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“A Jihad for Love” is a dispatch from the outer limits of marginalization: a documentary on devout Muslims struggling with their homosexuality.
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The Hobo Film Festival presents films documenting the experience of riding the rails. Rcent screenings included one in a Bedford-Stuyvesant storefront.
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The documentary “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” charts the story of a rock band that has stuck to its dream of glory.
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“Quantum Hoops” tells the story of the California Institute of Technology’s men’s basketball team — a farcical topic in the context of college sports.
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Errol Morris is being pressed about interviews that were paid for in a new documentary on prisoner abuse in Iraq.
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A blockbuster of a documentary, Errol Morris’s “Standard Operating Procedure” is an inquiry into the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib.
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“Bomb It” takes a comprehensively international viewpoint on graffiti culture.
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Leaning more toward understanding than blame, “Without the King” examines a country forced to choose between tradition and survival.
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“Up the Yangtze” is an astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China’s economic miracle.
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Betting that audiences are hungry for nature documentaries, the Walt Disney Company has created a new production banner to deliver two nature films a year starting in 2009.
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