The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing

Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating...

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The Look of Silence

The Look of Silence

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.

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The End

The End

A post-apocalyptic story about a rich family living in a salt mine converted into a luxurious home. The earth around them has apparently been...

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2nd Chance

2nd Chance

In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank —...

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A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches

A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches

They say that when the Earth is destroyed beyond habitation, the only survivors will be the cockroaches. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gives the...

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Songs of Repression

Songs of Repression

At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera. However, the beauty of the place – formerly known...

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A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot

A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot

Five years in the making, this brave and level-headed documentary exposes paramilitary activity in present day Northern Ireland during a supposed...

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Muzak - A Tool of Management

Muzak - A Tool of Management

Meditation on psychlogical warfare, shopping and paramilitary death squads.

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Land of Enchantment

Land of Enchantment

For eighty cents an hour, prisoners in a New Mexico prison answer telephones for the state tourism hotline. Co-directed by Christine Cynn.

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The Globalisation Tapes

The Globalisation Tapes

Filmed by Indonesian workers during their working hours on rubber and palm oil plantations, this film exposes the devastating role of militarism...

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Hugh

Hugh

Hugh is an elderly man keeping himself active in retirement. His hobbies include teaching children to play the piano, carpentry and driving into...

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Market Update

Market Update

Joshua Oppenheimer reimagines a sixty-second stock market update as maniacal monologue by a mumbling madman giving a bizarre play-by-play of floor...

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A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beauty

What makes a body human? This science-fiction fable shot in China foreshows the rise of AI. Time behaves fluidly as we travel into the near future...

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Postcard from Sun City, Arizona

Postcard from Sun City, Arizona

Joshua Oppenheimer sets images of life in a retirement community in Arizona (as seen through television commercials) to a talk radio interview with...

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Camera Test

Camera Test

A group of flower arrangers practice their art in this second silent early short from Joshua Oppenheimer.

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These Places We've Learned to Call Home

These Places We've Learned to Call Home

Experimental video and performance meditating on militias, American fundamentalism, the opening of the American West.

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Light Test

Light Test

An early silent short by Joshua Oppenheimer in which a figure reflects light at the camera.

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The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase

The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase

A kaleidoscopic history of the American heartland, nuclear weapons and the Native American genocide.

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Infinite

Infinite

Dylan Moran, who after being consumed by grief after losing his wife, begins hallucinating sinister versions of himself, lurking in the shadows...

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The Challenge of Manufacturing

The Challenge of Manufacturing

Animals are killed and processed for fast food. A man is tarred and feathered. A collage of ordinary horrors on the way to the millennium.

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