Caught in the Crackdown is a comprehensive documentary tracking the violence, protests, and arrests stemming from the 'federal immigration sweeps' currently occurring across the United States. The film examines the tactics, legal cases, and impact of these operations, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis, presenting a multitude of cases of excessive use of force, illegal operations, and dangerous and excessive use of police weapons and tactics.
The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. The experiment set out to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience, in an attempt to answer the popular question at that time: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders?"
In a quarter of a century, the Amazon corporation has propelled Jeff Bezos from 'online bookseller' to technology behemoth. He is the richest man on the planet, and the company he founded is one of the most powerful in the world. This documentary investigates Amazon's rise to corporate rein, revealing the problematic inside-operations that have the public tethered to its services. Former high-level insiders describe Amazon's obsessive data-gathering operations, that enable the company to use what it knows about us to shape not only the future of retail, but the workplace and technology in synergy. On both sides of the world, politicians and regulators are tardily beginning to question Amazon's power. But can the public rein in this corporate empire and break its addiction before even more damage is done to the structure of society and the environment?
iHuman
iHuman is about artificial intelligence, social control, and power. It shows how this technology is changing dominant culture. The constant surveillance via phones, Internet devices, and social systems is the crucial foundation for the development of AI, so the question is posed, are we already are governed by algorithms that are created by big tech corporations, governments and the military industry? The result is a profiling of Palantir Technologies, Cambridge Analytica, China's Social Credit System, Google's Project Maven and its close relationship with the United States military, along with Amazon, Microsoft, IBM. All of this together forms the existential risk from 'Artificial General Intelligence.'