documentary
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The Topp Twins : Untouchable Girls
When Comedy Writer Paul Horan was in L.A. in the late 1990’s he was asked who were the latest comedy sensation back in his home country New Zealand, and without a single hesitation he replied it was a pair of middle-aged yodelling lesbian twins The questioner just walked away horrified because on paper The Topp…
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THE ACT OF KILLING
The subject of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fiercely compelling documentary is definitely one of the most evil and sadistic acts of genocide that I have ever seen on the silver screen. It tells some of the stories of the Indonesian death squads of the mid 1960’s who tortured and killed over one million ‘communists’ at the behest…
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56 UP
Director Michael Apted’s outstanding series of movies that, at seven year intervals, has been revisiting the same 14 English children/adults since they were seven years old in 1964 is an extraordinary anthropological study that shows that life never turns out as we expect. The subjects that he chose came from all different social backgrounds in a…
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NICKY'S FAMILY
In 1988 Greta Winton was scrambling around the attic of the home in Buckinghamshire where she lived with her husband Nicholas and she uncovered a secret that he had kept from her and the whole world for 50 years. Her find was a detailed scrapbook that gave details of the daring plan her husband had…
