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Adam Cook
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Post subject: Taxi to the Dark Side - part of Why Democracy?  Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:00 pm |
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Taxi to the Dark Side
Sociopolitical Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Why Democracy? series in 2007 - English narration
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Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the "war on terror". Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was considered an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic village. So when he was detained by the U.S military one afternoon, after picking up three passengers, denizens wondered why this man was randomly chosen to be held in prison, and, especially, without trial?
Five days after his arrest Dilawar died in his Bagram prison cell. His death came within a week of another death of a detainee at Bagram. The conclusion, with autopsy evidence, was that the former taxi driver and the detainee who passed away before him, had died due to sustained injuries inflicted at the prison by U.S. soldiers.
The documentary, by award-winning producer Alex Gibney, carefully develops the last weeks of Dilawar’s life and shows how decisions taken at the pinnacle of power in the Bush Administration led directly to Dilawar’s brutal death.
The film documents how Rumsfeld, together with the White House legal team, were able to convince Congress to approve the use of torture against prisoners of war. Taxi to the Dark Side is the definitive exploration of the introduction of torture as an interrogation technique in U.S. facilities, and the role played by key figures of the Bush Administration in the process
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* Audio Languages: English
* RunTime: 1h 19min 2,64 s (118566 Frames)
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* TV-cap: NO SUBS
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1) Release Post
* mvgroup.org
* mvgroup.org
2) Related Documentaries
* In Search of Gandhi
* Inside Burma
* Iron Ladies of Liberia
* The War on Democracy
* Please Vote for Me
3) ed2k Links
BBC.Why.Democracy.Taxi.to.the.Dark.Side.2007.DVBC.XviD.MP3.MVGroup.org.avi [997.08 Mb]  
Source: http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Taxi_to_the_Dark_Side
Last edited by Adam Cook on Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Adam Cook
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Post subject: In Search of Gandhi - part of Why Democracy? [MVGroup] Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:19 pm |
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In Search of Gandhi
Sociopolitical Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Why Democracy? series in 2007 - English narration
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In the early decades of the twentieth century Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy of non-violent revolution or Satyagraha inspired a mass movement of millions of Indians to rise up against the British colonial state and successfully agitate for the establishment of a democratic and free India.
In 2007, the country is preparing to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of its existence as an independent nation. But what kind of a democracy does India have today? What does it actually mean to live in the world’s largest democracy?
In road-movie style the film crew travels down the famous trail of Gandhi’s salt march, the remarkable mass campaign that galvanized ordinary Indians to join the non-violent struggle for democracy and freedom almost a century ago. Stopping at the same villages and cities, where Gandhi and his followers had raised their call for independence, the film documents the stories of ordinary citizens in India today. Although inspired by a historical event In Search of Gandhi is not a journey back in time. Instead it is a search for the present and future of democracy in India.
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* Audio Streams: 1
* Audio Languages: English
* RunTime: 52 min 24,56 s (78614 Frames)
* Filesize: 638mb
* TV-cap: English subs
* Ripped by: ACook
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1) Release Post
* mvgroup.org
* mvgroup.org
2) Related Documentaries
* Taxi to the Dark Side
* Iron Ladies of Liberia
* The War on Democracy
* Please Vote for Me
* Inside Burma
3) ed2k Links
BBC.Why.Democracy.In.Search.of.Gandhi.2007.DVBC.XviD.MP3.MVGroup.avi [638.19 Mb]
Source: http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=In_Search_of_Gandhi
Last edited by Adam Cook on Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:17 am, edited 1 time in total.
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voetsak
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:27 am |
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thanks adam.. i'm very interested in this sort of story
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silvoso
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:02 pm |
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Adam Cook
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Post subject: Looking for the Revolution - part of Why Democracy? [MVGroup] Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:20 pm |
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Looking for the Revolution
Sociopolitical Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Why Democracy? series in 2007 - English narration
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Che Guevara died in Southern Bolivia while trying to ignite the sparks of revolution throughout South America. His death at the hands of Bolivian Rangers trained and financed by the US Government, marked the beginning of the cocaine era in Bolivia.
