Are Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price and Sweet Crude both documentary films?
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is a 2005 documentary film by director Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films. The film presents a negative picture of Wal-Mart's business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of Wal-Mart executives. Greenwald also uses statistics interspersed between interview footage, to provide an objective analysis of the effects Wal-Mart has on individuals and communities.
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Sweet Crude Sweet Crude is a documentary film by Sandy Cioffi about Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. The film premiered in April 2009 at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and has since screened at 30 film festivals around the world and has won numerous awards.
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It Came from Kuchar It Came from Kuchar is a 2009 documentary film about twin underground filmmakers George Kuchar and Mike Kuchar directed by Jennifer Kroot (a former student of George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute) and produced by Tigerlily Films LLC. The film includes commentary by John Waters, Christopher Coppola, Wayne Wang, B. Ruby Rich, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Bill Griffith, and Buck Henry.
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1980s oil glut The 1980s oil glut was a serious surplus of crude oil caused by falling demand following the 1970s energy crisis. The world price of oil, which had peaked in 1980 at over US$35 per barrel (equivalent to $ per barrel in 2008 dollars, when adjusted for inflation), fell in 1986 from $27 to below $10 ($ to $ in 2008 dollars). The glut began in the early 1980s as a result of slowed economic activity in industrial countries (due to the crises of the 1970s, especially in 1973 and 1979) and the energy conservation spurred by high fuel prices. The inflation-adjusted real 2004 dollar value of oil fell from an average of $78.2 in 1981 to an average of $26.8 per barrel in 1986.
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Unacceptable Levels Unacceptable Levels is a 2013 documentary film about the widespread use of artificial chemicals and their effects on the natural environment and human health.
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Four Days in November Four Days in November is a 1964 American documentary film directed by Mel Stuart about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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Big Men (film) Big Men is a 2014 documentary film produced and directed by Rachel Boynton. It examines corruption in the oil industries of Africa. The film was released on March 14, 2014, to critical acclaim.
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Sweet'n Low Sweet'n Low (stylized as Sweet'N Low) is a brand of artificial sweetener made primarily from granulated saccharin. It also contains dextrose and cream of tartar, and is distributed primarily in packets. There have been over 500 billion Sweet’N Low packets produced.
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I Love Alaska I Love Alaska is a 2009 documentary chronicling the AOL search history of "user 711391," whose searches are narrated by a monotone female voiceover. The film was produced by Submarine Channel, and released episodically in 2009 before being uploaded to stream for free on Minimovies.org.
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To the Arctic 3D To the Arctic 3D is a 2012 American IMAX 3D documentary film directed by Greg MacGillivray. It was narrated by Meryl Streep. It has a 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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In the Name of the People (1985 film) In the Name of the People is a 1985 American documentary film directed by Frank Christopher about the Salvadoran Civil War. The film follows four filmmakers who secretly entered El Salvador, marched with guerrillas across the country, and followed them into combat against government forces in San Salvador. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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Blood Diamonds Blood Diamonds is a made-for-TV documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The program focuses primarily on two nations: Sierra Leone and Angola. Diamonds which are traded for this purpose are known as blood diamonds. As with many History Channel specials, its original airdate coincides with a mainstream period film, in this case, "Blood Diamond" (2006). Producer of the documentary was Bill Brummel.
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Sweet crude oil Sweet crude oil is a type of petroleum. The New York Mercantile Exchange designates petroleum with less than 0.42% sulfur as "sweet". Petroleum containing higher levels of sulfur is called sour crude oil.
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High Schools (film) High Schools is a 1984 American documentary film produced and directed by Charles Guggenheim. It is based on Ernest L. Boyer's book, "High School", and was filmed on location in seven American high schools. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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American Beer (film) American Beer is a 2004 feature-length documentary directed by Paul Kermizian that chronicles and documents the American craft brewing industry. The film was shot in the spring of 2002. Kermizian and a group of four left New York City and traveled by minivan across the United States visiting 38 craft and independent breweries in 40 days.
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American Shoeshine American Shoeshine is a 1975 American short documentary film directed by Sparky Greene. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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Sweet Dreams (2012 film) Sweet Dreams is a 2012 documentary film about the Rwandan women's drumming troupe "Ingoma Nshya", which was founded in 2005 by playwright Odile "Kiki" Katese with women from both sides of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The drumming troupe's success then led to the opening of an ice cream store in 2010, which also brings together people from both sides of the genocide. The documentary was co-directed by siblings Lisa Fruchtman and Rob Fruchtman; Lisa Fruchtman had learned of the troupe and the plans for the shop from Katese in 2009.
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Jet Carrier Jet Carrier is a 1954 American short documentary film produced by Otto Lang. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Documentary Short and the other for Best Two-Reel Short.
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Watermark (film) Watermark is a 2013 Canadian documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky. It concerns the history and use of water. Burtynsky was previously the subject of Baichwal's 2006 documentary, "Manufactured Landscapes". The film features water use practices around the world, including multiple scenes in China and the United States, as well as segments shot in eight other countries. In China, the film chronicles the building of the Xiluodu Dam and flooding of its reservoir.
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The Free Market Cure The Free Market Cure is a series of four short documentary films, each of which tells a separate story about the failure of socialized medicine in each of the subjects' lives. The films focus on the "single-payer" system as seen in Canada, the likes of which has been advocated by other filmmakers, like Michael Moore in his film Sicko.
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The Ivory Game The Ivory Game is a 2016 American documentary film, directed by Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani. The film examines the ivory trade, which has become a global concern, pitting governments and environmental preservationalists against poachers and Chinese ivory merchants.
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Charles Wilkinson (director) Charles Wilkinson is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and film and television director. He is best known for his "environmental quadrilogy" of documentaries: "Peace Out", "Oil Sands Karaoke" and "" and "Vancouver: No Fixed Address". All four films premiered at Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, and have gone on to win awards at Hot Docs, the Vancouver International Film Festival and Yorkton Film Festival. Before moving into documentaries, Wilkinson worked for many years in dramatic television series and on feature films. His directing credits include such TV series as "", "The Immortal", "So Weird", "Dead Man's Gun", "Road to Avonlea", and "The Beachcombers", the feature films "Max", "Blood Clan", and "Breach of Trust" and the TV movie "Heart of the Storm". As a pre-teen, he was one of the original performers in the Calgary Safety Roundup, paired with his brother Billy as kid cowboy singers. "We sang both kinds - country and western."