Bill Moyers is one of our most respected commentators on current affairs. I had the good fortune to be interviewed by him some years ago, and I have never forgotten how warm, thoughtful, and insightful he was.
In this article, he recommends 14 documentaries that he thinks you should see before the election. You probably don’t have time to see them all, but perhaps you can catch a few.
I would like to add another one. Frontline aired an episode of their Choice 2020 series.
Trump vs Biden
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-choice-2020-trump-vs-biden/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Extended_Trailer&utm_content=Video
Thanks for posting this, Diane. Good morning!
And thanks to Cheryl, too.
I just wanted to give a warm hearted thank you for your work and courage
Not to be too much of a curmudgeon, but if you need to watch documentaries at this late date to either make up your mind or have your views reinforced, you’ve likely been in a coma the past four years. Having written that, will peruse.
🙂
I’m guessing that these documentaries are ones we should watch even after the election. All or problems are not going to magically disappear if Biden wins.
I was going to scream if “Totally Under Control” was not on the list. It was released on Hulu, and I think that is why it is not getting the kind of traction that it would be, on my social media at least, if it were a Netflix film.
It is soooo good. There were endless posts on my FB feed about “Tiger King,” “The Social Dilemma,” “What the Health,” etc. when they were released on Netflix. But crickets about this. I posted about the documentary two times, once when I saw the preview at the beginning of the month, and last weekend after watching it. I couldn’t even manage a like or comment on either post Yet, there have so many people on my feed pleading with the public to take the virus seriously.
Ugh.
I watched The Great Heck from the list. It’s not just wealthy people who control and manipulate us, but computer geeks (who then become wealthy). Luckily some grow a conscience.
The story is similar in the ĂźThe Social Dilemma*, but there the political influence is not really examined. But it’s easy to guess what happens with people who are addicted to social media when somebody decides to make them vote to a given candidate.