Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Challenging Documentaries for C1+ (UPDATED!)

Like many of you, I am often curious about the world but have little funds and time to be able to explore and see EVERYTHING the world has to offer. Thankfully thats what Louis Theroux was born to do. Enjoy and let me know how these documentaries made you feel by commenting below! (Also this is great practice at understanding the British accent, ROIGHT?!) For other documentaries I've posted before please check this link.

Louie Theroux and the Ultra Zionists -
Louis Theroux in Jerusalem's Old City, overlooking the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount
The Ultra Zionists is a British documentary that was televised on 3 February 2011. Louis Theroux investigates ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, Hebron and Nablus. 

Wikipedia defines Zionism thusly: "Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת Tsiyyonut IPA: [t͡sijo̞ˈnut] after Zion) is a nationalist and political movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel (roughly corresponding to Palestine, Canaan or the Holy Land)."

More interesting information about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:

This American Life (Podcast): The Night in Question
Twenty years ago, the prime minister of Israel was assassinated. The killer was a lone gunman, Israeli and Jewish, just like the prime minister. Lots of witnesses saw it happen; the assassin confessed immediately, that night, and has never recanted. But today, oddly, lots of people don’t believe it happened that way. And a question hangs over the country: did this act change the fate of the nation?

Documentary: 5 Broken Cameras. (Also available on Netflix) Beginning in 2005, Palestinian Emad Burnet records his village's resistance to the encroachment of Israeli settlements. Also there is a connection here to a couple of scenes in Louis' documentary. 12 minutes into the Ultra Zionists you can see the Israeli side of the protests that people from the village pictured in 5 Broken Cameras go to every week to protest... 

Please let me know if you have any other interesting documentaries regarding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Transgender Kids: 



Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of pioneering medical professionals help children who say they were born in the wrong body transition from boy to girl or girl to boy at ever younger ages.
At the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF Hospital Louis meets children who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Louis is told that children as young as three can show signs of rejecting the gender they were assigned at birth, leaving parents with a difficult dilemma - do they start transitioning a child who is still developing their own identity or do they wait and risk making the change once their body has gone through the transformations of puberty?
It is a decision that can be the start of a complex series of medical interventions, from puberty blockers to hormone replacement therapy and eventually gender reassignment surgery. Louis spends time with children and their families as they negotiate their way along this life-changing journey.
Louis Theroux: Behind Bars is a television documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux about one of America's most notorious prisons, San Quentin. There, he meets and speaks to serial murderers, gang members, at-risk inmates and guards.

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