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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999), The Letter (2003), Winter Soldier (1972), Tower (2016), Deliver Us From Evil (2006), Deep Water (2006), The Imposter (2012) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
Director Errol Morris profiles Leuchter, the reinventor of the electric chair, and questions him on his insistence that the Holocaust never happened.
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The Letter (2003)
In 2002, Larry Raymond, mayor of Lewiston, Maine, sends letters to more than 1,000 refugees from Somalia asking them to tell other Somalis not to move to the city. The resulting firestorm reveals an America divided on issues of immigration and race, as Raymond's letter receives condemnation from community leaders but support from white supremacist groups. Several months after the original letter, those for and against ethnic diversity converge on Lewiston for a protest and counter-protest.
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Winter Soldier (1972)
This landmark documentary chronicles a 1971 meeting during which more than 100 American veterans spoke publicly at a Detroit motel about the inhumanity and brutality of the Vietnam War. Attempting to add context to the recently uncovered My Lai Massacre of 1968, the soldiers, a group that includes future Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry, recall witnessing atrocities committed against Vietnamese soldiers, unarmed civilians, children and prisoners of war.
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Tower (2016)
On Aug. 1st, 1966, a sniper rides the elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower and opens fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. When the gunfire ends, the toll includes 16 dead, 36 wounded and a shaken nation.
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Deliver Us From Evil (2006)
Documentary about Father Oliver O'Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children.
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Deep Water (2006)
A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race.
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The Imposter (2012)
A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
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Project Nim (2011)
Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.
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Elena (2011)
When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
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Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004)
February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Heart, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), who first demanded a prisoner swap for Hearst, then, as it failed, demanded $6 million worth of food for the poor of the Bay Area.
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Licensed to Kill (1997)
Filmmaker Arthur Dong interviews men who were imprisoned for slaying gays. Dong, who was physically attacked because of his own sexuality in the 1970s, tries to ascertain the convicts' motives and learn why they would commit such heinous crimes.
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Dreamland (2016)
Part-time pianist Monty Fagan begins a May-December romance that upends his home life.
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My Scientology Movie (2015)
Filmmaker Louis Theroux is denied admittance into the Church of Scientology's headquarters, setting into motion a clever, confrontational and funny plan to try and reveal the inner workings of the mysterious organization.
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Genesis (2004)
Filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou examine the life cycle as organisms evolve from the fetal stage.
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Saint of 9/11 (2006)
One of the most famous photographs of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is the image of the Rev. Mychal Judge's body being carried from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Filmmaker Glenn Holsten pays tribute to Judge, the unorthodox chaplain of the New York City Fire Department, focusing on his life and good works.
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John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1965)
John F. Kennedy's years as president.
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Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
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