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Highlighted Film
Hearts and Minds

A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis' landmark documentary "Hearts and Minds" unflinchingly confronts the United States' involvement in Vietnam.
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Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Calcutta, India and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district. Though the lives of these children are difficult its hard not to appreciate their zest for life.
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Santa's Workshop

The clothes, toys and electronics we buy are put together by these workers. Listen to their story of hardship to see just what price they are paying for our cheap goods and watch the reactions of the multinational corporations who put them up to it.
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Slavery: A Global Investigation

This 80-minute documentary, inspired by Kevin Bales' award-winning book "Disposable People," exposes cases of slavery around the world, in India, Africa and right here in the U.S.
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The Fog of War

What does Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, think about his role in the war? What lessons has he learned? What was it like for a politician entrenched in fighting "The Cold War"?
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The Globalization Tapes

A group of Indonesian filmmakers trace the development of contemporary globalization from its roots in colonialism to the present. The story isn't told by experts, but by insightful union members from factories and plantations in Indonesia.
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The Slow Poisoning of India

“The Slow Poisoning of India” shows how the uses of toxic pesticides have caused widespread congenital abnormalities in the children of Kochinim, Kerala. The film also discusses the effects of the rampant use of fertilizers and pesticides in decimating the ecology of the region and how farmers are moving back to organic farming to ensure sustained development.
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Unreported World: China's Olympic Lie

Unreported world investigates claims that the chinese government is steamrolling houses and locking up anyone that complains in preperation for the 2008 Olympics.
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Vietnam - The Quiet Mutiny

John Pilger dives us into the life of US soldiers during the Vietnam War and shows the complicated relations between the executants and the executives
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War By Other Means

John Pilger and David Munro examine the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with third world countries, who are then unable to meet the crippling interest charges.
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Welcome to Australia

Is Australia really the land of freedom and welcoming which the government states? Or does the country, like so many others, have a dark history of oppression?
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