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The Israel Lobby (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2007)
For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so? In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. In it they state that it is not, or no longer, expedient for the US to support and protect present-day Israel. The documentary sheds light on both parties involved in the discussion: those who wish to maintain the strong tie between the US and Israel, and those who were critical of it and not infrequently became 'victims' of the lobby. The question arises to what extend the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's former chief-of-staff) explains how the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House.
With political scientist John Mearsheimer, neocon Richard Perle, lobby organization AIPAC, televangelist John Hagee, historian Tony Judt, Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth, colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Democrat Earl Hilliard, Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy and investigative journalist Michael Massing.
Research: William de Bruijn
Director: Marije Meerman
For more information visit http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/34338524/
Length: 3031
Rating: 4.70 (511 ratings)
Tags: Israel lobby US Powell WMD Perle AIPAC Roth Wilkerson Mearsheimer Judt Massing Levy Hagee Hilliard UN Obama Iraq Biden
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Google: Behind the Screen (IJsbrand van Veelen VPRO 2006)
This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look in the world of Google and search.
What if all the world's information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere?
This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising its core mission at an amazing speed: through its popular search engine, through Google Earth, with which users can find any kind of information based on geography, and through Google Print, a project in which Google digitizes complete libraries.
Google is divulging ever more information, in the process hiring the smartest people in the industry. But is the company aware of the responsibility it has, being the guard to all the world's information, including personal information about its users?
This documentary takes a look into the world of Google, in the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California and in its London offices. We see --among others- Vint Cerf, named 'the father' of the Internet who explains the inner workings of Google as a company. Since 2004, Cerf has been working for Google, helping them to develop new applications for the Internet. What is his view on the development of the Internet, and on the role Google plays in today's world?
With its motto 'Don't be evil', Google seems to have the best intentions. But there are also claims that Google is slowly turning into Big Brother, keeping track of its users and continuously making decisions about the information it provides to an ever faster growing number of users.
Will Google turn out to be a new Library of Alexandria, serving as a middleman that brings all useful information to anyone? Or is it turning into a monopolistic Big Brother that challenges the freedom of information?
Research: Martijn Kieft
Director: IJsbrand van Veelen
VPRO Backlight 2006
Length: 2827
Rating: 4.60 (126 ratings)
Tags: google information privacy search silicon valley cerf digitize internet big brother monopoly
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Lou Rhodes 3 songs VPRO Holland
i converted the original again because the video and sound werent sync, I cut out the 3 songs of this TV program and joined them together again, PsychO_GroupiE
Length: 567
Rating: 5.00 (54 ratings)
Tags: lamb Lou Rhodes tremble save moment
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Saudi Solutions (Bregtje van der Haak, VPRO 2005)
How to combine modernity and fundamentalist Islam. "Saudi Solutions" is a unique and revealing documentary about the lifestyles and attitudes of ambitious career women
in conservative Saudi Arabia -- the only country in the Arab
world where women are obliged to cover themselves inabayas and aren't allowed to drive cars. Because of the strong influence of fundamentalist Islam on society, filming
is severely restricted in Saudi Arabia. With unique access to the Kingdom, Backlight had the opportunity to film the daily routines of Saudi working women. This documentary
features a top gyneacologist, a TV news anchor woman, a photographer, and a university professor. It also introduces
the wealthy Prince Al-Waleed, who passionately promotes the acceptance of women into the workforce. He kindly invites
Backlight to his luxury desert camp, but there are no women to be found—only thousands of men.
Length: 4628
Rating: 4.40 (202 ratings)
Tags: documentary backlight politics Saudi tegenlicht women waleed islam VPRO haak
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Intel vPro
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Length: 280
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: vPro Intel RAM TV
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In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko (Jos de Putter, VPRO 2007)
It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, died in his place of residence London last November, after having been poisoned with a radioactive substance.
The search for the possible perpetrators lead to a political difficult situation that reminded us of the dark days of the Cold War.
Three years ago Aleksander Litvinenko told his life story to documentary maker Jos De Putter. It is a wild tale full of conspiracies, assassination attempts and imputations. Litvinenko talks about his time with the secret service, about his experience in Chechnya, and in particular about the series of bomb attacks on Russian territory that led to the seizure of power by Vladimir Putin. According to Litvinenko those attacks were the work of the secret service.
After Litvinenko's funeral in December 2006, Backlight spoke to Litvinenko's widow. Marina Litvinenko is writing a book about her husband. The book will be published in May 2007 and the film rights have already been sold to Columbia Pictures. In this unique interview, she speaks about how they first met, how they fled to England and she speaks about Aleksander´s death agony.
We also see Litvinenko's father Walter, with Chechen leader and Litvinenko's closest friend Akhmed Zakayev and the prominent Russian exile Vladmir Bukovsky, also a friend of Litvinenko.
The result is an impressive 55-minute portrait of a former spy whose death brought him worldwide fame.
Directors: Jos de Putter and Masja Novikova
VPRO Backlight 2007
For more info, please visit: http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/34834898/
Length: 3323
Rating: 4.80 (88 ratings)
Tags: litvinenko putin Russia KGB FSB murder spy death chechnya Zakayev Bukovsky
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Kasparov (Winter Guests, VPRO 2008)
Garry Kasparov speaks to Joris Luyendijk in VPRO's Winter Guests. Excerpt (Dutch subtitles)
To view more excerpts from this interview, go to http://www.vpro.nl/programma/wintergasten/afleveringen/38235675/
For a documentary portrait of Kasparov watch the Backlight episode Kasparovs Other Russia: http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/39216219/ (from march 3 2008, Russian, Dutch subtitles).
Length: 1268
Rating: 4.30 (15 ratings)
Tags: russia kasparov chess luyendijk vpro politics putin europe interview commentary the other opposition
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