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The Balibo Conspiracy
Australia, 2009, 111 min.
In 1975, five young Australian TV journalists covering the invasion of East Timor by the Indonesian army disappeared at the border village of Balibo. Their story, denied and covered up for more than 30 years, is grippingly recreated in this tense and moving film from Robert Connolly.... more
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Bride Flight
Netherlands, 2008, 130 min.
Fifty years after they met on a flight to New Zealand, where they were headed to join their already-settled fiancés, three women meet at the funeral of a fellow passenger and discover just how intertwined their lives have been over the past half century.... more
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Broken Promise
Slovakia, 2009, 129 min.
Sheer luck and special skills help a Jewish Slovak adolescent survive the WWII years in this gripping Holocaust drama. Like Agnieszka Holland's Europa Europa and Lajos Koltai's Fateless, it traces an Eastern European youth's painful fight for survival.... more
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Glorious 39
United Kingdom, 2009, 130 min.
Set in the days leading up to World War II, Glorious 39 is a complex mystery built around Britain's secret plot to bargain with Hitler to stay out of the war. Uncovering secrets about her upstanding ruling-class family, one strong young woman finds herself in terrible danger.... more
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John Rabe
Germany, 2009, 134 min.
When the Japanese launch the 1937 Rape of Nanking, German businessman John Rabe fights to set up a secure zone for his workers and their families, opposed by those who despise his Nazi leanings. This stirring epic is the story of "China's Oscar Schindler."... more
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Max Manus
Norway, 2009, 118 min.
This rousing widescreen historical epic celebrates the deeds of one of Norway's most daring WWII-era resistance fighters: Max Manus, a man with no formal education, who led a life of derring-do that seems tailor-made for the movies.... more
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
USA, 2009, 94 min.
On October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg began smuggling a top-secret report about the history of the Vietnam War out of a safe in his office and, ultimately, into the pages of The New York Times. This gripping documentary explores the profound political and legal consequences that followed.... more
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My Neighbor, My Killer
USA, 2009, 80 min.
Since 2001, the Gacaca Tribunals in Rwanda have tried to reconcile the victims and the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide; Anne Aghion has been there documenting things from the beginning. Here she shows predominantly female survivors confronting the men who murdered their families.... more
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The Other Bank
Georgia, 2009, 90 min.
A 12-year-old Georgian refugee travels back to war-torn Abkhazia to find his father and a second chance at life. His odyssey takes him across physical and emotional borders, where nationalism and revenge are the way of life.... more
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Protektor
Czech Republic, 2009, 98 min.
Notable for its fresh approach and unusual art direction, this fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous movie star wife Hana, a Jew.... more
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Sergio
USA, 2009, 94 min.
In late 2003, a bomb blows up the UN headquarters in Iraq, trapping the head of the UN's mission -- an extraordinary diplomat named Sergio Vieira de Mello -- and dozens of others inside. This expertly paced, Oscar-shortlisted documentary tells what happened on that fateful day.... more
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Sweet Crude
Nigeria, 2009, 93 min.
Ten percent of our oil supply comes from Nigeria, but few of us know the social and environmental devastation that the oil business wreaks there. This film exposes the corruption and the growing militant reaction to the politically irresponsible oil companies.... more
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Time of the Comet
Albania, 2008, 103 min.
Romantic, tragic and profoundly hilarious, this period epic, set shortly before WWI and based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Ismail Kadare, marries the absurdity of war to the utter absurdity that was once Albania.... more
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Will Not Stop There
Croatia, 2008, 112 min.
When a Croatian war vet turned private investigator recognizes an actress in a Serbian porn film, his quest to find her leads to blackly comic complications in this sardonic romantic drama. Vinko Bresan, the leading director of the Young Croatian Film generation, offers an acerbic satire that target... more
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Winter in Wartime
Netherlands, 2008, 103 min.
The perfect blend of classical cinema and arthouse sensibilities, this exciting WWII coming-of-age story portrays a 14-year-old Dutch lad's brutal loss of innocence when circumstances force him to become a one-man Resistance movement.... more
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