documentary
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My First War : one soldier’s take on the Israeli/Lebanon War
In 2006 at the start of the Second Lebanon War, Tel Aviv film school graduate Yariv Mozer was called up as Army Reservist Officer to serve at the Front. He decided to take his video camera along with the idea that over the next few weeks he would taping how the war progressed but he…
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Koch
Neil Barksy’s engrossing new documentary is an affectionate look at one of the most infuriating larger-than-life politicians who almost loved his job and his city as much as he adored himself. Ed Koch was a three term Mayor of New York who rescued his city from the throes of bankruptcy in the 1970’s and practically…
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Rent Boys
For well over the past four decades Berlin’s Zoo Railway Station has been the main stomping ground for the city’s rent boys. Using archive footage from 1965 this fascinating documentary from gay activist filmaker Rosa Van Praunheim paints the scene there as it has evolved until the present day. It is a desperately sad tale of…
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Out In The Silence
When Joe Wilson married his husband Dean Hammer in Washington DC he put an wedding announcement in the local newspaper of Oil City Pennsylvania, his small home town, which was met with such an outpouring of vitriol and hate. However amongst all the abuse also came a cry for help in the form of a…
