The Act of Killing (2014)

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Run Time: 122 min.

"In 1965, paramilitary death squads 'exterminated' over a million countrymen. Never prosecuted, these now elderly men live as folk heroes in North Sumatra.

'I felt as though I had walked into Germany 40 years after the Holocaust, only to find the Nazis were in power,' Oppenheimer told Asia Times Online. Screened last April at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, this stunning 'documentary of the imagination' shows Anwar and other thugs staging scenes of torture and murder for the camera. 

Anwar sits his grandsons on his lap to watch him play a communist strangled by wire, the same technique he used hundreds of times. 'It shows exactly what it’s like to be me,' he says. He also plays a man he beheaded."
—Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times 

(Call number: PN1997.2 .A286 2014)

You've Been Trumped (2013)

Director: Anthony Baxter
Run Time: 100 min.

"...what does not seem at all like business as usual is the astonishing lengths Trump's allies go to make sure that his will is obeyed down to the smallest detail. 'You've Been Trumped' is a potent study of the intimidating power of money not in theory but on the ground, an examination of how a wealthy man with a boundless sense of entitlement can strong-arm all opposition without really breaking a sweat."
—Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times

Inequality for All (2014)

Director: Jacob Kornbluth
Run Time: 85 min.

"The advocacy documentary 'Inequality for All,' featuring former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, aims to be economic policy’s 'An Inconvenient Truth,' a left-leaning wakeup call for most Americans (affluent or not, young or old, Republican or Democrat) who have no idea just how hyper-concentrated our nation’s wealth distribution actually is. . . . The difference is that unlike Al Gore, Reich has an engaging sense of humor."
—Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune 

Cleanflix (2012)

Directors: Andrew James, Joshua Ligairi

Run Time: 85 min.

"No doubt many of you recall the hubbub that ensued several years back when a group of Mormon businessmen and video retailers began selling 'sanitized' versions of big Hollywood movies like Titanic. The Directors Guild Of America first protested then sued, arguing that no one’s allowed to bowdlerize their work without permission. . . . The real story isn't just about intellectual property; it's about the daily difficulties that the devoutly religious have in trying to participate in mainstream American culture while retaining as much of the purity of their own beliefs as they can."
—Scott Tobias and Noel Murray, A.V. Club

Call Number: PN1995.63.U8 C54 2012  

The Rape of Europa (2007)

Directors: Richard Berge, Nicole Newnman, and Bonni Cohen
Run Time: 116 min.

"On the surface, this dense, dynamic documentary, based on the book by Lynn H. Nicholas, takes on the high drama and difficult moral quandaries of Adolf Hitler's campaign to plunder the great artworks of Europe and the Allied effort to preserve and return them in the heat of World War II. But the story of Nazi Germany's industrialized pillage goes much deeper and the filmmakers expose a chilling facet of Hitler's final solution: the attempt to systematically eradicate Jewish and Slavic culture from top to bottom, as if to sweep away all vestiges of the races Hitler deemed inferior."
—Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post Intellgencer 

Call Number:  K3791 .R37 2007