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Sleepwalking Through Seattle

Battle in Seattle is a well-intentioned effort that ultimately misses the mark

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As Tough As Tom Joad

I can't quite follow the offscreen sound bites preceding the main title of Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's… more

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Bad Cop, Badder Cop in Brazil

Does the new shoot-'em-up film Tropa de Elite bring out the country's inner fascist?

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Kiriakou and the Kite Runner

The CIA agent who just admitted to waterboarding a high-ranking al Qaeda operative has had an interesting retirement.

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Lights! Camera! Collective Action!

The Writers Guild of America strikes to secure a piece of the pie in the Digital Age

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King of the Crop

Two years ago the federal government spent $9.4 billion to promote corn production, driving small farmers off their lands in Mexico, because they were unable to compete with U.S. imports

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Can Brazil’s Quilombos Survive?

Quilombo Country documentary reveals the modern-day challenges faced by Brazil's runaway slave communities

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Iraq: Mismanagement or Mass Murder?

No End in Sight explores how we got into Iraq and what screw-ups have made the situation spiral out of control

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What’s Up Silverdocs?

The documentary film festival in Maryland presents broad themes including sustainable development, social activism and the democratic process

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Stories of Survival

NO! explores rape within the African-American community and fights society's instinct to focus on the racism outside while turning a deaf ear to gender violence within

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The Dreams of Others

By tying the drama to a mere personal whim, The Lives of Others fails to capture the true horror of the GDR

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A Crime to Fit the Punishment

Black-listed Salt of the Earthhonors 1950s Empire Zinc strike in Grant County, New Mexico

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The Lessons of Sacco and Vanzetti

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Convicted of a… more

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Making Black Voices Heard

A new study examines minority youth opinion

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Whos Afraid of Peter Boyle?

"Bad Revolutions," backlash and Peter Boyle's dark night of the soul

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Mr. Smith Doesnt Go To Washington

One of 15 films shortlisted for a 2006 Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, Can Mr. Smith Get… more

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Extreme Humanitarians

Handling Good Samaritans on film can be a daunting task. It's difficult not to have reverence for people… more

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The Spychopath Who Loved Me

If there's a pop cultural icon in dire need of being revisited--and revised--at this historical moment, it is… more

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The Skinny on Thin

Thin, a movie filmed at the Renfrew Center, follows four women in their battle with eating disorders.

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The Godless Fundamentalist

In The Root of All Evil, biologist Richard Dawkins reveals his own lust for certainty

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Witnessing Extraordinary Rendition

Nonprofit organization Witness uses video like the new film Outlawed, to document human rights abuses worldwide.

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The Crazy Kazakh Correspondent

How Borat reveals American bigotry and foreign policy double standards.

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Jesus Is Tragic

The movie Jesus Camp by Heidi Ewing and Cahel Grady exposes the terrifying power the Christian Right has to indoctrinate and manipulate children.

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9/11 Refracted

Post-9/11 reporting has been full of commercialization, ideology and manipulation, not unbiased reporting.

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Privatized Warfare: The Summer of Discontent

A new documentary by Robert Greenwald - "Iraq For Sale" - details the corporate profiteering of the increasingly privatized U.S. military.

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Perpetuating the Yellow Peril

At first glance, Jeff Adachi's Slanted Screen is an earnest documentary that covers familiar ground. The shameful depiction… more

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DeLay May Be Gone, But His Legacy Isnt

Every so often a documentary film comes along that makes you think, "If only more people could see… more

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Iraq on the Big Screen

Who should define what a war is "about"? By any ethical standard, that right should fall to the… more

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Helping Themselves

There may not be a more thoroughly ravaged national economy on the planet than Argentina’s—it’s a poster child… more

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