Reason.tv's Best Documentaries of 2011: Cops vs. Cameras, The War on Wal-Mart, Orphans in Guatemala & More

With the new year just days away, Reason.tv is looking back at some of our favorite videos of 2011.

Here is a five-video playlist of some of our best documentaries from last year, including a look at the power of cell phone cameras, the ongoing war against Wal-Mart, and the failure of Guatemalan adoption policies.

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  • Suki| |

    When did the war on Wal-Mart begin and is reason for or against it?

  • We had to destroy America...| |

    ...to preserve Capitalist slave labor in Asia.

    "Free Trade" means a Global Prison Labor system for the Elite.

  • I feel free inside the prison| |

    ...because I work at the privatized prison messhall.

    And we've formed an individualists group to strengthen the prison bars between people.

    The goddam turd in the punchbowl is the wild Indian who want to tear down the prison walls, prison bars, prison messhall, and gambol about plain and forest.

  • Sleeping Dog| |

    Your absolutely right, that 1/36th Indian is a turd!

  • I feel free inside the prison| |

    Freedom inside the prison is great, but have a real fear-of-wilderness outside the walls.

    I like what the Nanny-Statist Old Poodle has to say about the dangers of being free. That'll teach that ol' White Indian when he breaks his fingernail.

  • | |

    Wow OK man that sounds like ap lan dude.

    privacy-works.tk

  • I| |

    I look forward to the List of Best Lists of 2011.

  • Fist of Etiquette| |

    Those orphans sure like getting their sticky little fingers all over the camera lens.

  • DJF| |

    Maybe Wal-Mart can start selling Guatemalan orphans?

  • | |

    "Can start?" You naïve fool!

  • I, Monocle| |

    I had to return mine. Laziest toddlers I've ever employed.

  • | |

    Try a Peruvian. I find they make excellent chimney sweeps.

  • I, Monocle| |

    I use chimps for that. They work for peanuts.

  • | |

    Matthew Yglesias tells us that "normal people don't invest". I have always suspected that Yglesias was at the very least a mild Aspy or Down's. But I never figured that basic math and compound interest were beyond him.

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/mon.....ment_.html

  • first| |

    Tereza is a drama student from the Czech Republic who is looking for a bigger stage to perform on. Her first love was the theatre. That was where she made her first shy moves into the limelight.

    From there this fresh faced young girl has just begun to branch out into some modelling for carefully selected fine art studios. She is a natural for the camera with a perfectly proportioned body. Her pale, smooth skin contrasts stunningly with her sleek wavy hair. It tumbles down to her pert breasts as though it is embracing her. Her voluptuous looks have a suggestion of Italy, the country she is in love with.

    Tereza has an air of youthful innocence. But remember the old phrase, “Dimple on the chin, devil within.” Like the budding actress she is, Tereza is keeping us guessing what’s next. We are sure it will be a show stopper.

    http://www.hegre-art.com/models#action=show&id=218

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  • beer busters| |

    does she work at Walmart?

  • first| |

    Her employment status at the above mentioned corperation has a positve coraltion with your mother's status at said corperation.

  • Every POLIS has its POLICe| |

    Remember, Kelly Thomas died for your sins.

    For the love of money [POLIS' property values] is the root of all evil [POLICe brutality.]

  • | |

    I am certainly glad someone other than me died for my sins. This is supposed to be bad news?

  • Old Salt| |

    Does it still count when I murder someone for my sins?

  • Human Sacrifice Cult| |

    Which Human Sacrifice Cult are you, John?

    Capitalist?
    Christian?
    Both?

  • شات عراقنا| |

    thanks

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