Essential Viewing
41 2013-03-09 by freeman84
I just revisited The Century of the Self for the second or third time and while I was watching it, I couldn't help but think that this was one of the most influential and important documentaries I had seen since my 9/11 awakening. And if I were pick one video as a starting point; as an introduction into the world of conspiracy theories, that this would be it.
So that got me thinking about all the other videos that I've seen and if I were to try and introduce this subject to a friend or family member that is still asleep, what videos, and in what order would I want to show them?
It would be cool to try and create a list of essential videos to watch, that step by step will lead you deeper through the rabbit hole. Each one acting as a precursor for the next.
I'll start with some big ones I can remember and I'll add and move around videos as they're suggested. Even short clips will be considered.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
The Trap - What Happened to our Dreams of Freedom
Joe Rogan - The American War Machine
9/11 A Conspiracy Theory in 5 Minutes
9/11 Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out
9/11 Experiments: The Great Thermate Debate
John Perkins "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"
51 comments
13 actual-size1 2013-03-09
Seriously? Zeitgeist? The first one was literally one of the biggest jokes I've seen peddled as a "documentary."
Edit: I'd like to also add that anyone who supports their "Venus Project" solution has to be completely clueless. But seriously the part on religion is one of the most poorly researched things I've seen in years. Also, Peter Joseph later distanced himself from 9/11 truth so that part of the documentary clearly was added just to draw "truthers" in to their bullshit solution.
4 onlysaneman_ 2013-03-09
Not sure why Zeitgeist gets so much flack around here. Looking back, the first one wasn't exactly great, but it was the film that got me on the road to finding out more about those subjects.
I'm sort of torn with regards to the Venus Project thing. I honestly can't see a better solution than a resource based economy - it genuinely looks like the best way to advance humanity. Will it come about within our lifetime? Fuck no. Unfortunately we live in a world full of idiots, and for every 1 person that is willing to keep a level head and work towards a better future, there are 99 that will fuck things up.
What's got me confused about the whole 'movement' now, is that they've apparently cut ties with the Venus Project, so i don't exactly know where their 'movement' is going.
1 MRuppert 2013-03-09
It probably gets a lot of flack because it is the epitome of horrible research. Calling it a documentary is really a misnomer, IMO. Also the Venus Project is literally indistinguishable from what most people would call the "New World Order" in most ways.
I can't speak to the last part I haven't really kept up with what they're doing after seeing all the documentaries and actually looking into them a bit.
Edit: also, I'm sure it also gets a lot of flack because of Joseph's whole disavowal of the "9/11 truth" thing.
1 onlysaneman_ 2013-03-09
I'm not sure how you've made that connection. I can see how you'd connect something like Agenda 21 to the NWO, but that is pretty far removed from what the Venus Project is, even if it masquerades itself as having many similar goals. Anyone with half an ounce of sense can see that Agenda 21 has nothing to do with 'sustainability' though.
The biggest issue with that is the motives behind such a thing, anyway. I'm sure you could use a Venus Project-type system to implement world social control, but you could also use it to solve a lot of the problems that we face today, and take humanity to the next level of social and technological progress.
But yeah, i agree that the first film wasn't done particularly well. And Joseph basically admits that the 9/11 section of the was just there as an audience grab when he was on Joe Rogan's podcast. Certainly worked on me, and i'm glad of it - it prompted me to start looking into things like this.
2 MRuppert 2013-03-09
Actually, it's exactly what the Project is designed to do. Joseph even said that you would be "reeducated" if you didn't see things the way they do. Everything would be controlled, though in this case it would be a "benevolent" machine. How wonderful!
2 onlysaneman_ 2013-03-09
Well it certainly isn't perfect, but i can't see it being anywhere near as bad as the situation we're in now. I get the impression that you assume that the Venus Project would somehow trap us into some acceptable social norms that we don't want. Well guess what - we have that now. You're talking as if you think we're all currently free to do and think as we will, but we very much aren't.
At least with a resource based economy, we wouldn't be required to blow the fuck out of other countries and leave people to starve to death all over the world. There are issues with it, of course, but it's a hell of a step forward from where we currently are. We're way past the stage where we can allow people to be completely 'free', anyway. There are 7 billion people on this planet, it's hardly practical to let everyone do what they want without thought for others or the environment. Freedom is a complete illusion in the modern world.
1 MRuppert 2013-03-09
I would say you're reading something into what I wrote that simply is not there.
And you're trusting a certain class of people or machine to make these decisions why exactly?
Issues which I cannot overlook to the point of endorsing the project.
