The Documentary

In January 2013, a documentary had been release to bring up a big issue about captivity and bring up a piece of truth about the death of Tilikum's trainer Dawn Brancheau. The title of the documentary is “Blackfish” and was directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. It brought up the debate of wild animals in captivity on the table. In this documentary, it is clearly shown that a killer whale which was captured when it was young, was trained…

Rebecca Bryson was interviewed for this documentary and she explains how she became the conduit of communication between her plethora of providers. This was terrifying for her because she constantly felt that something important might not be communicated effectively, in fact, she had multiple medication…

The documentary “Addicted to Plastic” was truly an eye opener for me. It was amazing to learn of the numbers in tons that as a nation that we throughout, not only in our nation but worldwide. Not to mention the damage that we are doing to our environment and the harm to wildlife that the discarded plastics are doing. Most people will throw out a plastic bottle without even thinking about where it will end up or the troubles that it could create. I know I am guilty, but I do recycle. Surprisingly…

From “N Word” to “Thug”: Modern Slavery in the United States of America Or The USA: Land of the Free and the Home of the Shackled On October 7th 2016, African American female director Ava Duvernay released her new documentary “13th” on Netflix, which discusses the American Constitution’s 13th amendment and its ill-spoken caveat: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States,…

The video is a documentary who lives among the one percent. He has lived around wealth his entire life and has decided to document the wealth gap. He goes around interviewing people on both side of the spectrum to get their point of view on things. He gets into clubs using his family’s name and tries to interview his father various times but he declines even though he himself made a film about the poverty in Africa when he was younger. What stood out to me was that the average one percenter…

The Ivory Tower documentary highlighted some issues that occurring in the United States. First of which is the issue that students are unable to become educated without signing away what seems like half of their life due to debt. Student debt in the United States has reached such a high number that students no longer see the point in attending college because it forms this idea that they will make more by avoiding the loans. The loss in drive for education brings along another issue – a divide…

“Demain” is a great documentary film directed by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent. The film begins with an extremely grim conclusion: the world seems to be getting worse. Liz Hadly (a biologist) and Tony Barnosky (a paleontologist) have developed a hit-list of our main fears: that natural resources are running out, the ever-growing population is causing the shortage of food, species are becoming extinct in vast numbers, and the global warming. It is crucial that we look at the facts if we want…

On Wednesday October 4th at 7:00 p.m., I attended a speaker that talked about locker room talk and toxic masculinity in Ritsche Auditorium. Byron Hurt is a published writer, anti-sexist activist, and lecturer. He combines his award-winning documentary films with a dynamic speaking style to create questions, re-imagine, and redefine gender roles. To start off his presentation, he talked about the different disasters that are happening in the world. He mentioned the victims from the numerous…

pharmaceutical companies should have. Many Americans believe that these companies are only focusing on making profit, not helping the sick, and thus more Americans today are pushing for centralized, government regulated healthcare. In Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko, the film clearly defines the major problems with America’s health system: the free-market system with prescription drugs, rising healthcare costs, and the many loopholes insurance companies can go through to deny Americans…

June created a documentary analyzing her life and how she was a secret daughter. Her mother hid the fact that she had a mixed daughter towards certain people. June wanted others to understand her story on how race and gender influenced the decisions made with her upbringing and the parenting styles used in order to raise her right. Some think the word ‘family’ means biological family; though, here the word family is used quite differently. June comes from a mother who is Caucasian and a father…