Important documentaries

97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it's essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked, questions like; where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does this mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when the monetary, and financial system, breaks down? Produced by Queuepolitely and featuring Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the "HBOS Whistleblower" Paul Moore, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from the Jubliee Debt Campaign.

A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.

The impact of the decline of heavy industry on workers and their families in the Tiexi district of Shenyang, China, at the turn of the 21st century, documented unflinchingly by a fly-on-the-wall camera.

Using extensive interviews with survivors and archival footage, an examination reveals the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Artist Grayson Perry explores British tastes, using his discoveries as inspiration for a work of art

A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.

The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

The life and death of Jyoti Singh, an Indian medical student whose violation and murder by gang rapists exposed the violent misogyny of Indian society.

A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war.

Grayson Perry explores the concept of masculinity at the beginning of the 21st century England.

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal - no actors.

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.

Oliver Stone 's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.

Peter Whitehead's disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled "A Pop Concerto," comprises a number of different "movements," each depicting a different theme underscored by music.

Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.

An examination of the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina.

Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.

Hailed in the media as one of the most provocative and thoughtful monologues ever presented, Peter Larsen explains the infamous 'Tamil case' in his own distinguished way. Using his clever wit and several technical devices he unwraps the details of the case - the case which became one of the biggest political scandals in Danish history, involving the resignation of the Prime Minister Poul Schlüter and the entire Danish government in January 1993. The center figure of the 'Tamil case', the Minister of Justice Erik Ninn Hansen, was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours.