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john
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:40 am Post subject: Please recommend a documentary film for adult students |
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I am looking for a movie that has short segments (5-10 minutes) ala Michael Moore��s 911 or Bowling for Columbine but I have used Michael Moore already.
What do you recommend?
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the eye

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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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a great one i have used is "SUPERSIZE ME"...about the fast food industry's marketing tricks. |
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zappadelta

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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: |
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"Baraka" is fantastic |
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kimchikowboy

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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: |
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When We Were Kings |
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jinju
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Baraka is stunning but there's no dialogue. There was a really good one about highschool basketball players. Forget the title though. |
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Mills
Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: |
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"Country Boys"
Documentary about students attending an alternative high school in Kentucky. You'll have to stop the movie ever five seconds to correct gramatical mistakes and your students' view of America/Americans will changed forever. |
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Thunndarr

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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:53 am Post subject: |
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jinju wrote: |
Baraka is stunning but there's no dialogue. There was a really good one about highschool basketball players. Forget the title though. |
Hoop Dreams perhaps? |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:47 am Post subject: |
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"Born into Brothels" is pretty amazing, but the subject can make people uncomfortable. "Promises" is a pretty interesting one about Israeli and Palestinian kids. And your students might see a parallel to Korea and Japan. |
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JeJuJitsu

Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Location: McDonald's
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:57 am Post subject: |
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Any 10 minute segment of Deadwood, on HBO. Not a documentary, but it'll definately be a conversation starter. |
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pest1

Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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There was that documentary about moral reasoning psych 101 students have to see in university... the one in which a guy is told to administer questions to another guy whom he cannot see on the other side of a wall. If the guy gets the questions wrong, the other guy shocks him. Each time the guy gets another one wrong, the voltage of the electric shock he recieves gets higher.... At some point, the voltage gets so high it must be killing the other guy.. but actually the experiment is to see how far the guy who is administering the questions and shock will go before he stops and then find out why he stops... an experiment to test a hypothesis about levels of moral reasoning... It sounds complicated but actually I remember the level of language wasnt too hard at all... Only problem I dont remember the title. Does anyone out there know what I'm talking about? |
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deessell

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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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What about the "7 up" series by Michael Apted. It follows the lives of some children and he interviews them every 7 years. It's exploring the idea that our personality is formed as a child and that we do/don't change much....fascinating for me.
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hogwonguy1979

Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:53 am Post subject: |
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"Fog of War" is also a good one |
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vox

Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: Re: Please recommend a documentary film for adult students |
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john wrote: |
I am looking for a movie that has short segments (5-10 minutes) ala Michael Moore��s 911 or Bowling for Columbine but I have used Michael Moore already.
What do you recommend?
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Parallel universes, wormholes, and time warp interest you? All in layman's terms too.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
The best part is it's absolutely free and online. All you have to do is click. |
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ddeubel

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Mills,
Thanks for the tip about country boys. Just watched one episode and sure damn well reminds me of my youth in N. Ont.....interesting in many ways......
I have many docs to recommend but don't know what could be found online......my fav. documentary was the one about the wheelchair guys who played wheelchair rugby....forget the name, saw it while back in Canada last summer. Awesome, inspiring. Made me think of the disabled as normal humans, assholes and angels alike...
Anyone remember the name??? Great documentary about the world championships ...
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gochubandit

Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Location: under your bed... with a marker
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:40 am Post subject: |
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There was that documentary about moral reasoning psych 101 students have to see in university... the one in which a guy is told to administer questions to another guy whom he cannot see on the other side of a wall. If the guy gets the questions wrong, the other guy shocks him. Each time the guy gets another one wrong, the voltage of the electric shock he recieves gets higher.... At some point, the voltage gets so high it must be killing the other guy.. but actually the experiment is to see how far the guy who is administering the questions and shock will go before he stops and then find out why he stops... an experiment to test a hypothesis about levels of moral reasoning... It sounds complicated but actually I remember the level of language wasnt too hard at all... Only problem I dont remember the title. Does anyone out there know what I'm talking about? |
yeah i do. i THINK the title is the "Stanford Experiment" or maybe Berkeley. I can't remember which university it was, but it was in California. it was ok. pretty funny tho. |
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