Peter Cohn -- Political and Social Documentaries

Cohn made his first independent low-budget film in 1995, the critically acclaimed dramatic feature Drunks, shot in a church basement and on the streets of Times Square in 14 days. Since then, he's made three documentary films on major political and social issues, also on micro-budgets, with guerilla self distribution and multi-channel outreach through Hillcrest Films.

The FILMS

Holy Land (2014)
Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America (2010)
Golden Venture (2006)
Drunks (1995)

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Drunks

An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a Time Square church basement.
Golden Venture

Chinese immigrants voyage across the world, only to be trapped in an American immigration nightmare.
Power and Control

An exploration of the shocking persistence of gender violence…
Holy Land

Israeli settlers and the Israelis and Palestinians who oppose them…

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Occasional rants from the keyboard of Peter Cohn

January 8, 2019 | By petercohn | In 2018 election, immigration, Trump

Border Ambush – Dems Beware, Pelosi’s Gaffe

See Pelosi’s “immorality” gaffe here. It’s mortifying to watch Trump play the Democrats with the border wall gambit. It’s high stakes stuff, and Trump has significantly raised the game with tonight’s speech and the planned photo op border tour set for Thursday. I really started to worry when I saw the “immorality” sound bite from […]

October 25, 2018 | By petercohn | In 2018 election, drug prices, Trump

Trump Drug Plan: Cynical New Opiate for the Masses?

Trump’s conjuring of an immigrant terrorist mob marching for the border was a truly superior and well-time exercise in cynical, evil political manipulation. Yet today’s new drug pricing proposal — while less telegenic — may even be a few notches more evil and cynical. As with many cynical and evil political gestures, the Trump drug […]

October 18, 2018 | By petercohn | In domestic violence, why don't they just leave

Why don’t they just leave?

It’s been about a decade since we released Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America. All these years later, our original web site is still very active, showing hundreds of visits a month. I’ve always been proud of a video widget we introduced in 2010 — it offers a series of short video clips from […]

September 4, 2018 | By petercohn | In antitrust, bailouts, competition, crony capitalism, financial crisis

Attack of the Cyber Monsters

Over the past year or so, you could be tipsy over all the tipping points that have flown past in in the saga of Big Tech v. its detractors. Pre the 2016 Russia US election cyberwar, only a few fringe groups were worrying about Big Tech monopoly power. Then the election hacking came to light, […]