We frequently hear about the link between mobile phones and movies. Mobile advertising is being used to promote popular new movies. Smartphones are being used to download and watch movies on the go. And cutting-edge artists are using mobile phones to film movies for screening at film festivals around the world. But what if what you’re really looking for is a smart movie that informs you about issues that relate to cell phones? What you need to find is a good documentary about mobile phones. You’re in luck.
Here is information about ten different mobile phone documentaries that will provide you with a well-rounded education about cell phones:
1. Sex, Lies and Mobile Phones. This hour-long documentary explores the idea of how mobile phones can be a bad thing when we let them get out of control. Viewers get introduced to a lot of different types of people who have various problems with mobile phones. For example, there is a couple that has a serious cell phone addiction with more than half a dozen phones between the two of them. The video asks tough questions about the drawbacks of being a mobile phone culture.
2. Hello Africa. This documentary, which you can watch online, provides viewers with a really interesting background about the mobile phone cultures in Africa. The use of mobile phones in developing nations is a particularly interesting topics to a lot of people. Cell phones have been used to assist people in developing nations with gaining freedom, setting up small businesses, becoming self-sufficient and treating a variety of different diseases. Hello Africa provides a little bit of insight into this. This documentary shows cell phone use among different types of people in Africa. Plus it has a great soundtrack featuring music from NIN.
3. The Changing World: Mobile Phones. Africa is a topic of interest in this video series by the BBC as well. However this set of documentaries is a bit more comprehensive in exploring the world and how cell phones affect it. These videos discuss a variety of different issues with cell phones and the communities within which we use them.
4. Cell Phone: The Ring Heard Around the World. This is another documentary that explores the difference between cell phone use among different groups of people. Contrasting the experience of children in India who use cell phones to learn English with DJs in Japan that are participating in mobile ringtone competitions, this documentary reveals that a cell phone can mean something different to every user.
5. Cell Phone Revolution. One specific issue in terms of the global development of cell phone use is the growth of cell phone use in different geographic areas over time. This trailer is for a Discovery channel documentary that discusses the way that the world viewed cell phones at different times during the past two and a half decades and reviews how that differed depending on where people might live. It also touches on the business of the cell phone industry and how that has developed.
6. Public Exposure: DNA, Democracy and the Wireless Revolution. This documentary, which is available in full via the link, is a controversial one. It takes the stance that mobile devices are bad for public health. This is an issue of hot debate. There are many people who believe that cell phones cause a variety of different health problems ranging from cancer to cell phone elbow. There are others who disagree. This documentary is a bit one-sided but it does give you something to think about – something a bit scary when you think too much about it!
7. Allergic to the 21st Century. This is another documentary about the health risks of mobile phone use. This one doesn’t cover only mobile phones though. Instead this one is about the health risks posed to people from all sorts of twenty first century devices. The mobile phone is considered to be one of the threats facing people today.
8. How Mobile Phones Fight Poverty. This film is a short film, only fifteen minutes in length, but it’s a very powerful film. It’s footage of a talk that was given about the ways in which mobile phones can be used to fight poverty. The talk is given by Iqbal Quadir who started a rural Bangladeshi mobile phone company and knows first hand about the topic on which he speaks.
9. The Land of the Mobile Millionaires. It’s not just third world nations that benefit financially from mobile phones. This brief documentary is all about how the mobile phone industry managed to prevent the recession from hitting Finland. It’s an interesting tale about the Finland Nokia Millionaires.
10. Afghan Star. This full-length documentary about life in Afghanistan isn’t actually about mobile phones. However there are parts of it that reveal how mobile phones have helped spread democracy in this country in a very unique way. Afghan Star is the name of a television show there that is very similar to American Idol. It’s a shocking show in this country where singing and dancing have been prohibited. The documentary is all about the rules of Afghan culture and the politics there. What does that have to do with mobile phones? Millions of people have watched this show and have used mobile phones to cast their votes for who they think the winner should be. For some people it’s their first experience ever with a democratic style of voting for anything. The documentary even shows the tough debate between teenage girls who want to vote but who have to argue about who to vote for because they only have one mobile phone in the house and therefore only get one vote. Interesting topic and a unique look at cell phones.
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