XXI Century
There are years that pass uneventfully, and then days that change the course of history. From September 2002 to May 2003, filmmakers Gabriele Zamparini and Lorenzo Meccoli met with intellectuals, journalists, university professors, writers, historians, political analysts, international observers, human rights organizations, civil rights workers, religious leaders, peace and anti-war activists, asking questions to understand the era in which we are living and to try to put together the many pieces of a complicated puzzle. The picture that comes alive is - to paraphrase James Baldwin - "longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it".
"XXI CENTURY", a documentary film in seven parts, tries to give some perspective and context to the events that have transpired in the wake of the 2000 presidential elections and September 11th, 2001 and to show how they relate to decisions and transgressions of the past. It looks at problems from a new angle in the belief that, in Albert Einstein's words 'the mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution.'
With Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Angela Davis, Curt Goering, Amy Goodman, Arno J. Mayer, Greg Palast, Katha Pollitt, Scott Ritter, Danny Schechter, Pete Seeger, Gore Vidal, Edmund White, Howard Zinn, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, with concerned citizens and celebrities speaking out at the massive demonstrations in New York and DC. Listening now to their viewpoints, expressed in the run up to the war, it's remarkable how prescient these experts and laypeople were.
The XXI Century includes the following titles:
XXI Century: ...and nothing but the truthLooks at the failure of the mainstream media to ask important questions and cover opposing points of view.
XXI Century: ...and the pursuit of happinessThe aftermath of 9/11: the war on terror, the Patriot Act, the looming Iraq war and massive peace demonstrations.
XXI Century: blood and oilThe stated reasons, and the real reasons, for the Iraq war.
XXI Century: civilizationIraq's history -- from the 'cradle of civilization' to the first Gulf War and UN sanctions.
XXI Century: pax americanaSpreading human rights and democracy...or empire?
XXI Century: the dawnA look at what really happened in the presidential elections of 2000.
XXI Century: war, peace and patriotismPatriotism, the 'chicken-hawks' and weapons of mass destruction.
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