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The film focuses on three stories at which Caulker and his organization facilitate fambul tok reconciliation talks. The film opens at a bonfire in Foendor, a village in Sierra Leone. A young woman named Esther declares that she was raped at the age of 12 by fifteen men.
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This is a documentary that highlights conservative American reactions to the Democratic victory of the 2008 presidential election.
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A student at the New York Public Library is about to write a paper about the United States during the 1920s. Frederick Lewis Allen agrees to help him, and to utilize several other personalities to tell the youth about the decade. Utilizing footage from newsreels of the period, several narrators take the student from 1920 through 1929.
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The documentary features the story of Omar Khadr, who was captured in 2002 by Americans in Afghanistan and was charged with war crimes. The film takes an in-depth look at how Khadr, at 15 years old, became the center of one of the first American war crimes trials since the 1940s through Khadr's perspective. For the first time, Omar Khadr was allowed to speak for himself on camera.
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Filmed in San Francisco, Sydney, Australia, and New York, United States, it concentrates on preparations for the 2006 New York final of the Bingham Cup (Mark Kendall Bingham Memorial Tournament), effectively the World Cup of gay rugby union, by the two finalist teams, the reigning incumbent champions San Francisco Fog RFC and the up-and-coming rivals, the Sydney Convicts. The Convicts end up winning the Cup with a score of 16–10.
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Ed Artis, Jim Laws, and Walt Ratterman are former soldiers and modern-day knights. They travel the world delivering life-saving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors on the front lines of war. They are self-styled Knights of Malta.
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Hineini (Hebrew for 'Here I am') chronicles the story of Izen's attempt to establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high school in Boston. The student, Shulamit Izen, enters 9th grade at The New Jewish High School (now Gann Academy) in Waltham, Massachusetts openly identifying as a lesbian. Set in an interview format, Hineini documents Izen, her family, teachers, and other students who both support her campaign and those who oppose it.
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10 MPH follows the progress of Caldwell as he rides a Segway scooter across the United States from Seattle to Boston, stopping at many places along the way to interact with people. The film focuses on showing the dynamic nature of the US countryside as well as documenting the stories of people Caldwell and Weeks encounter along the way. 10 MPH shows Caldwell, Weeks, and other members of the crew but also provides footage of the people they meet, both helpful and rude.
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The film documents the struggle of six contemporary poets who have faced the duress of war, exile, and human rights violations to give voice to their experiences while wrestling with the complex moral quandaries of artistic production, memory, and trauma. The poets: Carolyn Forché (Salvadoran Civil War), Saghi Ghahraman (Iranian Revolution), Fady Joudah (Doctors Without Borders), Claudia Serea (Socialist Republic of Romania), Mario Susko (Bosnian War), and Bruce Weigl (Vietnam War) offer first-person accounts of how their experiences as soldier, activist, doctor, and survivor imprint their poetry as evidence of those conflicts, rather…
Animation, documentary film, Political Documentary
The film portrays the actions of the Iranian government, under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as it deals with backlash from citizens following the allegedly fraudulent results of the 2009 Iranian presidential elections. The film includes Facebook posts, Tweets and video in order to tell the story.
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Through first-hand interviews with founding members and people who grew up in the organization as children, archival photographs, and videos, The Sun Rises in The East depicts the reverberating impact of the organization co-founded by educator and community leader Jitu Weusi. The film shows how The East organized itself around the principle of Black self-determination, developing an independent African-centered school, daycare, restaurant, newspaper, bookstore, clothing shop, and food co-op, among other businesses. The film also depicts how the collective attracted notable figures within the Black Arts Movement to perform at its renowned…
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