Brewster's Ramblings: Compiled Documentaries and Readings

List of documentary films and reading you probably haven't heard of, to open people's minds. Everything is freely available following the links I provided, though the links don't always last forever so they might not work. Just search the titles otherwise. Everything is essential to know about in my opinion, with a few bits of entertainment spread in. I recommend everything not listed here from the highlighted series in bold.

DOCUMENTARIES, MOVIES, INTERVIEWS, AND PODCASTS

My top 3 most important:

12/09/2016. John Pilger. “The Coming War on China” RT

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYa0jzM-SQ>, alt. <https://rtd.rt.com/films/the-coming-war-on-china/> ---- Probably the most urgent on this list

2002. Adam Curtis. “The Century of the Self” BBC.

<https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/bbc-the-century-of-the-self-happiness-machines-season-1-episode-1> ---- 4 parts.

2007. Adam Curtis. “The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom.” BBC

<https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/bbc-the-trap-what-happened-to-our-dream-of-freedom-f-k-you-buddy-episode-1> ---- 3 parts. Watch Century of the Self first. Be sure to watch both.

On Contact

11/26/2016. Chris Hedges. “Standing Rock Resistance (On Contact special episode)” RT America.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRO7arI1KNo>

11/20/2016. Chris Hedges. “On Contact: The Reality of Prostitution with Rachel Moran” RT America.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S2pE-Uoh6I>

10/02/2016. Chris Hedges. “On Contact: Political Persistence with Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Guillaume Long” RT America.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAWNZVY8iy4>

08/22/2016. Chris Hedges. “ON CONTACT: Inside the capitalist labyrinth with Rob Urie” RT America.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0bp8L7YHWE>

08/08/2016. Chris Hedges “Behind Bars with Walter Fortson and Boris Franklin” RT America.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EqgNKs_aI8>

The Empire Files

9/11/2016. Abby Martin. “The Empire Files: Chevron vs. the Amazon - Inside the Killzone” teleSUR English.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB7hrQUgIcw&t=1075s>

9/28/2016. Abby Martin. “The Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized” teleSUR English. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5L4YU_Fl4>

05/18/2016. Abby Martin. “The Empire Files: Understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff” teleSUR English.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yEiv1fIhyE>

01/15/2016. Abby Martin. “The Empire Files: The Tyranny of Big Oil” teleSUR English.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQL-TAT5Oj8>

Days of Revolt

11/03/2015. Chris Hedges. “Days of Revolt: The Corporate Coup d'etat with Ralph Nader” teleSUR English.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yePIn0zwGCc>

04/25/2016. Chris Hedges. “Days of Revolt: Coping with Reality.” teleSUR English.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nmy2uVb39I>

06/04/2016. Chris Hedges. “Days of Revolt: The Assault of the Animal Agriculture Industry” The Real News Network.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tjFE8VIdfI>

Dungey State University

11/01/2016. Nicholas Dungey. “Answering the Big Questions: What can be done? Where will we be in Ten Years? Will Wikileaks' Revelations Lead to Political Transformation?” Dungey State University.

<http://traffic.libsyn.com/urdsu/Answering_the_Big_Questions.mp3>

10/14/2016. Nicholas Dungey. “JS Mill's Philosophy of Anxiety and its Role in Personal and Political Transformation” Dungey State University.

<http://traffic.libsyn.com/urdsu/Anxiety.mp3>

08/17/2016. Nicholas Dungey. “From Liberal Democracy to Authoritarian Democracy” Dungey State University.

<http://traffic.libsyn.com/urdsu/From_Liberal_Democracy_to_Authoritarian_Democracy.mp3>

Laura Flanders Show

09/22/2016. Laura Flanders. “Laura Flanders Show - Beyond Bernie: Kshama Sawant and Ioannis Margaris” teleSUR English

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gym6aPTUzNs&t=649s&list=PLNAlnQ4hvLtTzqGCJfvPdEJe0plC4gZjH&index=3>

////////Standing Rock////////

11/18/2016. Rod Webber. “Whistleblower John Bolenbaugh tears up explaining Standing Rock's importance”

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVPKKNLb1N8&t=612s>

05/16/2013. The Lakota Sioux. “Red Cry | 2013 | Official Release” Red Cry Film.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfvAqCHpXgA> ---- Search Canupa Gluha Mani for condensed versions of this story. Very important!

