Showing posts with label activist. Show all posts
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May 23, 2017

City of Ghosts (2017) Trailer

City of Ghosts


City of Ghosts is a 2017 American documentary film about the Syrian media activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, directed by Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman.

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A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

September 16, 2015

Brand: A Second Coming (2015) Trailer

Brand: A Second Coming


Brand: A Second Coming, also called BRAND: The Film, is a 2015 British documentary film about comedian Russell Brand directed by Ondi Timoner. 

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Follows comedian/author/activist Russell Brand as he dives headlong into drugs, sex & fame in an attempt to find happiness, only to realize that our culture feeds us bad ideas & empty idols. Through his stand up, Brand explores his own true icons - Gandhi, Che Guevara, Malcolm X & Jesus Christ- & evolves from addict & Hollywood star to an unexpected political disruptor & newfound hero to the underserved. Will Brand hold fast against the roar of criticism to break out of the very system that built him? Written by Ondi Timoner

January 29, 2015

The Edukators (2004) Trailer

Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei


 Every Heart is a revolutionary cell 


The Edukators (GermanDie fetten Jahre sind vorbei) is a 2004 German-Austrian crime drama film directed by Hans Weingartner.

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Berlin student Jule is hoplessly indebted due to an accident she caused, uninsuredly hitting a rich businessman's limousine. Evicted from her flat she moves in with her boyfrend Peter and soon learns that Peter and his flatmate, Jan, are breaking into luxurious mansions at night. Instead of stealing or vandalizing, though, they carefully and ornately rearrange furniture and valulables and leave obscure messages. Jule convinces Jan, who has a crush on her, to pay a visit to the villa of her creditor.Written by Armin Ortmann {armin@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de}

January 22, 2015

Cry Freedom (1987) Trailer

Cry Freedom


The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world


Cry Freedom is a 1987 British drama film directed by Richard Attenborough, set in the late 1970s, during the apartheid era of South Africa

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Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his opinion. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country. Written by Mattias Thuresson

October 21, 2014

Grizzly Man (2005) Trailer

Grizzly Man


One man spent the last 13 years of his life crossing them.

Grizzly Man is a 2005 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog. It chronicles the 
life and death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell

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A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed, along with his his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films explores their compassionate lives as they found solace among these endangered animals.

October 05, 2014

The Life of David Gale (2003) Trailer

The Life of David Gale



 The crime is clear. The truth is not.

The Life of David Gale is a 2003 thriller film directed 
by Alan Parker and written by Charles Randolph.

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A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist
 and is sent to death row.

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