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- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsMatthew McConaugheyAnne HathawayJessica ChastainWhen Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
- DirectorTom TykwerLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsTom HanksHalle BerryHugh GrantAn exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsMatt DamonJessica ChastainKristen WiigAn astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsJim CarreyKate WinsletTom WilkinsonWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô YamamotoIn the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsChris EvansJamie BellTilda SwintonIn a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
- DirectorJordan PeeleStarsLupita Nyong'oWinston DukeElisabeth MossAdelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
- DirectorJohn KrasinskiStarsEmily BluntJohn KrasinskiMillicent SimmondsA family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsBarry G. BernsonHerb CaillouetBill CampSteven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
- DirectorDan TrachtenbergStarsJohn GoodmanMary Elizabeth WinsteadJohn Gallagher Jr.A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.
- DirectorFede AlvarezStarsStephen LangJane LevyDylan MinnetteHoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.
- DirectorAna Lily AmirpourStarsSheila VandArash MarandiMarshall ManeshIn the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
- DirectorJemaine ClementTaika WaititiStarsJemaine ClementTaika WaititiCori Gonzalez-MacuerViago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
- DirectorGregory WilsonStarsWilliam AthertonBlythe AuffarthBlanche BakerFollows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
- DirectorBill PaxtonStarsBill PaxtonMatthew McConaugheyPowers BootheA mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."
- DirectorGregory ColbertStarsPatrick DisantoLaurence FishburneJeanne MoreauExploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals.Animals and Us
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Narrator quote: "Feather to fire, fire to blood, blood to bone, bone to marrow, marrow to ashes, ashes to snow..."
IMDb External Link: 'Ashes and Snow' Official Site. - DirectorBrett MorgenStarsJane GoodallHugo Van LawickHugo Eric Louis van LawickThe life and work of the renowned primatology scientist, Jane Goodall, especially on her research about chimpanzees.Jane Goodall quote: "The greatest danger to our future is apathy."
"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved."
"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."
"Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in the forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment." - DirectorDereck JoubertStarsJeremy IronsFifty years ago there were close to half-a-million lions in Africa. Today there are around 20,000. To make matters worse, lions, unlike elephants, which are far more numerous, have virtually no protection under government mandate or through international accords. This is the jumping-off point for a disturbing, well-researched and beautifully made cri de coeur from husband and wife team Dereck and Beverly Joubert, award-winning filmmakers from Botswana who have been Explorers-in-Residence at National Geographic for more than four years. Pointing to poaching as a primary threat while noting the lion's pride of place on the list for eco-tourists-an industry that brings in 200 billion dollars per year worldwide-the Jouberts build a solid case for both the moral duty we have to protect lions (as well as other threatened "big cats," tigers among them) and the economic sense such protection would make. And when one takes into account the fact that big cats are at the very top of the food chain-and that their elimination would wreak havoc on all species below them, causing a complete ecosystem collapse-the need takes on a supreme urgency.Jeremy Irons quote: "We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
IMDb External Link: Miscellaneous Sites: 'The Last Lions' (Wikipedia).
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The Big Cats Initiative
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (The Lion Sleeps Tonight). - DirectorDaniel HuertasStarsLuke Allen-GaleCraig PackerAmy DickmanThis is a powerful documentary, filmed over a 16 year span, about the rise of a Coalition of six lions, branded The Mapogo Lions, and their takeover of the largest territory by a pride.IMDb External Link: 'Brothers in Blood: The Lions of Sabi Sand' Official Site.
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External Link - Wikipedia: Sabi Sand Game Reserve. - DirectorBen BowieGeoffrey LuckThe incredible, true-life story of a baby elephant born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she's suddenly orphaned at one month of age, it's up to the men who look after her herd to save her life.IMDb External Link: 'Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale' Official Site.
- DirectorAmy SchatzStarsLily TomlinPat DerbyColleen KinzleyNarrated by Lily Tomlin, this documentary short traces mankind's long history with elephants and explores the many problems that arise when they are brought to live in captivity in zoos and circuses.Lily Tomlin quote: "The first thing we need to know is that the elephants need our help."
