documentary
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Who Will Write Our History : the real story of the Warsaw Ghetto
In WW2 when the German Governor of Warsaw in Occupied Poland the city into three areas : one for Germans. another for Poles, and the third for Jews, the infamous Ghetto was born.. It was October 1940 and because the Nazis had also been rounding up all the Jews in surrounding areas, the initial …
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Leave It To Levi : queer porn to fall asleep too
18 year old Luke, the adopted son of a single mother in a small town in Ohio, used to make videos of pleasuring himself which he then sent to Jake Jaxson the head of the gay twink porn site Cocky Boys. Exactly one year later Luke was in NY. renamed as Levi Karter, and…
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Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
Tom Shepard started his excellent and unsettling documentary about the plight of a handful of LGBT refugees in what we now wistfully call the ‘good old days’ i.e. pre 2016. Up to then this country stood by its centuries old policy of giving refugee to all those in need. In fact Shepard points out…
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63 UP : Filmmaker Michael Apted’s monumental reality series that has followed 14 Brits now for 55 years
There seems to be a very fine line between observer and voyeur as we watch ’63 Up’ the latest addition of Michael Apted’s extraordinary series of films that he has been shooting for the past 55 years. Following the lives of some 14 Brits every seven years, the power of this precursor to the…
