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The Island President
Jon Shenk’s The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it.
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Dreams of a Life
Would anyone miss you? Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on.
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Tabloid
Academy Award-winner Errol Morris’ TABLOID follows the much stranger-than-fiction adventures of Joyce McKinney, a former “beauty queen” whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe and directly onto the front pages of the British tabloid newspapers.
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Page One: Inside The New York Times
With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source, and newspapers going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the media industry’s transformation and assesses the high stakes for democracy.
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The Interrupters
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago who with bravado, humility and even humor try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed.
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Bobby Fischer Against the World
'Bobby Fisher Against the World' is the first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.
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Countdown to Zero
Countdown to Zero reveals the truth behind an issue on which human survival itself hangs - the very real possibility of nuclear disaster. From the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, Countdown is a chilling wakeup call about the urgency of the nuclear threat.
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Sweetgrass
The Last Ride of the American Cowboy
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A Small Act
A young Kenyan's life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. A teacher's generosity leads to a life-changing program across the globe.
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Son of Babylon
A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
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