human-rights
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

    Mental patients follow Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), the social-misfit hero of Ken Kesey's...

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    Rambo (2008)

    John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) calls upon his long-buried but lethal skills to rescue a missionary...

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    Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

    Murderer Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) spends decades in solitary confinement studying birds and...

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    The Agronomist (2004)

    Filmmaker Jonathan Demme profiles the late Jean Dominique, radio commentator and campaigner for...

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    Karen Elliott House

    Karen Elliott House appeared in the TV shows The Media and Human Rights and Renaissance.

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    John G Healey

    John G Healey produced the TV show The Human Rights Now Tour.

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    Jacek Kalabinski

    Jacek Kalabinski appeared in the TV show The Media and Human Rights.

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    Cry Freedom (1987)

    Editor Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) fights apartheid with activist Steve Biko (Denzel Washington).

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    Cannabis (1970)

    Serge (Serge Gainsbourg) is sent to France by New York mobsters to secure a shipment of heroin. The...

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    City of Joy (1992)

    A Houston surgeon (Patrick Swayze) goes to Calcutta and joins an Englishwoman's (Pauline Collins)...

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    Caged Heat 3000

    3000 years. 2000 women. 1000 ways to punish them!

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    Emmanuel's Gift (2005)

    The true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a disabled athlete from Ghana Africa who rode a bicycle...

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    Thirst (2004)

    Living in an isolated and remote region, an Israeli Arab family suffers under the rule of their...

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    Tying the Knot (2004)

    Filmmaker Jim de Seve examines the issue of same-sex marriage through two case histories that reveal...

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    Crossing Arizona (2006)

    Filmmaker Joseph Mathew examines the plight of illegal immigrants who die from dehydration after...

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    Sister Stella L.

    An unassuming nun is transformed into a champion of human rights.

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    Closet Land (1991)

    A woman in a nameless country is abducted by a man who brainwashes and tortures her, ostensibly...

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    Romero (1989)

    Archbishop Oscar Romero (Raul Julia) becomes a crusader for reform in El Salvador and dies a martyr...

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    The Roundup

    The story of political prisoners suspected to be freedom fighters in the newly formed...

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    The Panama Deception (1992)

    Filmmaker Barbara Trent ties the 1989 invasion to Manuel Noriega, the CIA and U.S. policy since...

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    Black Joy (1978)

    Black Joy is the lightly ironic title of this British culture-clash comedy. Trevor Thomas heads the...

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    Mauvaise Conduite (1984)

    Improper Conduct was written and directed by famed Spanish cinematographer Nestor Alemandros. With...

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    When the Mountains Tremble

    Chronicles the struggle of Guatemalan peasants against a long heritage of state and foreign...

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    There Was a Crooked Man (1970)

    A killer convict (Kirk Douglas) betrays the new warden (Henry Fonda) of an Arizona territorial...

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    China Cry (1990)

    Based on Nora Lam's (Julia Nickson-Soul) book about her persecution as a Christian in 1950s China,...

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    Red Dust

    Police officer Dirk Hendricks (Bartlett) files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo (Ejiofor), a...

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    Raoni: The Fight For the Amazon (1986)

    Examination of the lives of the Mekronoti Indian tribe in Brazil.

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    Le Mur

    Produced in France, The Wall (aka Le Mur) was the last work of Turkish writer/director/political...

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    Atrapadas

    A corrupt prison system comes under scrutiny in this action drama about a racketeering lesbian...

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    Countdown at Kusini (1976)

    This drama, financed by DST Communications, a subsidiary of Delta Sigma Theta, the world's largest...