PRESENTATION:
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Check (in order): C14 stash of DVDs * = I have it for loan, Netflix Instant, Volusia library via http://catalog.volusialibrary.org/vcplvw/Vubis.csp, Hoopla, Hulu, Youtube, http://www.canistream.it/, HBONow/HBOGo, AmazonInstantVideo
NEW ADDS since 2020:
Turn Every Page
Science Fair (Disney+/NatGeo)
After Truth (HBO)
One Child Nation
Mike Wallace is Here
The Panama Papers
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
The Eagle Huntress (perhaps use in rites of passage)
Bobby Fischer Against the World
Unlocking the Cage
Music of strangers: yo yo ma (HBO)
Denial (actual move; 2016)
PBS Dead Reckoning (3 hrs) – place with Triage/genocide videos
The Mask You Live in (first 20 min or more; ,\maybe min 51-?; ending; show mid April)
Deep Web (put with other internet/wikileaks movies) / The New Radical
Spotlight (fiction)
Making Rounds (put with New Medicine)
Sugar Coated (put with Fed UP)
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy – around min 10-18 about knowledge/questioning & progress (use with EO Wilson TED video)
Four Horseman (put as suggestion with other money/econ films)
Marcus Du Satoy: The Code, The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms – SHOW IN ONE DAY IN EARLY APRIL, The Story of Maths (put with the Story of 1)
(Dis)honesty: The Truth About Lies
Experimenter (The Stanley Milgram Story)
Requiem for the American Dream (Noam Chomsky)
Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore, 2016)
Biased but include with PBS NOVA on Drones = Drone (2015)
Unknown White Male (amnesia) OR My Beautiful Broken Brain (stroke)
Terra (put with Our Daily Bread, food, eco)
Aluna (indigenous)
Poverty Inc (not great but …)
Embrace of the Serpent
Code (on gender/power issues in the coding / computer science community)
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
The Physics of Light (super boring, but informative on early 20th century physics)
Zero days
Noma: My Perfect Storm
Ants on a Shrimp (on Noma) – put with Chef’s Table
At the fork (put with other food systems videos)
Precision: The Measure of All Things (BBC, 3 hrs)
Can We Take a Joke? (free speech / obscenity)
Automatic Brain: The Magic of the Unconscious Mind
First Footprints: The Original Pioneers of All Humankind – not amazing but covers Aborigines in Australia
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Fish on My Plate (PBS Frontline) – put with End of the Line
I am Not Your Negro
The Millenial Dream (suggest to Griffith or use first 5 min)
Could mention with GMO OMG the film Of the Land (also anti GMO)
Just Eat It (on food waste) – put with Dive!
The Memory of Justice movie
National Bird (on drones)
The Business of Amateurs – put as suggestion with Schooled
American Anarchist - the moral consequences of publishing the Anarchist Cookbook
Dark Light: the Art of Blind Photographers
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
Only suggest = What’s With Wheat?
Under the Sun (portrait of the mindset/life of North Korea)
Nobody Speak: Trails of the Free Press
13th (put with The House I Live in)
Sustainable (put with King Corn)
Saving Banksy (put with Exit Through the Gift Shop … could show the first 20 minutes in class)
Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (12 hrs; biased)
Abstract: The Art of Design (Netflix) – especially Ep. 2, 4, 5, 7
Into the Inferno (Werner Herzog)
When Two Worlds Collide (Peru, oil & indigenous people)
Tales by Light (for future photographers)
Extremis 24min (on Netflix)
AlphaGo – show it all in class (90 min)
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (Netflix) – show 15ish starting minutes through Jeff Koons
Shadow World (arms dealing)
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
PBS NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse
Empire of Scents (Netflix)
NETFLIX: Dirty Money
NETFLIX: Derren Brown: The Push (ethics)
Take your pills (only a suggestion)
Light at the Edge of the World (Wade Davis/Indigenous)
Jane (Nat Geo on Jane Goodall – only OK as portrait of a pioneer in a field)
INNSAEI - THE POWER OF INTUITION
Mercury 13 (Nertflix)
The Rachel Divide (Dolezal/Netflix)
Black Code (Big Brother & Big Data) – only suggest
Magnus (Netflix)
The Fourth Estate (Showtime)
Suggest The Work (if you show parts of the Mask You Live In)
Generation wealth
Panic (2008 market)
Three identical strangers
Sacred (2018 or 2016)
The Doctor from India
Enhanced series on ESPN+ (algorithm wars; ep2; min14-27?)
