Is there a documentary that encapsulates your "special interest" plight and fight?

[madmusic]

"Lex" and others suggested I see http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60027982&trkid=189530&strkid=539500584_0_0&hnjr=5">"The Times of Harvey Milk" and after just finishing it, it is easy to understand why. Someone posted that tears were inevitable, and after the shooting I thought not: rage. But during the candle light vigil, well, yeah. Then rage again.

What brought up the subject was the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2841574">Myth of the 'Twinkie defense' thread.

And after watching to documentary, the same thing still pisses me off: the propaganda. If this documentary were released under the title "The Twinkie Defense" it would probably find a whole new life and open a whole new set of eyes. White is the stereotypical freeper, though of course not all freepers equal White. But Hannity, Savage and especially Coulter encouraging the poisoning of SCOTUS sure fit fit the bill.

It's a powerful documentary that opened my eyes to the gay rights struggle. Maybe there is a better one that would accomplish this purpose, I don't know. If so, maybe someone will post the title.

There are a wide variety of "special interests" here. You know, your #1 driving passion. Is there a documentary that best argues, explains or helps the viewer understand what your "special interest" is? I want to try to understand it through your eyes if there is a documentary that could help do that, and it would make it easier to understand your posts. There are likely others who might want to do the same.

Maybe after there is enough for a list of each "special interest" documentaries someone can post them into a poll to find a consensus on which one will be the best for that "special interest."

[man4allcats]

1. For me there is no such documentary as far as I know.

I don't want to go into my personal story here. I will only say that I know, not as a present or former nursing home resident, but rather as a 4 year eyewitness observer, the kind of crap that goes on in U.S. nursing homes. It is one of this nation's most well kept dirty little secrets. The only reason nursing homes get away with all the crap they pull is that the residents are typically too weak and/or incapacitated to fight back and also because regrettably and shamefully, far too many families of nursing home residents don't want to know the ugly truth. "Out of sight, out of mind" as the saying goes. Not that I've ever met him or am ever likely to, but I wish I could somehow interest Michael Moore in the project. I wouldn't know how to begin such a task myself, but with the help of a professional like Moore perhaps something could be done on a large scale to at least begin to improve the lot of so many old folks who have largely been simply forgotten or ignored by the system and often even by their own families.

[madmusic]

3. That sound powerful.

Maybe someone knows of a doc that does the subject justice. A quick Google didn't find anything.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. "Why We Fight", about the mil/indus complex, is excellent

and details the problem we face- an ensconced machine that will create conditions benefitial to its own survival at the cost of human life and lifestyle.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/

[madmusic]

4. Thanks...

This is often mentioned here and is now at the top of the NetFlix queue.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. "Life and Debt"

explains what the IMF and World Bank and other multinational forces did to Jamaica in the name of "free trade."