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- The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
- The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
- A once-promising boxer is haunted by his past mistakes and battling with alcoholism. His daughter watches from the sidelines - and fears losing him to his demons once again.
- This documentary chronicles the life of Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) from his early years in Chicago, to his time in Poland and Los Angeles, and his artistic and political contributions to the world.
- An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near-fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance, and which attracts a couple of other unsavory confused characters.
- The history, culture and tradition of Serbs living West of the Drina river, from the times of medieval Bosnia to the 20th century and the formation of Republika Srpska, an internationally recognized entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.
- This film tells the story of the Dalai Lama's younger sister Jetsun Pema, her struggles, loss and success that earned her the epithet Amala or 'mother'. Using rare footage from her historic visit to Tibet in 1980, the film also gives insight on the state of education inside Tibet. After her sister died, she took charge of the Nursery for Tibetan Refugee Children in a small town in northern India. Under her leadership, the nursery transformed into one of the most successful Tibetan refugee schools - the Tibetan Children's Village schools.
- A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
- Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist efforts of labor groups, peasants, and working-class soldiers to liberate Portugal from the control of the government of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
- 20021h 33m7.9 (296)TV MovieThe history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.
- A story about Debra and her daughter Tracey struggles in the heart of Memphis. Debra tries to keep her daughter out of danger and off the streets but it doesn't help with the surrounding of drug dealers, pimps and prostitution. It gets worst when Erin and her gang interfere in situations with Tracey and Kandi. That's when Tracey takes matters in her own hands.
- A romantically drained man meets an adorable young woman whose compelling personality invites him to open himself back up to love as he takes a chance on a valuable painting that could accelerate his financial goals or ruin him for years.
- 200252mNot Rated7.7 (45)TV MovieThis documentary outlines the ways in which British policies during the First World War have contributed to the instability of the Middle East region today. Through never/before/seen documents and photos, we look at the secret agenda of the British government in WWI and its unfortunate aftermath.
- Alyssa Hale is a teenager with a dual personality. Normally a quiet young lady with a gloomy personality, Alyssa has a dark side, a cruel and merciless man known as Mr. Bates who can possess her body at will. Alyssa's only protection against these unwelcome possessions is an amulet given to her by her father, the director of a major San Francisco hospital. Alyssa has just undergone extensive psychotherapy and is recuperating by visiting a lifelong friend of her father's, Philip Tate, and his children. Unbeknownst to Alyssa, Philip's family is haunted by the Maxwell Curse: a mysterious figure who loves to wear a devil's mask and slaughter his victims with a large butcher knife. This is the beginning of a nightmare journey.
- One of modern Greece's greatest politicians as he faces formidable challenges during the critical decade from the Balkan Wars and World War I up to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.
- A documentary about Charles Darwin's struggle writing his theory of evolution
- The Chicago Haymarket tragedy, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of Police was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers' rights activists, is examined in this feature documentary film. Expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist movement of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting for a shorter work day during the industrial might of America's Gilded Age.
- LA LUCHA SIGUE (The Struggle Continues) is a feature length documentary that combines breathtaking cinematography with intimate access and creative storytelling as it follows COPINH and OFRANEH, two grassroots Indigenous and Black organizations leading the struggle for justice in Honduras. The Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), co-founded by the assassinated leader Berta Cáceres, works with the Lenca Indigneous peoples of the mountains in the interior of Honduras. The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) is the black people's social movement along the lush coast of Honduras led by Miriam Miranda. Together these groups are holding down the frontlines of resistance in the face of the US-backed military dictatorship of Juan Orlando Hernandez as they work to dismantle interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and racism. COPINH and OFRANEH are the resistance. They are the water. They are the land itself. Bullets cannot kill their fight to protect the land and build a Honduras that is rooted in justice for everyone and guided by Ancestral knowledge. Four years after the brutal assassination of world-renowned Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in 2016, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, sheds light on the role of the Atala Zablah's, the Honduran oligarchic family, who with corporate actor David Castillo, are part of the Honduran oligarchy and are alleged to be intellectual authors behind the assassination of Berta Cáceres. Honduran resistance to colonial violence is led by Indigenous and Black women. One of those leaders is Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, the namesake daughter of Berta Cáceres and current leader of COPINH. Another major leader guiding the fight is Miriam Miranda, co-founder of OFRANEH. Both Miriam and Bertha Zúniga have survived assassination attempts and continue to see comrades of their organizations assassinated on a regular basis. While those losses are devastating, they are not frozen by the pain. Instead they harness the rage to stand up to deadly forces and reshape the imagination of a world dominated by the dehumanizing forces of capitalism while building a world of Indigenous and black sovereignty and justice for all. The film unfolds through Miriam and Bertha Zúniga's lived realities as they navigate