Far From The Tree
Bisbee ‘17
Jane (on Hulu) OR Jane Goodall: The Hope
TOK relevant Movies:
NON-FICTION OR DOCUMENTARIES:
PBS NOVA: http://www.pbs.org/show/nova/episodes/ (click on any of recent broadcasts to watch)
PBS Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/watch /
THE SCIENCES & Math
* Freakonomics
Merchants of Doubt (2014) – about anti-science pundits for hire
Trinity and Beyond (straightforward history of nuclear testing)
PBS: 400 Years of the Telescope
Particle Fever (about CERN)
Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers (PBS)
Independent Lens: Between the Folds (on origami – art/math/geometry/engineering)
A Brief History of Time (about Stephen Hawking and black holes/physics/etc)
The End of Time – oddly paced TOK style consideration of the idea/meaning of “time”
The New Medicine (2nd half quite good if you want to be a general physician or read How Doctors Think book)
Transcendent Man – technology futurist Ray Kurzweil (nanotech, AI/biotech possibilities)
The Immortalists (for those interested in studying/solving the science of aging)
Slingshot (Dean Kamen, entrepreneur, inventions)
Something Ventured – a history of venture capitalism (good for future entrepreneurs) oR The Startup Kids 2013
Me & Isaac Newton – a film on the processes of 6-10 different natural scientists (useful for TOK essay if not lively)
Print the Legend (on 3D printing)
Code Black (for anyone interested in a job in the ER)
National Geographic: Journey to the Edge of the Universe (an updated 90 minute narrated version of Powers of 10 video; nice for future astronomers and physicists)
* National Geographic: Guns, Germs and Steel OR National Geographic: Taboo series
PBS: The Story of 1 (math)
PBS: The Mystery of Matter (2015) – 3hrs
NOVA: Origins (2 DVDs)
* NOVA: The Elegant Universe (3hrs on string theory) OR the newer Fabric of the Cosmos
* NOVA: Fractals - Hunting the Hidden Dimension
* NOVA: The Perfect Corpse or The Ghost of Murdered Kings (newer) -
* NOVA: World in Balance: The People Paradox (a bit old, but Human Geography types should like this)
PBS Nature: A Murder of Crows (on their intelligence; 1hr) OR PBS Nature: Dogs that Changed the World: The Rise of the Dog
Nat Geo: Moment of Death (45 min) - the language question of the natural science event; obviously involves ethics; good for future med students too (should read the book Stiff)
Nat Geo: The Science of Dogs(45 min) – mostly in interested in the effects of selective breeding on the speed of evolution
THE BRAIN
* PBS: The Brain with David Eagleman (2015)
The Brain Fitness Program (PBS) OR * Brain Fitness 2: Sight and Sound OR Brain Fitness: Peak Performance
In Search of Memory – mostly a bio piece on neuroscientist Eric Kandel; nice with nature of being a scientist; good for those who like/want to be Ramachandran
* NOVA: Secrets of the Mind (Ramachandran is the main focus of this)
Secret Life of the Brain (PBS in 2002; Science Channel in 2010)
PBS: The Human Spark OR PBS: This Emotional Life
Nat Geo: The Science of Sex Appeal (1 hr 27)
THE ARTS
Who Gets to Call It Art – (or maybe The Art of the Steal)
Exit through the Gift Shop
* My Kid Could Paint That (about 4 yr old Marla artist)
Who the &*%@ is Jackson Pollack?
* The Architecture of Doom (on Nazi aesthetics)
* The Rape of Europa (on art stolen by Nazis) (OR Hitler’s Museum)
* Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (good documentary on subversive artist in China) OR Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (2013)
* Touch the Sound (how the deaf perceive music)
The Heart is a Drum Machine (music/sound as viewed through WOKs; kinda new age trippy)
Alive Inside: A Story of music & memory (not amazing, but good if you like The Music Instinct)
RiP: A Remix Manifesto (on DRM and copyright issues)
Downloaded (a history of Napster)
PressPausePlay (on creativity in digital age)
Side by Side (about the rise of digital filmmaking)
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary – maybe good for art, history AOKs and for future filmmakers
* Sound and Fury (ethics of giving hearing to deaf children)
The Artsiders (50 min of a variety of artists talking about how and why they do what they do)
The Pixar Story – good for graphic designers but address the need for all AOKs at Pixar
* Wordplay (crossword puzzles/relationships to language)
* Helvetica (a movie about a font; or aesthetics/design and the presentation of language)
* Objectified (design issues)
* Urbanized
* Art & Copy (a pro-view of advertisers as creative shapers of reality)
If You Build It (creative design programs in schools)
Amandla (use of music to overcome apartheid in South Africa)
Favela Rising (good to see with City of God to get a sense of Rio, but is on the power of art to overcome social inequality)
Rize
Simon Schama: The Power of Art (for those who plan to take an art history class in college)
Sister Wendy series (The Story of Painting, etc) (OR Art: 21)
* How Art Made the World
PBS: Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World (2012)
The Genius of Design (5hr)
National Gallery – for those who wish to run an art museum
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? (for future photojournalists)
Chef’s Table (season 1, Netflix) – for Max G (class of 2016)
Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV show
THE ARTIST CREATING OR REINVENTING THEMSELVES:
* It Might Get Loud (Jack White, the Edge, Jimmy Page)
From the Sky Down (about 1991 Achtung Baby record making)
Pearl Jam Twenty
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (Bruce Springsteen pre-1980)
THE ENVIRONMENT/SUSTAINABILITY
BBC's Planet Earth 5 DVD series (Disc 5 perhaps will be in class)
Earth: A New Wild (3 hr PBS series - 2015)
Virunga (2014) (attempts to protect endangered gorillas, etc)
* Surviving Progress – has an agenda, but is a beautifully done view of the intersection of man, ecology and econ
* Ganges (from BBC)
Wild China
* CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (deals with history, art, archeology, nature of man: quite useful)
* Encounters at the End of the World (the knowledge community in Antartica)
* Galapagos (2006)
Life in Cold Blood (reptiles)
The 11th Hour
Bag It (about the scourge of plastics/plastic bags)
Milking the Rhino (on benefits and costs of ecotourism and conservatories in Africa)
* Nobelity - interviews with Nobel prize winners mostly on the future and sustainability/good ideas
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Ben Stein on intelligent design)
PBS NOVA: The Botany of Desire (examining the world from 4 plants' perspective)
* The End of the Line (on global fish population decline) (OR The Cove ) (or Sushi: The Global Catch)
E2:Design (season 1-3)
GLOBALIZATION/ THE DEVELOPING WORLD/DIVERGENT APPROACHES TO KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
DamNation (Hulu)
* Last Train Home (on past/future tensions in China)
Manufactured Landscapes (China & 21st century manufacturing through an artistic perspective) OR Watermark
* 10 questions for the Dalai Lama
* Babies (a non-judgmental look at 3+ babies from very divergent cultures) OR On the Way to School
Blood Brother (AIDS hostels in India)
Life + Debt (IMF and Jamaica) (or The End of Poverty?)
