Most Similar Movies to The Way We Get By (2009)
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Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam (1987), Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007), The Lucky Ones (2008), Brothers at War (2009), It's Not Yet Dark (2016), Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018), Been Rich All My Life (2006) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam (1987)
Robert De Niro, Michael J. Fox and other actors read letters by U.S. soldiers, set to film clips and music of the era.
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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007)
A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A larger assortment was published as a book by Random House last September. The film drew upon the submissions by soldiers for the book. It's a remarkable portrait of troops at war -...Read all
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The Lucky Ones (2008)
Three different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from the war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other.
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Brothers at War (2009)
An intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jake's exploits as he risks everything-including his life-to tell his brothers' story. Often humorous, but sometimes downright lethal, it is a remarkable journey where...Read all
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It's Not Yet Dark (2016)
It's Not Yet Dark tells the ground breaking story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a talented young Irish film maker with ALS (MND), as he embarks on directing his first feature film through the use of his eyes and eye gaze technology.
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
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Been Rich All My Life (2006)
Five sassy, tap dancing women aged 84 - 96. Meet the "Silver Belles".
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Undefeated (2011)
Chronicles three underprivileged students from inner-city Memphis and their volunteer coach who tries to help them beat the odds on and off the field.
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Of Fathers and Sons (2017)
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
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76 Days (2020)
Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.
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The Last Laugh (2016)
World-famous comedians including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, and Gilbert Gottfried pitch in with their own views on the boundaries of comedy.
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Promises (2001)
A glimpse at the Arab-Israeli conflict as seen through the eyes of seven Palestinian and Jewish children.
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Regret to Inform (1999)
At the age of 24, American director Barbara Sonneborn lost her husband in the Vietnam War. Twenty years after his death, Sonneborn sets out to interview other American and Vietnamese women whose spouses died in the conflict. Along the way she meets a Vietnamese woman who was forced into prostitution during the war, an American woman whose husband died of chemical poisoning years after the conflict ended and a woman who worked as a North Vietnamese spy.
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We Are Together (2006)
This U.K.-produced HBO documentary covers the spread of AIDS in South Africa, focusing on an orphanage called Agape, founded by one "Grandma" Zodwa Mqadi. The story centers on the local children's choir as they rehearse for a trip to England, and follows the Moya family as they struggle with the disease, which has plagued the region. Notable names such as Lorraine Bracco, Alicia Keys, Paul Simon and Kanye West appear as themselves to help carry the narrative along.
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The Wounds We Cannot See (2017)
A 12-year-old boy rebels after a brutal government labels his father a traitor and imprisons him.
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Uncle Howard (2016)
Director Howard Brookner's body of work is rediscovered 30 years after his death.
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Off and Running (2009)
Avery Klein-Cloud, a teenage African-American girl, lives in Brooklyn with her Caucasian Jewish lesbian mothers and two brothers who are also of other races. When Avery decides to contact her birth mother, this triggers a major identity crisis.
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Four Seasons Lodge (2008)
Every summer, some Holocaust survivors vacation together at the Four Seasons Lodge in New York's Catskill Mountains.
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