The Rise of the Anti-Vaxx Movement

2021

English

6.1

♡ 4

Action

Documentary

language and communication

manipulation of the media

media manipulation

medical documentary

political documentary

social movement

Colette Camden Director

Who are the people behind the international anti-Covid-vaccine movement and why are they doing it? This journey inside the astonishing world of the anti-vaxxers finds out.

Quiz Show

1994

English

7.5

♡ 43

97%

87%

Action

based on a true story

manipulation of the media

television

Robert Redford Director

Ralph Fiennes as Charles Van Doren

Ethan Hawke as Don Quixote Student

Grace Phillips as Mrs. Nearing

William Fichtner as Stage Manager

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977

English

6.4

♡ 15

83%

manipulation of the media

satire

television

tv ratings

John Landis Director

Manny Perry as Big Jim Slade

David Wang as Game Show Host

Ellen Regan as Judy Morton

Lance LeGault as Toy Robot

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

1992

English

8.1

♡ 8

78%

94%

Biography

Documentary

manipulation of the media

Mark Achbar Director

Noam Chomsky as Self

Peter Jennings as Self

Tom Wolfe as Self

Jeff Hansen as Self

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

Dumb Money

2023

English

6.8

♡ 58

84%

manipulation of the media

massachusetts

securities, stocks and bonds

social media

stock price

Craig Gillespie Director

Dann Fink as Additional Voices

Deniz Akdeniz as Briggsy

Clancy Brown as Steve Gill

Sebastian Stan as Vlad Tenev

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

The New Watchdogs

2011

French

7.6

♡ 1

Action

critic

Documentary

manipulation of the media

Gilles Balbastre Director

Frédéric Lordon as Self

In 1932, the writer Paul Nizan published "The New Watchdogs" to denounce the philosophers and writers of his time who, sheltering behind intellectual neutrality, imposed themselves as true watchdogs of the established order. Today the watchdogs are journalists, editors, and media experts who've openly become market evangelists and guardians of the social order. In a sardonic manner, "The New Watchdogs" denounces this press that, claiming to be independent, objective and pluralist, makes out it is a democratic force of opposition. With forcefulness and precision, the film puts its finger on the increasing danger of information produced by the major industrial groups of the Paris Stock Exchange and perverted into merchandise.