IMDb External Link: 'An Apology to Elephants' Official HBO Site. - DirectorKief DavidsonRichard LadkaniStarsAndrea CrostaIan StevensonPrince William of WalesWildlife activists in take on poachers in an effort to end illegal ivory trade in Africa.IMDb External Link: 'The Ivory Game' Official Site.
- DirectorOrlando von EinsiedelStarsAndré BaumaEmmanuel de MerodeMélanie GoubyA team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.Jeannette Catsoulis excerpt from her review: "Showcasing the best and the worst in human nature, Orlando von Einsiedel's devastating documentary 'Virunga' wrenches a startlingly lucid narrative from a sickening web of bribery, corruption and violence."
IMDb External Link: 'Virunga' Official Site. - DirectorLiz MarshallStarsMarcel SabaLori ReesePerrie WardellA cinematic documentary that illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world.Jo-Anne McArthur quote: "The connection that I have to animals while I'm photographing them is one of empathy. There is a huge mistreatment and inequality between human and non-human animals, and that's always in the forefront of my mind."
IMDb External Link: 'The Ghosts in Our Machine' Official Site. - DirectorRobert KennerStarsMichael PollanEric SchlosserRichard LobbAn unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.Eric Schlosser quote: "These companies fight, tooth and nail against labeling. The fast food industry fought against giving you the calorie information. They fought against telling you there is trans-fat in your food. The meat packing industry for years prevented country-of-origin labeling. They fought not to label genetically modified foods; and now 70% of processed food in the supermarket has some genetically modified ingredient."
Himself - Vice President, American Corn Growers Association quote: "You have to understand that we farmers... we're gonna deliver to the marketplace what the marketplace demands. If you wanna buy $2 milk, you're going to get a factory-farm in your backyard. It's that simple. People have got to start 'demanding' good, wholesome food of us, and we'll deliver; I promise you. We're very ingenious people, we will deliver."
Joel Salatin quote: "I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown."
IMDb External Link: 'Food, Inc.' Official Site.
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Eco-farming
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (112 Years at the Ranch). - DirectorKeith Brave HeartStarsJory AnayaMartin AnayaPat Bad HandThe story of why the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations of Native Americans) are a "Sunka Wakan Oyate" (Horse Nation), demonstrating their philosophy and bringing together traditional and contemporary songs, stories, and teachings.IMDb External Link: 'We Are a Horse Nation' Official Site.
- DirectorRon DavisStarsHarry DeLeyerHarriet DeLeyerAndre DeLeyerThe story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter.IMDb External Link: 'Harry & Snowman' Official Site.
- DirectorSu RynardStarsErin ByneDominik EulbergBill EvansThe Messenger is an artful investigation into the causes of songbird mass depletion and the people working to turn the tide. This visually thrilling film reveals how the issues facing birds also pose daunting implications for our planet.IMDb External Link: 'The Messenger' Official Site.
- DirectorNika JaksicStarsFred ArmitageThis documentary is about a man, Fred Armitage, who went to Afghanistan to protect people but ended up protecting the innocent lives of dogs as well. He made it his personal mission while over there to ensure that as many canines as possible had a loving home and a second chance at life. We interview Fred as he explains his motives throughout his mission in Afghanistan and meet the current dog owners in Canada now to catch up with the dogs' progresses.
- DirectorNancy SchiesariCanine Soldiers explores the experience of going to war with a Military Working Dog, trained to find bombs before they can kill or maim soldiers, often at the expense of the dog's sanity.External Link - Wikipedia: Dogs in warfare.
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External Link - Wikipedia: Sergeant Stubby.
External Link - Wikipedia: Chips.
External Link - Wikipedia: Lex.
External Link - Wikipedia: Rags.
External Link - Wikipedia: Smoky.
External Link - Wikipedia: Sam.
External Link - Wikipedia: Royal Army Veterinary Corps.