Fire in the Blood – (patent law and Big Pharma in relation to AIDS medications in Africa)
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth – exploration of urban public housing
H2 Worker (on immigrant sugar farmers in FL in 1990)
Darwin's Nightmare (Tanzania; globalization/exploitation) OR Workingman’s Death
The Devil Came on Horseback (about Darfur)
Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma (or Shake Hands with the Devil from 2005 or PBS Ghosts of Rwanda)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Liberia and female social protest)
Mugabe and the White African (Zimbabwe)
The Agronomist (radio protest in Haiti)
Bananas* - maybe good for those interesting in doing class action lawsuits
INDIGENOUS = Baraka OR Samsara
My Perestroika - An intimate look at five longtime friends who grew up shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this documentary sheds light on how Russians have adapted to post-Soviet society and their nation's continually shifting political landscape.
The Singing Revolution – about Estonia’s revolt from Soviet Union via “the arts”
The Take (Argentina; productive resistance to corporations)
Nostalgia for the Light– a unique TOK film mostly about the study of bodies: celestial/astrological and human (those “disappeared” in Chile by Pinochet)
Burma VJ (if interested in current social protest in Burma)
Darshan (an Indian woman who heals people through hugs)
PBS: Worse than War (a pretty heavy treatment of nature of human evil in genocides)
The Act of Killing (place with Triage/Burma VJ) Scared Sacred (how cultures overcome genocide, tragedy)
The Dark Matter of Love (international adoption and indirectly nice stuff on the evolution of developmental psychology)
Oh My God (on spirituality/faith and truth) (or try the slightly worse The Nature of Existence )
The Listening Project (is left wing biased; but a pretty straightforward interviewing of folks around the world and what they think of America)
HISTORY/ INFORMATION ACCESS AND CONTROL/MEDIA STUDIES
* How We Got to Now (4-5hrs)
* Why We Fight
* The Unknown Known (on Donald Rumsfeld)
* Remote Control War (on military drones mostly)
* The Gatekeepers (on Israel secret police and their ethics/decision-making)
The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs (on Showtime)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (linguistics, philosophy, very TOK – Chomsky)
Manufacturing Consent [on Noam Chomsky and media]
Hacking Democracy (on Diebold voting systems; 30 mins spent on Volusia county problems)
Night Will Fall (and perhaps Genocide (1981))
NATIONAL AND PERSONAL DEBT
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (may be shown in Costner’s class)
* Inside Job – 2008/9 econ/financial crisis (or watch the semi-fictionalized movie Too Big to Fail OR The Flaw)
* I.O.U.S.A. - L, IQ, OR The Ascent of Money: Boom and Bust (PBS) = http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/featured/the-ascent-of-money-episode-1-from-bullion-to-bubbles/44/
PBS Frontline: Money, Power & Wall Street (2012; 4 hrs) OR PBS Frontline: Inside the Meltdown
Maxed Out OR In Debt We Trust
PRIVATIZATION/CORPORATE CONTROL/FOOD SUPPLY/TROUBLING EMERGING PARADIGMS
* Page One: Inside the New York Times (paradigm shifts in medium by which we access content)
* The Corporation
Crude Awakening (the future of oil) (OR Blind Spot (oil) OR Crude Impact OR Sprawling from Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization or Fuel [a pro-diesel film or GasLand [an anti-natural gas film] or Crude [a film on Chevron/Texaco in Ecuador/Amazon] OR The Last Mountain … an anti-coal film or Peace Out OR Pump (2014; pro ethanol/methanol film)
Blue Gold: World Water Wars OR Flow: For Love of Water(ethics of corporate privatization of things of nature) OR Tapped [on USA’s plastic bottle water companies] or Thirst (2004) or Last Call at the Oasis
* The Unforseen (progress/land development issues in Austin, TX)
Pandora’s Promise (on nuclear power) OR Power Trip (trying to bring electricity to Georgia (near Russia))
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Revenge of the Electric Car (2012)
Escape Fire (about health care) (or American Addict – about explosion in prescription drugs)
* Food Inc. OR Dive! (dumpsterdiving and supermarket waste)
* The Future of Food (or the more biased The World According to Monsanto)
* King Corn (also Big River – 26 min companion piece to King Corn (deals with pesticides in water supply))
Ingredients – slow food/organics OR Forks over Knives (a pro-plant based diet film; link with obesity films) OR GMO OMG OR Genetic Roulette OR Food Chains (mostly on farm labor issues)
Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds (a bit liberal fringe/wacky but a vital issue)
Cowspiracy (a pro-vegan, eco argument)
Killer at Large: Why Obesity is America's Greatest Threat
* Our Daily Bread
* We Feed the World OR Fresh (OR Food Fight)
Independent Lens: Dirt! The Movie
Beer Wars OR The Union : The Business Behind Getting High OR The Culture High
Hot Coffee (the problem of forced arbitration and the rights of individuals to sue corporations)
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (on product placement in films)
Erasing David (in the age of technology is it possible to disappear?)
