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Benefits Of A Toilet
Toilets – over 2 billion people lack safe, sanitary access. For women and girls, this crisis fuels disease, insecurity, and lost opportunity, holding back entire communities.
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War Peace
The documentary "War/Peace" re-introduces 1960s radical student activists. It features former Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, long silenced by the government and press. The film serves as a crucial historical reminder of when young minds last organized to challenge an...
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Disappeared By The IRA
The powerful story of those killed and secretly buried by IRA during the conflict in Northern Ireland. During The Troubles in Northern Ireland, at least 15 people were 'disappeared' - abducted at night - by the Irish Republican Army. Political enemies, people viewed as traitors and suspected info...
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Margin Of Error: AI, Polling and Elections
Pioneers of a new kind of polling combine social media data with AI to predict voter behavior. This promises politicians the intel to respond to our needs. But will this data be used to better serve citizens, or will it be misused to mislead us by our own governments or foreign adversaries?
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The Road
In Marc Isaacs’ film, diverse London arrivals seek better lives: an aspiring Irish singer, a lonely ex-builder, a Kashmiri hotel worker, a Jewish WWII refugee, and a retired German stewardess. Blending humour and heartbreak, it’s a deeply affecting, non-polemical study of immigration.
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Soldiers Who Rape
DRC's war weaponized rape. Hundreds of thousands of women brutally assaulted. Soldiers, interviewed here, cite terror, shaming enemies, attacking rival men, and societal collapse as reasons for their normalized crimes. A shocking investigation.
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This Little Land of Mines
During the Vietnam War, the US conducted a massive, secret CIA bombing campaign in Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country per capita in history. Decades later, Laotians live alongside over 80 million unexploded ordnance. This powerful documentary reveals the brave men and women risking t...
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Philip and His Seven Wives
Philip Sharp believes that God has chosen him to be a Hebrew king, and lives according to the Old Testament's ancient patriarchal system. This former rabbi, his seven wives and numerous children all live together under the same roof, raising horses and running second-hand furniture shops. Though ...
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Waging Change
The pandemic exposed deep flaws in the U.S. restaurant industry. "Waging Change," featuring Saru Jayaraman, Jane Fonda, and AOC, reveals the fight for a living wage and an end to the subminimum $2.13 tipped wage. It also highlights the #MeToo movement's push to stop sexual harassment, demanding d...
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Crimes Of The Future
Through conversations with Norwegian writers, filmmakers, psychiatrists, and artists, Izquierdo investigates the profound impact of a specific film and novel on generations of Norwegian culture. This exploration traces their influence on artistic practice while also asking a larger question: how ...
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Delay of Game
"Delay Of Game" is a poignant film exploring football's profound impact on coaches, players, and families. It scrutinizes the tragic death of NFL Hall of Famer Junior Seau, linked to CTE. With growing health concerns over long-term effects, the sport's future is uncertain. Youth football bans are...
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The Chinese Mayor
Controversial Mayor Geng Yanbo demolished 140,000 homes in Datong to relocate half a million people, aiming to restore ancient walls and pivot to tourism. His radical vision sought to combat pollution and revive the economy through culture, outlining a complex blueprint for China's urban future.
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Men of the City
"Men of the City" tracks London’s financial meltdown. Beyond brokers making money from money, it reveals a cleaner, a Bengali single father, and others striving for dignity amidst the crisis. Sensitive portraits of diverse lives.
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Sons of Perdition: Leaving the Cult
In hidden America, the FLDS sect practices polygamy, expelling teens for minor "sins." This film follows three exiled boys navigating a world of girls, beer, and freedom with no guide.
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Far Away From Home
Children & adolescents from across Latin America wait in Tijuana shelters. Their asylum requests to enter the U.S. pending, their lives are in a state of prolonged uncertainty. These are childhoods on hold, defined by a long and anxious wait.
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Breaking Silence Season 2 Laulima Hansen
Research shows victims of childhood abuse are twice as likely to enter an abusive relationship as adults. Lima, who once rejected her Samoan roots to escape her past, found strength in her faith. It gave her the power to forgive and the courage to share her powerful story of survival and healing.
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The Singing Contest
In Rio, an elderly man lovingly prepares his curió, an endangered songbird, for a prestigious singing contest. This cherished tradition spotlights a profound bond, but also casts a complex shadow, as the very birds celebrated for their beautiful songs are vanishing from the wild.
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Current Sea
This environmental thriller tracks journalist Matt Blomberg & activist Paul Ferber in their perilous quest to establish a marine sanctuary against illegal fishing in Southeast Asia. Their dangerous crusade inspires a new generation of Cambodian conservationists to fight for their future, proving ...
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You've Been Trumped Too
Anthony Baxter's film tracks Donald Trump's US campaign and his golf course clash in Scotland with Molly Forbes, a resilient 92-year-old widow refusing to sell her land. This shocking David vs. Goliath battle becomes a remarkable document of the stark disconnect between powerful rhetoric and the ...
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Lawyers For Justice
"Lawyers (f)or Justice" follows Yavar Hameed exploring the viability of socially conscious law in Ontario. Amid a deepening access-to-justice crisis, the film questions if new lawyers, burdened by soaring tuition and debt, can afford to practice law aligned with their principles. Can they break t...
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Trapped In The Volcano
White Island Volcano, eruption, December 2019, victims, loss of life, rescue effort, heroism, New Zealand, tour guide, Hayden Marshall-Inman, Royal Caribbean Cruises, judicial case, families, anger, warning, risks, tragedy.