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External Link - Wikipedia: List of individual dogs. - DirectorDon HardyDana NachmanStarsDiane MeerTerry BlosserJanet GearheartPick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born and begin their quest to become Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career. Cameras follow these pups through a two-year odyssey as they train to become dogs whose ultimate responsibility is to protect their blind partners from harm. Along the way, the dogs meet a community of dedicated individuals who train them to do amazing, life-changing things in the service of their human. The stakes are high and not every dog can make the cut. Only the best of the best. The pick of the litter.IMDb External Link: Company Website.
- DirectorJenni GoldStarsKyle MacLachlanBen AffleckBryan CranstonAn investigation into the way media portrayals impact the actual inclusion of people with disabilities in society.IMDb Keyword Search Links:
Most Popular "Disability" Feature Films.
Most Popular "Disability" Documentary Titles.
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Living a Full and Active Life with Cerebral Palsy
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (Sarah).
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Accessibility for People with Disabilities
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (Vote - The Disabled Democracy).
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Internet Enabled
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (The House of the Blinds).
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Assistive Technology Users
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (An Accessible Life, An Able Life). - DirectorJosh AronsonStarsJaime Leigh AllenJemma BrahamFreeda CatIf you could make your deaf child hear, would you? Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device that can help the deaf to hear but may also threaten deaf culture - and their bonds with each other. For Peter Artinian and his wife, both of whom are deaf, a surgical ear implant for their five-year-old daughter Heather means a choice between two worlds - an unfamiliar hearing world and the deaf world, a robust culture in its own right united by a uniquely visual and artistic language. Heather Artinian - precocious, vivacious, and avidly curious about implant surgery - is caught between her deaf parents and her hearing grandparents, as they argue passionately about her future. The debate is sometimes silent, but by no means quiet. When all is done, Sound and Fury speaks volumes about the choices we make and the battles we fight in order to be heard..Against Enormous Odds
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (Dancing Deaf).
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Music Video: IMDb Watch Now Link: Breitenbach - "Waiting" - full accessible music video. - DirectorSeung-jun YiStarsCho Young-ChanKim Soon-hoChoi JungahYoung-Chan comes from planet of snail where deaf blind people live slow and quiet lives. When Young-Chan came to Earth, nobody understood his language and he was desperate. Then an angel walked into his life. Soon-Ho knows how it is to be lonely and soon becomes an inseparable part of his life. Young-Chan also discovers an amazing world under his fingers as he learned to read books with braille. Hopes began to grow and he dreams of writing a book. However, Soon-Ho cannot always be there for him because of her own problem of spine disability. The couple now should learn to survive alone. While Soon-Ho uneasily spends her first day waiting for his return, Young-Chan goes out for the biggest adventure of his life.
- DirectorJonathan KarshStarsSusan TomAnthony TomFaith TomDocumentary following Susan Tom of Fairfield, California and her 11 adopted special needs children.Jonathan Karsh quote: "My Flesh and Blood is the first documentary I directed, and I must admit I feel pretty spoiled for the rest of my career. Where else will I find such a dynamic group of people? When else will I connect with my subjects so personally? The Toms are an unbelievably rare and special find."
- DirectorRoger Ross WilliamsStarsOwen SuskindCornelia SuskindRon SuskindA coming-of-age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.
- DirectorSamantha BuckStarsAlyce BarnhardtCarla ByrdRobert CasparIn "Best Kept Secret," a Newark, NJ teacher struggles to prepare her students with autism to survive in the brutal world that awaits them once they graduate.
- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsAgata KuleszaAgata TrzebuchowskaDawid OgrodnikA novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
- DirectorBenh ZeitlinStarsQuvenzhané WallisDwight HenryLevy EasterlyFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
- DirectorLee Chang-dongStarsYun Jeong-hieLee Da-witKim Hee-raA sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.
- DirectorAdam ElliotStarsToni CollettePhilip Seymour HoffmanEric BanaIn 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.
