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Maria's Story: A Documentary Portrait Of Love And Survival In El Salvador's Civil War
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directed by Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011 and Monona Wali, 1955-; produced by Catherine M. Ryan, fl. 2011 and Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 57 mins
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's dai...
directed by Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011 and Monona Wali, 1955-; produced by Catherine M. Ryan, fl. 2011 and Pamela Cohen, fl. 2011 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 57 mins
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Memories of a Dreamer: The Journey of a Political Prisoner
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directed by Alisson Larrea, fl. 2008; produced by Alisson Larrea, fl. 2008 (Beverly Hills, CA: Choices, Inc., 2010), 1 hour 52 mins
Memories of a Dreamer is a first person account of the hardship suffered by a political prisoner from Chile's 1973 cruel dictatorship. Felix Mora recounts shocking details of the torture he endured, his escape from the dictatorship and the challenges he has faced as an exile in Italy and Canada. The question is ha...
directed by Alisson Larrea, fl. 2008; produced by Alisson Larrea, fl. 2008 (Beverly Hills, CA: Choices, Inc., 2010), 1 hour 52 mins
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Message From Hiroshima
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directed by Masaaki Tanabe, 1937-; produced by Masaaki Tanabe, 1937-, Knack Images Production (Burbank, CA: Cinema Libre Studio, 2015), 52 mins
Narrated by George Takei, Message From Hiroshima provides an inside look at life and culture in the city before the first ever atomic bomb was used. Today, where the Hon and Motoyasu rivers meet, stands the Peace Memorial Park – the former location of the Nakajima district, which once was home thousands to peopl...
directed by Masaaki Tanabe, 1937-; produced by Masaaki Tanabe, 1937-, Knack Images Production (Burbank, CA: Cinema Libre Studio, 2015), 52 mins
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Messengers Without An Audience
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produced by AVA Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 53 mins
Messengers Without An Audience is a gripping documentary about the heroism of a handful of eyewitnesses who brought the first devastating reports about the Nazi atrocities to the West. Why did such a large proportion of the world ignore the genocide of millions of civilians in Europe? Did people not believe what w...
produced by AVA Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 53 mins
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Minoru: Memory of Exile
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directed by Michael Fukushima, fl. 1984-2017; produced by William Pettigrew, National Film Board of Canada (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1992), 19 mins
The bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, by a nation he knew only by name, thrust nine-year-old Minoru Fukushima into a world of racism so malevolent he would be forced to leave Canada, the land of his birth. Like thousands of other Japanese Canadians, Minoru and his family were branded as an enemy...
directed by Michael Fukushima, fl. 1984-2017; produced by William Pettigrew, National Film Board of Canada (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 1992), 19 mins
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Modus Operandi: The German Occupation of Belgium
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directed by Hugues Lanneau; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 1 hour 38 mins
From 1942 to 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 survived. Modus Operandi raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help, voluntary or unwitting, of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? I...
directed by Hugues Lanneau; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 1 hour 38 mins
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Motherland Afghanistan
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directed by Sedika Mojadidi; produced by Jenny Raskin, Catherine Gund, 1965- and Sedika Mojadidi (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2006), 1 hour 13 mins
Filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi and her father, Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi, are Afghans who have made a home in the United States. After the US-led invasion to oust the Taliban, Dr. Mojadidi, a specialist in women's health, decides to return to his war-ravaged homeland to help rebuild and modernize the hospitals and clinics wh...
directed by Sedika Mojadidi; produced by Jenny Raskin, Catherine Gund, 1965- and Sedika Mojadidi (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2006), 1 hour 13 mins
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Muammar El Qaddafi: King Of Kings
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directed by Jason Boritz, fl. 2008; produced by Charles Rand, fl. 2010 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 50 mins
Muammar El-Qaddafi is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world. In 1969, at the tender age of 27, he strategically became the ruler of Libya. His uncanny ability to organize, while simultaneously annihilating his enemies, has allowed him to reign over Libya for over 40 years. This is the riveting a...
directed by Jason Boritz, fl. 2008; produced by Charles Rand, fl. 2010 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 50 mins
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Nanjing Nightmares
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directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Murray MacDonald, Gerald B. Sperling and Chi Jinjun (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2000), 49 mins
The Japanese subjugation of the capital of China in 1937-38 has been called "The Rape of Nanjing" or the "Nanjing Atrocity." It is considered one of the most brutal, sadistic acts of war in modern history and caused psychological repercussions to succeeding generations of Chinese. This documentary recounts the his...
directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Murray MacDonald, Gerald B. Sperling and Chi Jinjun (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001, originally published 2000), 49 mins
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Nazi Hunters, Series 1, Episode 1, Herbert Cukurs
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directed by Timothy Wolochatiuk, fl. 2009; produced by Gideon Boulting, fl. 1998-2012 and Simon Lloyd, fl. 2009, in Nazi Hunters, Series 1, Episode 1 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 44 mins
In this episode of Nazi Hunter, directed by Timothy Wolochatiuk, features Herbert Cukurs.
directed by Timothy Wolochatiuk, fl. 2009; produced by Gideon Boulting, fl. 1998-2012 and Simon Lloyd, fl. 2009, in Nazi Hunters, Series 1, Episode 1 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 44 mins
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