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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In July 2012 three intruders broke into the Y-12 National Nuclear Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, known as America’s “Fort Knox of Uranium”. Y-12 stores enough highly enriched uranium to make some 10,000 nuclear bombs. The break-in, described by The New York Times, as the most serious security breach in the history of the U.S. atomic complex, sent shock waves throughout the federal government and the world, when it turned out the intruders...
24) Call Her Ganda
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case; an activist attorney, a transgender journalist, and Jennifer’s mother, galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of U.S. imperialism. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Documentary at the **GLAAD Media Awards**. "*As...
25) Three Girls
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A brutally honest drama, which takes us behind the headlines and makes us ask fundamental questions about how our society operates. Rochdale hit the headlines when 11 men from the Pakistani community were convicted of grooming and raping underage girls. Many of the children asked for help and were ignored, in some cases arrested, whilst their abusers continued to groom and attack other victims. It took ten years to bring these men to justice and many...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Brittney left her house unexpectedly in May 2012 in rural Alabama. She was never seen or heard from again. Her mother has campaigned for years to continue the search after the police gave up. Told emotionally by the family and captivating plot twists at the end of each episode, we discover the horrific truth Brittney’s entire family was hiding. Almost all her relatives were implicated in Alabama’s largest child sex ring, and in May 2012, young...
27) Licensed to Kill
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Takes a riveting journey into the minds of men whose contempt for homosexuals led them to murder. Attacked in 1977 by gay bashers on the streets of San Francisco, filmmaker Arthur Dong confronts murderers of gay men face-to-face in his film. He asks them directly: “Why did you do it?”Probing on-camera interviews with seven convicted killers behind bars propel the narrative drive of LICENSED TO KILL. These inmates include a wide range of distinct...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A truly pioneering film, Morris’s breakthrough changed the world of documentary forever. Through expressionistic reenactments, provocative interviews and a memorable score by Philip Glass, it tells the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and trial of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976—and the film itself proved instrumental in overturning Adams’s death-row conviction. Endlessly influential, “the first...
30) Wild Daze
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Featuring conservation experts ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall to wildlife trophy hunters, WILD DAZE explores the relationship between international crime cartels, child soldiers, colluding government officials, and the illegal wildlife trade.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Winner of a Peabody Award, a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Documentary, and a Critic's Choice Award for Best First Feature, SOUTHWEST OF SALEM excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez, four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. Using the women’s home video footage from 21 years ago combined with recent verité footage and interviews,...
33) The Syndrome
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The explosive documentary THE SYNDROME follows the crusade of a group of doctors, scientists, and legal scholars who have uncovered that “Shaken Baby Syndrome,” a child abuse theory used in hundreds of U.S. prosecutions each year, is not scientifically valid. In fact, they say it doesn’t exist. Filmmaker Meryl Goldsmith and national award-winning investigative reporter Susan Goldsmith document the unimaginable nightmare for those accused and...
35) I Am Evidence
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
I AM EVIDENCE exposes the shocking number of untested rape kits in the United States today. Despite the power of DNA to solve and prevent crimes, hundreds of thousands of kits containing potentially crucial DNA evidence languish untested in police evidence storage rooms across the country. Behind each of these kits lies an individual’s unresolved sexual assault case. Produced by Mariska Hargitay, I AM EVIDENCE follows stories of survivors who have...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The idea is powerfully simple: engage the services of two actual legal teams to create a rigorous, legally based fictional—yet unscripted—trial that never happened for one of the nation’s most disturbing recent tragedies. The accused is Officer Daniel Pantaleo (only recently fired by New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill), charged in the July 17, 2014 death of Eric Garner with reckless manslaughter and strangulation in the first...
37) Life With Murder
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
When their son is accused of murdering his sister, a mother and father face perhaps the most awful decision any parent could have to make: whether to break with their son or accept him back into the family. With astonishing footage shot over a ten-year period, from minutes after the crime was committed to the present, the film follows the family's evolving relationships. Winner of Best Canadian Documentary at the **International Emmy Awards**. Nominated...
38) Devil house
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him when he was a child. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success -- and a movie adaptation -- to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic...
39) Polisse
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
A gripping police drama based on true accounts from the Parisian child protection unit.
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