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Social Films
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Social issues, activism, and phenomenon films. Economy, goverment, family, and community issues.
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Behind the Veils- Nuns
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This two part film explores the history of women's roles in the Catholic Church, and the need for reform of sexist standards. Part 1 contrasts the experiences of contemporary, active nuns who live in and work amidst poverty, and a nun who lives in the...
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Berkeley in the Sixties
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Academy Award Nominee!
Civil rights marches anti-Vietnam War protests, the women's movement and the birth of the Black Panthers, all captured in their immediacy and passion in this gripping documentary. Featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Jimi...
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Big One, The
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Our intrepid defender of the working man, Michael Moore, documents his 1996 "Downsize This!" book tour across the USA. Shot on-the-cheap with a video camera, we once again watch our hero interview the working man at yet another plant closing, while also...
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Blood in the Face
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A darkly humorous and frightning closeup view of today's far-right movement. Blood in the Face uses archival footage and interviews to reveal the workings of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, the Aryan Nations, and David Duke. The most...
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Blood of My Brothers, The
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The Blood of My Brother shows the war in Iraq from the perspective of an Iraqi family grieving the loss of a son who was killed by an American patrol as he stood guard at a mosque. The subtle dynamic between grief and rage is eloquently explored by...
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Border War
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The film is produced by Citizens United Productions, part of a Washington, D.C.-based conservative grass-roots advocacy organization, and travels from the smuggling tunnels near Nogales, Ariz., to migrant halfway houses, to Washington, D.C., as it...
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Born Into Brothels
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Admist the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another side of the nation that is little known. This film is a chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's efforts to show that world of Calcutta's red...
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Bowling for Columbine
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The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humour, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of...
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Boys of Baraka
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If everyone in high government office saw The Boys of Baraka, who knows what kind of positive change it might inspire? From this remarkable documentary about hope and second chances, the message is clear: The poorest, most violent, undesirable...
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Breasts- A Documentary
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Twenty-two women – most topless, all candid – reveal how their breasts have shaped their lives, from puberty to sex to motherhood and beyond. Interspersed throughout are precious archival gems, including a racy 1920s cartoon, a 1950s beauty pageant and a...
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