- DirectorAri FolmanStarsAri FolmanRon Ben-YishaiRonny DayagAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsImelda StauntonJim BroadbentHeather CraneyAbortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
- DirectorTony KayeStarsEdward NortonEdward FurlongBeverly D'AngeloLiving a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsJim CaviezelSean PennNick NolteAdaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsTim RobbinsElizabeth PeñaDanny AielloMourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsBruno GanzSolveig DommartinOtto SanderAn angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
- DirectorConrad RooksStarsShashi KapoorSimi GarewalRomesh SharmaThe story of a young Indian who embarks upon a journey to find the meaning of existence. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
- DirectorKeith FultonLouis PepeStarsVonda VilandJulia AlexanderLaura AmbrosiusA group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.Excerpt from a statement by Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe:
"It is the greatest hope of any documentarian to gain intimate access to a subject that dramatically represents a pressing human issue. At Black Rock High we have found precisely that. It is a school that tackles head-on America's most serious education problem: intractable, generational poverty. About such a crisis, one can make a film that speechifies and rattles off facts and figures, but at Black Rock we have the opportunity to create a moving and immersive drama that brings to life an inspiring attempt to combat this issue."
Link: 'The Bad Kids' Official Site. - DirectorKahane CoopermanStarsKathleen DrohanJoseph FeingoldRegina FeingoldA 91-year-old Holocaust survivor donates his violin to an instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the Bronx and unexpectedly, his own.Link: 'Joe's Violin' Official Site.
- DirectorPeter LatasterPetra Lataster-CzischStarsKiet EngelHaya KhleifBranche JovanovskiImmigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
- DirectorJennifer ArnoldStarsHilde BackPatrick KimaniChris MburuA young Kenyan's life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received.Link: 'A Small Act' Official Site.
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Mike Mapes and Kizito
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (I Am Kizito). - DirectorMark van WijkDr. Pedram Shojai travels across the Americas, interviewing CEOs and farmers in search of more sustainable ways to live and thrive.Pedram Shojai quotes from official site:
Progress At Any Cost Has Cost Us Plenty
"There's a concept in economics where things that don't fall onto your balance sheet are called 'externalities'. For instance, a coal company makes a ton of money but the environmental impact: cleanup costs, mercury in the oceans, smog, deforestation, and all the illness that comes from this somehow 'isn't their problem'. Society is left to deal with these externalities. Taxpayers, non-profits, fish, and wildlife all pay for their profits. Uncool."
About the Film
"Prosperity is following a new generation of companies that are doing the right thing and deserve our attention (and money). There's an emerging movement of 'For Benefit' companies that are building into their bylaws the new ethics of conscious companies..."
IMDb External Link: 'Prosperity' Official Site. - DirectorDawn MikkelsonFrom the streets of Minneapolis, the aboriginal lands of Australia, and the killing fields of Cambodia, three people with the courage to step out of a tragic dark past, risking everything to reach the light of their own compassion.IMDb Link: 'Risking Light' Official Site.
- DirectorDavid Lee GeorgeStarsTaner AkçamTjagharyan Movses AmayaMovses AneshyanFeaturing Julian Assange, George Clooney, and brutal witness accounts, this film explores the controversy surrounding the Armenian genocide and persecution of Middle Eastern Christians, including the U.S. politicians who deny it occurred.Link: 'Architects of Denial' Official Site.
Wikipedia: Armenian Genocide.
Wikipedia: Assyrian genocide.
Wikipedia: Greek genocide. - DirectorJoe BerlingerStarsShohreh AghdashlooTaner AkçamHagop AsadourianFilmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening.
- StarsEdward HerrmannSamuel WestAn examination of atrocities and depredations committed by Imperial Japanese military forces, from 1931 to 1945.Wikipedia: Horror in the East.
- DirectorChris D. NebeStarsLouis FantasiaChris D. NebeUnit 731 explores a side of WWII history that is largely unknown to the Western World. Documenting the development of WWII from the perspective of the Far East Front, the story of the gruesome human research center, UNIT 731, is revealed.Wikipedia: Unit 731.
