e.g. if you execute vlc https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/countries/kp.m3u, you get channels from North Korea

It seems to have thousands of channels available; I think it's around 6000. That's some world culture right there. Enjoy.

He also refers to his own culture in the past tense smh

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259534/ – 9.2 rating

Runtime 2h15m

The fantastic story of Rama, a young prince who has been banished to the forest by his stepmother. He is under the protection of his wife Sita and his brother Lakshman. When a powerful demon king Ravan abducts Sita, Rama reduces into tears and sorrow but he stays strong and fights. He must fight warrior demons, control his sorrow and fight until his wife is free.

• IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27208330/ –8.7 out of 10

A guy who is struggling financially and trying to pay for his father's healthcare gets drawn into a violent crime family in the northeast

Highly recommended, provided you're ok with rough, intense crime stuff

Let's copy American city planning what could go wrong?

Assassin’s Creed and Total War have proven that video games can be better than any tattered textbook at bringing history alive – though they do tend to retread the same old battlegrounds of western Europe. China’s Everstone Studio is hoping to change that, letting players loose on an open world 10th-century China in its debut game, Where Winds Meet.

Here, we are put into the sandals of a nameless young martial artist and transported back to the dramatic fall of the Southern Tang dynasty, where the sudden poisoning of Emperor Li Yu thrusts our hero into a dangerous new world. Despite its indie origins, Where Winds Meet looks like a game with a big budget behind it, drawing comparisons to Sucker Punch’s multimillion dollar samurai epic Ghosts of Tsushima. Its sprawling depiction of southern China is a sight to behold; comb through the gameplay videos and you’ll see its hero roaming across a luscious countryside one minute, stumbling upon a serene wildlife-filled pond the next and then being pursued by bandits after dark, dodging arrows on rain-soaked rooftops.

Where Japanese-made series such as Dynasty Warriors have had players happily cleaving their way across China’s third-century Three Kingdom era since the days of the PS2, Where Winds Meets dials the clock forward, exploring a far more chaotic and uncertain chapter of Chinese history. “Our goal was to offer something different,” say Everstone, who prefer to be quoted as a collective. “The Five Dynasties and 10 Kingdoms period in Chinese history is an extraordinary era characterised by disorder, even surpassing the turbulence of the Three Kingdoms era. As creators, we find this period fascinating.”

Where Winds Meets is heavily influenced by Wuxia cinema – the genre popularised by Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Combining history with a healthy dose of mythology, players can expect to hear philosophical musings from ancient Chinese poets, wrestle wild bears and master an ancient strand of kung fu by carefully observing a bathing frog.

“[Where Winds Meet] encompasses both realistic combat moves and elements that defy physical laws, filled with romantic imagination,” Everstone say. “We are striving to replicate various unique weapons from eastern martial arts, such as spears, swords, fans, dual swords, umbrellas and long knives.”

Where the aforementioned multimillion selling Ghost of Tsushima was a 13th-century Japan-set epic made by a firmly American studio, Where Winds Meets deals with the culture and history of its studios’ own homeland. When it comes to depicting kung fu especially, the team has gone to great lengths to do it justice. “We pay great attention to the portrayal of martial arts,” the team says. “ There are many fascinating kung fu designs, such as Xing Yi Quan, which originated from the simulation of animal hunting behaviour, and Fei Yan Zou Bi (which translates to “flying over eaves and walking on walls”), enabling swift traversal over obstacles.

“This kind of kung fu has appeared before in martial arts literature and films but … this fusion isn’t merely about combining martial arts themes with an open-world game setting; it involves a genuine interweaving of these elements, to the extent that removing either component would render the experience incomplete. The collision and integration of these eastern martial arts abilities … this is what sets us apart from other open-world games.”

In an intriguing touch, outside the blood-spattered main storyline, Everstone promises that players will be free to ignore their heroic quest in order to take up more unconventional roles. You can hone your gift of the gab to become an entrancing orator, study medicine and roleplaying as a doctor or lay down your sword to learn construction or commerce, bringing a life-simulation flavour to this historical epic.

Where Winds Meet’s ambition is commendable at a time when spiralling production costs are leading many studios to produce increasingly safe and conservative open-world games that feel the same, despite their different settings. Its developers are delving into their heritage to create something distinct.

