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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An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.
See moreThe 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...
See more2nd Chance
In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank —...
See moreA 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...
See moreSongs 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...
See moreA 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...
See moreMuzak - A Tool of Management
Meditation on psychlogical warfare, shopping and paramilitary death squads.
See moreLand 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.
See moreThe Globalisation Tapes
Filmed by Indonesian workers during their working hours on rubber and palm oil plantations, this film exposes the devastating role of militarism...
See moreHugh
Hugh is an elderly man keeping himself active in retirement. His hobbies include teaching children to play the piano, carpentry and driving into...
See moreMarket 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...
See moreA 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...
See morePostcard 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...
See moreCamera Test
A group of flower arrangers practice their art in this second silent early short from Joshua Oppenheimer.
See moreThese Places We've Learned to Call Home
Experimental video and performance meditating on militias, American fundamentalism, the opening of the American West.
See moreLight Test
An early silent short by Joshua Oppenheimer in which a figure reflects light at the camera.
See moreThe Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase
A kaleidoscopic history of the American heartland, nuclear weapons and the Native American genocide.
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Dylan Moran, who after being consumed by grief after losing his wife, begins hallucinating sinister versions of himself, lurking in the shadows...
See moreThe 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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