

I remarked to my wife that this documentary should be shown in every public school so as to reveal to the younger generations what is being foisted upon them. My wife said, "It wouldn't make any difference. They don't care." That's a sad thought, and it's likely true. I came to the sad realization that when people have become accustomed to the surveillance state, when caution is bred out of them, that is likely the last remaining step toward totalitarianism, socialism.

Encouragingly people from both the left and right are starting to ring the alarm bells. The big tech companies have become de facto governments, with no one but themselves to chart their courses. They will never police themselves. Despite my libertarian leanings it seems to me that the only way to stop this secret population control is through governmental fines and regulation both at the state and federal levels. These cyber behemoths must be limited in their attempts to control and profit from the unaware public. Transparent competition should be allowed and encouraged to flourish. Government has broken up far less harmful entities in the past. It's now past time to thoroughly scrutinize the social media giants.

Doc's rating: 9/10