• It starts with an anecdote of how the author was namechecked as a "Black historian". He says, "Who knew? Until then, I was simply known as a historian. The editor was dismayed when I complained about not wanting to be racialised in this way; he imagined I’d be delighted with the capitalisation and upgrade from black to Black." The editor had been advised to do this by Americans.... "America’s obsession with race and its culture wars, focused in recent years on Derrick Bell’s critical race theory (the notion that racism is an ineradicable feature of the US)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory – Wikipedia describes the theory as including tenets that "race is... a normalized feature of American society.... and that racism in the U.S. is permanent."

This is about as relevant to the 96% of humanity as gender relations in China. Relevant to a smaller number of people, in fact

• "Owolade contends that Britain continues to cede authority to the US, especially in matters of race.... Britain’s problems with race pale beside the awful day-to-day enmity in the US. Increasingly, though – with the murder of George Floyd, the adoption of acronyms such as Bipoc (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour).... Black Lives Matter, and the mass incarceration of African American men — insights from across the Atlantic are embraced. This is tied up with the allure of America generally, believes Owolade. Which is undoubtedly true: even today British newspapers are more likely to genuflect in front of an African American than a black Briton."

This is right. America has unique race-relations that I don't claim to understand and amn't particularly interested in. An American will screech, "But they're objectively important!". Well they are objectively less important than Amhara-Oromo relations, for example; they cause fewer problems and kill far fewer people.

Racial issues happen everywhere, or almost everywhere. And I believe that the is a global-scale hierarchy of whites over blacks (Europe exploits Africa, not the other way around). But these issues are deeply, complicatedly, finely specific to each country. You can't copypaste the USA's theories on race (or gender for that matter, or right-and-left, or Islam) to another country.

• he warns that America’s battles have been adopted here and should be rejected. “This book argues two main points,” he writes. “We should understand race in Britain through a British perspective, and we shouldn’t reduce black people to their race.”

This is the take-home point.

• An example of how race relations are different in different countries: Britain has Caribbean blacks and African blacks, and they have different social issues, different statistical outcomes. I don't think that's a thing in the USA (is it?)

• "I hold no brief for Andrews but I don’t think his proposition is without merit."

lol @ academics and their excessive use of negatives

• “Even when two nations speak the same language, [race] can be lost in translation.” His book shows that in this country’s polarising culture wars its attitude towards race is being shaped by the enlightened and the bigots in the US. But he concludes: “To define someone exclusively by their race is to acquiesce to the visions of racists.” Amen to that.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_%26_Gulaabs

• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgEiBaF2mHA

• https://imdb.com/title/tt17524566/ — In a sleepy town, a mechanic struggles to emerge from his dead gangster father's shadow in a mission to win over the love of his life. An honest officer ends up being a chaos agent; whilst a reluctant cartel heir has an identity crisis.

It's more of a comedy than some of these suggest. Or maybe it's a drama that doesn't take itself seriously. The characters are mostly comic buffoons. I'm enjoying it.

• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy7zO64aAkA

• https://imdb.com/title/tt10241858/ – It follows four teenage girls living in a futuristic version of Lusaka, Zambia, who are recruited by a retired secret agent to save the world. (Rated 8.2 out of 10 now, uncommonly high)

ONIPA means human. A message of connection through collaboration... From Ghana to London, from our ancestors to our children, a prism of AFROFUTURISM refracts energy, groove, dance and fire

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14579330/ – rated 7.5 – France, 1914. The destinies of four women intersect: Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute; Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory; Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent; and Suzanne, a feminist nurse.

• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7g1QVJrK2A

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20at%20War%20(TV%20series) – Women at War (French: Les Combattantes) is an eight-episode Franco-Belgian historical miniseries created by Cécile Lorne and directed by Alexandre Laurent, which originally aired in September 2022. The series appeared among the Netflix top 10 shows in 58 countries the week after launch.

Miniseries of eight episodes

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14362262 – rated 7.9 – The apartment manager of a residential building takes advantage of his power of surveillance to meddle in the lives of the tenants.

• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVFjlkoolRE

11 episodes so far

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11386832/

• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4vCF3t_104

• https://calloftheunseen.com/

A young art student loses her creative confidence. Her troubled lecturer struggles with dark visions which seem to inhabit his eerie paintings. Following his mysterious disappearance their fates intertwine on a hazardous journey of self-discovery across uncharted waters among strange and otherworldly beings.

• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyIeHa0zvXM

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15441160/ – Forbidden from practicing law, a woman prepares an appeal to overturn the court's decision in this true story of Lidia Poët, Italy's first female lawyer. Six episodes so far.

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17633184

• Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3438265625/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Sailor "Based on true stories of the 30,000 Norwegian civilian sailors who participated in the Allied convoys during the Second World War, it follows two best friends from Bergen, one married and the other unmarried, who in 1939 join the Norwegian merchant marine and are forced to stay at sea for the duration of the war, without any ability to communicate with their families in occupied Norway. "

• https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/feed/ – Long-form analysis of Ethiopian news.
• https://www.whatsonweibo.com/feed/ – Weibo (Chinese social media) trends translated into English.
• https://www.cgtn.com/subscribe/rss.html – China Global Television Network (CGTN) is the international division of state media outlet China Central Television (CCTV), headquartered in Beijing, China. It has different RSS feeds for different sections .
• https://kawsachunnews.com/feed – Kawsachun News is based in Bolivia and provides news reporting and analysis on Latin America. This service was created in May 2019 at the height of the struggle against the US-backed coup, as social movements demanded that their voices be heard internationally.
• https://orinocotribune.com/feed/ – Orinoco Tribune is an independent news outlet created in 2018 specifically for the purpose of providing relevant information with an anti-imperialist perspective about Venezuela and the world in the form of English-language news articles and opinion pieces.
• https://invidious.kavin.rocks/feed/channel/UCQBJDjSeRmfg-ATGSjZgpkA – Dongsheng News on youtube. Dongsheng (Eastern Voices) is an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society. Interest in China is growing, yet our understanding of the country is dominated by narratives from the Global North.
• https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml – Al Jazeera needs no introduction
• https://invidious.kavin.rocks/feed/channel/UCNye-wNBqNL5ZzHSJj3l8Bg – Al Jazeera on youtube
• https://socialistchina.org/feed/ – Friends of Socialist China
• https://www.france24.com/en/rss – France 24 is France's state media
• https://www.trtworld.com/feed/rss.xml – TRT is Turkey's state media (pro-Erdoğan, anti-Kurd)
• https://invidious.kavin.rocks/feed/channel/UC7fWeaHhqgM4Ry-RMpM2YYw – TRT on youtube
• https://www.icelandreview.com/feed/ – Iceland Review
• https://grapevine.is/feed/ – The Reykjavík Grapevine. Lots of light and culture stories
• https://invidious.kavin.rocks/feed/channel/UCOzMAa6IhV6uwYQATYG_2kg – Novara Media on youtube. British socialists.
• https://english.almayadeen.net/feed.rss – Al Mayadeen is a pan-Arabist satellite news television channel launched on 11 June 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. Its programming is predominantly news. It has news reporters in most Arab countries.

Non-American films compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes on July 14, 2022

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The Golem: How He Came into the World – 1920 – Germany

The Last Laugh – 1924 – Germany

Battleship Potemkin – 1925 – USSR

Un Chien Andalou – 1929 – France/Spain

M – 1931 – Germany

Mädchen in Uniform – 1931 – Germany

Boudu Saved from Drowning – 1932 – France

I Was Born, But... – 1932 – Japan

L'Atalante – 1934 – France

Pépé le Moko – 1937 – France

Day of Wrath – 1943 – Denmark

Henry V – 1944 – United Kingdom

Rome, Open City – 1945 – Italy

Great Expectations – 1946 – United Kingdom

Black Narcissus – 1947 – United Kingdom

Odd Man Out – 1947 – United Kingdom

Quai des Orfèvres – 1947 – France

The Fallen Idol – 1948 – United Kingdom

Oliver Twist – 1948 – United Kingdom

Kind Hearts and Coronets – 1949 – United Kingdom

Late Spring – 1949 – Japan

Jour de fête – 1949 – France

The Lavender Hill Mob – 1951 – United Kingdom

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot – 1953 – France

Ugetsu – 1953 – Japan

Tokyo Story – 1953 – Japan

The Wages of Fear – 1953 – France

I Vitelloni – 1953 – Italy

Touchez pas au grisbi – 1954 – France – An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.

