The Fourth World War (2003)

Director:

Rick Rowley

Stars:

Michael Franti, Suheir Hammad

Cast

Credited cast:
Michael Franti	...	Narrator
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Suheir Hammad	...	Narrator (voice)

Storyline

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Filming Locations:

Argentina

Company Credits

Production Co:

Big Noise Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Not what you see on American television

This film is a look at "the fourth world war", the global resistance of the working people of the world against the war being made on us by the owners of the world. It covers the last few years of this resistance, from the general strike of workers in South Korea, to the resistance to launching the war against Iraq.

The documentary is made by the same group which made the excellent documentary "This is What Democracy Looks Like", and like that movie the producers say they are indebted to Indymedia and activist groups for their help in making this. Like that film, this one pretty much lets events speak for themselves - as in that movie, you are in the streets with the people struggling, this time not in Seattle, but in Mexico, Palestine, Korea, Argentina, South Africa and so forth.

There is a gut-wrenching scene of doctors in Jenin trying to save a little girl whose body was completely shot up by Israeli soldiers, and then her father crying over her dead body. One thing that occurred to me while watching this is that this is that I would absolutely never see this on the US corporate media. My tax dollars are what paid for the bullets who shot that little girl, as are every US citizen taxpayers, which is why the existence of such things is completely absent from all that you watch on TV. It is wiped from existence, as surely as commissars in the USSR wiped events from existence. Thankfully, people are out there making films like these.