There are LOTS of excellent films available at Netflix that Salon readers might want to rent right now. I've seen all of these films and can vouch that they are worth seeing. Better yet, fire up the grill, open a few beers, and have some friends over.

1. The Ground Truth

2. Baghdad ER

3. Voices of Iraq

4. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

5. The road to Guantanamo

6. Uncovered: The War on Iraq

7. WMD Wepons of Mass Deception

8. Unconstitutional: The War on our Civil Liberties

"The film stubborn Bush supporters need to see."

You really think hardheaded Bush supporters would go see a film about reality in Iraq? Puh-lease. They're waiting for the Bushies to make their own reality, then pass it along to them.

Well netflix doesn't carry movies I think are important to watch, but I digress.

I've been waiting all week for some mention of this film with four showings at Sundance: "The Devil Came on Horseback" by Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg.

So either it's a dog, or the whole idea was such a turnoff no one saw it:

"The subject is Darfur. The journey takes place over the course of 18 months. Steidle went to Sudan as an unarmed military observer working for the African Union. He left as a witness to what many believe is genocide in the western Darfur region, a conflict that has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced 2.5 million people. In the transformation from soldier to observer to witness and activist, we see a man at first confounded by his naiveté and then confronted by the urgency of a humanitarian catastrophe that he sees unfolding firsthand."

"An everyman figure, Steidle is initially unequipped to absorb the horror around him. Like many, he would rather not engage with something so incomprehensible and terrible. But he does, and Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's (The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Sundance 2006) astonishing film journeys from Darfur to the United States, then to Chad, Rwanda, and finally the United States again. His odyssey becomes ours as the more than 1,000 photographs he took become evidence of a crisis that cannot be denied." — Cara Mertes

http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=7539

http://www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com

my list was not meant to be exhaustive. The Devil Came on Horseback has just been released, and is not available on DVD.

Darwin's Nightmare and Days of Glory are in my queue, but they are not yet available on DVD.

I'd add Iraq in Fragments to my list.

Can you suggest a better source than Netflix for hard to find films?

I second the Devil Came on Horseback appreciation. Is there any elusive reason that even websites like Salon won't talk about Darfur? As much as I am fascinated by Vail, the quality of its snow, the Two Elks Restaurant and Canadian Lynxes I find it particularly egregious that a publication as respectable as this can't even mention genocide in the context of a documentary. God forbid 400,000 dead would ever make the front page. Pitiful.

Tell us exactly how we can fix it. Thank you

How to fix Darfur? Well, I'm not exactly sure, but I would like to think that my tax dollars help pay some people at the State department who could maybe think of a few ways to begin to address the problem. Someone in our government thought it was our job to "fix" Iraq a few years ago, which by current standards, wasn't even all that broken. Granted, the wheels have come off, but it doesn't necessarily hold true that the same situation would be created by US interest and/or intervention in Darfur.

More significantly, you missed the point of the earlier poster's letter which was not to criticize our government for failing to intervene in the Darfur genocide, but instead was intended to point out that even lefty sites such as Salon act like Darfur doesn't exist. I find that a compelling question. Why don't you? My assumption is that because you can't imagine a way to solve the problem, you would rather not have to hear depressing news. Am i right?

Oh, and so that this is not COMPLETELY off-topic, I would like to say that I have really appreciated the reviews from Sundance this week, particularly of Black Snake Moan and Hounddog. Interesting that both were reviewed in the same week as it was announced that a white former sheriff's deputy, long presumed dead, had been arrested for the murder of two 19 year old black males in 1964.

While there have been more than a few movies about the Iraq mess already, there has never been one that focuses on why so much of the public supported it.

Many have quoted the Nuremburg trials, and there have been theories about the effect 911 had on the American psyche, and while I acknowledge those as good explanations, it still boggles my mind. The fact that so many people actually supported invading Iraq still drives me crazy to this day.

As Orwell would say, 2+2=4, no matter how much you try to convince me that 2+2=5. Call me unpatriotic, Accuse me of supporting terrorists, tell me to support the troops, nothing you say is going to convince me that 2+2=5. I can't help it, I have thoughts! It's really as simple as that.

If this documentary "No End In Sight" can shed light on this, I'd love to see it.

Totally off the topic of the film review but important nonetheless to mention I think.

My previously posted question was directed at O'Hehir, and not about your list.

Finding the non-mainstream films of note and impact is a quest better pursued by living in a larger cultural mecca than via a commercial internet library. Where these types of films tend to briefly appear, and then vanish back onto the producer's web site. Especially since now everyone with time can be a filmmaker/producer.

I tend to think that while you may not find the missing netflix films at

http://www.thefilmconnection.org/

- you can probably work with them to secure the films.

Then you and others have them more readily available.

I haven't used the film connection because I've not been able to get a group together to watch the same film at the same time. Although the idea has plenty of merit.