Documentaries

The Share Our Wealth: Every Man a King campaign advocated for:

• Cap personal fortunes at $50 million each — equivalent to about $950 million in 2025 (later reduced to $5 - $8 million, or $95 - $152 million in 2025 dollars)
• Limit annual income to one million dollars each (about $19 million in 2025)
• Limit inheritances to five million dollars each (about $95 million in 2025)
• Guarantee every family an annual income of $2,000, or one-third the national average (equivalent to $38,000 in 2025)
• Free college education and vocational training
• Old-age pensions for all persons over 60
• Veterans benefits and healthcare
• A 30 hour work week
• A four week vacation for every worker
• Greater regulation of commodity production to stabilize prices

This winner of the 1993 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature details the case that the 1989 invasion of Panama by the US was motivated not by the need to protect American soldiers, restore democracy or even capture Noriega. It was to force Panama to submit the will of the United States after Noriega had exhausted his usefulness.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52845025

Ten years ago, this guy made a sandwich with ingredients completely from scratch. Growing, slaughtering, and preparing every ingredient just for one sandwich. It took months, cost thousands of dollars, and tasted kinda okay.

He retries the sandwich quest after a decade, but now even more from scratch.

Dominion is an Australian documentary film by the Farm Transparency Project filmed primarily with drones and hidden cameras inside Australian slaughterhouses and industrial farms with the aim to educate the public on an opaque and cruel system.

This documentary explores mind files, AI avatars, and the transhumanist quest for digital immortality, plus the skeptics who say biology is irreplaceable.

Almost one full hour about tamagotchi

Unfortunately this is a 'Youtube w/ Ads movie', meaning there is no way to watch this on mobile without using the official app so they can force ads on you. Thankfully you can still avoid them on Desktop with Ublock Origin.

Wikipedia article of the documentary.

Dowd describes being under-appreciated for the amount of work he put in and hurting for money as the reasons for taking money from drug dealers. He initially began taking bribes from drug dealers on the streets before moving on to protecting a drug cartel leader and robbing other drug dealers at gunpoint. Dowd and his then-partner Henry "Chicky" Guevara recount the first time walking into a domestic dispute in an apartment and seeing bags of marijuana, a duffle bag filled with approximately $20,000 in cash and two guns. Dowd communicated that he and his partner would take $8000 from the duffle bag and both guns. Dowd continued to rob drug dealers for thousands of dollars.

Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people to know about it.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28406197