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Old home movies, newsreels and a prison diary are interwoven to link personal and public history in this assessment of human rights abuses in Guinea-Conakry. Allah Tantou is the first African film to confront the immense personal and political costs of the widespread human rights abuses on the continent. It follows filmmaker David Achkar's search for his father, his father's search for himself inside a Guinean prison and Africa's search for a new...
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An in-depth, intimate exploration of the true story behind Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning film *Argo*. In this gripping new documentary, the story of the “Canadian Caper” is told by the man who knows it best: Ken Taylor, Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, who hid the six Americans in his official residence and obtained the counterfeit documents that allowed them to make their dramatic escape from Tehran. Based on Robert Wright’s book, the...
6) Beirut
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Set during the time of the Lebanese Civil War, tells the story of a former American diplomat who returns to Beirut to rescue his friend who was taken hostage by a terrorist group.
8) M. Butterfly
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A French civil service officer risks and then abandons everything in his life in his obsessive pursuit of a enigmatic Chinese opera diva who harbors a secret.
9) Indiscreet
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Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair.
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"Unfolding like a political thriller, [it] tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines, and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the United States received a daily barrage of humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had once been a close ally. Told through the candid, personal testimony of those whose lives were...
11) Ninotchka
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Garbo plays a dour, severe Soviet official who comes to Paris on business involving the sale of some czarist jewels. But soon business turns to pleasure as she discovers the special magic of Paris and finds herself succumbing to the charms of a suave Frenchman named Leon D'Algout (Melvyn Douglas). The plot bubbles merrily as Ninotchka chooses between romance and duty--and must even confront a rival for Leon's affection in the exiled Grand Duchess...
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Did Henry Kissinger sabatoge the 1968 Vietnam peace talks for his own personal gain? Did he orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia? Did he authorize covert operations to overthrow a Chilean President? This explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in United States history.
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Fernando is a diplomat who has just achieved the most important achievement of his career: to return the plume of Moctezuma to Mexico, and also, is about to marry the woman of his life. Everything is perfection with him, unlike his two cousins, Matías, former pop star and failed rock star, and Dante, forever trying to finish an infinite thesis, while living in the closet of his mom.
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A comedy about sex, power and the colliding cultures of British imperialism and West African independence. As punishment for bedding the wife of a corrupt Kinjanjan presidential candidate, a womanizing British diplomat must somehow bribe an incorruptable official on the politician's behalf.
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The night of the following day: Professional criminals successfully kidnap a young girl from her wealthy family, but their plans become undone as they realize there is no trust between them.
The ugly American: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible...
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Sergio Vieira de Mello was a career UN diplomat from Brazil. After the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, Sergio was appointed to head a mission in Iraq to establish a new Iraqi government. On August 19th, 2003, the team's headquarters in Baghdad was hit by a suicide bomber. Twenty-two people died in the blast including Sergio Vieira de Mello.
19) M. Butterfly
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A French civil service officer risks and then abandons everything in his life in his obsessive pursuit of a enigmatic Chinese opera diva who harbors a secret.
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A Starfleet propulsion expert and his alien assistant come aboard the Enterprise to increase efficiency and then the Enterprise mysteriously rockets to an area previously unexplored by humans. Kirk discovers a ship carrying cryogenically frozen survivors of the 1990s Earth war known as the Eugenic Wars and when his life-support system dies, Khan, comes to life immediately, hatching a plan to rule mankind. Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet...
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