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Last Train Home (2009), Who Does She Think She Is? (2008), Up the Yangtze (2007), Birthright: A War Story (2017), The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Love Crimes of Kabul (2011), The Queen and I (2008) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Last Train Home (2009)

10.0/10 Documentary

Forced to live far away, two Chinese factory workers make an arduous journey once a year to visit their children, who barely know them.

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Who Does She Think She Is? (2008)

6.5/10 Documentary

Society has long pressured women into an either/or situation: Either you raise a family, or you pursue a career. This documentary features five women who do not accept such a division but instead strive to balance their artistic pursuits with raising children. Rather than being detrimental, the challenges of each pursuit reinforce and enrich those of the other. This is examined within the larger context of women's representation in the male-dominated art world.

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Up the Yangtze (2007)

9.6/10 Documentary

This documentary examine China's rapidly changing economy by focusing on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. For the government, the dam stands as a symbol of progress; but it displaces hundreds of families during its creation. Following local teenagers Chen Bo Yu and Yu Shi, who work on one of the Western cruise lines that sails up the Yangtze near the dam, the film details the friction in Chinese society as its citizens struggle with the realities of its new consumer capitalism.

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Birthright: A War Story (2017)

7.1/10 Documentary

Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.

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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)

6.9/10 Documentary

Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.

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Love Crimes of Kabul (2011)

6.9/10 Documentary

Inside Afghanistan's Badam Baugh Women's Prison, where half of the inmates are locked up for 'moral crimes.

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The Queen and I (2008)

10.0/10 Documentary

Iranian Filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani chronicles the day-to-day life of Farah Pahlavi, the last queen of Iran and former wife of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Farah has been living in exile in Paris since 1979 and now spends most of her time responding to letters. Sarvestani, who participated in the ousting of the Shah in her youth and endured personal tragedy following the Iranian Revolution, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Farah as the two discuss their country's tumultuous history.

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Sound and Fury (2000)

9.6/10 Documentary

Cousins Heather and Peter Artinian -- ages 6 and almost 2, respectively -- are deaf. Their condition could be changed by a cochlear implant, a device that stimulates hearing. The benefits are obvious, but this documentary focuses on why the children's families face a tough decision. There are concerns about how the device will change the recipient's relationship with deaf culture and whether there can ever be a true connection between those who hear sounds and those who hear only silence.

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The Devil's Miner (2005)

9.3/10 Documentary

Filmmakers Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani profile Basilio, a 14-year-old Bolivian who supports his family by working in a silver mine. Like his fellow workers, the boy looks to Satan for protection from the daily hazards he encounters in the bowels of the Earth.

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12th & Delaware (2010)

8.8/10 Documentary

One street corner in Fort Pierce, Fla., is home to both a for-profit abortion clinic and a Roman Catholic Church-supported pregnancy clinic whose mission is to prevent women from obtaining abortions. While the abortion clinic takes precautions against threats of violence and fends off protesters, the pregnancy clinic actively spreads misinformation to women about the dangers of abortion. Though neither side will speak to the other, the battle over a woman's right to choose rages on.

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Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (2016)

8.6/10 Documentary

Veteran musician Daryl Davis meets with members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other similar groups to challenge their viewpoints.

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Original Copy (2015)

8.0/10 Documentary

Bollywood stars shine larger than life in the one-of-a-kind film posters hand painted by Mumbai's last screen painter, but as his workshop is threatened by demolition and his livelihood by plastic posters, he fights to pass on his craft.

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Waste Land (2010)

7.9/10 Documentary

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

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