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Historical and political films have become so much part of our culture they have introduced the notion that dictators, leaders and activists alike can all take hold of the proverbial megaphone. We live in accelerated times, with accelerated tools. The internet brought news of wrongdoing during the Bosnian war, which heretofore would have easily been quashed by a controlled 'national media'. The market for all things historic, is at once education and entertainment for a discerning public.
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Diameter of the Bomb
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 85m29s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB, Rainmakers Films limited
Synopsis
Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This is the story of one, the bombing of Bus 32 in...
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Escape from Iran
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 46m45s
Targeted Audience: Adult
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: Partners in Motion
Synopsis
Escape from Iran commemorates the 25th anniversary of "The Canadian Caper." It will take us back to this startling affair through the direct...
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In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 43m04s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB
Synopsis
Karen Cho, a fifth-generation Canadian of mixed heritage, discovered that half her family wasn't welcome in the country they called home. While...
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La Cueca Sola
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 52m01s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: Les Films de l'Atalante inc, NFB
Synopsis
Santiago, Chile. September 11, 1973. A military dictatorship seizes power and wields it for 17 years. Thousands of men disappear. "Donde estan?...
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Maroon On the Trail of Creoles in North America
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 85m08s
Targeted Audience: Adult
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB
Synopsis
Louisiana's Creole culture helped shape the New World and contributed to the emergence of jazz. But what remains of this unique, mixed-race society,...
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Miracle Planet
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 49m53s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB, NHK Japan
Synopsis
Over its more than 4-billion-year history, the earth has been home to repeated violent climactic changes, which have caused mass extinctions. And...
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My Son Shall be Armenian
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 80m43s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB
Synopsis
Exploring the question of Armenian identity, My Son Shall Be Armenian follows the initiatory voyage of filmmaker Hagop Goudsouzian, who, accompanied...
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Showa Shinzan
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Animation
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 12m56s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB
Synopsis
This animated story, based on actual events, evokes the look and feel of the Japanese art of Bunraku puppetry. During the Second World War, young...
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The Boys of Buchenwald
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 47m15s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: Paperny Films
Synopsis
Robbie Waisman, Elie Wiesel and Joe Szwarcberg were three Jewish boys who knew the horrors of Buchenwald concentration camp. Their friendship began...
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The Peacekeepers
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 83m07s
Targeted Audience: Adult
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB, 13 Production, Arte France
Synopsis
With unprecedented access to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the...
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The Take
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 87m05s
Targeted Audience: Adult
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB, Barna-Alper Productions Inc.
Synopsis
The Take is a political thriller that turns the globalization debate on its head. The film follows Argentina's radical new movement of occupied...
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The World Stopped Watching
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 57m50s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: White Pine Pictures, NFB
Synopsis
The World Stopped Watching is a sequel to The World Is Watching (1987), a cinema verité investigation of the role journalists played in the...
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They Chose China
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 52m26s
Targeted Audience: All Audiences
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB, 13 Production, Arte France
Synopsis
Featuring never-before-seen footage from the Chinese camps as well as interviews with former POWs and their families, They Chose China tells the...
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Who Shot my Brother?
 
Type: Not specified
Category: Documentary
Theme: History & Politics
Duration: 95m29s
Targeted Audience: Adult
Year of Production: 2005
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Production Company: NFB - Argus films Inc
Synopsis
Some phone calls can turn your life upside down. That's what happened to filmmaker German Gutiérrez when he got a call from Colombia informing him...
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The Work and the Glory
 
Type: Not specified