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Amazon Warrior Women: Secrets of the Dead (2004)
Starring: Addison Bain, Martin Biddle
Director: Elizabeth Dobson, Alexander Marengo
Archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball studies recently discovered 2500 year-old Russian remains to investigate the possibility that the powerful women in Greek tales are actually the mythical Amazonian warrior women.
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An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Starring: Al Gore
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. An Inconvenient Truth is a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share.
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Cathares: Secrets & Legends (2007)
Director: Christian Salès
This film invites the viewer to move through time, through the majestic landscapes of the south of France, to follow the traces of Cathares, to discover their history, their secrecies, and their legend… Famous historians and specialists Anne Brenon, Jean Duvernoy, Jordi Passerat & Philippe Contal took an active part in the realization of this production.
Official Site (translated from the French) |
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Ghandi
Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-Oscar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of India and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the
course of the three-hour film from an insignificant lawyer to an international leader and symbol. Strong on history (the historic division between India and Pakistan, still a huge problem today, can be seen in its formative stages here) as well as character and ideas, this is a fine film. ~Tom Keogh |
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Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
Starring: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale
Director: Katja von Garnier
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Official Site with Trailer (bottom left) |
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Secret Files of the Inquisition
PBS Home Video
Secret Files of the Inquisition tells a story of epic proportions and powerful themes of Holy Wars and Crusades, of torture and terror, of the struggle for
human rights and dignity. Based on previously unreleased secret documents from European Archives including the Vatican, Secret Files of the Inquisition unveils the incredible true story of the Catholic Church’s 500 year struggle to remain the world’s only true Christian religion. For over half a millennium a system of mass terror reigned. Thousands were subject to secret courts, torture and punishment.
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It’s hard to imagine the staggering barbarity with which the Roman Catholic church, which claims to be the only true representative of Jesus Christ on earth, systematically terrorized the population of Europe and other parts of the world for over five centuries. When one examines the details of this despicable record, it is hardly surprising to learn that, at the advent of the Nazi regime in mid-war Germany, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler used the Catholic Inquisition as a model for their secret police.
Filmed in High Definition, in Episode 1, this production spans the Cathar persecutions in the Languedoc region of Southern France during the 13th and 14th centuries, the Spanish Inquisition in 15th century Spain in Episode 2, the persecution of the new intellectuals of Renaissance Italy in the 15th to 19th centuries in Episode 3, and the Jews of mid-nineteenth century Europe in Episode 4.
This film is available on Netflix. |
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What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004)
Starring: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix
Director: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse
A film which demonstrates a world of quantum uncertainty - a world where everything is alive and reality is changed by thought and where neurological processes and perceptual shifts are engaged.
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