That's the kind of thinking I find legitimately worrisome. Clearly you don't see the problems with it. I encourage you to look to some of Joseph's interviews with people who disagree with him or to previous attempts at similar projects in the past. Also I don't know if you're a fan of the UN but you might want to look into that whole connection with the project as well. If you're a fan of the UN then it'll probably just reinforce your beliefs.
You might also want to look at what a miserable failure it's been, practically speaking. It's also based on non-existent technology. Why don't we just base a theoretical society on perpetual motion machines or time travel or teleportation? Obviously those are all less realistic but come on, how can you support something that's built on an entirely non-existent framework?
1 onlysaneman_ 2013-03-09
Not sure what you're getting at here. It's a complete non-decision with those issues.
Whether it's worrisome or not, it doesn't change the fact that real freedom just isn't possible. I'm talking about freedom to acquire whatever resources you want to please yourself - like John Travolta's freedom to have 2 jets and a runway at his 40 bedroom house. That just isn't something you can do on a planet with finite resources and 7 billion people to share them with; it's ridiculous. Freedom of expression etc are completely different, and i can't see them being impacted negatively by this vision. Freedom is a nice idea, but we all have to abide by some rules, otherwise everything would go to utter shit.
No, i'm not a fan of the UN. I can't comment on that, but i will look into it.
I could completely understand how it could have failed in the current system, because it is so at odds with it. As for the technology, i haven't seen a single example that doesn't yet exist being touted as fundamental to a resource-based economy.
You do, however, make a good point about the framework being non-existent. This is the biggest doubt i have about the whole thing. I just can't see how we would transition from where we are now, to the vision that Fresco has. And tbh, i'm not actually a huge fan of the Venus Project itself, rather than the concept of a resource based economy; it just so happens that it is the poster-child for it. It seems like he has some great ideas, but in actual fact, i haven't seen him get down to anything beyond drawing pretty pictures on his website.
I honestly believe it's totally possible, and would be a huge leap forward in terms of human progress. But if everything fell apart tomorrow, the world went to shit, and after 2 years of living in a state of complete collapse, we decided to band together and set out this vision for the future - I have a very hard time seeing how we'd get from there to something that resembled a functioning society.
Everything works in stages. We didn't jump from using horse-hair bulbs to LEDs, and we won't jump from where we are now to a RBE, without some fairly significant steps in-between.
1 MRuppert 2013-03-09
Try all of the technology Peter Joseph (edit: and Fresco, they're really inseparable) talks about. It's theoretical or at the most basic stage it's like planning Google in the 60s.
I'm sorry but I don't see why you'd be promoting an RBE while doubting the Venus Project since that's what it's all about. I find that confusing.
3 eojen 2013-03-09
Yeah, the religion one is truly awful. The 9/11 one at least got me thinking to do my own research on it and really opened my eyes.
0 indeedwatson 2013-03-09
Including Zeitgeist makes it sound like a Cracked.com list.
11 general_kush 2013-03-09
I think War by Deception 2013 is better than Loose Change.
2 KonDon 2013-03-09
agreed. the last zietgiest is not really essential either, as well as the first part of the first one, which is totally bogus.
6 Orangutan 2013-03-09
Men Behind the Curtain ~ 47 minute primer on the Federal Reserve System
This still stands the test of time in my opinion.
0 Makaveli777 2013-03-09
eh I wouldn't dismiss the first part of zeitgeist as bogus. Indeed there were discrepancies in the area of Horus's birthday but not much more. What there giving you is a glimpse into the occult. A glimpse of what is taught in secret societies all over the world. And some would argue, the truth. Are you a christian?
2 KonDon 2013-03-09
Nope. Looking at the first part, the mythology doesn't line up. It is factually incorrect. Zietgiest is a good way to get started but there are much better docs out there.
1 Makaveli777 2013-03-09
what are some others?
2 Makaveli777 2013-03-09
interesting. I'll have to check that one out.
7 godiebiel 2013-03-09
Human Resources, should belong to this list, ut's Century of Self, just deeper down the hole.
7 jakenichols 2013-03-09
Ugh Zeitgeist is such a bad movie. It is one of those give you some good info then drag you straight back into the NWO hell pit with that whole Venus Project/Agenda 21 redux as the "logical utopia"
-1 freeman84 2013-03-09
I agree moving forward isn't really the best one, I do think the first 2 are important even if you don't agree with eveything
5 [deleted] 2013-03-09
only 2 good vidoes on there
and a lot of theosphical society bullshit
1 freeman84 2013-03-09
so please suggest some that are better
1 [deleted] 2013-03-09
Reel bad arabs
Behind The Big News Propaganda and the CFR
-1 Makaveli777 2013-03-09
why is it bullshit?
