tsd5 As others have said, not your "standard movie" sort of thing. It's "The Killing Fields" without any attempt to sell it to Hollywood . . . The producers obviously did a lot of research into this one before the filming.I understand they do have some other films they've made, but I can't locate them on IMDb yet. I'll be watching for those to be added.Great film, though I do recommend you watch it first yourself before seeing if it's appropriate yet for your (younger) children."All of the Bill of Rights, for all Citizens!" indeed. I look forward to seeing more of their work, which seems to be heading towards being freely distributed ?

joshuak47 This movie first shows some incidents in foreign countries where people were massacred. It discusses how, in many of these incidents, the future victims' weapons were confiscated beforehand.Yet the video never tells how many weapons the underdogs forfeited. It also does not extrapolate on how much of a difference it would've made even if the victims WERE equipped with firearms during the massacre. Most of the victims were killed by soldiers: weapon experts. Even if the victims had weapons, they wouldn't defeat an army.One example was of a Chinese farming village versus the military. Another example was of Buddhist monks in Tibet (I've never heard that Buddhist monks WANT to go to war). And another in Uganda, where one tribe's weapons were confiscated and given to another tribe. What if neither tribe had weapons in the first place? We hear about the people killed in the Holocaust, that they were forced to forfeit their guns too. But I doubt that very many of the Jews/Gypsies owned guns. It's the movie's responsibility to tell me those numbers. It also talks about Japanese-Americans who were placed in concentration camps in the US during WW2. The filmmakers probably don't realize it, but they were implying that Japanese-Americans would have had a better outcome had they drawn weapons on the American military, instead of going peacefully to the camps.They also argue that you should be allowed to bring guns into family restaurants (citing a single incident in which 23 people were killed in a cafeteria). And they are against gun locks, describing a SINGLE incident in which TWO kids were killed by an intruder. They also boldly imply that people should be allowed to bring guns on planes, and that 9/11 could have been prevented if people were allowed to bring guns on planes. In this part, though, they use no narration, just flashing text and pictures. If they had said anything, it would have been such a ridiculous statement, so they chose not to talk instead.They also don't explain why the US had 13,000 murders in 1998-2000, while Japan had 637 and the UK had 850 (www.nationmaster.com). The latter two nations don't allow its citizens to normally purchase guns.I give it a 3 because it taught me a little about foreign genocide, and it was short.

dial911book Innocents Betrayed shows what happens when ordinary people allow themselves to become powerless and give all of their trust to central authorities. Here's a fact that very few people know: the central authorities (usually known as the governments) killed more men, women and children in the 20th Century than did all of the wars combined. That's correct: 170,000,000 people were murdered by their own governments; in most cases, the victims had no power to defend themselves.Most people have heard of the Nazi Holocaust -- but few know much about the massive genocides of Soviet Russia, China, Cambodia, Uganda and Guatemala. Only because of the recent film, Hotel Rwanda, do more people know about the calculated mass murder there -- Innocents Betrayed came out 2 years before Hotel Rwanda! The second half of the film shifts focus from the world's genocides to the American experience with citizen powerlessness. Viewers may be quite surprised ... I won't give it away.Innocents Betrayed includes a lot of still photo and video materials, and enough facts and figures to prove its point. This is not a stodgy "educational video" by any means -- the stories move steadily with appropriate voice-over and music, so that viewers can follow them. As the end approaches, however, the pacing picks up quite dramatically.I've seen the film several times: I am always stunned and amazed at the end. And very motivated to prevent such atrocities from happening again. See it -- lend it to others -- talk about it. Be part of the generation that says "never again" and means it.

alphasite This is a very disturbing movie. Not because of the images -- by now most educated persons probably know that 20th Century governments butchered 200 million or more people -- but because of the blunt and matter-of-fact way it illustrates some of the precursors to genocide. Intellectually I understood the historical connection between authoritarian states, civilian disarmament, and genocide but now I understand it viscerally as well. From the first time I saw that roving gun sight until the final credits this documentary alternately horrified and enraged me. However, not everyone will finish this film feeling thoughtful. It does challenge some fundamental assumptions people make about genocide but I think that is a good thing. Pretty darned good for a movie with only a $90,000 budget.