The Documentary

as humans and not just objects. The Freedom Riders showed an amazing amount of courage and they impacted so many lives and started so many later movements and opportunities for people experiencing other problems to be heard as well. I find this documentary heart-warming and I think it truly does show what the Freedom Riders went through and how they felt during their whole journey. I think it inspires many people facing challenges to speak out and be heard so that change in the world can finally…

The documentary, Food, Inc. was very informative and eye-opening in many ways. American food consumers are highly unaware of what they are really eating, whether they think they are or not. It takes a lot of educational background of the food industry and it’s processes to get an understanding of how their food is actually produced. Although, trying to understand these processes is difficult because of the restricted amount of information by the food industries. Even when attempting to…

your life without?” Finally, as I sat on my bed one night, trapped in what people commonly refer to as the “YouTube Wormhole”, I felt a true connection to a career choice I considered. My mouse hovered over a video that spoke to me, “Divided: a Documentary on Chicago’s Segregation”, the title read. It was around this time that I noticed a pattern in my search history. There was something about learning the truth and history behind my city that I found fulfilling. Researching articles and…

Born Rich is a documentary directed by Jamie Johnson who is also the heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune. The purpose of the documentary film was to SHOW the experience of growing up in some of the world’s richest families. It consisted of Johnson interviewing his friends and peers such as Georgina Bloomberg, Stephanie Ercklentz, Christina Floyd, Juliet Hartford, Josiah Cheston Hornblower, S.I. Newhouse IV, Ivanka Trump, Benjamin Luke Weil, Cody Franchetti, and lastly, Carlo Von Zeitschel.…

The Queen of Versailles: Building the Largest (Disconnected) Home in America The documentary film by the name of The Queen of Versailles is about a very wealthy couple, David and Jackie Siegel, and how they plan on building the largest home in America. The new American “palace” that will be known as Versailles is 90,000 square feet, it contains 13 bedrooms, 10 kitchens, a bowling alley, skating rink, spa, and more. This house is everything the family could want and embodies the fantasy dreams…

to have large quantities of food available for purchase at anytime and at a low price. Unfortunately in order to get that food to us at low prices, we have to sacrifice aspects of animal rights, human rights, the environment, and health. In the documentary “Food Inc.” I learned that the US moved towards an industrial food system with the creation of McDonalds. As McDonald’s and other…

In the documentary "Dark skin" I watched individuals talk about prejudice discrimination based on the relative lightness or darkness of the skin, a phenomenon occurring within the own African American ethnic group. A paper bag test was required to see if you were lighter than the paper bag you were considered smart and pretty and if you were darker than the paper bag you were considered unattractive and ugly. On television, dark skinned hardly saw individuals with the same color skin as them,…

It was interesting with how the 2009 documentary “Atitlan in Bloom” makes a suggestion that there is only a small fraction of what we believed to know about the Mayan calendar, how in many locations such as southern Mexico and northern Guatemala give hints of how there could possibly more than we were originally led to believe. In the beginning of the film, we first learn of a small lake community in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala (a population of an estimated 13,000 residents) containing…

Sunshine: To see or not to see There is a certain quality the commercial industry values in China. Doug Nichol documentary, “Sunshine” gives us a glimpse of commercialism in China. Although, it seems commercials are a fairly new concept in China, they are looking for “Sunshine” is used to describe a quality which is admired in the commercial industry in China. Sunshine can be seen as physical, meaning clothing andWhat you see on the surface may not always be the truth. So when it comes to the…

In the beginning of the documentary Inequality For All, Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor under the Presidency of Bill Clinton, tells the audience of his students that that the question about inequality “is not inequality per se. The question is, when does inequality become a problem?” (Reich). In other words, Reich agrees with John Rawls, the father of the theory of justice, that inequality is not a problem. According to Rawls, the problem is when inequality could not be arranged in a…