KATRINA BABIES- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “Edward Buckles Jr. was 12 when Hurricane Katrina changed everything. He found common cause-and shared trauma–with young people whose lives were similarly shaped by the storm.”
8/28/22- Good reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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THE TERRITORY- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “THE TERRITORY provides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by illegal settlers and an association of nonnative farmers in the Brazilian Amazon.”
8/25/22- Very good reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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THREE MINUTES- A LENGHTENING-2022. Synopsis by RT. “Three Minutes – A Lengthening presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending.”
8/22/2022- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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FREE PUPPIES!- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “Although transports have moved dogs from the South for decades, when Hurricane Katrina left more than 250,000 pets stranded, the infrastructure of modern pet transport for a nation-wide dog rescue effort was born.”
8/17/22- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
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THE PRINCESS- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “The story of Princess Diana is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. Turning the camera back on ourselves, it also illuminates the profound impact she had and how the public’s attitude to the monarchy was, and still is, shaped by these events.”
8/16/21- Good reviews by the critics and weak ones by audiences. TRDB.
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FREE SOL CHOL SOO LEE- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “In 1970s San Francisco, 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is racially profiled and convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, investigative journalist K.W. Lee takes a special interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social justice movement.”
8/16/22- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
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BLUE ISLAND- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “With courage and sensitivity, Blue Island confronts the large-scale protests in Hong Kong. A new wave of young people took back the streets, as one generation after another has done throughout Hong Kong’s history. Bullets fly. Fires ignite. White tear gas and blue water cannons encroach on public spaces. The past, the present, and the future converge.”
8/1/22- Good reviews for this Chinese documentary. TRDB.
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MY OLD SCHOOL- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. Brandon had been privately tutored in Canada while he accompanied his mother, an opera diva, on tour before her tragic death. The preternaturally bright student surprised teachers by blazing toward his goal of entering medical school.”
7/23/22- Very good reviews. TRDB.
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THE REVEREND- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “THE REVEREND follows the spiritual and musical journey of Reverend Vince Anderson. After coming to New York in the 90’s to enter the seminary, Vince dropped out to follow his second calling — music. With his band The Love Choir, he has played a now-legendary weekly show for over twenty years.”
7/23/22- Just one review so far for this documentary and it is very good. TRDB.
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