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//////// Psychology ////////

11/28/2016. David Van Nuys. “Shrink Rap Radio Interview with Dan Siegel MD on his new book, Mind” Shrink Rap Radio.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di0qQpsmOHE&t=1s>

06/17/2016. David Van Nuys. “Full video of #507 with Jungian Mary Harrell Phd” Shrink Rap Radio.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIIWAJbYth4&t=4s>

09/05/2012. Yoram Yovell. “Neuro-Psychoanalysis – Where Mind Meets Brain” U of Halifax.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ4HsiavUCg>

1995. John Ralston Saul. “The Unconscious Civilization” CBC Massey Lectures.

<http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1995-cbc-massey-lectures-the-unconscious-civilization-1.2946856> ----- 5 parts.

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//////// Various ///////

1975. Orson Welles. “F is for Fake” Criterion Collection.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVgUjj6RxU>

05/24/2016. Lee Camp. “Half Hour With Peter Joseph, Creator Of The Zeitgeist Movement, Talks With Lee Camp [ep 5]” RT America.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4blM4nS_0q8>

1992. Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick. “Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the Media” Zeitgeist Video.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa6NflkW3Y>

2014. Tonje Hessen Schei. “Drone” Flimmer Film.

<http://putlockers.ch/watch-drone-online-free-putlocker.html>

11/22/2013. Bill Moyers. “Segment: Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics” Moyers & Company.

<http://billmoyers.com/segment/henry-giroux-on-zombie-politics/>

08/27/2013. Tyrel Ventura. “Abby Martin on Breaking The Set and Her Work at RT” The Lip TV.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSOVIKi-RgI&t=1460s>

12/02/2015. Chris Hedges. “After Words with Alain de Botton” BOOKTV.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivXmrnBpf8&t=2s>

2011. Ron Fricke. “Samsara”

<http://putlockers.ch/watch-samsara-online-free-putlocker.html>

01/25/2016. Psycho Sorcerer. “The Science Behind Magick and the Occult.” <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UovujD0EUxY&t=516s>

11/15/2016. Watching the Hawks. “A Century of War” RT America.

Part 1: Prometheus' Gift <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcx_NZh2MEw>

Part 2: Collapse at Home, Devastation Abroad <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0bRq-262S4>

Part 3: Harnessing Technology for What Ends? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhrx8qG5EjQ>

Part 4: Looking to the Stars & Ending the Century of War <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI5Kry5qu3M>

2013. Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley. “Dirty Wars”

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN4Sn5u_pK0>

1986. Georgiy Daneliya. “Kin Dza Dza!” Sovexportfilm.

<http://sovietmoviesonline.com/en/fantastic/5-kin-dza-dza.html>

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You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

06/16/2014. Pete Holmes. “You Made It Weird #216: Gentry Lee” The Nerdist.

<http://nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-216-gentry-lee/>

05/07/2014. Pete Holmes. “You Made It Weird #206: Brian Greene” The Nerdist.

<http://nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-206-brian-greene-theoretical-physicist/>

05/17 2013. Pete Holmes. “You Made It Weird #152: Rob Bell” The Nerdist.

<http://nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-152-rob-bell/>

Channel Criswell

12/09/2016. Lewis Criswell. “Editing in Storytelling.” Channel Criswell.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXEIlCrEgA&t=2s>

03/07/2016. Lewis Criswell. “Her – Needs & Desires” Channel Criswell.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RISgjGPkA0>

01/22/2016. Lewis Criswell. “Composition in Storytelling” Channel Criswell.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLQJReDhic>

READINGS

2006. Dan McAdams. “The role of narrative in personality psychology today” Northwestern U.

<https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/docs/publications/1049432884490a09930cdc3.pdf>

1997. Rod Swenson. “Thermodynamics, Evolution, and Behavior” The Encyclopedia of Comparative Psychology. Garland Publishers.

