Documentaries

A friend of mine who's a experienced teacher reccommended that I invest "a couple hundred dollars in some documentaries." They can be very useful for, at the least, bailing you out in a jam. I'm not overly concerned with that big old nasty list of approved content, and will endeavour to ignore it, so here are some of my favourite documentaries and places you can get them for free. I call it theft, because pirates have boats. Yes, most of them are by John Pilger.

My all time favourite: The War on Democracy.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3780383/John_Pilger_-_The_War_On_Democracy_-_2007
Its about America's war on democracy in latin america in the 70s and 80s. Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua (Iran-Contra as well), Chile, Argentina. Its a good one and the old CIA guy gets right pissed off and tells John to "cut the shit."
This is about sweat shops that make Nike, GAP, etc...
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3848274/DOCUMENTARY__John_Pilger_-_The_New_rulers_of_The_World.avi
Most of you have probably been exposed to this before, but the kids likely have not.
John has two documentaries by the same name, Palestine is still the issue, so I don't know which one this is, either 1980 or 2006. Either way, it is still the issue.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4034713/John_Pilger_-_Documentaries_that_changed_the_world
That link above has quite a few that I haven't seen but I encourage you to check them out with a critical lens.
I have seen "The Silent Death of Cambodia." I didn't know anything about Camboda so it was hard to make context, but its in the link above too.
This collection has Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny, a film about the GI's and Marines who, by the late 60's were very displeased with the Vietnam War. (1970) http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4032747/Documentary__John_Pilger_collection_DVD_2
It also has docs about Timor and Burma. Classics.

Disc Three in this collectio has "The Truth Game" which is about nuclear war and propaganda.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4044942/John_Pilger_-_In_the_name_of_justice_(2007)_%5BDVDRip.Luftwaffe%5D
It also has Apartheid Did Not Die, which is about South Africa and is quite revealing and a far out look at Japan at the end of the bubble. Takes a look at why that old adage of the workaholic Japanese came to be. Apparently it had to do with small government pensions because of the increasing life expectency.

Thats some of them, most likely they can fit into a class or two a semester.