Pat Aufderheide, In These Times. March 5, 2008. This year's Sundance Film Festival featured a host of political documentaries promoting activist causes.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. November 21, 2007. As the holiday shopping frenzy begins, one documentary explores the problems of mass consumerism and the exploited foreign labor it depends on.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. August 19, 2007. DiCaprio's 11th Hour is a powerful documentary that makes the case that our way of life is totally at odds with the sustainability of our planet. But the film needs the Hollywood star to draw a lot more publicity to it.
Deanna Zandt, AlterNet: Video. February 1, 2007. Deanna Zandt: A new documentary gets down to the bone on the life and times of America's consumer advocate...
Melissa Silverstein, Women's Media Center. November 3, 2006. A new film asks whether the Dixie Chicks paid a higher price for speaking out against Bush because they're women.