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1) Joe Bell
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A rough-edged Oregon working class father pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
2) F.T.A
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“The Show the Pentagon Couldn’t Stop!” In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. It was directly engaged with and inspired by veterans against the war and, naturally, it upset U.S. military higher-ups. The F.T.A. tour was highly controversial and was a huge success among stationed soldiers. In spite of positive reviews and business, director Francine Parker’s...
3) Unchained
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A documentary about the activism of Carol Buckley with elephants in captivity and how they are trained, forced to long working hours and living in a clearly improvable conditions.
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Please note that this Film is only available through participating public libraries. Legendary activist Arna Mer Khamis married a Palestinian Arab and spent her life campaigning for justice and human rights in her homeland of Israel. She founded an alternative education system and opened a theatre group for Palestinian children. Five years after Arna’s death, Juliano returns to the camp to discover what happened to ARNA’S CHILDREN.
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LIGHTNING OVER BRADDOCK: A RUSTBOWL FANTASY is as eccentric a picture of America as has emerged in the last two decades. Like Buba’s earlier short films, it chronicles the decline of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a hard-luck town which once flourished as “Pittsburgh’s shopping center.” It concerns a director (Buba, playing himself) trying, without much success, to make a movie with a crazy street hustler named Sal, who considers himself responsible...
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The story behind Miss World contestant Anastasia Lin, using her beauty and brass to stand up against an oppressive juggernaut— the Chinese communist government. Drama, danger and fear follow Anastasia as she becomes the darling of the human rights community, traveling the globe to bring the world’s attention to an increasing list of China’s atrocities, including the persecution of prisoners of conscience and live forced organ harvesting. An...
7) Feminista
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FEMENISTA is a lively and inspiring feminist road movie that explores the largely unrecognized yet hugely vibrant pan European feminist movement. Filmmaker Myriam Fougère joined an international group of young feminists who were traveling across twenty countries – from Turkey to Portugal, by way of the Balkans, to Italy, Spain and Portugal – to make connections and unite forces with other women. She witnessed these determined activists participating...
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SAVE THE FARM tells the story of the largest urban farm in the United States, a 14-acre organic farm sitting right in the middle of South Central Los Angeles. Over 350 families cultivated this farm, which fed a community of thousands through a farmer's market, and created an urban oasis for more than 14 years. But when the city sells this public tract of land to a developer in a closed door session, activists and celebrities stage an 11th hour tree-sit...
10) The Falconer
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Rodney Stotts is one of only a handful of African American falconers in the country, and a local celebrity of sorts. He’s also a former drug dealer, inmate, single father, drive-by-shooting victim, and survivor of the crack epidemic in Southeast, Washington DC- the most dangerous neighborhood in what was then the murder capital of the U.S. A self-proclaimed animal junkie, Rodney has relied on the healing power of nature throughout his life. In this...
11) Yellow Fever
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YELLOW FEVER follows Tina Garnanez, a Navajo veteran returning from duty with the U.S. Army who realizes that her home on the Navajo Reservation has become a battleground in a protracted war over nuclear proliferation. As she seeks to learn about her own family history and its relationship to the uranium mines, we witness her evolution from curious family member to environmental justice activist.
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The revolutionary feature documentary AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY expands on the unprecedented exhibition @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, organized in 2014 by the film’s director Cheryl Haines. Following Ai Weiwei’s detention by Chinese authorities and while still under house arrest in Beijing, the outspoken artist and activist remotely transformed Alcatraz, a former island penitentiary and current national park, into a remarkable expression of socially...
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Episode 4: Frank Hardy - But The Dead Are many Author Frank Hardy was the most outspoken and well known Communist in Australia. He was a gambler, larrikin and for 45 years a target for ASIO. His story is the story of the left itself as he struggles with misplaced faith. It’s also the story of the Australian intelligence services and the future of surveillance.
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Episode 2: Michael Hyde - Student Revolution One of the most notorious student radicals of the 1960s Michael Hyde called for the violent overthrow of the State. Hyde and his comrades challenged the old guard supported the North Vietnamese and ASIO followed them every step of the way. A cat and mouse game of increasing pressure leads to conflict, paranoia and the rise of a unique generation.
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Episode 1: Roger Milliss - The Cold War & Beyond ASIO tracked the Milliss family for two generations as it was torn apart by politics. The family was divided, as father and son, both Communists, argued differing paths to Socialism. A tragic story played out against a backdrop of the great events of the 20th Century. The most personal details of his life were investigated in ASIO’s hunt for communist spies. These are personal stories in a political...
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Episode 3: Gary Foley - Australian Black Panther High profile Aboriginal activist Gary Foley was a member of the Black Panthers and a leader in the fight for land rights and social justice. ASIO saw this struggle as a front for violent world communism. Suspected of conspiring to commit acts of terror and subversion his extraordinary life was recorded in detail. Professor Foley gives us a hard hitting and at times hilarious analysis of his intelligence...
17) Heather Booth
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Heather Booth is the most influential person you never heard of. HEATHER BOOTH: CHANGING THE WORLD is an urgent response to the recent change in administration. At a time when many are wondering how to make their voices heard, when civil and women's rights are under attack, this empowering documentary is an inspiring look at how social change happens. Heather Booth, a renowned organizer and activist, began her remarkable career at the height of the...
18) Cries from Syria
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Covering five years of conflict, CRIES FROM SYRIA serves as a record of Syria's brutal disintegration and the dangers faced by its many refugees. Incorporating gripping first-hand accounts from activists, child protesters, and a former army general who joined the uprising, this compelling documentary bears witness to the resilience of the people in the wake of their exposure to unthinkable crimes against humanity.
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Voted documentary series of the year by the Australian Film Critics Circle, PERSONS OF INTEREST lifts the lid on the Australian Intelligence & Security Organisation’s (ASIO) secret war on dissent. In each episode a person of interest is given their previously secret intelligence file and asked to explain the allegations it contains. Using never before seen ASIO surveillance films, photographs and the actual files this is a unique insight into the...
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A rising star in progressive politics and a new father, 32-year-old Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS. But after a confrontation with powerful Senator Jeff Flake on an airplane goes viral, catapulting him to national fame, Ady and a motley crew of activists ignite a once-in-a-generation political movement called “Be a Hero.” Together, they barnstorm across the country and empower people to confront their elected officials...
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