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The Armstrong Lie (DVD)
Lance Armstrong, Michele Ferrari, Reed Albergotti, Betsy Andreu, Frankie Andreu, …
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Alex Gibney directs this documentary exploring the controversial
career of American cyclist Lance Armstrong. Gibney followed
Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France champion, on his return to
racing in 2009. Armstrong's goal in returning was to defy
persistent allegations that his past victories were in part due to
doping, but in 2012 he was handed a lifetime ban from cycling after
being found guilty of taking performance-enhancing drugs, something
he finally admitted in 2013. The documentary includes interviews
with Armstrong, who offers his side of the story, as well as
contributions from cycling contemporaries and those who follow the
sport.
Documentary maker Alex Gibney examines the WikiLeaks phenomenon and
the question of how information is accessed globally. With a goal
'to bring important news and information to the public', the
fledgling website, founded in 2006 by Australian Julian Assange,
gained worldwide notoriety in 2010 with its leaking of highly
sensitive US classified material, including the infamous
'Collateral Murder' footage of US air strikes on civilian targets
in Iraq, along with over 250,000 diplomatic cables. In addition to
detailing how the website came to be, the film explores the issues
surrounding the freedom of information and moral responsibility,
whilst comparing and contrasting the impact that the furore has had
on founder Assange, and Pfc. Bradley Manning, the US soldier
charged with supplying the leaked material.
Stanley Tucci narrates this documentary account of counter-culture
pioneer Ken Kesey's 1960s trip across America in a psychedelically
painted school bus. In 1964 Kesey, the author of 'One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest' and an advocate for the use of LSD since the time he
volunteered to take part in a project studying the effects of the
psychoactive drug, decided to travel across country to New York to
fulfil a business engagement. Buying an old school bus they named
'Further', Kesey and his group of friends, known as 'The Merry
Pranksters', embarked on a cross-country acid-fuelled road trip in
an attempt to create art out of everyday life.
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