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- Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
- As the disaster of yet another school shooting hits, some parents are faced with a brutal fact: their child was the one pulling the trigger.
- The document approaches the efforts of the French feminist organization MLAC (Mouvement pour la liberté de l'avortement et de la contraception), which since 1973 fought for the decriminalization of abortion and contraception. Abortions were illegal in France until January 17, 1975, when changes were made under the pressure of activists. However, MLAC women continued to promote and practice unauthorized home births, artificial abortions, and spread information about contraception.
- In the name of consumer freedom, the number of erotic fairs and video porn companies has increased with growing market economy.
- The quest for the true personality of multi-talented cult artist and psycho-magician Alexandro Jodorowsky
- Sumer, Babylon, the epic of Gilgamesh, the legendary Tower of Babel: all these names embody Mesopotamia. It is in this plain, also known as the "fertile crescent", where Iraq is today, that our civilization was born. There, humanity organized itself into a society of several tens of thousands of people, invented writing and gave agriculture and architecture an unprecedented development. What does this story tell, that a terrorist group decided to want to erase its trace for good? In 2014, Daech wiped the main archaeological sites of the North off the map. The images of the exactions went around the world and convinced Jawad Bashara, an Iraqi writer and journalist exiled in France under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, to return to his country to act.
- Following a simple linear narrative, the film depicts children and adolescents, carefree or bitter, happy or disenchanted, living in the slums of the city of Roubaix, in the North of France.
- Most Somali men chew the Khat leaf, a natural amphetamine. And in Britain there is one man 90,000 chewers despise. This is the story of the Somali activist who virtually on his own, brought about the UK banning of the leaf. The doc charts the billion dollar global Khat industry, travelling to the heartlands of its production, the markets where hundreds of tons are sold daily and back to the campaign on the streets of London.
- This short film, shot clandestinely during the war in Algeria, is made from drawings commented on by Algerian children collected in 1961 in a refugee camp in Tunisia.
- OR THE FIRST TIME I HEARD OF ISRAEL. A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard of Israel. Through recorded conversations with filmmaker Mohamed Malas, both Amiralay and Malas share their own unique stories and experiences about Israel and Israeli occupation. In the company of fellow Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas, the ground-breaking director Omar Amiralay revisits the ruins of the destroyed Golan village of Quneytra, occupied by Israel and then abandoned following the 1973 war.
- In their own words, Holocaust survivors Henri Borlant, Marcel Jabelot, and Violette Jacquet-Silberstein share their experiences of deportation and incarceration in concentration camps during World War II. Interviews conducted by Claudine Drame, Annette Wieviorka, Geneviève Decrop, and Régine Waintrater.
- A global picture of one century in the history of China, from the Opium War until the forthcoming appointment of Xi Jinping as President of the People's Republic, from the point of view of 100 Chinese citizens living and working in China.
- Denis has committed yet another crime. But instead of sending him to prison, the judge offers him an alternative : to work in a home for young psychotics. Denis accepts. At first, he feels bad in such an environment but, little by little, he finds that he can be useful to others. He also discovers who he really is.
- Since Russia was brought to its knees in the 1990s by crippling debt and the grip of the oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin has made it his mission to return superpower status to Russia. While not partisan to Putin's wrongs, this insightful doc examines the logic and motivations of Putin's vilified regime, and why he is so loved in his homeland.
- How did Putin gain such unbridled power and what is he willing to do to restore a Soviet-style Russia? This definitive 2007 film investigates the ominous political career of the ultra-authoritarian leader.
- Ukraine: From Democracy To Chaos.
- In a fishing village in southern Tunisia, Regaya, a beautiful young woman whose husband dies, refuses remarriage. Yet this is what a woman must do in Muslim society. Her father emigrated to distant France can only speak of his own suffering. She tries with her courage and her body to live her independence without breaking with her culture, her rituals and her traditions. With Fettah, the man whose thoughts she takes, she will try to live a new love away from all.
- An immersion in a typical and scary Swiss reality: more than 500'000 weapons of soldiers of the swiss army are kept at home. Starting by a tradition, every year we count more than 300 deaths and hundreds of accidents with these weapons.
- Former members of the Jewish Resistance recount the story of their internment at the Drancy concentration camp, their attempt to escape via a tunnel in November 1943, and their eventual escape from the train taking them to Auschwitz.