- DirectorKe GuoAn estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced into prostitution by the Japanese army during WWII. Only 22 of them remain today to speak out publicly. This documentary is not a film for political gains or narrow nationalistic purposes. For the director and the crew, each and every one of those elderly women is a brave and strong individual with similar yet distinctive experiences. This is a group that deserves to be known and correctly understood by more people and a history worth being preserved in a most accurate yet sensitive way. In the documentary, the current situation of those 22 elderly women will be presented in an impersonal way. There's no interrogation, sympathy, nor exaggeration in our film. You will hear them talk about their own experiences, and you will also learn about their perspectives on life, sufferings and happiness. Now all over 80 or 90 years old, those elderly ladies are at the very last stage of their life. This is probably the last chance for the public to actually see their situations and hear their own words while they are still alive. It should not be a history just written on pages.
- DirectorDavid Korn-BrzozaStarsAdolf HitlerVincent LindonDoctrinal press-gang and seduction tool, political instrument of the Nazi Party, paramilitary vector in the preparations for war, the Hitler Youth becomes an instrument to deliberately sacrifice an entire youth."The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation." - Adolf Hitler
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Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name Hitler-Jugend, Bund Deutscher Arbeiterjugend in July 1926.
Leaders: Baldur von Schirach, Artur Axmann
Founder: Adolf Hitler
Founded: 1922, Germany
Wikipedia: Hitler Youth. - DirectorYuval Haimovich-ZuserSimon ShechterStarsYitzak AradMoshe ArensTatiana BobrikovaThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become a symbol of heroism throughout the world, but it's generally accepted story is incomplete. Among the fighters was a group that was not granted commemoration, although it was responsible for the uprising major battle.
- DirectorRoberta GrossmanStarsJowita BudnikPiotr GlowackiPiotr JankowskiWho Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived. The film is based on the book of the same name by historian Samuel Kassow.Wikipedia: Warsaw Ghetto.
Wikipedia: Samuel Kassow.
Amazon Books: Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto by Samuel D. Kassow. - DirectorJoe BerlingerIn the spring of 2002, filmmaker Joe Berlinger traveled to Vienna to witness the burial of the preserved brains of over 700 children killed at a Nazi "euthanasia" clinic. GRAY MATTER chronicles the filmmaker's personal journey as he searches for Dr. Heinrich Gross -- known as the "Austrian Dr. Mengele" -- who allegedly participated in these killings. Along the way Berlinger meets survivors of the clinic, as well as other remarkable individuals, who are confronting a nation that has only begun to grapple with its denial of this horrific legacy.Wikipedia: Heinrich Gross.
- DirectorAaron YegerThe Roma (Gypsies) faced annihilation during the Nazi 'Final Solution,' yet have been relegated to a footnote in history. Today, the Roma are victims of extreme and often violent racial persecution. A People Uncounted is a powerful journey exposing the tragedy of Europe's largest minority group.Link: 'A People Uncounted' Official Site.
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Wikipedia: Porajmos.
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The Roma
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (Faith and Flame documentary film).
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Exiled
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie {The Exile from Basarabia (short documentary)}.
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A Song of Defiance
IMDb Watch Now Link: Djurdjevak crveni (The Blood Lilly of the Valley) (2015). - DirectorRob EpsteinJeffrey FriedmanStarsRupert EverettKlaus MüllerKarl GorathHistorian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.Link: 'Telling Pictures' Official Site.
Wikipedia: Paragraph 175.
Wikipedia: Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. - DirectorRichard TrankStarsBen KingsleyLore PerlWilliam PerlFor most, the idea of Jewish resistance or defiance during the Holocaust is limited to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a few isolated acts throughout WWII. "Unlikely Heroes", narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, highlights 7 previously unknown stories of extraordinary men and women who exemplified the highest levels of courage and human dignity during the most desperate days of the Holocaust.Anita Gates (Movie review excerpt): "There was Pinchas Rosenbaum, a Hungarian rabbi's son who disguised himself as a Nazi officer and managed to save a thousand Jews; Anna Heilman, the only survivor of the successful plot to blow up Crematorium No. 4 at Birkenau; and Willy Perl, an Austrian man who persuaded leaders in Berlin to let him 'deport' Jews, making it possible for thousands to escape safely to Palestine.
