Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of the American Empire (2004), Active Measures (2018), Zero Days (2016), Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS (2017), Canal Zone (1977), Oil Crash (2006), Meeting Gorbachev (2018), The Coming War on China (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Geopolitics movies.
Storyline: Left-leaning documentary filmmakers Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally present their case that the neo-conservative members of President George W. Bush's administration, including Vice-President Dick Cheney, saw in the 9/11 terrorist attacks an opportunity to force their ideological beliefs on a frightened nation. Interviews with leftist thinkers like Noam Chomsky, Michael Franti and Daniel Ellsberg buttress the central thesis that the Bush administration used the crisis for their own political ends.
Plot Keywords: political documentary, 9/11 attacks, media manipulation, war on terror, national security, social critique, imperialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Russian president Vladimir Putin attacks the 2016 American presidential election in collaboration with the Trump campaign.
Plot Keywords: political documentary, espionage, conspiracy, national security, investigative journalism, political corruption, fbi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary detailing claims of American/Israeli jointly developed malware Stuxnet being deployed not only to destroy Iranian enrichment centrifuges but also threaten attacks against Iranian civilian infrastructure. Adresses obvious potential blowback of this possibly being deployed against the US by Iran in retaliation.
Plot Keywords: documentary, cybersecurity, espionage, international relations, covert operations, investigative journalism, national security ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world.
Plot Keywords: war, syria, documentary, terrorism, conflict, politics, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the one hand, you have the Panamians, but Frederick Wiseman shows them as the Americans see them: from a distance. They are poor and of no particular interest to them even if Panama is THEIR country. But the Canal Zone belongs to the USA and what really matters is THEMSELVES living in closed circuit, worshiping the standards of American culture, God and Coca Cola, money and nationalism...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, politics, 1970s, international relations, cold war, latin america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1956, geologist Marion King Hubbard proposed the peak oil theory: Once easily extractable oil reserves are depleted, demand will exceed supply and the natural-gas-dependent global economy will eventually collapse. This documentary argues that Hubbard was correct, drawing upon the testimony of a wide range of experts, concluding oil supplies will peak by 2020 and that alternative energy solutions will not be found quickly enough to provide a viable alternative.
Plot Keywords: documentary, economy, environment, global warming, sustainability, industry, consumerism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, politics, cold war, biography, soviet union, diplomacy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.—jacquiedwards
Plot Keywords: documentary, war, china, usa, international relations, nuclear weapons, cold war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. When I heard about it, I asked myself: why didn't he stay in exile with a couple of billions? Why did he do that? A personal journey to Khodorkovsky.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, politics, russia, prison, corruption, justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary about how the likelihood of nuclear weapons (or fissile materials) usage has increased due to the rise of terrorism and lack of safeguards and verification.
Plot Keywords: documentary, nuclear weapons, cold war, politics, history, war, terrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: American oil companies Connex and smaller Killen are undergoing a merger, the new company named Connex-Killen. The move is in response to Connex losing a number of oil fields in the Persian Gulf region as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai, his country's foreign minister, and the oldest son of the Emir and thus the heir apparent to the throne, signed a contract with the Chinese instead. As Killen somehow managed to get the contract for the oil fields in Kazahkstan, the merger would give Connex-Killen additional control of the industry in the Middle East. Connex's retained law firm, headed by Dean Whiting, assigns Bennett Holiday to demonstrate to the US Department of Justice that due diligence has been done to allow the merger to proceed i.e. that the merger would not break any antitrust regulations. The US government is unhappy with Prince Nasir's decision to award the contract to the Chinese, and in combination with issues around illegal weapons, the CIA assigns field agent Bob Barnes, who has ...
Plot Keywords: political thriller, espionage, corruption, power struggle, war, terrorism, international relations ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nafas is a reporter who was born in Afghanistan, but fled with her family to Canada when she was a child. However, her sister wasn't so lucky; she lost her legs to a land mine while young, and when Nafas and her family left the country, her sister was accidentally left behind. Nafas receives a letter from her sister announcing that she's decided to commit suicide during the final eclipse before the dawn of the 21st century; desperate to spare her sister's life, Nafas makes haste to Afghanistan, where she joins a caravan of refugees who, for a variety of reasons, are returning to the war-torn nation. As Nafas searches for her sister, she soon gets a clear and disturbing portrait of the toll the Taliban regime has taken upon its people.—Ørnås
Plot Keywords: war, counterterrorism, military operation, politics, international conflict, documentary, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Sir Michael Redgrave. They play out their widely different views on the prospects struggle for the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people in their competition over a young woman. Murphy wants to reform her and make her a typical middle class American housewife; Redgrave accepts her inability to formulate or retain a political ideal and while promising her no real future, he objects to Murphy's attempts to change her. It's not clear whether Murphy is just what he appears - a bungling Yankee do-gooder, or a deliberate agent of U.S. covert operations.—Rita Richardson <RRichar790@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam, espionage, love triangle, political intrigue, colonialism, cold war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: political thriller, cold war, nationalism, political corruption, power struggle, international relations, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The 'Hurt Locker' meets 'An Inconvenient Truth', THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES is the Emmy® nominated investigation on how climate change impacts increased resource scarcity, migration and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability. Through unflinching case-study analysis, distinguished admirals, generals and military veterans take us beyond the headlines of the conflict in Syria, the social unrest of the Arab Spring, the rise of radicalized groups like ISIS, border walls and the European refugee crisis - laying bare how climate change interacts with other socio-political factors to exacerbate societal tensions and spark conflict.—PFP
Plot Keywords: climate change, national security, military, documentary, global warming, resource scarcity, conflict ...
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