Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)
A hard-hitting documentary that shows how the media monopolies are slicing and dicing the most precious principles of American democracy.
Category: Manipulation
Documentaries pertaining to mass manipulation and media deception.
Generation RX (2008)
For decades, scores of doctors, government officials, journalists, and others have extolled the benefits of psychiatric medicines for children. GENERATION RX presents “the rest of the story” and unveils how this era of unprecedented change in Western culture really occurred – and what price has been paid by our society.
The War On Kids (2009)
Exposing the many ways the public schools system has failed children and America’s future by robbing students of all freedoms, largely due to irrational fears.
Psywar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)
Psywar explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy; and the relationship between war, propaganda, and class.
Selling Sickness: An Ill For Every Pill (2005)
SELLING SICKNESS exposes the unhealthy relationship between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry.
Shyness becomes branded as ‘Social Anxiety Disorder,’ constant worry becomes ‘Generalized Anxiety Disorder,’ and premenstrual tension is now ‘Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.’ The sale of SSRI anti-depressant medications used to treat these and other diseases, such as Paxil, Zoloft and Prozac, has become an annual $20 billion market.
The Century of the Self – 4 Part Series (2002)
The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires
Militainment Inc: Militarism & Pop Culture (2007)
Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating and disturbing glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and “reality television” in its glamorization of war.
Big Bucks Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs (2006)
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain.
Spin: Behind The Scenes of Mainstream Media (1995)
Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public’s perception of reality.
PBS Frontline: The Merchants Of Cool (2001)
How Hollywood filmmakers and Madison Avenue advertisers systematically shape teen culture to ensure an appeal to their products. From going through the closet of popular kids in school, to hiring them after graduation to manipulate other teens.