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Author
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Into the Current takes the viewer into the darkest corners of Burmas massive system of repression. The ordeal of political prisoners like Ko Bo Kyi illuminates the suppression of democracy activists through imprisonment, torture and isolation, but more importantly, the resolute commitment they embody for a people long denied their freedom. There is no better homage to the desire for a positive future for Burma than the stories this documentary presents....
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Are we on the verge of a nuclear holocaust? Political tensions are at an all time high and with North Korea and Iran nuking up it's even more of a concern as nuclear accidents via human error or machine malfunction continue to occur and cyber-terrorism.
24) The Dissident
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.
25) Fahrenheit 9/11
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Great White Hoax, featuring acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores how American political leaders of both parties have been tapping into white anxiety, stoking white grievance, and scapegoating people of color for decades to divide and conquer working class voters and shore up political support. The film's primary focus is Donald Trump's race-baiting 2016 campaign for the presidency. But it also widens its scope to show how...
27) No Safe Spaces
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
NO SAFE SPACE contends that identity politics and the suppression of free speech are spreading into every part of society and threatening to divide America.
31) Nationtime
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. NATIONTIME is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta...
32) The Presidents
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
See the minorities that have influenced politics.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
The story of an idealistic young politician's rise and fall in a small town, "Tableau Ferraille" ("scrap heap") paints a picture of a corrupt post-colonial elite. Tableau Ferraille offers an intimate view of how modernization, at least as practiced in today's Africa, corrodes traditional communities and retards grassroots development. Like such past Senegalese masterpieces as Ousmane Sembene's Xala and Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyenas, it deplores a...
34) To play the King
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Urquhart's manipulative mastery of greed and corruption have finally brought him to the pinnacle of power as the leader of his party. But at his moment of villainous triumph, the succession of a King opposed to his policies challenges Urquhart's authority--and compels him to take up one final challenge to his absolute political socereignty.
35) Cubamerican
Publisher
ÑO Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
CUBAMERICAN is the stirring story of how the Cuban Revolution shattered the Cuban family. Spanning the past 60 years of Cuban history, the film evokes this tragedy and its universal themes of loss, freedom, assimilation, struggle and triumph through the stories of Cuban exiles that have achieved acclaim in diverse fields in the U.S.A. and beyond, rendering a mosaic of a bittersweet exile experience. A pro-immigrant story that grapples with the agony...
36) The Minister
Publisher
Cineflix
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Icelandic
Description
Politician. Poet. Prime Minister? Some have labelled Benedikt Ríkardsson an unorthodox radical; he calls himself an honest citizen of Iceland. Radical or righteous? One thing is for sure, he will be a leader unlike any we’ve ever seen before.
37) City Hall
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A smoothly running political machine is threatened by a scandal linking the mayor of New York to the Mafia. When a child is killed the deputy mayor must choose between loyalty and his conscience.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
October 2003, Georgia: in this post-soviet Republic weakened by civil war and the succession of several territories in the early 1990's, a democratic opposition movement protests the outcome of the election, claiming fraud. Under the leadership of the charismatic Mikhail Saakachvili, also known as Micha, the establishment is swept away in a mere few weeks. An inside glance at a successful revolution, one that remained non-violent and served as an...
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Republicans take control of the House for the first time in 40 years, led by a new breed of politician, Newt Gingrich. Gingrich’s uncompromising partisanship defines the “Republican Revolution” and steers the country towards a government shutdown. President Clinton’s flirtation with Monica Lewinsky escalates and culminates in an intimate encounter during the government shutdown. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court takes up the allegations of sexual...
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With President Clinton's deposition in the Paula Jones case less than a week away, Linda Tripp contacts Starr's team to tell them the President and Monica plan to lie under oath. Starr and the FBI wire Linda Tripp for a private meeting with Monica Lewinsky. Two days later Lewinsky is detained by FBI agents at the Pentagon Mall and interrogated for nearly 12 hours by prosecutors from the Office of Independent Counsel who try to convince her to cooperate...
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