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2) The maids
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Two maids, in a sinister bond of roleplaying, take turns acting out an abusive employer-servant relationship. Adapted from Jean Genet's absurdist play, itself inspired from a true life case.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A housemaid, who is sexually abused by her boss and made pregnant, is forced to give up her son in order to go on with her education. Six years later she comes back to claim her son. From Malawi comes this moving story about sexual abuse, women rights and the legal justice system in Malawi.
4) Dark Blood
Publisher
FilmRise
Formats
Description
Misael is imprisoned, waiting to be sentenced for a revenge crime against the man who killed his child. During his confinement, he must adapt to a new life of abuse. His former life starts to become a distant memory as he is forgotten by his loved ones. Misael, lonely and abandoned, find affection and tenderness in Sarna, the dog of the prison.
5) The Attorney
Formats
Description
Song Woo-seok has no clients, connections, nor college degree, but his eye for business and appetite for money make him the most successful lawyer in town. But at the peak of his success, a local teenager is falsely accused of a crime, then beaten and tortured while waiting in jail. Shocked by these conditions, Song takes the case no one else will, and changes the course of his life.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Brooklyn Matters reveals how a few powerful men tried to tilt the Brooklyn landscape in favor of big real estate at the expense of urban livability. Disregarding time-honored urban planning principles and manipulating a desperate need in the African-American community for jobs and affordable housing, they pushed their own interests forward--luxury housing and a 20,000 seat sports arena. The film poses vital, timely questions that are relevant to cities...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
On 21 June 2007, the Howard Federal Government introduced the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation commonly known as 'The Intervention' - one of the most dramatic policy shifts in Aboriginal affairs in Australia's history. Relentless media attention generally focuses on ideological arguments for or against the Intervention put forward by 'experts' far removed from its everyday realities. Ironically, the voices of those affected by the...
10) Frost/Nixon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions...
11) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Beset by the political tension of an unsettled era, Gandhi calls for British removal from India. Police Superintendent Ronald Merrick arrests an Indian news reporter. Daphne Manner arrives from London. Merrick vents his frustrations on Kumar in a vicious jailhouse beating. Daphne gives birth. Mildred Layton prepares for her daughter's wedding. The Governor finds out about Merrick's abuse. Sarah is seduced by an officer. Susan delivers a baby boy....
13) A mighty heart
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Jewish-American journalist, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in January of 2002. The violent act became an international scandal as the group that claimed responsibility for the crime demanded the liberation of prisoners from the American detainee prison in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. The American government does not give in to the terrorists' demands. Mariane travels to Pakistan and is alone, searching for the most important person in her life....
14) Freaks
Description
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
15) Inside
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Description
Still grieving over her recently deceased husband, a pregnant woman becomes haunted by a mysterious woman.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Hoboken Hollow - For decades the Broderic family built their brutal dominion with the sweat and blood of their captives. Lured with promises of work and shelter, drifters, hobos and migrants found themselves captive ay a modern-day slave ranch instead. Inspired by true horrific crime stories from Texas and beyond. -- Secrets of the clown - After the brutal murder of his best friend Jim, Bobbie is haunted by victims of his mutilated body, sinister...
18) Tabloid
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In the late 1970s, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney became a tabloid staple when she kidnapped her former beau, a Mormon missionary, and tied him to a bed to 'deprogram' his religious beliefs-by having nonstop sex with him. Director Errol Morris follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams led her across the globe, into jail and onto the front page.
19) Escaping ISIS
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The gripping, first-hand accounts of women who escaped the brutal reign of ISIS. These women and children are Yazidis, a religious minority that have been targeted by ISIS for particularly brutal treatment, as ISIS tries to impose upon them what it claims is a pure version of Islam.
Publisher
Distributed by Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
During World War II, American soldier Harry Cook and his team are sent to Norway to aid in the defection of Halden Brevik, a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Captured by the Germans and sent to the Colditz POW prison camp in an alpine castle on the German-Swiss border, Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discovers the Norwegian's true identity. The prisoners pin their hopes for freedom on a homemade...
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