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The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
Tag: News
The Mask You Live In 2015 • Movie
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Explores how our culture’s narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men and society at large and unveils what we can do about it.
Terms and Conditions May Apply 2013 • Movie
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A documentary that exposes what corporations and governments learn about people through Internet and cell phone usage, and what can be done about it … if anything.
Crime After Crime 2011 • Movie
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The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 20 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman, despite the injustices she has experienced, first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution, and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for her connection to the murder of her abuser. Her story takes an unexpected turn two decades later when a pair of rookie land-use attorneys cut their teeth on her case — and attract global attention to the troubled intersection of domestic violence and criminal justice.
SunGanges 2019 • Movie
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A panoptic film on water, energy and climate, SunGanges (SuryaGanga) is a wild and intense ride three filmmakers take across the vast Indian landscape in an attempt to connect the dots between vanishing rivers, massive energy projects and the quiet rise of renewable energy.
RiverBlue 2017 • Movie
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RiverBlue chronicles an unprecedented around-the-world river adventure, led by renowned paddler and conservationist, Mark Angelo, who ends up uncovering and documenting the dark side of the global fashion industry.
Bayou Blue 2014 • Movie
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From 1997 to 2006, serial killer Ronald Dominique raped and killed twenty-three men in poverty- stricken Southeastern Louisiana. Difficulties in apprehending Dominique ranged from the underfunding of law enforcement to a lack of family advocacy for the victims, to the general distraction by other catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina. Bayou Blue meditates on the decay of a community. It is a portrait of one American region’s descent into darkness.
(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies 2015 • Movie
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From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders’ extra-marital affairs to financial schemes undermining our economy, dishonesty seems to be a ubiquitous part of the news. But it’s not just true in the headlines – we ALL cheat.
Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World 2020 • Movie
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Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World explores the promise of open source investigation, taking viewers inside the exclusive world of the “citizen investigative journalist” collective known as Bellingcat.
Roadmap to Apartheid 2012 • Movie
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In this award-winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed looks at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Electoral Dysfunction 2012 • Movie
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Political humorist Mo Rocca takes an irreverent road trip to see how voting works – and doesn’t work – in America.
Cameraperson 2017 • Movie
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Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
Korengal 2015 • Movie
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Korengal picks up where Restrepo (2010) left off–with the same men, in the same valley, with the same commanders–but presents a very different look at the experience of war.
Food, Inc. 2009 • Movie
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An unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry.
Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer 2010 • Movie
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Honest Man: the Life of R. Budd Dwyer is a movie about politics and corruption, suicide and survival. Four years in the making, it explores the scandal that led an honest, hard-working man to take his own life. This independently produced feature-length documentary follows Budd Dwyer, a Pennsylvania politician who infamously committed suicide at a televised press conference. The film chronicles Dwyer’s meteoric rise to political power and examines the bribery scandal and subsequent trial that pushed him to his breaking point. Honest Man also delves into the controversy and consequences of the uncensored airing of Dwyer’s death on television stations worldwide. Honest Man reveals a story that has remained untold for over 24 years. The film features exclusive new interviews, including William Smith, the man whose testimony convicted Dwyer, and Dwyer’s widow Joanne–her last interview before her death in 2009. Was Dwyer venal, or a victim? Did he kill himself because he couldn’t live with being guilty, or because he couldn’t live with being innocent? Honest Man allows audiences to judge for themselves.
Before the Flood 2016 • Movie
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A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems and native communities across the planet.
Banking on Bitcoin 2016 • Movie
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Bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the Internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism. The film shows the players who are defining how this technology will shape our lives.
Film 24 2007 • TvSeries
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Mark Kermode and other leading critics review the latest cinema releases.
Indian Matchmaking 2020 • TvSeries
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Matchmaker Sima Taparia guides clients in the U.S. and India in the arranged marriage process, offering an inside look at the custom in a modern era.
Koran by Heart 2011 • Movie
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A global contest reading of the Quran by young Muslim children that takes place in Cairo, Egypt annually during Ramadan. A coming of age story about Muslim kids in modern times.
Burning Man 2001 2001 • TvMovie
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An Emmy Nominated documentary originally produced for KTNV-TV in Las Vegas. Shot in Northern Nevada during the summer of 2001.
Racing Extinction (2015) • Movie
Sinopsis: Racing Extinction is a movie starring Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, and Louie Psihoyos. A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.
Newsreaders (2013) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: Newsreaders is a TV series starring Ray Wise, Alan Tudyk, and Kumail Nanjiani. From the team behind Adult Swim’s Emmy Award®-winning comedy, Childrens Hospital, Newsreaders is an absurd take on the television news magazine format, a…
13th (2016) • Movie
Sinopsis: 13th is a movie starring Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, and Cory Booker. An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014) • TVSeries
Sinopsis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is a TV series starring John Oliver, David Kaye, and Ryan Barger. Former Daily Show host and correspondent John Oliver brings his persona to this weekly news satire program.
Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain (2019) • Movie
Sinopsis: Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain is a movie starring Anthony Davis, Shawn Dollar, and Ben Driebergen. Learn how athletes, vets and civilians with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD are becoming healthy and healing their brains. A…
Four Games in Fall (2017) • Movie
Sinopsis: Four Games in Fall is a movie starring Jerry Thornton, Dave Gomes, and Daniel Goldberg. The Making of Deflategate.