The Lottery of Birth - Official Trailer

Nominated - Best Documentary, Raindance Film Festival 2012.
Winner - Spirit Award, Artivist Film Festival 2012.

THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH is the first in a three-part documentary series entitled 'Creating Freedom' exploring the relationship between freedom, power and control in Western democracies. Drawing together interviews with some of the world's leading intellectuals, journalists and activists the film offers an alternative perspective on today's society and the future we're creating. From birth onwards our minds are a battleground of competing forces: familial, educational, cultural, and professional. The outcome of this battle not only determines who we become, but the society that we create.

Reactions

“I was blown away” -Colin Firth

“Challenging, insightful, and timely. Unmissable.” -Alan Rickman

“Absolutely Wonderful….. beautifully made and utterly captivating” -BBC Documentaries

Awards & Prizes

Nominated - Best Documentary, Raindance Film Festival 2012.
Winner - Spirit Award, Artivist Film Festival 2012.

Cast

Directed by: Raoul Martinez & Joshua Van Praag
Starring: Howard Zinn, Steven Pinker, Vandana Shiva, Tony Benn, George Monboit, Daniel Dennett, Kathleen Taylor, Michael Albert, Nick Davies, Stanley Arnowitz, Jeff Schmidt, Bill Fletcher Jr.

[jamessmurawa]

One of the most important and eye-opening films of our time. Forget the debate over equality. The question of whether or not we are actually free is a more fundamental question. This work addresses that issue at the most fundamental level. A must-view for any parent, any teacher, and most importantly, the individual herself. 

[imagendes]

yes is excellent i watch it on amazon prime.i watch it again & able to absorb more of it's content, , , ,

[TBirdHEX]

Watched the full documentary. Quality piece of film-making with excellent content. But I abhor the fact that there is profit incentive behind this release as it's not a free release. It does, in all honesty, deprive many people from being exposed to such an important message and perverts its intention. There is no excuse for not sharing without expecting anything in return as it's not the pure act of giving and sharing. There are plenty of other grass-roots documentaries also disseminating critical info like this one on youtube that are released for free. Otherwise - brilliant effort.

[cemski]

Why WHY, in every us documentary the same dramatistic cheap music???

[Zangop]

This is on amazon prime as of september 6

[billweir]

downloadable on itunes currently, seems like the only place.

[billweir]

Eh, only ten bucks, I haven't said this in a long time but this film is probably worth the price haha.

[therealmr.incredible]

When a kid figures out Divorce exists:

[roguemjd]

"The Lottery of Birth or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Communism."

[popper]

I also read "How To Win Friends and Influence People" and disagreed with every point the author made.