Seven Samurai – 1954 – Japan

Ordet – 1955 – Denmark

French Cancan – 1955 – France – About nightclubs, dancing-girls, etc.

The Ladykillers – 1955 – United Kingdom

A Man Escaped – 1956 – France

Night and Fog – 1956 – France

Jalsaghar – 1958 – India

A Night to Remember – 1958 – United Kingdom – About the Titanic

Classe Tous Risques – 1960 – France/Italy – It tells the story of Abel Davos (Ventura), a French mobster who tries to make his way from Italy through Marseille to Paris

Through a Glass Darkly – 1961 – Sweden

Victim – 1961 – United Kingdom

Ivan's Childhood – 1962 – USSR

Sanjuro – 1962 – Japan

I Am Cuba – 1964 – Cuba-USSR collaboration – Four short stories set in Cuba

Woman in the Dunes – 1964 – Japan

Au Hasard Balthazar – 1966 – France

Branded to Kill – 1967 – Japan – The story follows contract killer Goro Hanada as he is recruited by a mysterious woman named Misako for a seemingly impossible mission. When the mission fails, he is hunted by the phantom Number One Killer, whose methods threaten his life and sanity.

Le Samouraï – 1967 – France – Gangster movie about a contract killer and the detective trying to trap him

Kes – 1969 – United Kingdom

The Wild Child – 1970 – France

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – 1974 – West Germany

Stalker – 1979 – USSR

Breaker Morant – 1980 – Australia

The King and the Mockingbird – 1980 – France

Babylon – 1980 – United Kingdom

Fanny and Alexander – 1982 – Sweden

Local Hero – 1983 – Scotland

Sugar Cane Alley – 1984 – Martinique – José is a young orphan boy living in rural Martinique in the 1930s. He lives with his grandmother, Ma'Tine who works in the sugar cane fields.

A Room with a View – 1985 – United Kingdom

My Life as a Dog – 1985 – Sweden

Tampopo – 1985 – Japan

Vagabond – 1985 – France

Law of Desire – 1987 – Spain

Grave of the Fireflies – 1988 – Japan

Henry V – 1989 – United Kingdom

A Grand Day Out – 1989 – United Kingdom – Wallace & Gromit claymation.

Cyrano de Bergerac – 1990 – France

The Juniper Tree – 1990 – Iceland – In medieval Iceland, two sisters, Margit and her elder sister Katla, escape their home after their mother is stoned and burned for witchcraft. They go where no one knows them, and find Jóhann, a young widower who has a son called Jónas. Katla uses magical powers to seduce Jóhann and they start living together.

La Belle Noiseuse – 1991 – France

A Brighter Summer Day – 1991 – Taiwan

Only Yesterday – 1991 – Japan

Rebels of the Neon God – 1992 – Taiwan

The Wrong Trousers – 1993 – United Kingdom – Wallace & Gromit claymation.

Three Colours: Red – 1994 – Poland – Part of a trilogy. Three Colours: Blue (1993) has a 98% rating, Three Colours: White (1994) has an 87% rating, and Three Colours: Red (1994) has a 100% rating.

Bandit Queen – 1994 – India

Maborosi – 1995 – Japan

La haine – 1995 – France – Three boys from the banlieuex of Paris deal with discrimination, class struggle, friendship and hardship in the early 90s

Forgotten Silver – 1995 – New Zealand

A Close Shave – 1995 – United Kingdom – Wallace & Gromit claymation.

Yana's Friends – 1999 – Israel

Hukkle – 2002 – Hungary

Cama adentro – 2004 – Argentina

C.R.A.Z.Y. – 2005 – Canada – A coming-of-age drama film about Zac, a young gay man dealing with homophobia while growing up with four brothers and his father in Quebec during the 1960s and 1970s

Fireworks Wednesday – 2006 – Iran

Half Moon – 2006 – Kurdistan

Kenny – 2006 – Australia – A comedy about a good-hearted bloke who works in the festival toilet/porta-potty industry. Lots of highly sophisticated poo jokes.

Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Trial 1963–1965 – 2007

Still Walking – 2008 – Japan

Boogie – 2008 – Romania

Last Train Home – 2009 – Canada

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno – 2009

Into Eternity – 2010 – Denmark

Poetry – 2011 – South Korea

Wild Bill – 2011 – United Kingdom – Crime-comedy film

Planet of Snail – 2011 – South Korea

The Snows of Kilimanjaro – 2011 – France

Ilo Ilo – 2013 – In 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.

Of Horses and Men – 2013 – Iceland – A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – 2013 – Japan – Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem – 2014 – Israel – After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.

Kajaki: The True Story – 2014

Night Will Fall – 2014

P'tit Quinquin – 2014

Rocks in My Pockets – 2014 – Latvian animated film. In the late 1920s, Anna, a young Latvian woman, pretty and educated, falls in love with an adventurous entrepreneur, 30 years her senior. But with marriage comes great jealousy, and the entrepreneur hides Anna away in the forest, far from other men, where she bears him eight children. The Great Depression hits them hard. Then Latvia is overrun with invasions by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then the Soviets once again. Anna is a pillar of strength, defying the hardships, raising her young, teaching them survival secrets of the forest. But something inside her is terribly wrong.

The Circle – 2014 – About a group network of gay men in Zurich in the 1940s and 1950s, centered on The Circle, a gay publication, and the social events it sponsored.

SPL II: A Time for Consequences – 2015 – Hong Kong martial arts film with Tony Jaa. A sequel "in-name-only" to 2005's SPL: Sha Po Lang (which has an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes), and preceding 2017's *Paradox (which has lower ratings)

Chocolat – 2016 – France

Harmonium – 2016 – Japan

Seoul Station – 2016 – South Korea – Adult animated zombie film

My Journey Through French Cinema – 2016

The Age of Shadows – 2016 – Made in South Korea – The film is set in Shanghai and Seoul in the 1920s. Korean police captain Lee Jung-chool has been charged by the Japanese colonial government with rooting out members of the country's resistance movement. But while Lee has a history of selling out his own people to secure a favorable position with the Japanese, he’s been hit harder than usual by the death of Kim Jang-ok, a resistance fighter who used to be his classmate.

The Young Offenders – 2016 – Ireland – A comedy about teenagers from Cork who get mixed up in a crime adventure

Hotel Salvation – 2016 – India – A comedy-drama about a son who is forced to set his job aside to accompany his elderly father to the holy city of Varanasi.

Daphne – 2017 – United Kingdom – Daphne is an attractive, hedonistic 31-year-old woman who lives in London. She is in a shop when a robber threatens, then stabs, the shopkeeper.

Summer 1993 – 2017 – Catalunya – In 1993, after her parents die of AIDS, a six-year-old orphaned girl goes to live with her uncle and his family.

Wajib – 2017 – Palestine – In this road movie, a father and son travel amid wedding preparations in the lead-up to Christmas in Nazareth.

One Cut of the Dead – 2017 – Japan – zombie comedy film

Nanette – 2018 – Australia – Live comedy show by Hannah Gadsby. She shares personal anecdotes related to her experiences as a lesbian and gender-nonconforming woman

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms – 2018 – Japan – An animated high fantasy drama film about a young girl who is a member of a special race called the Iorph, mystical beings who can live for hundreds of years. While escaping war, she finds a lone surviving infant and decides to raise him as her son.

Flight of the Conchords: Live in London – 2018 – Comedy show of New Zealand performers in London

Penguin Highway – 2018 – Japan – Science-fiction/mystery where penguins suddenly appear everywhere without explanation.

All Is Well – 2018 – Germany

The Load – 2018 – Serbia – War drama

Anima – 2019 – United Kingdom – 15 minutes long. In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead scores and stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.

So Long, My Son – 2019 – China – Drama about several generations of a family

Host – 2020 – United Kingdom – Supernatural horror about a séance on a Zoom call

His House – 2020 – A refugee couple flee South Sudan for the UK. A supernatural horror film.

