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15 Sep

The Corporation

The Corporation is a great documentary about the structure of the corporation in the United States. I think it is a must see. The video above is part 1 of 23 chapters. Just click on each part after the end of each sequence. In any discussion of politics you must include media, the corporate structures [...]

15 Sep

OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism

15 Sep

The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

This is another good documentary about the war in Iraq. This is the whole documentary and I suggest you watch it. It gives some alternate information and perspective.

15 Sep

No End In Sight

So how can you talk about politics without discussing war? I saw No End In Sight a while ago and thought it was a superb documentary on the Iraq war. It has the most in depth coverage of the war that I have seen. If you are really interested in educating yourself on some of [...]

14 Sep

The Future of Food

Update: I just found the full length documentary and embedded it above. Watch this movie now. It’s a really good one. This is still one of the most impacting documentaries I’ve seen on food and GMO’s (Genetically Modified Organisms). This is only a 10min excerpt. I highly encourage you to see the whole movie The [...]

13 Sep

Crude Impact – Documentary

UPDATE: I found the entire movie on You Tube, but in pieces. Just keep clicking on each consecutive clip to see the whole movie. I’ve embedded part one above. I saw this video a while ago as well as some other excellent videos on the same subject, such as A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash [...]

28 Jul

The Alphabet

So I just posted an old Sesame Street number animation and thought I’d balance it out with an alphabet animation. This sorta works from the darkness and light aspect as well. I think I might show this to my really terrible students… hahaha… Do you think they would remember the alphabet? Or just have nightmares [...]

13 Sep

Video & Audio are working… Finally!

Yay! I finally got video & audio working in the davidcool.com website interface! I had this terrible problem for months that I couldn’t solve. Then I revisited it today and boom, fixed it on the first try. When you would click on one of the thumbnails and load a movie, it would work fine. But [...]

10 Sep

movies

alt : The US vs. John Lennon Trailer I watched two documentaries recently, “The US vs. John Lennon” & “Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film”. Both were decent films, however the Hunter S. Thompson film was a bit shaky and had some problems, in my opinion of course. Maybe that’s [...]

02 Feb

code 46

alt : code 46 trailer ok, while we’re on the movies subject… i saw this movie, code 46, quite a while ago and really liked it. i saw it again recently and i really, really liked it. i think the story is tightly written. the visuals are saturated and luscious, matching samantha morton’s role. it [...]