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Arctic Dreamer
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Single
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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72m01s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
White Pine Pictures
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Synopsis
An exploration of the fascinating life of the controversial Arctic anthropologist/explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, this documentary includes the...
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Bearing Witness Series
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Type: |
Series
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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51m10s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Series Span:
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2004
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB
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Synopsis
A series of three films on people with life-threatening illnesses. The series tells the stories not of impossibly heroic characters facing death, but...
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Duhamel - Adrenaline Rush
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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45m05s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
ONF, Les Productions Thalie
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Synopsis
Duhamel seamlessly blends action, emotion and reason as it spotlights the life, career and exploits of Miguel Duhamel. Though hardly a household...
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Hardwood
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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29m20s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB, Hardwood Pictures inc.
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Synopsis
Hardwood is a personal journey by director Hubert Davis, the son of former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis, who explores how his father's decisions...
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Hubert Reeves: Star Teller
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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52m01s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB
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Synopsis
Hubert Reeves is an astrophysicist whose honours from the scientific community include the Albert Einstein award. But Reeves is known to the public...
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Jean-Pierre Perrault: Giant steps
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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53m08s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB, Amerimage-Spectra Inc.
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Synopsis
Choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault re-invented sound dance and, thanks to his unique vision, left an indelible mark on his art. Filmmaker Paule...
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Life's a Twitch
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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30m29s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
Symmetree Media
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Synopsis
Duncan McKinlay has Tourette Syndrome. At 7 he noticed what he called a devil in his head that made his life hell. His parents thought he was...
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Mr Mergler's gift
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Drama
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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30m39s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB
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Synopsis
The girl sits at the piano and plays the opening bars of Für Elise. Daniel Mergler has heard the Beethoven bagatelle countless times over the...
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No more Tears Sisters - Anatomy of Hope and betrayal
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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55m27s
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Targeted Audience:
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Adult
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB
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Synopsis
A story of love, revolution, and betrayal, No More Tears Sister explores the price of truth in times of war. Set during the violent ethnic conflict...
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Ryan
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Animation
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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13m50s
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Targeted Audience:
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Adult
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB, Copper Heart Entertainment Inc.
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Synopsis
A gentleman panhandler. One of the pioneers of Canadian animation. Oscar nominee. Poor beggar. An artist unable to create. God observing the world....
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Souvenir of Canada
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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69m08s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB, Media headquarters Film & Television Inc
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Synopsis
Souvenir of Canada is a spectacular documentary special about who we are as Canadians at the dawn of the 21st century. One of our greatest national...
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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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88m05s
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Targeted Audience:
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All Audiences
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB, LongTack Film inc
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Synopsis
Long Tack Sam was an internationally renowned Chinese acrobat and magician. He overcame isolation, poverty, cultural and linguistic barriers, extreme...
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The True Story of Sawney Beane
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Animation
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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10m39s
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Targeted Audience:
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Children
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB, Red Kite Animations Productions Ltd.
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Synopsis
In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest...
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This Beggar's description
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Type: |
Not specified
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Category: |
Documentary
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Theme: |
Bios & Portraits
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Duration:
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65m14s
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Targeted Audience:
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Adult
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Year of Production:
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2005
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Distributor:
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National Film Board of Canada
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Production Company: |
NFB
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Synopsis
This documentary is the story about Philip Tetrault, who is a poet first and a person living with schizophrenia second. It follows him through his...
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Action Heroes
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Type: |
Series
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Category: |
Magazine & Lifestyle
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