<http://www.sonoran-institute-for-epistemic-studies.org/images/HndbkComPsych.PDF>

1990. Colin Ross. “The Dissociated Executive Self and the Cultural Dissociation Barrier.” U of Oregon.

<https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1760/Diss_4_1_9_OCR_rev.pdf>

1984. Roland Barthes. “Myth Today”

<http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Barthes-Mythologies-MythToday.pdf>

1956. Albert Camus “The Rebel. An Essay on Man in Revolt” Vintage Books. <http://www.studyplace.org/wiki/images/9/96/Camus-1991-1-The-Rebel-1956-Intro.pdf>

1921. Yevgeny Zamyatin. We LeeCworkshops version.

<https://leecworkshops.wikispaces.com/file/view/yevgeny-zamyatin-we.pdf>

1980. Howard Zinn. A People's History of the United States History is a Weapon.

<http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html>

1916. Rabindranath Tagore. “The Spirit of Japan”

<http://www.online-literature.com/tagore-rabindranath/4393/>

Audiobook: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lujV8rg_Y4>

1887. Friedrich Nietzsche. “On the Genealogy of Morality” Cambridge.

<http://www.inp.uw.edu.pl/mdsie/Political_Thought/GeneologyofMorals.pdf>

Audiobook: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0zjQ2vGuI>

523. Boethius. “The Consolation of Philosophy” ExClassics.

<http://www.exclassics.com/consol/consol.pdf>

<200 AD. Hermes Trismegistus. “The Corpus Hermeticum”

<http://gnosis.org/library/hermet.htm> ---- Hermeticism, in parallel with Christian Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, inspired much of the scientific tradition, Newtonian physics, psychology, and so many more physical, political and social theories through the ages. Many modern intellectual traditions are still Hermetic at their core if you trace their authors' influences. Let your imagination run wild while you read it for the full effect. Also imagine the speaker is making fun of his contemporaries in the same breath, because Greeks.

2002. Ken Amis. “Toward a New Theory of Gravity” Lock Haven University.

<https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cutting/grav.htm>

1994. Karen Armstrong. “A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam”

<http://www.metaphysicspirit.com/books/A%20History%20of%20God.pdf>

1988. Jean Baudrillard. “Simulacra and Simulations” Stanford U. Press
<https://nbrokaw.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/baudrillardsimulacraandsimulations.pdf>

1988. E.T. Jaynes. “How Does the Brain do Plausible Reasoning?” Kluwer Academic Publishers.

<http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/brain.pdf> ---- Math heavy! This is a very readable example of a successful attempt to systematize human reasoning.

1996. Carl Sagan. “The Demon-Haunted World” Headline Book Publishing.

<http://www.metaphysicspirit.com/books/The%20Demon-Haunted%20World.pdf>

1999. Richard Feynman. “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” Perseus Books.

<http://www.sitpor.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Helix-Books-Richard-P.-Feynman-The-Pleasure-of-Finding-Things-Out_-The-Best-Short-Works-of-Richard-Feynman-Perseus-Publishing-Company-1999.pdf>

1973. Kurt Vonnegut. “Mother Night” Panther Publishing.

<http://schoolsites.schoolworld.com/schools/Cheltenham/webpages/rwilman/files/kurt%20vonnegut%20-%20mother%20night.pdf>

1963. Hannah Arendt. “Eichmann in Germany. A Report on the Banality of Evil.” Viking Press. <http://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/arendt_eichmanninjerusalem.pdf

1955. Milton Mayer. “But Then It Was Too Late” U of Chicago Press.

<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html>

1898. Mark Twain. “The Mysterious Stranger” Project Gutenberg.

<http://www.gutenberg.org/zipcat2.php/3186/3186-h/3186-h.htm>

1890. Oscar Wilde. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” University of Alberta.