colonial minefields and speak truth to imperial power. The film opens at Utopia, COPINH's Center for Gathering and Friendship, an autonomous training center that's a living example of the life-affirming alternative projects that can be built when people gather to plan political projects and construct strategies of resistance. It's called Utopia because it's a place to dream. Utopia is even home to organic agricultural projects meant to push back on the food insecurity experienced by so many Lenca communities due to colonization. Utopia is a model of sustainable systems of local food production while also generating autonomous income sources. Bertha Zúniga invites viewers into COPINH's revolutionary world through sharing glimpses of their historic gathering, The Peoples' Guancasco for Life and Autonomy. There, land defenders from across the country and continent share their resistance stories of fighting megaprojects invading their traditional territories and threatening their lives. Next, viewers are introduced to the world-renowned Indigenous leader, Berta Cáceres who was assassinated in 2016. Showing footage from 2013, Berta tells gathered Lenca people, "seventy-million Indigenous [people] were killed on this continent." She explains that the genocide was used to exploit the lands and the people and that the powerful countries in the North were built on that exploitation. Through Berta's countless visits to the community, thousands of Indigenous people were politicized and their strength fortified. Berta's fierce personality and relentless determination are revealed as we see her in action in communities building the political force that took on colonialism and imperialism so effectively that she was killed for it. From there we journey with COPINH to the street actions, grassroots campaigns, and legal tools they are employing to take on the most powerful families and forces in Honduras and around the world to demand justice in the case of Berta's assassination. Their voices cry out for justice for Berta and resound in the streets of Honduras. Their sharp political critiques of US backed colonial violence are broadcast on community radio stations in the most remote corners of Honduras as they build power and denounce David Castillo and the Atala Zablah family behind Berta's murder and the continued resource extraction on Indigenous lands. At the sentencing trial of the material authors of Berta's assassination, Bertha Zúniga fiercly reminds everyone that the State of Honduras is an accomplice in the crime. She affirms that COPINH's fight is "a fight for our country's democratization, for justice, for an end to corruption and impunity." And that despite attempts to sow fear with assassinations and silence voices through killing people, their determination will not waver. The first of three communities that viewers will meet is the Garífuna land of Vallecito. Vallecito is a revolutionary space that is the first territory to be freed from the hands of drug traffickers. This territory is home to the organizing hub of OFRANEH and comprises 2,965 acres of land titled to the Garífuna people. Vallecito is a Garífuna village strategically built inland so that it can take in the Garífuna refugees from along the coast that will be created as climate change continues to intensify. Vallecito, situated along the northeastern coast of Honduras, is filled with abundant natural resources and is an area of Honduras plagued by one of the principal drug trafficking routes to the United States. The coastal lands of the Garífuna are also a target of ferocious monoculture, tourism and extractive projects that drive displacement in the territories. These Honduran government-backed projects are land grabs forced on communities by strategies that include the fabrication of land titles to community territories, which are then sold and resource concessions are given to powerful foreign economic investors, displacing thousands of people from their ancestral lands and driving them into deeper misery. On top of this already precarious situation, free trade experiments in so-called "model cities" are violently thrust into the mix. These "model cities" are the more recent model used to bleed the territories and the people resisting within them. Miriam Miranda explains that the Garífuna people are fighting not just to exercise control over their territories but to create "a project to sustain life and food sovereignty." Reclaiming their territory has come at a high cost, Miriam notes. And assassinations are currently on the rise. Recently, in a 72 hour period, 5 Garífuna people were killed, says Miriam. Strategic displacement and assassinations are used to make way for megaprojects, especially destructive African palm-oil fields and hydroelectric dams. As viewers journey into the heart of Vallecito, they will understand what's at stake for Garífuna people. Land isn't just to build a house. Land is the basis to sow crops, to fish, to make drums, to make canoes and to do spiritual work with their ancestors. They need their territory to live as Garífuna. The language comes from the land, making their language school an essential piece of their revolutionary project. With shining determination in her eyes, Miriam shares the massive dream being cooked up in Vallecito -- an Indigenous Garífuna University rooted in the Garífuna principle "auya buni, amürü nuni" (me for you and you for me). There, Garífuna will learn all about the medicinal, regenerative and practical uses of coconut. The university project works hand in hand with their other main political project, the coconut production project. Drones, cinematic floating shots and traditional camera techniques capture the breath of their coconut production projects. Miriam also explains the importance of returning to traditional ways of using coconuts for washing dishes to push back on the world's reliance on disposability and plastics that are threatening the planet and our very existence. Viewers will understand the importance of cross community organizing as they hear powerful accounts of the historic relationship between OFRANEH and COPINH and see first hand how that relationship continues to be nourished by showing up for one another's struggles. In Vallecito, the people of the mountains (the Lenca) will learn how to cultivate coconuts alongside the people of the sea (the Garifuna). After Vallecito the film will travel to Guachipilín. Guachipilín is a Lenca community comprised of many COPINH members. Viewers will meet women pushing back on patriarchy and reclaiming their self-worth through their cooperative chicken project. The film will take viewers