This is merely tangental, but I do have some ideas about "conservative" movies and what would be characterized as "good" movies or "family-friendly." The movie industry pumps out all kinds of garbage in the name of entertainment ... movies that lose money for just about everyone except the actors. Then every few years a studio makes a truly decent movie and we who eschew the garbage truck movies spend our money, and give high-fives and good reviews, and applaud like crazy. So what does Hollywood do with all the money we give them for making a decent movie? They use it to underwrite more filth until they run out of money, at which point they trot out another family-friendly money-maker. Maybe it's time to follow the money in Hollywood.

Where would there work be seen, who would air it or screen it?  What film vestival would promote it?  Who would review it?

There is no unbiased venue for the work of a Conservative-oriented Documentary. 

I'm still amazed an excellent book called Unintended Consequences hasn't been made into a movie, but if you think there were barriers in the way of Red Dawn, you haven't read John Ross' book....I'm very happy that he seems to have found love.
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Conservatives don't give enough support. It's just like with Newsbusted. Sure it's very popular on youtube but it could be much better and blow people away if everyone would go over there and take the time to support it. The liberals take their time to trash it.

I had an extremely liberal friend admit that Inconvenient Truth was very boring but still considered it a "must see" for everyone. It doesn't matter how boring or stupid something is they will go and support it. We don't even support things that are decent.

I sure hope everyone goes to see Indoctrinate U. We can't keep complaining when we don't support things. It's the same argument that we give with talk radio. Liberal shows fail because of economics. We have to prove that conservative shows, documentaries, films can be profitable. Once they become profitable they will get better and better.

Here's the poop. Mocumentaries rely on hype, exaggeration and falsehoods.

Conservatives are interested in the whole truth and nothing but the thruth. Which leads them to the bottom line - fast. Not to mention, it doesn't take us that much time to grasp a concept, or cut through the bull. We have families to tend to. 

It took Al Gore over an hour and one-half to sell the stupid notion that he (Al the Amazing) can rid the world of carbon dioxide; which is the dumbest line I've ever heard in a "scientific" carbon based film. 

Liberal Discrimination leads to

Not enough producers  (who wants to be known as "conservative" in an industry/business that hates them ... can you say "black-balling"?)

Producers can't find financing  (If you are a conservative producer, chances are you ain't gonna get any of that juicy funding from groups that are either liberal driven, or groups that don't want to be viewed/labeled as biased/conservative, but thinking they can be viewed as moderate or non-political, simply because they don't hand out funding to conservative projects ... Remember, Mel Gibson had one of the biggest box office records in the history of the movie business for "The Passion Of The Christ" ... and he HAD to fund it himself because NO ONE would touch it.)

Right doesn't value media enough ... they just either see it as a losing cause to try and break into (bad mistake, as seen above mentioned in the Gibson movie) ... or they don't want to be bothered.  (It's democrats in the congress who beat a path to the cameras and mics for every little thing they can spit out for soundbites ... The republicans just seem to not dignify much of anything with a response ... really BAD mistake.)

Anyhow, Pat Dollard's Iraq war Marines docu "Young Americans" is being given its finishing primping and will be out to view soon (don't ask me where, I have my suspicions, but it seems to be a bit of a secret) ... Let's just wait and see how it's received in the public, and in the stinking cage that is the critics. I'll bet the public loves it and the critics hate it ... A good sign Dollard is on the money.

I would ask people to reflect on World War II which produced a great many millions of Conservatives and then look at Ken Burns latest "documentary".

Conservatives are a modest people. They do not run around bragging about what they did in life...........you will notice liberal Daniel Inouye was featured, but no hero George Bush or hero Bob Dole.
Now why is ole Ken leaving them out?

Conservatives do not seek the attention. The old west is only recorded by a few voices while most of the Conservatives who created America simply died with their stories.
You can see who was featured in Burns primary documentary.......a whiner from Minnesota who flew planes and a whiner from Alabama who fought on the ground.......BOTH of these people were so troubled by war they made a documentary to vent and wrote a book. Burns just picked up their liberal information about killing being bad and they could no longer hunt.
If you examine Joe Foss who is a Medal of Honor recipient, Governor of South Dakota and NRA President, he loved to hunt, loved to do all the things he did before shooting down record numbers of planes and was quite normal..........he never once spoke about his war experience except in this manner:
"That FDR pulling me and Pappy out of combat, hell we would have shot down the whole damn Jap air force if he would have stayed out of it".

The Pappy referred to is Greg Boyington of television Black Sheep Squadron....another Conservative hero quite content in his own skin.

Liberals are troubled and always have to be bitching about something or they will go insane completely.....that is why they make documentaries. The real heroes like George Bush said are the dead US soldiers and he was but a survivor.
Most of those US Soldiers then and now actually love what they were doing, even in combat. Yes it was scarey and impossible, but they took to it just like they were born to it and became better citizens for it as they had nothing to prove.
Once you have been shot over and hear that sound of a bullet not like the movies.......it forever changes you and makes you more alive like you ever as a mortal ever thought could be. It is exhilerating and men like Teddy Roosevelt simply cherished it as a passage into manhood.

Conservative are of this class and are content with the life God gave them. They are the nobel Roman warrior who served his nation and then came home to his farm to live in comfort.
Liberals on the other hand are tormented, thinking they are God with powers of life and death and that they can change the world..........and in that they make documentaries.......confessing over and over again their inner demons.

That is why liberals make documentaries. It is puke from their wreched souls.

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I'm still waiting for PBS to show the documentary about radical Islam.

Other: It's easier (and less expensive) to make things up than it is to pay people to research the truth and make accurate portrails of the truth...plus fiction is way more exciting than truth...especially if it makes the right look bad/the left look like guiltless saints.

"There are millions of people in Iraq who have sacrificed in the hope that the United States will finish its work here. We should never forget that." -- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, Commander U.S. III Corps

The producer class is by its very nature living vicariously and have the hormones of fifteen year old boys raging and lacking in virtues.  This is not conducive to being a conservative.

A good example is in the mini-series Band of Brothers, the producers inserted a sex scene between the young company clerk and a vivacious young blonde german woman.  Nowhere in any of the reference material used to create the book by  Stephen E Ambrose was such a event referenced.  It was supernumary to the script and was simply inserted to titillate the immature viewer.

 MAJ Dick Winters, who was asked about the scene told the interviewer that when asked by the producers, he found it inappropriate, did not advance the story in any way, and asked it to be deleted.  Naturally, for a simple chance to see a naked blonde woman, it was kept in the final cut of the film.

The problem is not in conservatives making documentaries. The problem is and would be getting main stream distribution deals and/or television broadcast deals.

Witness the recent PSB shenanigans when they actually commssioned and put up the money for a documentary on Islamic extremism versus "moderate" muslims. It was made, and they refused to show it.

A committed film maker can and should be able to make a documenatry for very little money.

Check out my latest YouTube...but only if you support the troops and their mission: Better Men Than Me/The Battle For Fallujah