Life in a Day (international commonalities in an open source world/Youtube)
* Schooled: The Price of College Sports
At Berkeley (or Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk (could watch Frontline: College Inc too)
* Waiting for Superman [deals with education reform/teacher unions OR The Lottery OR American Teacher
Race to Nowhere (overtesting/stress in HS)
Truth in Numbers: Everything, According to Wikipedia – not great but a solid portrait of the methodologies of a Wiki- knowledge community
The True Cost (the trouble of fast fashion)
MISCELLANEOUS
* The Thin Blue Line (really good if you want to explore how eyewitness testimony is flawed) OR Paradise 3
Finding Vivian Maier (portrait of a complex artist) – maybe do with Stories We Tell
The Internet’s Own Boy
InRealLife (on Hoopla)
* Second Skin (on online gaming) (Or watch: Life 2.0)
Web Junkie (not the best; but if you were considering “internet addiction” as your TOK Oral)
Gideon’s Army (good for future law school grads or public defenders)
Kids for Cash – interesting case study in bias/corruption in the juvenile justice system
* Everest (IMAX) [deals with the 1998 event on the mountain that also became the Into Thin Air book]-
OR Beyond the Edge OR The Summit
* Joseph Campbell: Power of Myth (or less so Sukhavati)
Examined Life (philosophy and ethics) OR I am
Act of God - survivors of lightning strikes try to make sense of it (2009)
This Film is Not Yet Rated (obviously the film isn't rated so make sure you get parent approval before watching)
Human Body: Pushing the Limits (4 episodes)
Nat Geo: Incredible Human Machine (120 min) –sense perception or the 5 human senses of the physical body
Bigger, Stronger, Faster (about steroids)
Jiro: Dreams of Sushi – the knowledge, care, time needed to develop excellence at a craft/profession (of sushi)
* Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Protagonist (a somewhat subtle film on why certainty is unwise)
Ayn Rand: In Her Own Words
Every Three Seconds – honestly for those optimistic enough to believe they can change the world
* Art of Flight (innovation on X-games type sports)
The Crash Reel (competitive snowboarding, brain trauma, etc)
Elephant in the Living Room (exotic predatory pet ownership and its problems)
ACTUAL MOVIES
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) (also try Nat Geo: Science of Evil (45 min) - use for Zimbardo/stanford)
Her (2013)
* Being There
Legend of 1900 (so many Gatsby links) OR * The Truman Show OR Pleasantville
* Vitus (or Searching for Bobby Fischer) [both on child geniuses] OR Good Will Hunting
* Into the Wild OR * Kon-Tiki
* The Lives of Others [ethics (of good people in corrupt systems)
Fearless (1992ish)- IQ
* The Mission
Memento
Perfume
A Beautiful Mind
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Inception
The Matrix trilogy
* Gattaca
2001: A Space Odyssey (look at knowledge issues of HAL9000)
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Love the Atomic Bomb
Fight Club
Finding Neverland (on the methodologies of a creative artist)
The Year of Living Dangerously
12 Angry Men (old version)
Inherit the Wind
Temple Grandin – real life story of autistic “genius” involved with cattle The Reader
The Sunset Limited
The Imitation Game
OTHERS: Words and Pictures, The History Boys, Doubt, Thank You For Smoking, V for Vendetta, Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption – IQ, Fugitive Pieces, Waking Life *, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, The Last Supper , Bloody
Sunday, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Paradise Now, The Human Stain, Children of Men *, Frequencies
DVD documentary SUGGESTIONS ONLY: Tiny: The Art of Living Small; Bidder 70; Out of Print; Farmageddon (mostly a biased pro-raw milk movie/focus); Scatter my Ashes at Bergdorf (only for fashion designers); Inequality for all
FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST OTHER FILMS TO ME!