through the territory in Guachipilín to see how it's being threatened by mining interests. Community members Chico and Navidad will share their fears about their water being contaminated and why they are fighting. When Chico explains that a fight for their water will be a fight to the death, viewers will be exposed to the lengths the community will go to to protect their land and their way of life. Guachipilín stands out among COPINH communities in both their autonomy derived from diverse sustainable agricultural projects and in their widespread unity against the colonial mine that threatens to contaminate precious water sources. Bertha Zúniga foreshadows that the intensity of the fight in Guachipilín will reach the levels of Río Blanco, another formidable COPINH community. From Guachipilín viewers will journey to Río Blanco. Berta Cáceres was assassinated for the pivotal role that she played in Río Blanco to expel the Chinese company Sinohydro, the world's largest dam builder, and some of the most powerful international finance systems from Lenca territory. The Honduran company Desarrollos Energeticos (DESA) had a partnership with Sinohydro to build the Agua Zarca Dam. Viewers will meet Rosalina and her family who reveal the historic and present levels of violence that they've faced in their fight to protect their land from the Agua Zarca Dam. Bertha Zúniga and COPINH will face off with the Madrid family as they are blocked from accessing a public road and threatened with violence by the Madrid family if they pass. Historic levels of marginalization have entrenched poverty in rural Indigenous communities making many community members vulnerable to being bought off by the company with crumbs. Viewers will see this pattern unfold in Río Blanco as the Madrid family blocks the road, the only road leading to their corn farms --a staple in their diet. Rosalina and many other community leaders have been the targets of death threats. The community conflict stems from the dirty methods used by DESA to insert itself into the community by any means necessary. The audience will get an intimate look into the conflict when Freddy, Rosalina's son, recounts to his family how someone in the Madrid family tried to kill him. Rosalina has faced so much death in her life that she no longer fears it. She challenges those who are trying to kill her to come find her in her house. She'll be waiting, she says. As a mother it takes a toll knowing that her sons are some of the most threatened people in the community. Nevertheless, from the moment she wakes, she puts her warrior face on because she knows that showing any weakness could mean death for her, her family and her land. Selvin Milla, part of COPINH's community work team, explains how the dam began invading the community without permissions. He tells viewers that the going rate to hire an assassin is $25 USD, but it will cost more if you want the hitman to do any extras like digging up the body after it's buried. Assassination was one of the principal strategies used by DESA, the Honduran dam builder, to get rid of community opposition. "Violence in Honduras is daily. But the death with which one lives isn't normalized either" says Selvin. And that violence is used to justify the ongoing and increasing US-backed militarization of Honduran society. That intense militarization and the US role in fueling violence in Honduras comes to a head in the film when high school students take to the streets and face off with police. Fed up with the lack of state investment in schools, hospitals, food security and other social issues, students decide to block the entrance to La Esperanza, the town that Berta Cáceres grew up in. They decry the recent decision of the Juan Orlando Hernandez dictatorship to hand over the budget and management of the agricultural sector to the military as evidence that everyday the country is devolving more and more into a military dictatorship. "They're students who want a better country," says one of the student organizers on camera before the police start chasing the students while firing tear gas and live bullets. Bertha Zúniga tells us that each tear gas canister "costs between $140 to $241 USD. Here in a demonstration, they easily launch 150 tear gas canisters." Much of the tear gas and bullets are made in the US. In Honduras there is an active military on the streets and yet there's no openly declared war. Viewers will understand by the end of the film that in Honduras there is a war between the rich and the poor, with the US backing the rich. Berta Cáceres' assassination ignited national and international social movements that will not stop until colonialism and imperialism are dead. Meanwhile, the oligarchs in Honduras, with the backing of the biggest military power in the world, are doing everything they can to hold onto power. The work of COPINH and OFRANEH builds on a legacy of 500 years of fights for sovereignty. Their struggle to protect their ancestral territory and to defend humanity is for all of us. They are part of Indigenous and black resistance movements across Turtle Island and around the world that have never been silent, but whose voices can no longer be ignored by the dominant groups. The interconnected forces of racism, capitalism, global warming, and militarism have wreaked an untenable level of destruction whose harms can no longer be contained in the margins. Descendants of those who enslaved march along-side those whose ancestors were enslaved shouting Black Lives Matter. The unhoused are occupying empty homes, with support from the masses who feel the pressure of the collapsing capitalist economy--accelerated by COVID--pushing them closer to the streets. Heir's to fossil fuel fortunes are divesting and big oil companies are being forced to move toward renewable energy. Calls to abolish the police are rooted in an understanding that social problems can not be resolved through militarism. Bertha Zúniga reminds us that, "true justice is in our struggles, it's in our communities. It's in our [resistance] process, which does not waver despite numerous attacks. Or despite attempts to sow fear with these assassinations that try to silence the voices of the people. We know fighting for justice under a dictatorship is extremely complicated. But the battle of the peoples for justice for Berta Cáceres will be yet another reason to fight. It's a fight for our country's democratization, for justice, for an end to corruption and impunity." By transforming Honduras, COPINH and OFRANEH are transforming the world. In Howard Zinn's words, "you can't be neutral on a moving train." It's time to decide what side you're on.
