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Gay Boys in Oil City

The fight for GLBT rights in rural America is far from over.

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Why Kansas Matters

A new documentary details how politics and religion intersect in America.

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Don’t You Forget About Him

Confidence is a strange and elusive thing. As a nation, we clearly have it in this post-Vietnam age of… more

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Building Utopia

A new documentary profiles the rise and fall of a Depression-era utopian experiment in the Bronx.

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No Sugar-Coating Immigration

A new film will enthrall baseball fans--and anyone fascinated by the endurance of American ideals.

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Romancing the Terrorists

The Baader Meinhof Complex glamorizes a Cold War-era German terrorist group without questioning its politics and violence.

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From Russia With Mercy

12 is a stunning revision of a classic American film.

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Always Look on the Bright Side of Genocide

When did the Holocaust become morally ambiguous?

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A Real-Life Fairytale

Chris and Don examines a love that dared to speak its name.

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A Massacre in 3/4 Time

Waltz with Bashir is hallucinatory, relentless, and amazing.

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Che the Man, Not the T-shirt

Soderbergh’s Che refuses to typecast the revolutionary.

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‘Milk’ Does the Man Proud

The first major Hollywood film portraying a gay historic figure, Milk pushes gays to come out and fight for equal rights

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Our Vampires, Ourselves

HBO's 'True Blood' is fangtastic

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Closeted Russia

A LGBT film festival gets shut down in St. Petersburg, 15 years after homosexuality became legal in post-Soviet Russia

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Moore Than You or Me

Slacker Uprising offers nothing new, but it will be worth something if it affects November's election

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Sleepwalking Through Seattle

Battle in Seattle is a well-intentioned effort that ultimately misses the mark

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As Tough As Tom Joad

I can't quite follow the offscreen sound bites preceding the main title of Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's new… more

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Sanity From The Silver Screen

When President Bush responded to 9/11 and the subsequent economic downturn by ordering us to go shopping, many ignored… more

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Bad Cop, Badder Cop in Brazil

Does the new shoot-'em-up film Tropa de Elite bring out the country's inner fascist?

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Kiriakou and the Kite Runner

The CIA agent who just admitted to waterboarding a high-ranking al Qaeda operative has had an interesting retirement.

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Lights! Camera! Collective Action!

The Writers Guild of America strikes to secure a piece of the pie in the Digital Age

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King of the Crop

Two years ago the federal government spent $9.4 billion to promote corn production, driving small farmers off their lands in Mexico, because they were unable to compete with U.S. imports

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Can Brazil’s Quilombos Survive?

Quilombo Country documentary reveals the modern-day challenges faced by Brazil's runaway slave communities

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Iraq: Mismanagement or Mass Murder?

No End in Sight explores how we got into Iraq and what screw-ups have made the situation spiral out of control

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What’s Up Silverdocs?

The documentary film festival in Maryland presents broad themes including sustainable development, social activism and the democratic process

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Stories of Survival

NO! explores rape within the African-American community and fights society's instinct to focus on the racism outside while turning a deaf ear to gender violence within

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The Dreams of Others

By tying the drama to a mere personal whim, The Lives of Others fails to capture the true horror of the GDR

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A Crime to Fit the Punishment

Black-listed Salt of the Earthhonors 1950s Empire Zinc strike in Grant County, New Mexico

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The Lessons of Sacco and Vanzetti

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Convicted of a double… more

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Making Black Voices Heard

A new study examines minority youth opinion

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Whos Afraid of Peter Boyle?

"Bad Revolutions," backlash and Peter Boyle's dark night of the soul

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Mr. Smith Doesnt Go To Washington

One of 15 films shortlisted for a 2006 Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, Can Mr. Smith Get To… more

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Extreme Humanitarians

Handling Good Samaritans on film can be a daunting task. It's difficult not to have reverence for people who… more

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The Spychopath Who Loved Me

If there's a pop cultural icon in dire need of being revisited--and revised--at this historical moment, it is Bond,… more

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The Skinny on Thin

Thin, a movie filmed at the Renfrew Center, follows four women in their battle with eating disorders.

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The Godless Fundamentalist

In The Root of All Evil, biologist Richard Dawkins reveals his own lust for certainty

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Witnessing Extraordinary Rendition

Nonprofit organization Witness uses video like the new film Outlawed, to document human rights abuses worldwide.

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The Crazy Kazakh Correspondent

How Borat reveals American bigotry and foreign policy double standards.

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Jesus Is Tragic

The movie Jesus Camp by Heidi Ewing and Cahel Grady exposes the terrifying power the Christian Right has to indoctrinate and manipulate children.

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9/11 Refracted

Post-9/11 reporting has been full of commercialization, ideology and manipulation, not unbiased reporting.

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