Political Unrest
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    Across the Universe (2007)

    Songs by the Beatles illustrate a tale of two star-crossed lovers (Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess)...

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    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

    Seduced by the dark side, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) turns against his mentor, Obi-Wan...

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    Blood Diamond (2006)

    Two men, a white South African mercenary (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a black Mende fisherman (Djimon...

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    Year One (2009)

    When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an...

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    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    Boris Pasternak's story of a poet/doctor (Omar Sharif), his wife (Geraldine Chaplin) and his lover...

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    Paris 36 (2009)

    Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the "revolutionary"...

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    Syriana (2005)

    The war on terror becomes personal for a CIA agent (George Clooney), while a proposed merger between...

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    The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

    In 1952, medical student Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara (Gael García Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granado...

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    House of Flying Daggers (2004)

    During the Tang dynasty, two lawmen (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau) go under cover at a house of...

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    Caligula (1978)

    Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius...

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    The Kite Runner (2007)

    After many years living in the U.S., an Afghan novelist (Khalid Abdalla) returns to his...

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    Alexander the Great (1956)

    Aristotle's student, Philip of Macedonia's (Fredric March) son, Alexander (Richard Burton) wants to...

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    Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)

    Leaving his wife (Angie Dickinson) behind, U.S. Col. David ``Mickey'' Marcus (Kirk Douglas) goes to...

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    Goodbye, Lenin! (2004)

    After his mother awakens from a coma, a man (Daniel Bruhl) tries to prevent her from learning about...

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    Catch a Fire (2006)

    An apolitical black South African (Derek Luke) becomes a freedom fighter with the ANC after a brutal...

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    Sleeper (1973)

    Deep-frozen for 200 years, a health-food store owner (Woody Allen) wakes up in a no-sex police state...

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    The Last King of Scotland (2006)

    The personal physician (James McAvoy) of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker) witnesses his...

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    Evita (1996)

    President Juan Peron's (Jonathan Pryce) wife (Madonna) achieves cult-figure status in Argentina...

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    The Lost City (2006)

    Castro's Communist Revolution sweeps through Cuba, catching an apolitical Havana club owner (Andy...

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    Waltz with Bashir (2008)

    An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct...

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    He Who Must Die (1957)

    Three townspeople cause an uproar when they try to help refugees on a Greek island occupied by...

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    Bobby (2006)

    In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in...

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    O Jerusalem (2007)

    Epic drama of 1948, in which Arabs and Jews fought each other for the city of Jerusalem.

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    Lemon Tree (2009)

    Salma Zidane lives in a tiny Palestinian village on the West Bank. She is 45 years old and a widow....

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    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    Steven Spielberg's acclaimed account of an English boy's life in a WWII internment camp in...

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    The Remains of the Day (1993)

    An English butler's (Anthony Hopkins) devotion to service keeps him from the housekeeper (Emma...

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    Havana (1990)

    An American gambler (Robert Redford) loves a rich rebel's wife (Lena Olin) in 1958 Cuba on the verge...

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    Goya's Ghosts (2007)

    A Spanish Inquisitor's (Javier Bardem) plan to curry favor with his superiors backfires after he...

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    Persepolis (2007)

    An Iranian girl witnesses the fundamentalist takeover of her country and rebels against its strict...

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    Rob Kramer

    Robert Kramer will probably go down in film history as the premier director of political dissidence...