Search film titles for more info before choosing:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
http://www.imdb.com/
Check (in order): C14 stash of DVDs * = I have it for loan, Netflix Instant, Volusia library via http://catalog.volusialibrary.org/vcplvw/Vubis.csp, Hoopla, Hulu, Youtube, http://www.canistream.it/, HBONow/HBOGo, AmazonInstantVideo
NEW ADDS since 2020:
Turn Every Page
Science Fair (Disney+/NatGeo)
After Truth (HBO)
One Child Nation
Mike Wallace is Here
The Panama Papers
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
The Eagle Huntress (perhaps use in rites of passage)
Bobby Fischer Against the World
Unlocking the Cage
Music of strangers: yo yo ma (HBO)
Denial (actual move; 2016)
PBS Dead Reckoning (3 hrs) – place with Triage/genocide videos
The Mask You Live in (first 20 min or more; ,\maybe min 51-?; ending; show mid April)
Deep Web (put with other internet/wikileaks movies) / The New Radical
Spotlight (fiction)
Making Rounds (put with New Medicine)
Sugar Coated (put with Fed UP)
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy – around min 10-18 about knowledge/questioning & progress (use with EO Wilson TED video)
Four Horseman (put as suggestion with other money/econ films)
Marcus Du Satoy: The Code, The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms – SHOW IN ONE DAY IN EARLY APRIL, The Story of Maths (put with the Story of 1)
(Dis)honesty: The Truth About Lies
Experimenter (The Stanley Milgram Story)
Requiem for the American Dream (Noam Chomsky)
Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore, 2016)
Biased but include with PBS NOVA on Drones = Drone (2015)
Unknown White Male (amnesia) OR My Beautiful Broken Brain (stroke)
Terra (put with Our Daily Bread, food, eco)
Aluna (indigenous)
Poverty Inc (not great but …)
Embrace of the Serpent
Code (on gender/power issues in the coding / computer science community)
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
The Physics of Light (super boring, but informative on early 20th century physics)
Zero days
Noma: My Perfect Storm
Ants on a Shrimp (on Noma) – put with Chef’s Table
At the fork (put with other food systems videos)
Precision: The Measure of All Things (BBC, 3 hrs)
Can We Take a Joke? (free speech / obscenity)
Automatic Brain: The Magic of the Unconscious Mind
First Footprints: The Original Pioneers of All Humankind – not amazing but covers Aborigines in Australia
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Fish on My Plate (PBS Frontline) – put with End of the Line
I am Not Your Negro
The Millenial Dream (suggest to Griffith or use first 5 min)
Could mention with GMO OMG the film Of the Land (also anti GMO)
Just Eat It (on food waste) – put with Dive!
The Memory of Justice movie
National Bird (on drones)
The Business of Amateurs – put as suggestion with Schooled
American Anarchist - the moral consequences of publishing the Anarchist Cookbook
Dark Light: the Art of Blind Photographers
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
Only suggest = What’s With Wheat?
Under the Sun (portrait of the mindset/life of North Korea)
Nobody Speak: Trails of the Free Press
13th (put with The House I Live in)
Sustainable (put with King Corn)
Saving Banksy (put with Exit Through the Gift Shop … could show the first 20 minutes in class)
Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (12 hrs; biased)
Abstract: The Art of Design (Netflix) – especially Ep. 2, 4, 5, 7
Into the Inferno (Werner Herzog)
When Two Worlds Collide (Peru, oil & indigenous people)
Tales by Light (for future photographers)
Extremis 24min (on Netflix)
AlphaGo – show it all in class (90 min)
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (Netflix) – show 15ish starting minutes through Jeff Koons
Shadow World (arms dealing)
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
PBS NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse
Empire of Scents (Netflix)
NETFLIX: Dirty Money
NETFLIX: Derren Brown: The Push (ethics)
Take your pills (only a suggestion)
Light at the Edge of the World (Wade Davis/Indigenous)
Jane (Nat Geo on Jane Goodall – only OK as portrait of a pioneer in a field)
INNSAEI - THE POWER OF INTUITION
Mercury 13 (Nertflix)
The Rachel Divide (Dolezal/Netflix)
Black Code (Big Brother & Big Data) – only suggest
Magnus (Netflix)
The Fourth Estate (Showtime)
Suggest The Work (if you show parts of the Mask You Live In)
Generation wealth
Panic (2008 market)
Three identical strangers
Sacred (2018 or 2016)
The Doctor from India
Enhanced series on ESPN+ (algorithm wars; ep2; min14-27?)