The title characters of 'Unlikely Heroes' were ordinary people who, during World War II, resisted and defied the Nazis in remarkable ways. They also include Recha Sternbuch, who, over time, hid 30 people in her home in neutral Switzerland; Leon Kahn, a young Lithuanian who fought with the partisans there and in Russia and Poland; and Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, a Bauhaus artist who taught children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp to deal with their pain through art before she (and many of her young students) were put to death in Auschwitz.
There is even a familiar face among these heroes. Robert Max Weiderman, a French singer who took a grave risk in secretly entertaining his fellow inmates on a regular basis ('Bei Mir Bist du Schön was a favorite song), changed his name to Robert Clary after the war."
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Three Hundred Lives
IMDb Watch Now Link: Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo (2009 Short Film). - DirectorRudy VeglianteStarsJudy AbramsJohn ArmstrongMarika BarnettA documentary about the hidden children of The Holocaust.Wikipedia: Children in the Holocaust.
- DirectorJoshua OppenheimerAnonymousChristine CynnStarsAnwar CongoHerman KotoSyamsul ArifinA documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.Safit Pardede - Local Paramilitary Leader quote: "We crushed their necks with wood. We hung them. We strangled them with wire. We cut off their heads. We ran them over with cars. We were allowed to do it. And, the proof is we murdered people and were never punished. The people we killed, there's nothing to be done about it. They have to accept it. Maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better, but it works: I've never felt guilty, never been depressed, never had nightmares."
Link: 'The Act of Killing' Official Site. - DirectorJoshua OppenheimerStarsAdi RukunM.Y. BasrunVolker HanischA family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.Joshua Oppenheimer Director's Notes: "The Act of Killing exposed the consequences for all of us when we build our everyday reality on terror and lies. The Look of Silence explores what it is like to be a survivor in such a reality. Making any film about survivors of genocide is to walk into a minefield of clichés, most of which serve to create a heroic (if not saintly) protagonist with whom we can identify, thereby offering the false reassurance that, in the moral catastrophe of atrocity, we are nothing like perpetrators. But presenting survivors as saintly in order to reassure ourselves that we are good is to use survivors to deceive ourselves. It is an insult to survivors' experience, and does nothing to help us understand what it means to survive atrocity, what it means to live a life shattered by mass violence, and to be silenced by terror. To navigate this minefield of clichés, we have to explore silence itself.
The result, The Look of Silence, is, I hope, a poem about a silence borne of terror - a poem about the necessity of breaking that silence, but also about the trauma that comes when silence is broken. Maybe the film is a monument to silence - a reminder that although we want to move on, look away and think of other things, nothing will make whole what has been broken. Nothing will wake the dead. We must stop, acknowledge the lives destroyed, strain to listen to the silence that follows."
Link: 'The Look of Silence' Official Site.
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A-Z Lyrics: Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence. - DirectorJean-Sébastien FrancoeurAndrew Marchand-BoddyStarsYavana Chhem-KiethKosal KhievPeap TarrIn an emotional tribute, Montreal graffiti artist Fonki returns to Cambodia to paint a giant mural of his relatives killed in the genocide. During his time there, he connects with a group of Cambodian youth who have also returned hoping to breathe new life into their destroyed culture.
- DirectorDeborah ScrantonStarsRose KabuyePaul KagameJean Pierre SagahutuOn August 6th, 2008, against the backdrop of the world's deadliest war in neighboring Eastern Congo, Rwandan President Paul Kagame issued a report detailing the French government's hidden role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Three months later, his closest aide, Rose Kabuye is arrested by France on charges of terrorism. Meanwhile, Jean-Pierre Sagahutu, a genocide survivor haunted by his father's unsolved murder, scours the Rwandan countryside on a fifteen-year-search for clues - ultimately finding himself confronted with his darkest desire: being face-to-face with his father's killer. As President Kagame fights to free Rose from France and finally expose the shocking truth about what truly happened in Rwanda fifteen years ago, Jean-Pierre journeys to the scene of the crime, and the doorstep of a killer, to uncover the chilling facts behind his father's death. As each relentlessly pursues the truth they find themselves faced with a choice: to take revenge or turn the other cheek... Despite having never met, the story of a President and an ordinary citizen become inextricably linked in this groundbreaking film. Bound by a deep love of country, an insatiable need for the truth, and a hunger for peace, Jean-Pierre and President Kagame set in motion both the rebuilding of a family, and of an entire nation. Above all, their stories shake the very foundations of what it means to forgive - blazing a trail towards ending hatred and violence throughout Africa and the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the Earth is made of glass."