Quo Vadis, Aida? – 2020 – Bosnia – Dramatisation of the Srebrenica massacre

The Woman Who Ran – 2020 – South Korea

Luzzu – 2021 – Malta – To support his wife and child, a Maltese fisherman enters the world of black market fishing.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet – 2021 – Argentina – Absurdist art movie

Cousins – 2021 – New Zealand – A Māori girl is raised in Anglo culture

Hive – 2021 – Kosovo – A woman, Fahrije, who goes against misogynistic societal expectations to become an entrepreneur after her husband went missing during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War. She starts selling her own ajvar (a condiment made principally from sweet bell peppers and eggplants) and honey, and recruits other women

The Summit of the Gods – 2021 – France/Japan/Luxembourg

Girl Picture – 2022 – Finland

An Cailín Ciúin – 2022 – Ireland – Irish-language coming-of-age film set in 1981. About a withdrawn nine-year-old girl who experiences a loving home for the first time when she spends the summer on a farm with distant relatives in Rinn Gaeltacht, County Waterford.

Documentaries

The Sorrow and the Pity – 1969 – France – Two-part documentary about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany.

Shoah – 1985 – France – Documentary about the Holocaust

I for India – 2005 – India

Afghan Star – 2008 – British-made documentary about an Afghani reality tv music contest

Waste Land – 2010 – Brazil – On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

Nostalgia for the Light – 2010 – Chile – A documentary about the lasting impacts of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Focuses on the similarities between astronomers researching humanity's past, in an astronomical sense, and the struggle of many Chilean women who still search, after decades, for the remains of their relatives executed during the dictatorship.

Enemies of the People – 2010 – Cambodia – About the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge

More than Honey – 2012 – Switzerland

Fifi Howls from Happiness – 2012 – Documentary about an artist in Iran

The Square – 2013 – Egypt – Documentary about the Tahrir Square events of 2011

Next Goal Wins – 2014

Democrats – 2014 – In politically unstable Zimbabwe, a new constitution is being put together by the ruling party of strongman Robert Mugabe and the divided opposition. Various political, local and personal interests are bogging the process down.

Virunga – 2014 – It focuses on the conservation work of park rangers within the Congo's Virunga National Park during the rise of the violent M23 Rebellion in 2012 and investigates the activity of the British oil company Soco International within the UNESCO World Heritage Site

Maidan – 2014 – Ukraine – Documentary about the 2014 uprising

The Hard Stop – 2015 – British documentary about a guy who died in police custody in Tottenham

Sonita – 2015 – Documentary about a 15-year-old rapper who fled Afghanistan and lives in Tehran.

Don't Think I've Forgotten – 2015 – Documentary about Cambodian rock

Nowhere to Hide – 2016 – Documentary about a nurse in Iraq

Tickling Giants – 2016 – Egypt – Documentary about the 2011 revolution in Egypt

One More Time with Feeling – 2016 – Documentary made in Britain about the recording of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree, in the aftermath of the accidental death in England of Australian musician Nick Cave's 15-year-old son Arthur.

Older Than Ireland – 2016 – Tells the story of a hundred years of a life as seen through the eyes of thirty Irish centenarians.

The Islands and the Whales – 2016 – Documentary. Thee whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten their way of life forever.

Destination Unknown – 2017 – A documentary combining immersive archive footage with the personal stories of 12 holocaust survivors.

Nothingwood (aka The Prince of Nothingwood) – 2017 – French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star who produced more than 110 low-budget movies in a country devastated by war.

The Judge – 2017 – Palestine – Documentary about the first female sharia judge in the Middle East

Dead Souls – 2018 – China – Documentary about Chinese labour camps

Sharkwater Extinction – 2018 – Canada – Documentary about the sea

The Silence of Others – 2018 – Spain – Documentary which tells the story of the silenced fight of the victims from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Honeyland – 2019 – Macedonia – Documentary about a beekeeper

Mystify: Michael Hutchence – 2019 – Documentary about Michael Hutchence of INXS, the Australian hard rock band

Midnight Traveler – 2019 – Documentary filmed by an Afghani refugee family about their journey out of Afghanistan. They filmed it on their smartphones.

Coup 53 – 2019 – British documentary about the 1953 Iranian coup d'état to overthrow Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh

Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy – 2019 – A documentary about a British chef who popularised Mexican food

This Is Not a Movie – 2019 – Canadian documentary about Robert Fisk

White Riot – 2019 – United Kingdom – A documentary about Rock Against Racism

2040 – 2020 – Australia – A documentary about climate change

A Thousand Cuts – 2020 – Philippines – A documentary about the conflicts between the press and the Philippine government under president Rodrigo Duterte. It primarily follows Maria Ressa, the founder of the online news site Rappler, which has been subject to scrutiny by Duterte and his supporters, and writers for the website.