Far From The Tree
Bisbee ‘17
Jane (on Hulu) OR Jane Goodall: The Hope
TOK relevant Movies:
NON-FICTION OR DOCUMENTARIES:
PBS NOVA: http://www.pbs.org/show/nova/episodes/ (click on any of recent broadcasts to watch)
PBS Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/watch /
THE SCIENCES & Math
* Freakonomics
Merchants of Doubt (2014) – about anti-science pundits for hire
Trinity and Beyond (straightforward history of nuclear testing)
PBS: 400 Years of the Telescope
Particle Fever (about CERN)
Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers (PBS)
Independent Lens: Between the Folds (on origami – art/math/geometry/engineering)
A Brief History of Time (about Stephen Hawking and black holes/physics/etc)
The End of Time – oddly paced TOK style consideration of the idea/meaning of “time”
The New Medicine (2nd half quite good if you want to be a general physician or read How Doctors Think book)
Transcendent Man – technology futurist Ray Kurzweil (nanotech, AI/biotech possibilities)
The Immortalists (for those interested in studying/solving the science of aging)
Slingshot (Dean Kamen, entrepreneur, inventions)
Something Ventured – a history of venture capitalism (good for future entrepreneurs) oR The Startup Kids 2013
Me & Isaac Newton – a film on the processes of 6-10 different natural scientists (useful for TOK essay if not lively)
Print the Legend (on 3D printing)
Code Black (for anyone interested in a job in the ER)
National Geographic: Journey to the Edge of the Universe (an updated 90 minute narrated version of Powers of 10 video; nice for future astronomers and physicists)
* National Geographic: Guns, Germs and Steel OR National Geographic: Taboo series
PBS: The Story of 1 (math)
PBS: The Mystery of Matter (2015) – 3hrs
NOVA: Origins (2 DVDs)
* NOVA: The Elegant Universe (3hrs on string theory) OR the newer Fabric of the Cosmos
* NOVA: Fractals - Hunting the Hidden Dimension
* NOVA: The Perfect Corpse or The Ghost of Murdered Kings (newer) -
* NOVA: World in Balance: The People Paradox (a bit old, but Human Geography types should like this)
PBS Nature: A Murder of Crows (on their intelligence; 1hr) OR PBS Nature: Dogs that Changed the World: The Rise of the Dog
Nat Geo: Moment of Death (45 min) - the language question of the natural science event; obviously involves ethics; good for future med students too (should read the book Stiff)
Nat Geo: The Science of Dogs(45 min) – mostly in interested in the effects of selective breeding on the speed of evolution
THE BRAIN
* PBS: The Brain with David Eagleman (2015)
The Brain Fitness Program (PBS) OR * Brain Fitness 2: Sight and Sound OR Brain Fitness: Peak Performance
In Search of Memory – mostly a bio piece on neuroscientist Eric Kandel; nice with nature of being a scientist; good for those who like/want to be Ramachandran
* NOVA: Secrets of the Mind (Ramachandran is the main focus of this)
Secret Life of the Brain (PBS in 2002; Science Channel in 2010)
PBS: The Human Spark OR PBS: This Emotional Life
Nat Geo: The Science of Sex Appeal (1 hr 27)
THE ARTS
Who Gets to Call It Art – (or maybe The Art of the Steal)
Exit through the Gift Shop
* My Kid Could Paint That (about 4 yr old Marla artist)
Who the &*%@ is Jackson Pollack?
* The Architecture of Doom (on Nazi aesthetics)
* The Rape of Europa (on art stolen by Nazis) (OR Hitler’s Museum)
* Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (good documentary on subversive artist in China) OR Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (2013)
* Touch the Sound (how the deaf perceive music)
The Heart is a Drum Machine (music/sound as viewed through WOKs; kinda new age trippy)
Alive Inside: A Story of music & memory (not amazing, but good if you like The Music Instinct)
RiP: A Remix Manifesto (on DRM and copyright issues)
Downloaded (a history of Napster)
PressPausePlay (on creativity in digital age)
Side by Side (about the rise of digital filmmaking)
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary – maybe good for art, history AOKs and for future filmmakers
* Sound and Fury (ethics of giving hearing to deaf children)
The Artsiders (50 min of a variety of artists talking about how and why they do what they do)
The Pixar Story – good for graphic designers but address the need for all AOKs at Pixar
* Wordplay (crossword puzzles/relationships to language)
* Helvetica (a movie about a font; or aesthetics/design and the presentation of language)
* Objectified (design issues)
* Urbanized
* Art & Copy (a pro-view of advertisers as creative shapers of reality)
If You Build It (creative design programs in schools)
Amandla (use of music to overcome apartheid in South Africa)
Favela Rising (good to see with City of God to get a sense of Rio, but is on the power of art to overcome social inequality)
Rize
Simon Schama: The Power of Art (for those who plan to take an art history class in college)
Sister Wendy series (The Story of Painting, etc) (OR Art: 21)
* How Art Made the World
PBS: Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World (2012)
The Genius of Design (5hr)
National Gallery – for those who wish to run an art museum
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? (for future photojournalists)
Chef’s Table (season 1, Netflix) – for Max G (class of 2016)
Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV show
THE ARTIST CREATING OR REINVENTING THEMSELVES:
* It Might Get Loud (Jack White, the Edge, Jimmy Page)
From the Sky Down (about 1991 Achtung Baby record making)
Pearl Jam Twenty
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (Bruce Springsteen pre-1980)
THE ENVIRONMENT/SUSTAINABILITY
BBC's Planet Earth 5 DVD series (Disc 5 perhaps will be in class)
Earth: A New Wild (3 hr PBS series - 2015)
Virunga (2014) (attempts to protect endangered gorillas, etc)
* Surviving Progress – has an agenda, but is a beautifully done view of the intersection of man, ecology and econ
* Ganges (from BBC)
Wild China
* CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (deals with history, art, archeology, nature of man: quite useful)
* Encounters at the End of the World (the knowledge community in Antartica)
* Galapagos (2006)
Life in Cold Blood (reptiles)
The 11th Hour
Bag It (about the scourge of plastics/plastic bags)
Milking the Rhino (on benefits and costs of ecotourism and conservatories in Africa)
* Nobelity - interviews with Nobel prize winners mostly on the future and sustainability/good ideas
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Ben Stein on intelligent design)
PBS NOVA: The Botany of Desire (examining the world from 4 plants' perspective)
* The End of the Line (on global fish population decline) (OR The Cove ) (or Sushi: The Global Catch)
E2:Design (season 1-3)
GLOBALIZATION/ THE DEVELOPING WORLD/DIVERGENT APPROACHES TO KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
DamNation (Hulu)
* Last Train Home (on past/future tensions in China)
Manufactured Landscapes (China & 21st century manufacturing through an artistic perspective) OR Watermark
* 10 questions for the Dalai Lama
* Babies (a non-judgmental look at 3+ babies from very divergent cultures) OR On the Way to School
Blood Brother (AIDS hostels in India)
Life + Debt (IMF and Jamaica) (or The End of Poverty?)