1 [deleted] 2013-03-09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00DH30LXB3M
5 Orangutan 2013-03-09
Documentaries.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com
http://www.freedocumentaries.org
http://documentaryheaven.com/
http://www.sprword.com/all.html
http://www.documentarywire.com/
http://www.northtexas911truth.com/apps/videos/
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com
http://www.fastpasstv.eu/documentaries
http://www.filmsforaction.org
http://watchdocumentary.com/
Money:
Men Behind the Curtain
The Money Masters
The Secret of Oz
The American Dream
America: Freedom to Fascism
Fiat Empire
The Capitalist Conspiracy 1971
The Monopoly Men 1999
Inside Job ~ Charles Ferguson
97% Owned - Monetary Reform documentary - Directors Cut (not yet seen)
9/11:
Loose Change: An American Coup
TerrorStorm ~ Alex Jones
9/11: Press For Truth
Fabled Enemies
Zero: Investigation into 9/11
Elephant in the room
Who Killed John O'Neill
New American Century
A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995
9/11: Experts Speak Out
World Agenda:
America: Freedom to Fascism
Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
The Empire of "the City" (world superstate)
Wake Up Call ~ New World Order 2008
Norman Dodd interview
Core of Corruption
Flow: For Love of Water
The Shock Doctrine (2009)
UROKO - Connecting the Dots - Full Length
Media Manipulation:
Outfoxed
The Control Room
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Corporate Control:
Enron: Smartest Men in the room.
The Corporation
Who Killed the Electric Car
Flow: For Love of Water
The Trap - Adam Curtis
War on Drugs:
American Drug War
The Union ~ The Business Behind Getting High
An Unholy Alliance
Letter to the President
Foreign Interventions:
The Revolution will not be televised ~ Venezuela
Our Brand is Crisis ~ Bolivian Election
The Trials of Henry Kissinger ~ Chile
Cover-Up: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair
South of the Border ~ Oliver Stone
Life and Debt ~ Jamaica
The Take ~ Argentina
Politics:
Boogie Man ~ The Lee Atwater story.
The Franklin Cover-Up
The Carlyle Group
Washington, You're Fired.
Psywar
Food/Health:
We Feed the World
The Future of Food
Sweet Misery ~ A Poisoned World
The World according to Monsanto
The Pharmacratic Inquisition
Viva La Causa ~ Cesar Chavez
Food, Inc.
The End of the Line. (fishing)
Sea the Truth (2010) not yet seen
Tapped.
Genetic Roulette
Energy:
• Heavy Watergate: The War Against Cold Fusion (00:46:06)*
• The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla (00:49:58)*
• Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point (01:49:38)*
• Equinox - It Runs on Water (00:50:18)
• Tesla: The Genius Who Lit The World (00:42:11)
• The Invisible Machine - Electromagnetic Warfare (00:45:28)
• Interview with Tom Bearden: Forgotten Work of Nikola Tesla (01:23:31)
• Holes in Heaven: HAARP (00:49:58)
Oil:
The Prize ~ 8 hours on Oil.
History of Oil ~ Robert Newman
Collapse - Michael Ruppert
Fuel
Who Killed the Electric Car
Gas Hole
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Environment:
Split Estate
Gasland
Fuel
Water:
Flow: For the Love of Water
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Tapped. (bottled water)
Assassination:
JFK II
The Assassination of JFK Jr.
Evidence of Revision
The Men Who Killed Kennedy
War:
No End In Sight.
Taxi to the Dark Side
Arsenal of Hypocrisy
The Fog of War
The Most Dangerous Man in America
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Voting Integrity:
American Blackout
The Big Buy: Tom Delay
Uncounted
Murder, Spies, and Voting Lies
Hacking Democracy - Bev Harris
Commander in Thief
Free for All
2 Weedtastic 2013-03-09
Thanks
4 Orangutan 2013-03-09
The Money Masters ~ 3 hrs
The Secret of Oz ~ 2 hrs
The American Dream ~ 30 min
9/11: A Conspiracy Theory ~ 5 min
Solving the Mystery of WTC Building 7 ~ 15 min
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup ~ 1 hr 30 min (2009)
9/11: Experts Speak Out ~ 1 hr
Evidence of Revision ~ long
The Men Who Killed Kennedy Chapter 9 - The Guilty Men ~ 45 min
3 punisher2404 2013-03-09
Good list there!