- DirectorLaura Waters HinsonCould you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive, a documentary about Rosaria and Chantal-two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The subjects of As We Forgive speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans in 1994. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 thousand genocide perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation. But can it be done? Can survivors truly forgive the killers who destroyed their families? Can the government expect this from its people? And can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today?
- DirectorLisa FruchtmanRob FruchtmanA remarkable group of Rwandan women defies the devastation of the genocide to form the country's first all-female drumming troupe and open the country's first ice cream shop.Link: 'Sweet Dreams' Official Site.
- DirectorHernán ZinA documentary examining the global phenomenon of rape as a "weapon of war" in various conflict zones, including Bosnia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- DirectorPlatonStarsFuraha AmbikaDarcy AtamanDivine BagumaNobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege heals and uplifts survivors of conflict-driven rape - more than 52,000 have been treated at Panzi Hospital. In this debut film by Platon, the stories and voices come into focus. A young woman hauntingly declares the words that inspired the title, 'My Body Is Not A Weapon.' At the intersection of war and peace, a noble doctor and courageous survivors emerge as heroes and thought leaders for civil and human rights.Wikipedia: Panzi Hospital.
- DirectorKirby DickStarsAmy ZieringKirby DickKori CiocaAn investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.Excerpt from a statement posted by Congressman Mike Turner: "The past year, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, of Massachusetts, and I, created the bipartisan Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus with the intent of educating Members of Congress on the serious problem of sexual assault in the military. In furtherance of this effort, the Caucus sponsored a screening of 'The Invisible War' at the Library of Congress last February. Since that time it has been viewed by countless Americans, service-members, legislators and leaders in our Department of Defense and has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. The nomination of 'The Invisible War' is certainly welcome news and has been helpful in raising the awareness of sexual assault in the military."
Link: 'The Invisible War' Official Site.
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Rape in the Military
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (Army Strong). - DirectorChristopher Dillon QuinnTommy WalkerStarsPanther BiorJohn Bul DauNicole KidmanThree young men from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.John Bul Dau quote: "It was as if the last day, as people say in the Bible, that there will be a last day, that Jesus Christ will come, and whatever on Earth will be judged. That was my imagination. I thought that God felt tired of people on Earth here, felt tired of the bad deeds, the bad thing that we are doing, yet God is watching on us. I thought God got tired of us and he wants to finish us. When I think of it back... it was so bad anyway. You can even think of - you can even regret why you were born. Why you were born. Now I wonder, I'm now again wearing clothes, feeling very happy, and so anyway, everything has an end. Has an end. Even if there's problem in Sudan still maybe one time, one day, one minute it will come to an end."
- DirectorAngelos RallisHans Ulrich GoesslSet in an abandoned coalmine at the Turkish border, Shingal, where are you? weaves together the dramatic stories of Yezidi refugees following ISIS attacks and the kidnapping of more than 3000 women and children.Wikipedia: Sinjar massacre.
Wikipedia: Genocide of Shias by ISIL.
Wikipedia: Persecution of Christians by ISIL.
Wikipedia: Persecution of gay and bisexual men by ISIL.
Wikipedia: Human rights in ISIL-controlled territory.
Wikipedia: Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency.
Wikipedia: Killing of captives by ISIL.
Wikipedia: ISIL beheading incidents.
Wikipedia: Camp Speicher massacre.
Wikipedia: List of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL.
Wikipedia: Philippines and ISIL. - DirectorDavid WeissmanBill WeberStarsEd WolfDaniel GoldsteinGuy ClarkA deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.Kofi Annan quote: "The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?"