Fire in the Blood – (patent law and Big Pharma in relation to AIDS medications in Africa)
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth – exploration of urban public housing
H2 Worker (on immigrant sugar farmers in FL in 1990)
Darwin's Nightmare (Tanzania; globalization/exploitation) OR Workingman’s Death
The Devil Came on Horseback (about Darfur)
Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma (or Shake Hands with the Devil from 2005 or PBS Ghosts of Rwanda)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Liberia and female social protest)
Mugabe and the White African (Zimbabwe)
The Agronomist (radio protest in Haiti)
Bananas* - maybe good for those interesting in doing class action lawsuits
INDIGENOUS = Baraka OR Samsara
My Perestroika - An intimate look at five longtime friends who grew up shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this documentary sheds light on how Russians have adapted to post-Soviet society and their nation's continually shifting political landscape.
The Singing Revolution – about Estonia’s revolt from Soviet Union via “the arts”
The Take (Argentina; productive resistance to corporations)
Nostalgia for the Light– a unique TOK film mostly about the study of bodies: celestial/astrological and human (those “disappeared” in Chile by Pinochet)
Burma VJ (if interested in current social protest in Burma)
Darshan (an Indian woman who heals people through hugs)
PBS: Worse than War (a pretty heavy treatment of nature of human evil in genocides)
The Act of Killing (place with Triage/Burma VJ) Scared Sacred (how cultures overcome genocide, tragedy)
The Dark Matter of Love (international adoption and indirectly nice stuff on the evolution of developmental psychology)
Oh My God (on spirituality/faith and truth) (or try the slightly worse The Nature of Existence )
The Listening Project (is left wing biased; but a pretty straightforward interviewing of folks around the world and what they think of America)
HISTORY/ INFORMATION ACCESS AND CONTROL/MEDIA STUDIES
* How We Got to Now (4-5hrs)
* Why We Fight
* The Unknown Known (on Donald Rumsfeld)
* Remote Control War (on military drones mostly)
* The Gatekeepers (on Israel secret police and their ethics/decision-making)
The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs (on Showtime)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (linguistics, philosophy, very TOK – Chomsky)
Manufacturing Consent [on Noam Chomsky and media]
Hacking Democracy (on Diebold voting systems; 30 mins spent on Volusia county problems)
Night Will Fall (and perhaps Genocide (1981))
NATIONAL AND PERSONAL DEBT
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (may be shown in Costner’s class)
* Inside Job – 2008/9 econ/financial crisis (or watch the semi-fictionalized movie Too Big to Fail OR The Flaw)
* I.O.U.S.A. - L, IQ, OR The Ascent of Money: Boom and Bust (PBS) = http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/featured/the-ascent-of-money-episode-1-from-bullion-to-bubbles/44/
PBS Frontline: Money, Power & Wall Street (2012; 4 hrs) OR PBS Frontline: Inside the Meltdown
Maxed Out OR In Debt We Trust
PRIVATIZATION/CORPORATE CONTROL/FOOD SUPPLY/TROUBLING EMERGING PARADIGMS
* Page One: Inside the New York Times (paradigm shifts in medium by which we access content)
* The Corporation
Crude Awakening (the future of oil) (OR Blind Spot (oil) OR Crude Impact OR Sprawling from Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization or Fuel [a pro-diesel film or GasLand [an anti-natural gas film] or Crude [a film on Chevron/Texaco in Ecuador/Amazon] OR The Last Mountain … an anti-coal film or Peace Out OR Pump (2014; pro ethanol/methanol film)
Blue Gold: World Water Wars OR Flow: For Love of Water(ethics of corporate privatization of things of nature) OR Tapped [on USA’s plastic bottle water companies] or Thirst (2004) or Last Call at the Oasis
* The Unforseen (progress/land development issues in Austin, TX)
Pandora’s Promise (on nuclear power) OR Power Trip (trying to bring electricity to Georgia (near Russia))
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Revenge of the Electric Car (2012)
Escape Fire (about health care) (or American Addict – about explosion in prescription drugs)
* Food Inc. OR Dive! (dumpsterdiving and supermarket waste)
* The Future of Food (or the more biased The World According to Monsanto)
* King Corn (also Big River – 26 min companion piece to King Corn (deals with pesticides in water supply))
Ingredients – slow food/organics OR Forks over Knives (a pro-plant based diet film; link with obesity films) OR GMO OMG OR Genetic Roulette OR Food Chains (mostly on farm labor issues)
Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds (a bit liberal fringe/wacky but a vital issue)
Cowspiracy (a pro-vegan, eco argument)
Killer at Large: Why Obesity is America's Greatest Threat
* Our Daily Bread
* We Feed the World OR Fresh (OR Food Fight)
Independent Lens: Dirt! The Movie
Beer Wars OR The Union : The Business Behind Getting High OR The Culture High
Hot Coffee (the problem of forced arbitration and the rights of individuals to sue corporations)
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (on product placement in films)
Erasing David (in the age of technology is it possible to disappear?)
