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60 Minutes, The Reckoning
60 Minutes, The Betrayal: Part 1
60 Minutes, The Betrayal: Part 2
100 Years of Silence: The Germans in Namibia
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir
Cambodia, 1975-1978: Rendezvous With Death
Code Name: Butterflies
Às vezes, a coragem para se fazer a revolução vem de onde você menos espera. Na ilha caribenha da República Dominicana, 1960, há um povo em apuros, sofrendo sob a cruel tirania de Rafael Trujillo, o ditador mais sanguinário da história latino-americana. Três belas e notáveis irmãs - Patria, Minerva e Maria Teresa Mirabal - estão decididas a derrubar o governo que seus pais, irmãos e maridos não poderiam. Agora, pela primeira vez, a história será contada na televisão: a história das Borboletas (o nome de código das irmãs Mirabal) e seus corajosos esforços para derrubar um dos ditadores mais cruéis do mundo. É uma história cheia de suspense, sobre donas de casa e mães que subiram a alturas extraordinárias em um tempo extraordinário. Os Mirabals são um símbolo dos homens e mulheres de todas as Américas que viveram sob ditadores como Trujillo, que pilhas os tesouros nacionais e escravizados seu próprio povo. Eles representam os poucos corajosos em qualquer idade que ousam arriscar suas vidas para os direitos humanos e a democracia. "Nome de código: Butterflies" apresenta entrevistas exclusivas com os parentes, amigos e outros lutadores pela liberdade de Mirabal, e traz revelações dos partidários de Trujillo, que contam o lado negro da história. O documentário se baseia em fotografias, clipes de filme e cartas, e é apoiado por dramáticas recriações de cenas-chave. Ninguém será capaz de esquecer esta história dramática e inspiradora.
Sometimes the courage for revolution comes from where you least expect it. The sun-soaked Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, 1960. An embattled people, suffering under the cruel tyranny of Rafael Trujillo, the most blood-thirsty dictator in Latin American history. Three beautiful and remarkable sisters--Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa Mirabal--who are resolved to overthrow a government that their fathers, brothers, and husbands could not. Now for the first time the real story will be told on television: the story of the Butterflies (the code-name of the Mirabal sisters) and their courageous efforts to bring down one of the world's most ruthless dictators. It is a suspense-filled tale, about simple and ordinary housewives and mothers who rose to extraordinary heights in an extraordinary time. The Mirabals are a symbol of the men and women of all of the Americas who have lived under dictators like Trujillo, who pillages national treasuries and enslaved their own people. They represent the courageous few in any age who dare to risk their lives for human rights and democracy. "Code Name: Butterflies" is filled with powerful exclusive interviews with the Mirabal's relatives, friends, and other freedom fighters, and behind-the-scenes revelations by Trujillo supporters, who tell the dark side of the story. The documentary draws on photographs, film clips and letters, and is supported by dramatic recreations of key scenes. No one will be able to forget this dramatic and inspiring story.
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Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordina...
Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling da...
Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín during World War II.
It tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling days of forced labor. The Requiem was performed on sixteen occasions for fellow prisoners. The last, most infamous performance occurred on June 23, 1944. With only sixty prisoner-singers remaining following massive deportations, Schächter was ordered by the Nazi camp commander to perform the Requiem before high-ranking SS officers from Berlin and the International Red Cross to support the charade that the prisoners were well treated and flourishing.
Defiant Requiem is about how a rare form of courage, hope, and survival sparked an entirely unique method of fighting Nazi oppression, enabling the prisoners to maintain their dignity and humanity while battling the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. The Latin liturgy of the Requiem which highlights God’s ultimate judgment of the wicked, allowed the prisoners to sing to the Nazis what they dared not say. The Nazi legacy of brutality is well established, but the Terezín legacy is virtually unknown and is told dramatically in Defiant Requiem.
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