The List:
Why We Fight (My favorite exploration as to why we are in Iraq and elsewhere)
Gunner Palace
Iraq for Sale
The Ground Truth (A must see for anyone thinking about enlisting or knows someone who might)
Nuyorican Dream
Sir! No Sir! (A film about war resistance within the military during the Vietnam conflict)
Harvest of Shame (A beautiful expose of exploited farm labor in the US--Edward R. Murrow narrates)
Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk
The First Year (about the first year for elementary school teachers)
Children Underground
It Was a Wonderful Life
America Beyond the Color Line (Henry Louis Gates Jr.)
National Geographic: China's Lost Girls
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Voices of Iraq
Death in Gaza
Dark Days
Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder
Weapons of Mass Deception
Control Room
Regret to Inform
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
War Photographer
The Official Story (fiction, but revealing)
Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties
Vietnam: A Television History (4 disc series - rather long)
Lost Boys of Sudan
American Jobs
Mojados: Through the Night
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause
Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda
Born Into Brothels
Fidel
Hearts and Minds
Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
The Yes Men
Southern Comfort
American Dream (Hormel strike)
Monster (fictional account)
Trembling Before G-d
Riding the Rails: American Experience
Girlhood
The Times of Harvey Milk
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Daughter from Danang: The American Experience
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
The Weather Underground
The Fog of War
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
Focus (fiction but a good example of prejudice)
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Malcom X (fiction but close to the biography)
Classified X
Paragraph 175
The Brandon Teena Story
Michael Moore's The Awful Truth: (2 disc series)
Bowling for Columbine
Rabbit-Proof Fence (fiction)
Clockwork Orange (fiction but disturbingly allegorical)
Children of Men (fiction, dystopic view of society in a fertility crisis)