- The fight for Namibias liberation after the colonialisation and the genocide commited by Germany and Britain.
- The people of Luxor decided to buy Sandal new submarine instead of the old sandal for river transport business, and cost the mayor Mujahid to go to buy, with a computerized data bank son of Rais Gad, known thieves and competitors purchase order, and decide their leader Abu Sufyan get the refund, he sends his men to steal the money.
- Locals formed vigilante groups to fight it, Police used legal force to repress it, City officials wanted to ban it entirely. This never before released feature length documentary was filmed in the early 80's and exposes the punk rock scene that was going on at the infamous Cuckoo's Nest club owned by Jerry Roach.
- 1974. Lebanon is in intellectual, cultural and political ferment. Between March and April, for 37 days, a few students from the American University of Beirut occupy the university's premises to protest against rising tuition fees. 2011: in the midst of the Arab Spring, Rania and Raed Rafei decide to step back and reconsider today's situation in the light of that period which was pregnant with hope, but also a prelude to civil war. Should they revive the past? Recall it? Reconstruct it? That's a crucial question. Here the method is decisive. First, make meticulous research. Then launch the experiment, as the film doesn't only reread past events, but also searches for their echo in today's time. Thus yesterday's protagonists are portrayed by their likely modern counterparts, political actors involved in present struggles. What is democracy today, and how can we fight? A few guidelines, a few emblematic accessories as so many signs (a picture of Che Guevara, a megaphone) and here they go, launching into an experiment based on improvisation, in which a form of theatricality accentuated by the enclosed setting interact with cinema. And in this dialectic of past and present, memories go around as freely as words in present time, just like in the interviews which punctuate the film - yesterday's and today's words getting inextricably mixed.
- Have you ever had a bad day where everything just seems to get worse and worse? Imagine that was your day to day life.
- A short animation about a sculptor and his sculpture.
- This documentary tracks the odyssey of four psychiatric patients, revealing their personal struggles and inner strength as they enter the world of psychiatric treatment to seek relief from insanity.
- A difficult period went through Egypt in 1947, when cholera struck the villages of Egypt. Doctor Shukri, who tried to serve the people of the village to save them from poverty and hunger, is appointed in one of the villages. Adel, the feudal lord of the village exploits its people to work on his land with forced labor, and whoever objects he is handed over to a mental hospital, taking advantage of his influence.
- A variety of Berlin Underground Stars live life in the fast lane in the bedrooms of superstardom.
- Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East was produced by the pro-Israel media watchdog group HonestReporting [sic]. The concentrates on the causes of the Second Intifada through an examination of compliance the Oslo Accords, by Israel and the Palestinian Authority. It pays particular attention to the failure of the Palestinian Authority to "educate for peace". The documentary shows interviews with Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, S. El-Herfi, Raanan Gissin, Caroline Glick, John Loftus, Sherri Mandel, Yariv Oppenheim, Daniel Pipes, Tashbih Sayyed and Natan Sharansky.
- 1933 year, Germany. The mother of worker kill nazis organizes pure resistance against political tyranny reigning in a country.
- The Struggle is a satirical news talk show powered by unemployed Monash Uni students with too much time on their hands. Airs at 8:30pm Mondays on Melbourne's Channel 31 and on YouTube.
