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LACONEAU FILM SCREENINGS
Location Film Date
Philadelphia: Iron Jawed Angels Sunday, January 28, 2007
Philadelphia: Amazon Warrior Women
screens with Intro to Laconneau Class
Sunday, February 25, 2007
   

Laconneau screens the following film titles:

The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun
Director: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross

Uses interviews, news footage, and reenactments to tell the story of the Tipton Three, young British men of Pakistani descent who were detained for over two years without charges at Guantanamo Bay by the American military.

Offical Site wih Trailer


Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
Starring: Bud Conyers, Janis Karpinski
Director: Robert Greenwald

This movie uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq, the decision makers who allow them to do so, and the result of corporate war profiteering on the lives of everyday Americans involved in Iraq reconstruction efforts.

Official Site with Trailer

Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004)
Starring: David Albright, Robert Baer
Director: Robert Greenwald

The story of how truth became the first American casualty in Iraq. Interviews with varied U.S officials and experts offer a deconstruction on the Bush administration's misleading case for war in Iraq in the wake of 9/11.

Official Site - View Movie Clips

Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the "War on Terror (2006)

Amnesty International film about US-sponsored rendition program in which numerous persons are illegally detained and secretly flown to third countries, where they suffer human rights abuses including torture and enforced disappearance.

Official Site - View 27 min. Movie

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Starring: Al Gore
Director: Davis Guggenheim

Weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. An Inconvenient Truth is a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share.

Offical Site - View Trailer

Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
Starring: Martin Sheen, Phyllis Diller, Collette Divine
Director: Chris Paine

Investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.

Official Site with Trailer

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
Starring: Edith Arana, James Cromwell
Director: Robert Greenwald

A deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. Dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and on American values.

Official Site with Trailer

What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004)
Starring: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix
Director: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse

A film which demonstrates a world of quantum uncertainty - a world where everything is alive and reality is changed by thought and where neurological processes and perceptual shifts are engaged.

Official Site - View Trailer

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
Starring: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale
Director: Katja von Garnier

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Official Site with Trailer (bottom left)

Amazon Warrior Women: Secrets of the Dead (2004)
Starring: Addison Bain, Martin Biddle
Director: Elizabeth Dobson, Alexander Marengo

Archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball studies recently discovered 2500 year-old Russian remains to investigate the possibility that the powerful women in Greek tales are actually the mythical Amazonian warrior women.

Official Site - View Movie Clip