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justgamma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 11:33 PM
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The most powerful video you've seen?
Mine is from Michael Jackson's This Is It. I still can't explain it to people without breaking into tears. It's embarrassing.

It's about a young girl who is playing on the grass, smelling the beautiful flowers. Then the bulldozers come. They are destroying everything. The girl starts running away from them. In the distance, she sees one lone flower. She desperately tries to save it, while the dozers are getting closer and closer. And now I'm in tears again.
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Goldstein1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 11:40 PM
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1. Easy one: Dropkick Murphys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWfnO7fhQM
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justgamma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 11:46 PM
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2. That video was great!
Couldn't understand the lyrics, but the images of those workers was incredible. Thanks for posting it.
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 12:02 AM
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3. I've been trying to get ahold of that song on youtube forever.
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Goldstein1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 12:13 AM
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4. I like it because it always get's people fired up
I occasionally hand out a USB drive loaded with "subversive" materials designed to make people question the status quo. That video is in a wmv file on that USB drive. "What side are you on?" and a George Carlin clip panning the American Dream seem to get people where they live.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 12:16 AM
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5. Mine is similar
It was a film that was shown to my science class in 1970 or 71. The most memorable scene for me was a shot of the most disgusting gunk spewing out of a pipe, with a voiceover by Lorne Greene saying "blood in the Missouri River..."
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 12:17 AM
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6. How are you defining "Powerful"?
Just any moving video, or political?

The first politically moving music video I can remember off the top of my head is Eminem's Mosh; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M9MTle-8AM
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Tunkamerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:23 AM
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7. Right Said Fred's opus
I don't think I need to name it.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:28 AM
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8. "The Face of Lincoln" . . .
http://www.archive.org/details/face_of_lincoln


Saw it first when I was in the second grade. It resonates to this day.
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NOLALady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:48 AM
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9. The song "Battered Earth".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs7WteybOXw
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 06:21 AM
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10. It's been cleansed from the web...
King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man played to images of the destruction of the WTC, the invasion of Iraq and the neocon Dubya junta.

Apparently it was too damn powerful to be left up online.
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whyverne Donating Member (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 07:02 AM
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11. Stand by me around the world.
Brings a tear to my eye every time I watch it. And I've watched it hundreds of times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM

These guys (Playing For Change) were going to do a bunch of songs like this, but I think they did such a good job on the first one, that anything else is superfluous.
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Loki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 09:26 AM
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12. I have shared this with so many people
I love this video and it gives me hope.
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 09:43 AM
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13. Hurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clq01TXQR0s
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DLine Donating Member (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 10:06 PM
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14. Not the MOST powerful
But it meant a lot to me as it was around the time I started taking an interest in politics.

Rage Against The Machine - Testify
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSBhI_0at0
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 03:47 PM
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15. ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HuIZHrHthU&playnext_from=TL&videos=bw2zjdoQPhY
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 04:01 PM
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16. Khanate - Dead
A seriously dark and disturbing video dealing with suicide. There's no way to watch this and forget it. Got to love the ending, as the vocals whisper, "You could have stopped it...".

Watch at your own risk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Ag4B4m0Cs
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Gordan Shumway Donating Member (162 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-01-10 12:29 AM
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18. I liked the end whisper
Don't care for the minute plus credits at the end. Kind of off putting.
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Gordan Shumway Donating Member (162 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-01-10 12:20 AM
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17. Jeremy
Timeless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNO6pAJBCs4
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-04-10 03:44 PM
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19. Come To Daddy -- Aphex Twin
I want your soul. I will eat your soul.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDAtMPoBHA
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