[my comments assume that you’ve already read the AFF description that I link to in each movie title]
Milk In The Land — I don’t see how anyone can take this seriously when they’ve selected obvious crackpots as their talking heads, don’t have enough functional intelligence to spell “concise” correctly, use “its” and “it’s” improperly, and can’t do the most basic sound mastering (leveling) so that the audience doesn’t have to stick its fingers in its ears half the time. A fascinating story of corporate distortion, propaganda and profiteering, unfortunately buried in a pretty badly executed documentary.
Our Land, Our Life — I think this is the point when I really started to feel worn down by the endless string of documentaries showing us, in detail, how our own government is screwing us. In this case, the victims are the Western Shoshone native Americans, and the root cause is mining concerns wanting to tear up the land that the Shoshone happen to own and live on.
Soldiers Of Conscience — This felt a little weird, what with the flags and stirring music and all. I’m guessing that it was produced by a church, since it seems to show the soldiers (who have decided to become Conscientious Objectors) coming to their decisions by way of Christian theological arguments. If you can ignore the slight schmaltz that results from a serious documentary being made by Ned Flanders, it’s a good doc.
The King And The Clown — A ton of fun and an entertaining window into medieval Korean history and the imperial courts. The acting was a bit broad, and this is no Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or even Farewell My Concubine, but it was worth watching.