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I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope
2009
In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured. A people who in 1994, embraced the concept of Desmond Tutu's all encompassing 'rainbow nation', but soon thereafter realized that freedom, privilege, economic growth and equality would not include them. A people who for more than 350 years has been disregarded, ignored, belittled, and stripped of anything they can call their own enduring a complex psychological oppression and identity crisis unparalleled in South African history.The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2009
star 4.5Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.The Wash
2009
The Wash
2009
"The Wash is a portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California, where Lee and I used to live. We shot the wash on Super8 film and then finished it on video. It is a collaboration between us, describing the ways the wash is used, and the people who use it, ourselves included. It charts the way this land has changed since they began developing Newhall and the surrounding community of Valencia for housing, a development that is expected to bring over 250,000 more people into the area by the year 2015."The Polio Crusade
2009
The Polio Crusade
2009
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. Based in part on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky, Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.Estampas de Teyo Gracia
2009
A compilation of twelve short stories from one of Puerto Rico's most prolific writers, Abelardo Díaz Alfaro. These are: "El figurín", "El ejecutivo", "El muerto encogío", "La historia de la polilla", "Julia Rosa", "El funerario", "La mujer y su poder de dominio", "La locura del Rock & Roll", "Las píldoras juvenilinas", "Una estatua al ñame", "El bautizo de la leche", and "Una suegra lista".The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
2009
star 5.8Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
2009
star 7.3The story of Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian poet who was captured by the Nazis, while trying to rescue Jews in WWII.L'Abolition
2009
L'Abolition
2009
star 6The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France .Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
2009
The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic --- traumatizing Southern planters, inspiring U.S. Blacks, and invigorating anti-slavery activist world-wide. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike.Prayers for Bobby
2009
Prayers for Bobby
2009
star 8.1Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.A Room and a Half
2009
A Room and a Half
2009
star 6.3A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.Khureldei: The Great Khan's Envoy
2009
At the moment when Yesukhei the hero marches against the Tatars, captures Temujin-Ugeg, and issues a death warrant, time seems to have stopped when Mother Uulen gives birth to the future great ruler Genghis Khan, and the adventure of the film begins when Yesukhei's friend Khureldey arrives in the present day. Khureldey returns, finds the bear's claw needed to give birth to the great khan safely, and gives it to Mother Uulen, and the great khan is born. Through this event, the cultural differences and social conditions that Khureldey encounters are presented in a comical way in this film.Notorious
2009
Notorious
2009
star 6.9"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time: The Notorious B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."Harishchandrachi Factory
2009
star 6.5In 1913 India's cinema industry is born from Dadasaheb Phalke's efforts to make Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first feature-length B&W silent film.The Hessen Affair
2009
The Hessen Affair
2009
star 5In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.Stauffenberg: The True Story
2009
He was a shining light in the German resistance movement and the bomb he placed at Hitler's headquarters could have put an end to war and genocide. Yet like most German army officers, Claus Schenk, Count von Stauffenberg, was at first a fascinated observer of Hitler's rise and his early military successes. He, too, was carried away by the triumph of the French campaign. It was a long road for this loyal follower of his commander-in-chief to become the man who tried to kill the Fuhrer on 20 July 1944. So what turned an ambitious officer from an old aristocratic family into the mastermind of a coup d'etat? What did he know about the crimes committed under the Nazi regime? Based on the latest research about the German Resistance, this documentary seeks to answer these questions.L'Assassinat d'Henri IV
2009
King Henri IV of France was living out his final hours before being assassinated on 14 May 1610 in the streets of Paris. But who was this king, described as a "womaniser", and who wanted to take his life?Mission to Murder Hitler
2009
star 6.7Documentary, also known as "Mission to Murder Hitler", chronicling Valkyrie, the true story of a German Resistance group attempting to murder Adolf Hitler.Zen
2009
Zen
2009
star 7.1In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by way of Zazen. Zazen is extended hours of sitting and meditating to achieve a state of “Mu” (nothingness, or empty existence).
