political-upheaval
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    Aeon Flux (2005)

    In the last city on Earth, underground rebels dispatch their top assassin (Charlize Theron) to kill...

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    The Raspberry Reich (2004)

    A critique of terrorist chic from pop culture maverick Bruce LaBruce.

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    Rome (2005-2007)

    Two Roman soldiers and their families endure the fall of the republic.

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    Why We Fight (2006)

    Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki examines the nature and causes of the U.S. military-industrial complex.

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    Aristide and the Endless Revolution (2005)

    Examines the oft-suppressed story of the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti. Only an hour south of Miami, the...

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    Voices of Iraq (2004)

    A compilation of footage taken from 2,000 Iraqis who were given digital video cameras and allowed to...

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    How I Killed a Saint (2006)

    A young woman returns from America, the land of jobs, money and peace, to a world a million miles...

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    Toy Soldiers (1984)

    A yacht captain (Jason Miller) and his sidekick (Cleavon Little) help a Beverly Hills teen (Terri...

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    Paper Dove

    A Peruvian boy comes of age amidst a violent civil war.

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    Windprints

    Leaving Johannesburg's political upheaval, a South African news cameraman (Sean Bean) searches for a...

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    American Nightmare

    Filmmaker Adam Simon examines the history of independent horror films through director interviews...

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    Goya in Bordeaux (2000)

    Set in the early 1800s, a tale told in flashbacks by an 82-year-old Spanish artist Francisco Goya,...

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    Michael Collins (1996)

    An Irish freedom fighter (Liam Neeson) engineers the assassinations of British officials following...

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    Red Dawn

    Two days in the life of a middle-class family during the civil unrest 1968, just weeks before the...

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    The Dark Blue World (2001)

    Two Czech pilots (Ondrej Vetchy, Krystof Hadek) compete for the love of a married woman (Tara...

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    Memories of Murder (2005)

    An urban detective (Kim Sang-gyeong) and two rural policemen (Song Kang-ho, Kim Roi-ha) investigate...

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    The Spook Who Sat By the Door

    A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to...

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    Clear Sky

    A Soviet Air Force Pilot is gunned down in World War II, assumed as dead, and becomes a posthumous...

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    Boda Secreta

    A revolutionary, presumably killed fifteen years earlier, suddenly reappears in his home village.

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    Broken Dreams-Reason and Dilirium

    A director at the forefront of the incendiary revolutionary Italian cinema of the Sixties looks back...

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    Kathapurushan

    An exploration of tumultuous political upheavals in the southern Indian state of Kerala over more...

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    Living Goddess

    Follows the lives of three young girls who are worshipped as living deities in the Himalayan Kingdom...

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    Freedom's Fury

    Documentary revolves around the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the epic 1956 semi-final water polo...

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    Meeting Resistance (2007)

    Raises the veil of anonymity surrounding the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with...

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    The Warlords (November 30, 2009)

    Follows three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval.

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    Le Brahmane du Komintern

    Brahman became a bomber targeting the British colonialists, an arms dealer in the United States, a...

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    Partition (2008)

    Gian and Naseem are a latter-day Romeo and Juliet. With the partition of India and Pakistan...

  • Gangsta King: Raymond Lee Washington picture
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    Gangsta King: Raymond Lee Washington

    Robert Stack hosts this documentary about Raymond Lee Washington, 60's radical and founder of the...

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    TV

    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996)

    Eight-part documentary blending military, political and cultural perspectives on World War I.

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    TV

    Paradise Postponed (1986-1987)

    An eleven-part adaptation based on John Mortimer's book about the social and political upheavals in...