documentary
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HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
David France’s meticulously detailed account is how an angry and fiercely committed group of selfless people refused to lie down and play dead and by taking on both the pharmaceutical industry and Government institutions, they made a real difference and saved countless live. This is of course the story of the AIDS epidemic which brought…
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FAMILY TIES
When Israeli filmmaker Nitzan Gilady crammed his parents and two grown up brothers and one sister in lawn into an RV to travel thousands of miles across country for a week to go visit the Grand Canyon I was very skeptical.What on earth could happen over the Passover holiday with the family living on top…
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5 BROKEN CAMERAS
Emid Burnat is a Palestinian farmer who works the same land that his family have done for generations in Bil’in on the West Bank and this movie is his firsthand account when the village is threatened by the encroaching Israeli Settlements. This highly personal documentary film bears witness to how the non-violent resistance by the…
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JOSEPHINE BAKER : BLACK DIVA IN A WHITE MAN'S WORLD
Ask anyone today what they know about the great Josephine Baker and they will inevitably trot out the fact that she scandalized tout Paris in the 1920’s by dancing wearing nothing more than a bunch of bananas. In this (far too short) film on her life we learn there was so much more to this…