- In 1964's Freedom Summer, a white housewife from Chicago was killed fighting for Civil Rights, leaving behind a young son. This is the story of his journey, as a man, to find out who his mother was and why she died.
- For more than 200 years, the Crimean Tatars struggled to free the Crimean Peninsula from Russian domination. In 2014 they thought they were finally free and safe in their homeland. They were wrong.
- In this sequel to Monster in the Family, John Kastner follows one of Canada's most notorious criminals, Martin Ferrier - labelled a 'serial killer wannabe' and 'incurable psychopath' - for three years from prison onto the street through a transformation that is nothing less than astonishing. The film reveals Ferrier is a relatively minor violent offender who has been demonized by the authorities, the media, and, incredibly, his own mother, who leads a national campaign to have him locked up for life.
- Three siblings enduring the struggles of survival while battling the hardships of poverty, a neglectful, drug addicted mother, absent fathers and volatile situations as they fend for themselves on the city streets of Houston.
- One summer day in Marseille. The boxers of the "Boxe Massilia" collective are about to enter the ring in front of a cheering crowd. Behind this ancient spectacle of hand-to-hand combat, another fight, more decisive and fundamental, seems to be played out.
- Bigotry is on the rise in America, fueled by a President whose views are rooted in racism, misogyny, sexism, and xenophobia. This renewed struggle facing immigrants, Latinos, Muslims, women, black and transgender people, is represented by frontline activists from Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Diversity Council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Black Lives Matter.
- Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question?
- The Struggle is Real is an 2019 american upcoming Feature Film story about Kimberly a 22 year old young lady who screwed up her high school years being wild, rebellious, and determined to do things independently, finding herself in hot water being on her own at such a young age.
- Documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924); his rapid rise to fame, tragic decline, and the ultimate triumph of his creative spirit.
- On July 21, 1978 thousands of postal workers across the country walked off their jobs when their contract expired, saying "No" to mandatory overtime, forced speedups and hazardous working conditions. As a result of this wildcat strike, six hundred thousand postal workers won a better contract. But two hundred workers were arbitrarily fired by management to teach all postal workers a lesson. SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED - is the story of the struggle these postal workers waged to win back their jobs. It follows their fight into the streets, onto the floor of the American Postal Workers Union's National Convention and among workers and communities nationwide. But it took the tragic death of Michael McDermott, a 25 year old mail handler who was sucked into a conveyor belt and crushed to death, to bring their hazardous working conditions to national attention.
- Emmelyn, an aspiring actress in LA, arrives at the crossroads of her morality while struggling to pay her dues...and her rent. 'The Struggle' represents an accurate look into a modern artist's life, including the decisions one has to make in order to achieve one's dreams and the darkness that comes with it. Featuring indie darling Lou Taylor Pucci and Silicon Valley's Jimmy O. Yang, 'The Struggle' is a dark comedy where at times the viewer won't know whether to laugh or cringe.
- Full of longing for a return to the safety, the ease, the pretends of childhood, The Lollipop Girls Struggle on the Hard Earth reminds us that Fantasy organizes our experience of everyday reality and tells us who we are. Employing the visual language of ready-to-wear (fashion) film, a woman finds herself, by choice, in a perfected world, reminiscent of classic childhood literature. She is an adult, however, and so her Desire (the memory of the missing thing) includes fantasies of potency she cannot leave behind. The transition from childhood (including fantasies of adult life) into being an adult (with equally unrealistic fantasies of oneself, as well as the unrealistic fantasies of what childhood was) is a bridge into a permanent state of temptation from taking responsibility for one's pretends. Prince equates personal longing and the Fantasy of satisfaction with effective advertising. She warns us that cultures messages about what to aspire to and the way it manipulates Desire to serve commercial ends, are much more dangerous than the storybooks of childhood. Fantasies of the imaginary body are difficult to put away on the shelf as what they hold behind the veil is the awareness of mortality. Prince creates a bold and evocative space in which we can imagine and reconstruct the naive, youthful wishes we used to identify ourselves and to read our world. As children desperate to know about the hidden world ahead, we accept both the conflict and the confidence offered to us if only we become an object assigned a value within another's desire: then the lesson can begin.
- Moira Burton tells the story of her survival on the island during the six-month period between Claire's departure and Barry's arrival.
- It is a management commentary podcast series created and co-hosted by two good friends, Greg Smith and Allister Field.
- When an environmental ruling shut the water pumps to a region of the California Central Valley, a community of valley farmers and their farm workers stage a march across the California Central Valley in order to fight for their water.