Life in a Day (international commonalities in an open source world/Youtube)
* Schooled: The Price of College Sports
At Berkeley (or Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk (could watch Frontline: College Inc too)
* Waiting for Superman [deals with education reform/teacher unions OR The Lottery OR American Teacher
Race to Nowhere (overtesting/stress in HS)
Truth in Numbers: Everything, According to Wikipedia – not great but a solid portrait of the methodologies of a Wiki- knowledge community
The True Cost (the trouble of fast fashion)
MISCELLANEOUS
* The Thin Blue Line (really good if you want to explore how eyewitness testimony is flawed) OR Paradise 3
Finding Vivian Maier (portrait of a complex artist) – maybe do with Stories We Tell
The Internet’s Own Boy
InRealLife (on Hoopla)
* Second Skin (on online gaming) (Or watch: Life 2.0)
Web Junkie (not the best; but if you were considering “internet addiction” as your TOK Oral)
Gideon’s Army (good for future law school grads or public defenders)
Kids for Cash – interesting case study in bias/corruption in the juvenile justice system
* Everest (IMAX) [deals with the 1998 event on the mountain that also became the Into Thin Air book]-
OR Beyond the Edge OR The Summit
* Joseph Campbell: Power of Myth (or less so Sukhavati)
Examined Life (philosophy and ethics) OR I am
Act of God - survivors of lightning strikes try to make sense of it (2009)
This Film is Not Yet Rated (obviously the film isn't rated so make sure you get parent approval before watching)
Human Body: Pushing the Limits (4 episodes)
Nat Geo: Incredible Human Machine (120 min) –sense perception or the 5 human senses of the physical body
Bigger, Stronger, Faster (about steroids)
Jiro: Dreams of Sushi – the knowledge, care, time needed to develop excellence at a craft/profession (of sushi)
* Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Protagonist (a somewhat subtle film on why certainty is unwise)
Ayn Rand: In Her Own Words
Every Three Seconds – honestly for those optimistic enough to believe they can change the world
* Art of Flight (innovation on X-games type sports)
The Crash Reel (competitive snowboarding, brain trauma, etc)
Elephant in the Living Room (exotic predatory pet ownership and its problems)
ACTUAL MOVIES
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) (also try Nat Geo: Science of Evil (45 min) - use for Zimbardo/stanford)
Her (2013)
* Being There
Legend of 1900 (so many Gatsby links) OR * The Truman Show OR Pleasantville
* Vitus (or Searching for Bobby Fischer) [both on child geniuses] OR Good Will Hunting
* Into the Wild OR * Kon-Tiki
* The Lives of Others [ethics (of good people in corrupt systems)
Fearless (1992ish)- IQ
* The Mission
Memento
Perfume
A Beautiful Mind
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Inception
The Matrix trilogy
* Gattaca
2001: A Space Odyssey (look at knowledge issues of HAL9000)
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Love the Atomic Bomb
Fight Club
Finding Neverland (on the methodologies of a creative artist)
The Year of Living Dangerously
12 Angry Men (old version)
Inherit the Wind
Temple Grandin – real life story of autistic “genius” involved with cattle The Reader
The Sunset Limited
The Imitation Game
OTHERS: Words and Pictures, The History Boys, Doubt, Thank You For Smoking, V for Vendetta, Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption – IQ, Fugitive Pieces, Waking Life *, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, The Last Supper , Bloody
Sunday, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Paradise Now, The Human Stain, Children of Men *, Frequencies
DVD documentary SUGGESTIONS ONLY: Tiny: The Art of Living Small; Bidder 70; Out of Print; Farmageddon (mostly a biased pro-raw milk movie/focus); Scatter my Ashes at Bergdorf (only for fashion designers); Inequality for all
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