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- Against My Will - The stories of three women who took refuge at the Dastak women's shelter in Pakistan, founded to help women fleeing abusive and murderous families.
- Almost Brothers - Through the story of a life-long friendship across class lines, this film delves simultaneously into Brazil's painful political past and raw current events.
- America's Brutal Prisons - Exposes the violence occurring inside prisons throughout America, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards.
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- Blue End - Joseph Paul Jernigan was executed in Texas in 1993. He was then frozen in blue gelatin, planed off, millimeter by milimeter, and photographed. Now he lives forever as the Visible Human Project, the first completely digitized human being.
- Brotherhood of Hate - An investigation of a seemingly isolated murder in rural Arkansas, revealing the virulent, dangerous mentality of white supremacy in America, handed down from one generation to the next.
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- Crimes of Honour - Filmed in Jordan and on the West Bank, investigates the terrible reality of femicide - the killing of sisters or daughters suspected of losing their virginity, for having refused an arranged marriage or having left a husband.
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- Dealing with the Demon - Three-episode series that interweaves contemporary human stories with crucial scenes from the history of the drug trade, providing a provocative and timely commentary from which to view the ongoing debate.
- Death Squadrons - The previously untold story of how the French military trained Latin American death squads in the 60s and 70s (and even U.S. Special Forces in the early days of our Vietnam War).
- Drowning by Bullets - Exposes the massacre, cover-up, and the years of denial of what was undoubtedly one of the darkest nights in the history of France.
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- The End of the Nightstick - An eye-opening investigation of institutional racism, brutality, and coverups in Chicago's police department.
- Excellent Cadavers - A dramatic investigation of the recent history of the Mafia and its integral relationship to postwar Italian politics. Based on the book by Alexander Stille.
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- The Face of Evil - A history of attempts to categorize the physiognomy of evil. From the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch to physiognomics, phrenology, eugenics, and anthropometrics.
- Facing the Demons - Follows the entire process of creating an extraordinary event - a "conference" between those responsible for a terrible murder, and the family and friends of the victim.
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- Gacaca - Ventures into the rural heart of the African nation of Rwanda to follow the first steps in one of the world's boldest experiments in reconciliation: the Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals.
- A Gang for Good - Investigates the last self-governing "junior republic" in the country.
- Ghosts of Attica - The definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its deadly suppression, the days of torture that ensued, and the almost 30 year legal case that followed.
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- High Risk Offender - A look into the universe of the parole office, and the tenuous relationships between offenders and their parole officers and therapists.
- HotHouse - Filmed inside Israeli high-security prisons, explores the lives and society of Palestinian prisoners, men and women, members and leaders of Fatah and Hamas. 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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- In Rwanda We Say... - 2004 was the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, and the government released 16,000 confessed killers into their communities. Captures the first steps toward reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi that followed.
- Indictment - On August 26, 1998, Stéphane and Fabrice surrender to the police, confessing to a murder committed three days earlier in Vendargues, France. The film then follows the magistrate's attempt to arrive at the truth of what really happened.
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- Justice - Takes a camera where few have been, a criminal courtroom in Rio de Janeiro, to record the social theatre, the structures of power, what is usually invisible.
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- La Sierra - Tracing a year in the life of a neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia ruled by a paramilitary gang, this is a searing exploration of three lives defined by years of overwhelming violence.
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- No Silence In This Court - The story of the Open Court, a popular, alternative legal system in the Indian state of Gujarat.
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- The Passion of María Elena - Following the hit-and-run death of her son, Maria Elena, a young woman from Mexico's Raramuri community, embarks upon an eye-opening journey from grief to unexpected spiritual resolution.
- Persons of Interest - The government calls them terrorists - they call themselves Americans. A unique and compelling film that gives voice to the human costs of the government's anti-terrorism campaign.
- Procedure 769: Witnesses to an Execution - The 1992 execution of Robert Alton Harris as seen through the eyes of the witnesses.
- Profits of Punishment - A critical look at America's booming private prison industry.
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- Red Hook Justice - Profiles an innovative court in a Brooklyn neighborhood plagued by poverty and crime that is at the center of a legal revolution - the community justice movement.
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- Sacco and Vanzetti - The definitive examination of one of the most famous court cases in American history, and a timely reminder of the fragility of our liberties in times of crisis.
- Shadow Kill - The story of a hangman in pre-independence India, who feelings of guilt and unhappiness result from his realization that the executions are a result of politics and not justice.
- Societies Under The Influence - Argues that the "drug war" we read about in our newspapers everyday is a corrupt and pernicious front that protects our judicial system, big business, organized crime and American foreign agendas.
- South - The heart of this journey is the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr in Jasper, Texas. But this is not an anatomy of his murder, rather, it is an evocation of how this event fits in to a landscape and climate as much mental as physical.
- Split Decision - The inspirational story of Jesus 'El Matador' Chavez, a talented young boxer whose promising career was cut short when the U.S. enacted new stricter immigration policies.
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- Tracked Down by Our Genes - Explores the new possibilities and dangers created by the Human Genome Project's decoding of human DNA. (new January, 2008)
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger - Focusing on his role in events in Vietnam, Indonesia and Chile, this film examines charges that the former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner is also a war criminal.
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