The Documentary

September 8, 2004, CBS’ program “60 Minutes” aired a story reporting that President George W. Bush’s preferential treatment from the Texas Air National Guard allowed him to go AWOL during the Vietnam War. Not only did the report claim that Bush abandoned his war duties, but that he also left to pursue a political career instead. 1The story was led by news anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes who were accompanied by other journalists. Rather and Mapes had found holes in President Bush’s…

3/21/18 The Dust Bowl Film (sections of disk one and two) This film talks about the difficulties of the Dust Bowl and shows the destruction it caused. This film talks about the viewpoints of the people who lived through it. It mentions how historians have viewed this disaster as well. It gives lots of information about this historical event. The Dust Bowl occurred during the time of the economic disaster of the Great Depression. It mentions how daily events like the sun shinning were changed…

This movie is about a family that was living in the time of the Great Depression. After the farmers prepared the land in the 1920s and 30s to plant wheat a horrible drought came along and killed the plants. After that, came the Dust Bowl which happened when severe winds blew the topsoil of the lands and left it empty. The dust would get so bad at times that people had to breathe in and out of handkerchiefs to keep from choking on the dust. This tragedy forced them out of their home in Oklahoma…

enormous pain in crated, boxed and force-fed grain and living in such horrendous, inhumane conditions until the time of being slaughter and even until that moment these animals suffer since they are killed in the easiest and brutal way. On the documentary Food Inc, they gave an example of the changes that the industry…

as American citizens. Good majority of southern Caucasians were not very ecstatic about this action, this then later on caused them to perform multiple Jim Crows law to the full extent. The definition of this term according to Jim Crow America A Documentary History “Jim Crow was not a single federal law, but a series of state, local, and county statutes, as well as unwritten codes of conduct, that evolved into a restrictive, punitive system of widespread segregation, created in the North and…

What do people from a circus documentary, characters in a realistic fiction story, and children migrating to safer places all have in common? They all have dreams. Whether it’s moving into a new house or trying to find one’s place, they all have dreams. Some people don’t think dreams are possible to achieve but, they are. Although dreams are different, all someone needs to do is four things. To begin, people need perseverance to achieve their dreams. In the documentary “Circus Without Borders”,…

“The most important problem in America is drug abuse.”- Richard Nixon The House I Live In is an eye-opening documentary that informs people of what the war on drugs truly is. The black community has been the initial target of the war on drugs (drugs and drug abuse). This is something that is very hard for me to understand because the white community are the ones who brought the drugs over in the first place, and minorities are made to suffer. Also, higher powers put so much focus on people, that…

Most people undergo hardships from obesity because of their choices and the way others support those decisions. Way Beyond Weight, a documentary by Estela Renner, portrays the burdens of obesity by consulting with the parents of an obese child, Yan. When he does not get the junk food that he wants, Yan throws a fit. The documentary repeatedly displays the whining that Yan’s parents have to endure from him each day. His parents eventually give in, despite his heart condition, and…

problems of poverty arise, families become struck with on-going obstacles making it difficult to surface from. For instance, some barriers that make recovery from poverty more difficult include, a convenient job and the status of the economy. The documentary portrays a father struggling to provide for his family on top…

In the documentary film Sick Around America follows individuals around America with different medical scenarios and their experience with the health care system. The film starts out with a family who had a million-dollar baby to insurance companies. But this family did not have to worry about the cost because the father had a job at Microsoft. He had health insurance through them, so they end up paying for all bills from the baby. However, this is a rare case in America that individuals are…