Forty years later and under pressure from the masses who gave him a clear mandate, the first indigenous President Evo Morales (an ex-coca leaf farmer) is promising to continue the revolution. He has nationalised the oil industry and passed laws on Agrarian reform. Despite the revolutionary-sounding election speeches and campaign iconography that accompanied his landslide victory, on closer inspection it emerges that the old system is pretty much alive inside the new one.
Corruption, nepotism and old-fashioned populism are at the core of this movement. The more Morales does to create employment, the more the landowners conspire against him and paralyse Bolivia’s economy. As a result, no jobs are created and the pressure from the poor increases. The cycle of tension threatens to crush both the country and the indigenous revolution.
Looking for the Revolution is about the dynamics of that tension as witnessed by the characters of the film - the struggle for power between landowners and the indigenous movement, and the continuation of a revolution Morales-style, started so long ago.
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* Video Resolution: 384x672 (height x width)
* Video Aspect Ratio: 4x7 (1:1,75)
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* Audio BitRate: 121 kbps
* Audio Streams: 1
* Audio Languages: English
* RunTime: 52 min 26,96 s (78674 Frames)
* Filesize: 638mb
* TV-cap: Partly english subs
* Ripped by: ACook
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1) Release Post
* mvgroup.org
* mvgroup.org
2) Related Documentaries
* In Search of Gandhi
* Iron Ladies of Liberia
* Please Vote for Me
* Taxi to the Dark Side
* The War on Democracy
* Che Guevara - The Body and the Legend
3) ed2k Links
BBC.Why.Democracy.Looking.for.the.Revolution.2007.DVBC.XviD.MP3.MVGroup.org.avi [638.70 Mb]
Source: http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Looking_for_the_Revolution
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l0thar
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:55 pm |
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Nice post, thank you, Adam. 
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Adam Cook
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Post subject: Dinner with the President - Part of Why Democracy? [MVGroup] Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:12 pm |
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Dinner with the President
Sociopolitical Documentary published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Why Democracy? series in 2007 - English narration
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Have we succumbed to the Islamic agenda? What does it mean when the army appears to be the only force able to contain the opponents of democracy, the armed Islamists?
President Musharraf agrees to explore this apparent contradiction over dinner at his official residence, the Army House. As the discussion moves in and out of the different worlds in Pakistan a complex tapestry emerges revealing a society unique yet universal.
The filmmaker talks to diverse individuals, from labourers to intellectuals, from street vendors to religious right wing political party members, and from journalists to industrialists. What is their idea of democracy in Pakistan? What is their idea of President Musharraf’s vision of a modern Pakistan?
Dinner With the President questions the role a military leader can play in guiding a state towards modern democracy.hat are the implications for democracy in Pakistan when secular political parties
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* Video Codec: XVID
* Video Bitrate: 1571 kbps
* Video Resolution: 384x672 (height x width)
* Video Aspect Ratio: 4x7 (1:1,75)
* Audio Codec: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) <0x0055>
* Audio BitRate: 119 kbps
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* Audio Languages: English
* RunTime: 52 min 31,96 s (78799 Frames)
* Filesize: 640mb
* TV-cap: English subs
* Ripped by: ACook
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1) Release Post
* mvgroup.org ed2k
* mvgroup.org torrent
2) Related Documentaries
* Bloody Cartoons
* Campaign the Kawasaki Candidate
* In Search of Gandhi
* The War on Democracy
* Please Vote for Me
* Looking for the Revolution
* Iron Ladies of Liberia
* The Ministry of Truth
3) ed2k Links
BBC.Why.Democracy.Dinner.with.the.President.2007.DVBC.XviD.MP3.MVGroup.avi [639.21 Mb]
Source: http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Dinner_with_the_President
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