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Free Documentaries
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Don't want to pay for streaming? We get it! These streaming services are getting expensive - and now more than ever, every penny counts! We don't think this should prevent anyone from staying informed. We've done the work of finding these free documentaries, so you don't have to!
Supersize Me
Winner at Sundance, director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects.
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids. Written by The Media Education Foundation
13th
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
The Social Dilemma
The Social Dilemma by Jeff Orlowski explores the negative consequences of the social media phenomenon among teens and young adults. The film interviews former employees of top technology companies such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Mozilla, gleaning their opinions on how these companies have strong influences in today’s social, cultural, and political realms and not for the better.
The Social Dilemma delves into the ability of social media to spread rumors, false information, social and political manipulations, and bullying content like wildfire. It also explains how devastating this effect has been on the youth as they have become addicted to the opinions and views of others on these platforms to the detriment of their mental health.
This documentary ultimately exposes the increase in teen depression and suicide rate and its connection with the dangers of addiction to the various available social platforms.
The Social Dilemma delves into the ability of social media to spread rumors, false information, social and political manipulations, and bullying content like wildfire. It also explains how devastating this effect has been on the youth as they have become addicted to the opinions and views of others on these platforms to the detriment of their mental health.
This documentary ultimately exposes the increase in teen depression and suicide rate and its connection with the dangers of addiction to the various available social platforms.
Medicating Normal
This full-length, award-winning documentary unearths the shattering truth that millions of people worldwide are injured by prescribed psychiatric medications. Interweaving stories of harm with expert testimony, the film reveals how a profit-driven industry hides the risks of long-term use. This untold story is a compelling call to examine the consequences of medicating normal human suffering.
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