3 InspectorBloor 2013-03-09
I really like the information zeitgeist presents, but I am 100% against the end goal of their solution. Which has us all living in little pockets of civilization, and absolutely decimates the sovereignty of the individual
1 [deleted] 2013-03-09
Individualism is overrated.
1 InspectorBloor 2013-03-09
Not when it keeps the boot of the state off of your throat.
3 grandmacaesar 2013-03-09
For videos under 5 minutes:
This Corbett Report video covers a lot (though it moves kinda fast...you may have to pause it after every statement if you're working to inform others).
Anthony Lawson made a great video focusing on WTC7.
And for those easily swayed (pun intended) by a music video, this covers the basics of the four crime scenes, with essential links in the description.
3 spooghet 2013-03-09
Zeitgeist?.... You noob.
2 Djr1423 2013-03-09
Great list. Thank you!
2 Iwokeuptwice 2013-03-09
Secrets in plane sight changed the way I see the world.
0 freeman84 2013-03-09
Yes it is certainly eye opening.
2 DJ_Derp 2013-03-09
Core of Corruption : in The Shadows is a MUST watch.
2 watch4synchronicity 2013-03-09
If you really want to understand most things, watch Deliberate Dumbing Down of America on youtube with Charolette Iserbyt. It provides the framework for everything else.
0 freeman84 2013-03-09
Anything that Alex Jones is involved with, I'm highly suspicious of.
2 watch4synchronicity 2013-03-09
Self-censoring your information is your worst enemy.
2 [deleted] 2013-03-09
Ugh reading through these comments reminds me why I hardly visit this sub anymore. Buncha haters. But I just wanted to thank you for recommending CoS. I'm about half way through and I can't stop watching. I haven't seen zeitgeist in years but I support you in including that. There's some legit material in it and it is most definitely thought provoking, which in theory is something this sub should get behind. Good post!
2 freeman84 2013-03-09
Thanks a lot, glad you're enjoying CoS.
1 VideoLinkBot 2013-03-09
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1 [deleted] 2013-03-09
Thanks for posting. I haven't watched all of these, but I will watch the bottom four.
Century of Self is a prime example of what they leave out of the promotion of 'individualism' in the United States.
0 Makaveli777 2013-03-09
Lol I look down the list of comments and almost every viable source for documentaries and what have you is down voted into negatives. Fuck the guy doing that. Suck a dick asshole.
0 StanhopeHicks 2013-03-09
Great list!
-1 Weedtastic 2013-03-09
/r/conspiracydocumentary
-2 mattfuckingwaters 2013-03-09
"911 missing links" is easily the best documentary out there. If you haven't seen it... Watch it right now. Right now.
0 mattfuckingwaters 2013-03-09
Who down votes this?!?!?
FUCK Israel
2 KonDon 2013-03-09
Nope. Looking at the first part, the mythology doesn't line up. It is factually incorrect. Zietgiest is a good way to get started but there are much better docs out there.
1 Makaveli777 2013-03-09
what are some others?
1 onlysaneman_ 2013-03-09
Not sure what you're getting at here. It's a complete non-decision with those issues.
Whether it's worrisome or not, it doesn't change the fact that real freedom just isn't possible. I'm talking about freedom to acquire whatever resources you want to please yourself - like John Travolta's freedom to have 2 jets and a runway at his 40 bedroom house. That just isn't something you can do on a planet with finite resources and 7 billion people to share them with; it's ridiculous. Freedom of expression etc are completely different, and i can't see them being impacted negatively by this vision. Freedom is a nice idea, but we all have to abide by some rules, otherwise everything would go to utter shit.
No, i'm not a fan of the UN. I can't comment on that, but i will look into it.
I could completely understand how it could have failed in the current system, because it is so at odds with it. As for the technology, i haven't seen a single example that doesn't yet exist being touted as fundamental to a resource-based economy.
You do, however, make a good point about the framework being non-existent. This is the biggest doubt i have about the whole thing. I just can't see how we would transition from where we are now, to the vision that Fresco has. And tbh, i'm not actually a huge fan of the Venus Project itself, rather than the concept of a resource based economy; it just so happens that it is the poster-child for it. It seems like he has some great ideas, but in actual fact, i haven't seen him get down to anything beyond drawing pretty pictures on his website.
I honestly believe it's totally possible, and would be a huge leap forward in terms of human progress. But if everything fell apart tomorrow, the world went to shit, and after 2 years of living in a state of complete collapse, we decided to band together and set out this vision for the future - I have a very hard time seeing how we'd get from there to something that resembled a functioning society.
Everything works in stages. We didn't jump from using horse-hair bulbs to LEDs, and we won't jump from where we are now to a RBE, without some fairly significant steps in-between.