The consequence of what happens outside the law will always
be proportional to the nature of the criminal act. Guidedoc.tv invites you to watch online crime documentary films that make up a triptych of crimes with resonances as
dissimilar as they are demolishing.
Being perhaps the best documentaryof 2010 to be premiered at the renowned Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam (IDFA), "Kano, An American and his Harem" tells the story
of Victor Pearson, an American soldier who, after fighting in Vietman, settled
in the Philippines, where he ended up in jail after receiving more than eighty
rape accusations. But how did a war hero become a rapist in his new country?
The inquisitive camera of the young director Monster Jimenez makes a case study
of the curious family ecosystem that Kano - as Americans in the Philippines are
called - established for that purpose. The documentary is mostly narrated by
the women who lived with Kano in his huge house, a residence that for several
years worked as a harem, an open secret among the villagers of a small, poor
town of the Asian country. In addition, Kano himself gives his testimony from
the cell where he is serving his sentence. For some of these women, the film
camera is presented as a reason for catharsis and relief, but for others, the
echoes of a past of sexual abuse are still a source of ambiguous reserve.
Watch this documentary now on Guidedoc.
After opposing the lucrative interests of several timber
corporations that were concessionaires of California's Redwood forest,
environmental activist Judi Bari survived in 1990 an attack whose perpetrators
are still unknown. The documentary "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" Unravels
this crime that occurred while Judi was driving her Subaru van accompanied by a
colleague of the environmental group Earth First! The bomb placed under her
seat exploded and fortunately enough they both managed to come out of it alive.
But to the surprise of the victims, the authorities accused them of
transporting homemade explosives allegedly to carry out terrorist activities in
protest against the activities of the timber corporations. Director Mary Liz
Thomson uses a rich baggage of archival material and the testimonies of colleagues
and experts in the case to weave an unofficial hypothesis about the
responsibility of the attack. The most valuable testimony of the film is that
of Judi Bari herself, who died of breast cancer a few years after the attack.
The great achievement of this film is, as Bari insisted, directing the focus
towards where real unpunished violence is found: that of men in their
irresponsible exploitation of nature.
Watch this documentary now in Guidedoc.
Sodiq Adeojo is a young British man who, among his
closest friends, was always known for being a football enthusiast and for
having the dream of becoming a doctor in the future. But overnight, Sodiq was
sentenced to thirty years in prison at only twenty years of age after being
found guilty of murdering a young man named Sylvester Akapalara. Having grown
up in Peckham, a low-income neighborhood in London, meant that street life was
the daily reality for these two young people. But what are the particularities
in Sodiq's life that led him to this course of events? In an intimate approach
and from his knowledge of the harsh environment of Peckham, director Adeyemi
Michael - who knew Sodiq before he was convicted - resorts to interviews to
Sodiq's friends, relatives and experts to build a first-person essay on this
tragic case
Watch this and other great documentaries in GuideDoc.
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