TO THE END- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, TO THE END captures the emergence of a new generation of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history.”
12/13/22- Fair to good reviews. TRDB.
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SIMPLE AS WATER- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Epic in scope but intimate and elegant in feel, SIMPLE AS WATER is a meditation on the elemental bonds between parent and child. A masterful look at the impact of war, separation and displacement, the film takes audiences into Syrian families’ quests for normalcy and through the whirlwind of obstacles — to building life anew. Filmed over the course of five years in five countries including Turkey, Greece, Germany, Syria and the US, Mylan’s sensitive camera reifies the universal importance of family.”
12/12/21- Excellent reviews by all of the critics. TRDB.
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SR.- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Robert Downey Jr. pays tribute to his late father in this documentary chronicling the life and eclectic career of pioneering filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.”
12/4/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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TANTURA- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The tape-recorded words “erase it” take on new weight in the context of history and war. When the State of Israel was established in 1948, war broke out and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in its aftermath. Israelis know this as the War of Independence. Palestinians call it “Al Nakba” (the Catastrophe). In the late 1990s, graduate student Teddy Katz conducted research into a large-scale massacre that had allegedly occurred in the village of Tantura in 1948. His work later came under attack and his reputation was ruined, but 140 hours of audio testimonies remain.”
12/4/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In the mid-1960s, Lowndes County, Alabama had zero registered Black voters despite an 80% Black population. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary chronicles the citizens’ movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers led by Stokely Carmichael who risked their lives for Black voting rights.”
12/3/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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UPHEAVAL: THE JOURNEY OF MENACHEM BEGIN- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Jailed in a Soviet gulag before the war and scarred by loss in the Holocaust, Menachem Begin is remembered as one of Israel’s most democratic prime ministers for defending Jewish immigration and signing an historic peace accord with Egypt.”
12/3/22- Just 4 reviews for this documentary– 3 are very good and 1 is fair. TRDB.
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THE CORRIDORS OF POWER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Political heavyweights help build a picture of how America has responded to reports of genocide, war crimes and mass atrocities as the only global superpower after the fall of the Soviet Union.”
11/27/22- Just 3 reviews and they are all excellent. TRDB.
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ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.”
11/27/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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BAD AXE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.”
11/23/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Inspired by Lizzy Goodman’s bestselling book, MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM is an immersive archival journey through the explosive New York music scene of the early 2000s.”
11/6/22- Weak reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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