Five Oscar Nominees for Best Documentary

Food Inc.

Are you hungry for change? This film lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

The Cove

Directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, it documents the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan. It just won a Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary Feature Screenplay.

Which Way Home

Several unaccompanied children journey through Mexico en route to the US, on a freight train called "The Beast."

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg, a top-level Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on a decade of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the The New York Times.

Burma VJ

Armed with small handycams undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail.


Which doc do you think will pickup the Oscar???

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Feb 26, 2010
Peter said...
I think that the oscar should go to Burma VJ.. superb film
Feb 26, 2010
Marlisa said...
Food Inc.- We need to get the word out about food processing and distribution. Do happy cows really come from California? You can be the judge. Oscar worthy for content (informational) and effort.

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Berma VJ- The undercover effort put into this film is deserving of an Oscar.

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