The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)

The Yes Men are an activist collective that operates under the guise of representing spokesmen of big corporations at business congresses, college lectures, press conferences and TV interviews. By announcing policies that diverge wildly from the corporation's, they use the media attention and expectations to leverage actual change in policy.

A Place Called Chiapas (1998)

This documentary chronicles the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional's (EZLN or Zapatista) efforts of indigenous resistance in the remote Chiapas region in Mexico. Under the spell of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the rural population is continuously being exploited, dispossessed and displaced. Today, the Zapatista movement still inspires the empowering of indigenous populations world wide and calls for the protection of their means of subsistence.

Russisch Roulette

"Moskaus Jugend zwischen Leben und Tod" ist der Untertitel dieser N24-Reportage. Ein Kamerateam begleitet eine Gruppe russischer Jugendlicher, die mit waghalsigen Stunts den urbanen Raum für einen Adrenalin-geladenen alternativen Lifestyle zurückerobern. Interessant ist auch, welche Rolle die digitalen Medien dabei spielen.

Ethos (2011)

Ethos was released in 2011. Woody Harrelson hosts this informative documentary, presenting a comprehensive analysis of the most fundamental elements that amount to the current global system. Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, among others, draw the big picture with respect to topics like the threat to democracy via suspension of civil rights in the US, social inequality and poverty, 21st century proxy-warfare, environmental destruction. Interestingly, the movie concludes with an appeal to the viewers, urging them to turn around the system, not by revolution, but by educated consumerism.