Hacking Democracy

You can watch Hacking Democracy here.

HBO Acquires Barack Obama Documentary

Reuters news service reports that HBO has purchased the rights to an untitled documentary about President-Elect Barack Obama that is being produced by actor Edward Norton. Details.

PBS - YouTube "Video Your Vote" Project

Have you seen the Video Your Vote Project?

This is a fascinating project, and clearly a model for citizen civic video.

Torturing Democracy

Torturing Democracy.

Documentary and supporting materials here.

My Architect

"Don’t doubt the power of documentary films.

"That is one lesson William J. vanden Heuvel, the lawyer, diplomat and businessman, has learned. He says that the long-delayed project to build a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island — first proposed in 1973 — is finally moving forward in large part because of “My Architect,” a 2003 documentary by the son of the architect Louis I. Kahn."

Sewell Chan, "Plans for Long-Stalled F.D.R. Memorial Move Forward," City Room [blog], New York Times, 25 September 2008.

Slacker Uprising

Michael Moore's new film, Slacker Uprising, premieres tomorrow on the Internet, with a free download.

Fatal Politics

Steve Coll of the New Yorker writes on 19 September 2008 about a new web documentary on the 1972 presidential election and the Vietnam War.

"Ken Hughes, a research fellow in the Presidential Recordings Program, situated in the Miller Center, at the University of Virginia, is putting together an episodic Web documentary about the Vietnam War and the 1972 elections; some of his themes have an eerie resonance with this fall’s campaign"

The episodic documentary, Fatal Politics, is available on YouTube. See also Ken Hughes's site for Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, Vietnam & the Biggest Republican Presidential Landslide on MySpace.