NEW SCHOOL CIVICS

CSC Documentaries

A Few Places to Find Films:

• Films For Action
• Media Education Foundation
• 10 Other Sites

Some Possible Documentaries to Watch:

Environmental Issues

• Do The Math – (Trailer)
• A Place at the Table – (Trailer)
• Gasland – (Trailer)

• Tapped – (Trailer)
• Water – (Trailer)
• The Island President – (Trailer)
• No Impact Man – (Trailer)
• Dirt! The Movie – (Trailer)

• Addicted to Plastic – (Trailer)
• Flow: For the Love of Water – (Trailer)
• Blue Gold – (Trailer)

• The World According to Monsanto – (Trailer)

• The End of the Line: A World Without Fish – (Trailer)
• Who Killed the Electric Car? – (Trailer)
• Ethos – (Trailer)
• Meat the Truth – (Trailer)

• There’s No Tomorrow – (Trailer)
• King Corn – (Trailer)
• Home – (Trailer)

Political System

• The Billionaires Tea Party – (Trailer)
• Koch Brothers Exposed – (Trailer)

Media Issues

• Shut Up and Sing – Dixie Chicks censored for political views (Trailer)

• Outfoxed – (Trailer)

• Consuming Kids – (Trailer)
• Class Dismissed – (Trailer)
• Rich Media, Poor Democracy – (Trailer)

• Tough Guise – (Trailer)
• Killing Us Softly – (Trailer)
• No Logo – (Trailer)

• Manufacturing Consent – (Trailer)
• Miss Representation – (Trailer)

• Killing Us Softly – (Trailer)

Social Issues

• The House I Live In – Critical look at the failed war on drugs and private prisons (Trailer)
• Fahrenheit 911 – (Trailer)
• Nefarious: Merchants of Souls – (Trailer)

• Bro Code – (Trailer)
• Hip Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes – (Trailer)

• Jesus Camp – (Trailer)
• The Central Park 5 – (Trailer)
• Invisible War – (Trailer)

• Not for Sale – (Trailer)

Economic Issues

• The Corporation – The story of how corporations gained personhood rights (Trailer)
• Capitalism a Love Story – Michael Moore film about the failings of the U.S. economic system (Trailer)
• Sicko – Michael Moore film about the US health care system (Trailer)
• Inside Job – takes a hard look at the 2008 financial crisis, featuring challenging interviews with the bankers, politicians, global leaders, academics and journalists who witnessed the crisis — and its origins — up close. Matt Damon narrates the film. (Trailer)

• Too Big to Fail – “provides a dramatized account of the closed-door wheelings and dealings of government officials and banking executives in the fall of 2008 that left Lehman Brothers bankrupt, AIG a ward of the state, and the American taxpayer footing the bill for a $700 billion bailout.” (Trailer)
• Sick Around the World – (Trailer)

• Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices – (Trailer)
• The Economics of Happiness – (Trailer)

• The End of Poverty – (Trailer)

Food, Health & Wellness

• Food Inc. – (Trailer)
• Forks over Knives – (Trailer)
• A Place at the Table – (Trailer)
• Supersize Me – (Trailer)

• Fed Up – (Trailer)
• Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead – (Trailer)

• Food Fight – (Trailer)

• Big Sugar – (Trailer)
• The Future of Food – (Trailer)

 Foreign Policy, War & Peace

• Uncovered: The Truth About the War in Iraq – (Trailer)
• Control Room – (Trailer)
• Why We Fight – (Trailer)
• Iran is not the problem – (Trailer)

Education

• Race to Nowhere – (Trailer)
• Obey – (Trailer)
• The War on Kids – (Trailer)

• Education for a Sustainable Future – (Trailer)
• Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education – (Trailer)

• Democratic Schools: A film about the desire of kids to learn – (Trailer)
• Waiting for Superman – (Trailer)

Historical Documentaries

• Oliver Stone: The Untold Story of the United States – (Trailer)

• Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train – (Trailer)