The Stories of Suffering During the Balkan War Explained in Women War & Peace

Firstly, it is important to understand how the documentary form is best suited to illustrate the film’s theme. In order to do this, one must have an overview of the documentary style of filmmaking. Documentaries concern themselves with the “exploration of

Because I 'm older, curious by nature, and an avid reader of research (domestic and worldwide), and because social issues matter greatly to me, I didn 't really learn anything new from the documentary. However, it confirmed for me that my fears and growing apprehension about gun violence and guns in general are valid.

I was truly devastated by the stories that both Henry and Henia Bryer presented. I am able to gain appreciation for the things that appear insignificant in my life. As I picture myself in the shoes of Henry and Henia, I gain a sense of hatred towards the Germans. The images of the pile of naked, bony, and dead bodies within both videos truly impacted me. As I observed these images, I saw a glimpse of the horrendous life that the Jews had while living in the concentration camps.

4. Give your review of this documentary. What did or didn’t you like? Are there issues, opinions, or voices that are left

I thought the ethnographic work done by Dr. Myerhoff was done very well. She went into great detail about the rituals and parties that these elders had at their senior center. She did an amazing job of asking for descriptive feedback from the Jewish elders. This gave me a deeper understanding of their culture and how it affects them as individuals. This documentary is more mindful of the culture than the last film on Sara Baartman. I also liked how the film addressed the problem of valuing looks in our society. When we should be valuing what’s on the inside and not what’s on the

The documentary "Before Stonewall" was very educational and interesting because it shows a retail group that fought for the right to integrate into the society and was where the homosexual revolution occurred. Also, through this fight, the "LGBT" was born. The documentary shows how homosexual people enjoyed and shared with each other. Also, the documentary shows their participation in World War II and how the government discriminated and oppressed them even denying the right to federal

“The Longest War” by Rebecca Solnit convinces readers that the violence against women are in the content of the United States and the world. Solnit presented information that is regarding violence and rape statistical and personal views of gender and the inequality of male violence toward comparing women’s violence to men or women. She uses numerical facts ad provides statements of how this affects the way women perceive their surroundings. Solnit clearly makes a strong frequency and violence of rape by listing the details of rape and violence eight times within the first paragraph of the text. She uses many examples of how rape is a gendered issue and how many victims that fall prey to violence which lends us toward an engaging need to

Although the documentary The Invisible War is a film that features heroic War Veterans. It displays emotional and sympathetic stories that captures the attention of the viewers. It shamefully uncovers the secrets of sexual assault within the U.S. Military. Created by Academy and Emmy award winners, Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick. In this film Ziering and Dick try to convince their audience of the ongoing rape epidemic surrounding the U.S. Military. A film intended to reach an audience unaware of the issues, Ziering and Dick take their viewers on a mission to seek justice.

Although most of the material was that in the movie related to something we have learned previously in the course, it still offered new insight to certain aspects. One of the things I liked most about the documentary was as stated before was its ability to incorporate relatively everything we learned in the class. Such as having people from other documentaries, books and articles. Another thing I liked about the documentary was how despite reviewing a lot of material, it also gave real-life accounts of what was going on during that time. Overall the documentary sparked the interest in me to understanding more about how minorities, homosexuals, and hemophiliacs were treated before after and during the AIDS

I can’t say that I honestly enjoyed watching it, but then again that is not the point of a documentary such as this. This documentary, although not the most exciting to watch, forces you to constantly evaluate and consider the information being presented to you. There were times I would have to rewind just to give my thoughts a second to catch up, and in that sense, the film fully accomplished its goal. In discussing complicated ideas such as education, employment, and obedience it showed me just how narrow my scope of the world is, and I think I can better understand what the narrator meant and how he felt when he said: “almost everything I was brought up to believe turns out to be

Despite my overall positive opinion of the documentary, I did have some problems with the documentary. I feel that the documentary does not effectively focus in on the ideologies that defined the movement. They are mentioned occasionally but I felt like they should have been woven more thoroughly into the narrative like gray area between Black Power, socialism, and Marxism theories. Also, there seem to be a large focus on that type of sensationalized media that we are always warned about in this course. The division between Newton and Cleaver sections was portrayed in my opinion as a superficial squabble not a true conflict of ideology and the direction of the movement. Instead of just focusing on their public quarrels like the phone calls maybe they could have interviewed more people that chose a side and their reasonings behind doing that. In addition to interviewing those people, I think the documentary would have benefitted from interviews by more women. The documentary states that women were a large portion of the “rank and file” but if I am recalling correctly less than seven were interviewed in comparison to far more men. Nelson made it seem like the themes of gender and sexuality in the movement would be explored but it barely skated the surface like where was the discussion of womanism in the movement. I think that is a big problem that

During the Rwandan genocide, some rapes occurred recurrently throughout a timespan. “Sexual enslavements occurred when a woman was detained, typically in the house of an Interhamwe, and subjected to repeated sexual assaults over a period of days,” (Mullins 727). These kinds of rapes belong in their own category because of the added element of confinement and intent to continually rape and therefore, harm. An Interhamwe soldier named Rafiki, personally sought out one Tutsi woman whom he had

This documentary has a voice which is the most important part of any movie, furthermore, it has it own way of living and breathing and speaking to

This article is about a documentary. The components are based on the premise that violence against women is a direct consequence of patriarchal institutions that empower and privilege men over women. This was made to make visible the intimate violence and abuse that had been

The documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest has a plot that truly seems like something off of a twisted horror movie. With sudden twist and turns, keeping up with the story is intriguing as you do not know what information is next to come. The documentary is presented in a way that kept me at edge of my sit, presented so that the full story is not given right away, rather piece by piece without specific order. In the opening of the film, I was confused as to why Gypsy Rose would kill her mother and it seemed as though it was just another average murder documentary. However, things quickly became interesting and the “victim” began to be stripped of her innocence. I felt truly sorry for Gypsy and I could only imagine how life was for her, being in the blind never truly understanding the situation. When you are taught and controlled in a certain way, that is what you know and for Gypsy what she knew was a horror story life style. The way the documentary portrayed this 48-year-old savage, made me gain anger towards her. How could someone be such a despicable human? Even her parents talked in such a negative manner of her. With that being said, everyone knew the type of manipulative human being she was, therefore, someone at some point of time should have tried harder to check on Gypsy who had to deal with this woman for countless years. The conclusion of the film displayed some hope however it is sad that her happy ending had to end with 10 years in prison.