76 Days – 2020 – China – A documentary about the battle to survive the early spread of the Covid-19 in Wuhan, China

Mayor – 2020 – Palestine – Documentary that dollows Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of Palestine, for two years.

Sabaya – 2021 – Sweden – A documentary about a group who risk their lives to save sex slaves held captive by ISIS in Al-Hawl.

Writing with Fire – 2021 – India – Documentary film about journalists running a women led newspaper Khabar Lahariya, as they shift from 14 years of print to digital journalism using smartphones.

Fire of Love – 2022 – Canadian production about French volcano-scientists who died in Japan

Greek

• Bulfinch's Mythology: https://archive.org/details/agefableorbeaut00bulfgoog

• The Odyssey of Homer: https://archive.org/details/odysseyhomer00palmgoog/page/n406/mode/2up

Judaic

• Dictionary Of Deities And Demons In The Bible: https://archive.org/details/dictionary-of-deities-and-demons-in-the-bible/mode/2up or https://archive.org/details/dictionary-of-deities-and-demons-in-the-bible-van-der-toom-becking-van-der-horst/page/n1/mode/2up

• The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism: https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia-of-jewish-myth-magic-mysticism/page/n1/mode/2up

• The Legends of The Jews, Louis Ginzburg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/651 or https://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/e-books/misc/Legends/Legends%20of%20the%20Jews.pdf

Latvian

• Digital Archives of Latvian Folklore

• Archive of Latvian Folklore

Māori

• The Ancient History of the Māori: https://archive.org/details/ancienthistoryof01whit

• Māori Religion and Mythology: https://archive.org/details/maorireligionmyt00shor/page/n5/mode/2up

Melanesian

• Volume 9 of The Mythology of All Races: https://archive.org/details/mythologyofallra91gray

Native American (no this is not American culture; it's a different culture)

• The Encyclopedia of Hočąk (Winnebago) Mythology: https://hotcakencyclopedia.com/

Norse

• The Poetic Edda: https://archive.org/details/poeticedda00newy

• The Prose Edda: https://archive.org/details/proseedda00brodgoog

British

• Faith and Folklore by Carew: vol 1, vol 2

Arabian

• Burton's Arabian Nights: https://burtoniana.org/books/1885-Arabian%20Nights/index.htm

https://archive.org/details/DecolonisingTheMind

It's a short essay about using your pre-colonial language and stories

First things first: this comm is about anti-imperialism.

It is to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the mental foundation on which their empire stands.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

RAAMACFYL = Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

One way to start is to give NoYank a 30-day trial, like you would with NoPoo or NoFap. One common finding is that you are pushed towards more mentally-stimulating, less shallow content.

Examples of posts that are welcome

• Give recommendations of internationalist media

• Bookclubs for anti-imperialist books or just any non-american books

• Complain about americanised people and culture.

• Talk about your motivations

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QUESTIONS

• Why should I stop consuming American culture? – I'm not saying you should, you must do what seems like a good idea to you. Why don't you RAAMACFYL for a month and see how it feels? Maybe you'll be less angry, less competitive, more engaged with a richer cultural experience. It should be life-enhancing for you.

• Does [Breaking Bad/TheSimpsons/etc count?] – Yes.

• Are Yanks allowed post here? – Yes. It's about cultural de-americanisation, not yanks-out

• Aren't you just limiting yourselves, diminishing the diversity of culture available to you? – On the contrary, you will consume more diverse culture, not less. The average American culture enjoyer beats their brain with the same clichés over and over again. Try RAAMACFYL for one month and see for yourself that your horizons are broadened, not narrowed. Some other community members believe in the 4% rule, where 4% of your media comes from the USA, proportional to their share of the global population.

IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12672536/ – rated 7.0 – D'Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers:_D%27Artagnan

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvWLpi5J-NI

SINO-PSIS: Set in pre-revolutionary China, the drama tells the story of Xu Tian, a young man who goes north with a mission to support the revolutionary cause and meets many bloodthirsty and respectable aspirants, allowing Xu Tian to shed his youthfulness and combine his ideals and will.

18 episodes are out so far (Aug 2023), it's very good.