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The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (The Chorus).
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Jerry & Randy Fight Aids
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (The Hollywood Graffiti Town).
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Fundraising & Raising Awareness
IMDb Watch Now Link: Aids Lifecycle 10 the Long Road (The Ride According to Viagra Man). - DirectorDavid FranceStarsPeter StaleyLarry KramerIris LongThe story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
- DirectorPaul W. TaylorStarsLorraine BraccoAlicia KeysMbaliTells the moving and inspiring story of 12 year old Slindile and her remarkable friends at the Agape orphanage in South Africa.David Saperstein quote: "AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations..."
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Bringing Hope
IMDb Watch Now Link: Full Movie (Fountain of Life). - DirectorMamoru HosodaStarsRebecca HallDaniel Dae KimKoji YakushoA young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.
- DirectorDara FrazierStarsVivica A. FoxRobert GossettAngell ConwellA story about an ordinary girl who becomes an African princess with the help of a magical bird. But when the thrill of palace life fades, the same magic that transformed her into royalty prevents her from returning home.
- DirectorStéphane AubierVincent PatarBenjamin RennerStarsLambert WilsonPauline BrunnerAnne-Marie LoopThe story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.a sweet story about an unlikely friendship between a mouse and a bear. The traditional hand-drawn animation in soft tones is a real treat.
- DirectorMasahiro AndôStarsTomoya NagaseYuri ChinenKôichi YamaderaA swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a raggedy boy and his dog to a remote, Buddhist temple.Excellent samurai-anime-adventure with smooth animations and jaw-dropping action scenes where body parts go flying (if you're into that kind of stuff). A great soundtrack completes the package. The story might be familiar but that doesn't spoil the party. Sword of the stranger is one of the greatest animes i've seen and a must see for all anime and samurai-movie fans.
- DirectorAri FolmanStarsAri FolmanRon Ben-YishaiRonny DayagAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsBernard AlaneIsabelle SpadeKacey Mottet KleinA family-run shop that sells everything you need to take your own life finds it hard to focus on business after a new baby -- one who makes everyone around him happy -- is born into the family.A daring french movie, mixing a morbid subject with dark humor and fun musical numbers. Maybe not suitable for young children.
- DirectorDominique MonferyStarsRuy AbitbolPaul BandeyNatacha BodyNatanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. Nat discovers that the books serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in children's literature. They are the original characters and are counting on him for protection. For if they leave the library, they will disappear along with their stories forever! When his parents start selling off the books, Nathanaël, who is shrunk by the evil witch Carabosse, braves everything to save his tiny friends.
- DirectorAntoine DelesvauxJoann SfarStarsFrançois MorelHafsia HerziMaurice BénichouSet in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsMichel RobinLorella Di CiccoArmand BabelGwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
- DirectorBénédicte GalupMichel OcelotStarsPierre-Ndoffé SarrAwa Sene SarrRobert LiensolKirikou's Grandfather says that the story of Kirikou and The Witch was too short, so he proceeds to explain more about Kirikou's accomplishments. We find out how little boy became a gardener, a detective, a maker of pottery, a merchant, a traveler and a doctor.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsHisako KanemotoMiyu IrinoKazuhiko InoueA coming of age story involving young love and a mysterious music, coming from a crystal radio left as a memento by an absent father, that leads a young heroine deep into a hidden world.
- DirectorRémi BezançonJean-Christophe LieStarsMax Renaudin PrattSimon AbkarianAbraham AdesoyeAfter escaping the clutches of a slave trader, a bold ten-year-old Sudanese boy befriends a young giraffe and a kind Bedouin, who takes them on a splendid journey via a hot-air balloon as far as the palace of King Charles X of France.
- DirectorNina PaleyStarsAnnette HanshawAseem ChhabraBhavana NagulapallyAn animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.
- DirectorKeiichi HaraStarsKumiko AsôChris AyresGreg AyresA sinful spirit is granted the opportunity to prove worthy for rebirth, inhabiting the body of a student who killed himself.