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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A prehistoric hunter sets out on a epic trek to rescue his beloved and secure the future of his tribe.
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Cast: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis. Directed by Roland Emmerich.
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Categories: History ∙ Action ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 150 min.
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Plot: Adaptation of Saul Levitt's 1959 play about one of America's most notorious trials - the prosecution of the commander of an infamous Civil War P.O.W. camp that held 50,000 Yankee prisoners, 14,000 of whom died.
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Cast: Martin Sheen, William Shatner, Buddy Ebsen, Richard Basehart, Cameron Mitchell, Jack Cassidy. Directed by George C. Scott.
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Categories: History ∙ Military ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A Catholic priest and a young English teacher find themselves caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide where they must choose whether to face death with the thousands of Tutsis or flee for safety.
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Cast: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz. Directed by Michael Canton-Jones.
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Categories: International ∙ Human Rights ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A police assassin is assigned to hunt and kill genetically made criminal replicants in futuristic Los Angeles. (Director's cut.)
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah. Directed by Ridley Scott.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Human Rights ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Afflicted with a mysterious blindness, a group of those infected must band together to survive a government-imposed quarantine.
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Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Gael García Bernal. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Medical ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A busy career woman decides to turn over a new page in her life by channeling her thoughts, opinions and insecurities into a journal that becomes a hilarious chronicle of her adventures.
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Cast: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth. Directed by Sharon Macguire.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: The British diarist returns, beset by petty jealousies and a choice between two suitors.
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Cast: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones. Directed by Beeban Kidron.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 102 min. B&W
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Plot: During WWII, a nightclub owner in Casablanca discovers his old flame is married to a French resistance leader with Germans on his tail. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. Directed by Michael Curtiz.
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Categories: War ∙ Human Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: In a dystopian near-future, the human race has lost the ability to reproduce.
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Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Government ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 63 min.
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Plot: Five transgender women share their prison experiences.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Janet Baus and Dan Hunt.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sexuality ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Fifteen years ago, a woman was taken prisoner and tortured by a sadistic doctor working for the government. Through a chance encounter, she meets the man she thinks is responsible.
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Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson II, Krystia Mova, Jonathan Vega, Rodolphe Vega. Directed by Roman Polanski.
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Categories: War ∙ Government ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 78 min.
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Plot: An examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Rory Kennedy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name. Swedish or dubbed English dialogue; optional English subtitles.
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Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson, Jacob Ericksson. Directed by Daniel Alfredson.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Foreign ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A Nazi doctor, along with Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz, find themselves in a moral grey zone.
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Cast: David Arquette, Daniel, Benzali, Steve Buscemi, David Chandler, Allen Corduner, Harvey Keitel, Natashe Lyonne, Mira Sorvino. Directed by Tim Blake Nelson.
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Categories: International ∙ Human Rights ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 52 min.
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Plot: Documentary on the oppression and girls worldwide in the 21st-century.
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Cast: America Ferrera, Nicholas Kristof, Diane Lane, Dipti Mehta, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union, Olivia Wilde. Directed by Maro Chermayeff.
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Categories: Women ∙ Documentary ∙ Human Rights |
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Her (2013)
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with a new computer operating system that's designed to meet his every need.
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Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Chris Pratt, Rooney Mara, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams. Directed by Spike Jonze.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Computer ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A humble hotel manager shelters more than a thousand "guests" from tribal genocide.
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Cast: Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Rosie Motene, Neil McCarthy, Kid Sitholo, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Jeremiah Ndlovu, Sophie Okonedo. Directed by Terry George.
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Categories: International ∙ Human Rights ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Eugene Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 140 min.
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Plot: A detailed exploration into the global refugee crisis.
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Cast: Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos, Fadi Abou Akleh, Yamama Al-Awaad, Asmaa Al-Bahiyya, Eman Al-Masina, Maya Ameratunga . Directed by Ai Weiwei.
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Categories: International ∙ Documentary ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
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Cast: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruse Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, Alan Tudyk. Directed by Alex Proyas.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Human Rights ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 134 min.
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Plot: Nelson Mandela finds hope of national unity on the rugby field.
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Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Julian Lewis Jones, Margaret Wheatley. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Human Rights ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 123 min.
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Plot: A marine's memoir of his experiences in boot camp through his combat in Desert Storm.
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Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper. Directed by Sam Mendes.
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Categories: Military ∙ International ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: This film details the stories of five people who survived the Holocaust in Hungary.
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Cast: Bill Basch, Martin Basch, Dr. Randolph Braham, Alice Lok Cahana. Directed by James Moll.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A Jewish man succeeds at romance with the help of his humor, and then must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. In Italian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi. Directed by Roberto Benigni.
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Categories: International ∙ Human Rights ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Follows four cases brought before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigates the crimes of apartheid. In English and native languages with English subtitles.
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Cast: Narration by Helen Mirren. Directed by Debra Hoffmann and Frances Reid.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Conflict |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 178 min.
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Plot: A young hobbit embarks on an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom.
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Cast: Elijah Wood, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom. Directed by Peter Jackson.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 200 min.
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Plot: Preparation for the final battle for Middle Earth.
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Cast: Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Noel Appleby. Directed by Peter Jackson.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 179 min.
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Plot: New allies are formed and an assault is launched on Isengard.
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Cast: Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Bruce Alpress. Directed by Peter Jackson.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A Sasquatch, with the help of famed human explorers, travels to the Himalayas to meet his Yeti cousins.
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Cast: Hugh Jackman, David Walliams, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas, Zach Galifianakis, Timothy Olyphant, Zoe Saldana. Directed by Chris Butler.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Human Rights ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A ragtag group of monsters is set loose by the government to combat an invading alien army.
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Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogan, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland. Directed by Rob Letterman.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A documentary exploring the sex-trade and the enslavement of more than 27 million people worldwide.
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Cast: Christian Simpson, Jon Morgan Woodward, Sarah Agor, Julie Alexander. Directed by Benjamin Nolot .
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A young woman is found living alone in the backwoods of North Carolina, completely isolated from the rest of society.
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Cast: Jodie Foster, Lian Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini. Directed by Michael Apted.
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Categories: Human Rights ∙ Drama ∙ Custody |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Daesu is released and sets out to find his abductors. In Korean with English subtitles or English dubbed track.
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Cast: Minsik Choi, Ji Tae Yu, Hyejung Gang. Directed by Chan-Wook Park.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Drama ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt. In Arabic with English subtitles.
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Cast: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Waleed F. Zuaiter, Samer Bisharat. Directed by Hany Abu-Assad.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Foreign ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 151 min.
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Plot: Based on the bestselling autobiography by Henri Charriere, a persistant convict plots his escape from French colonial prison in South America.
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Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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Categories: International ∙ Sentencing ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 150 min.
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Plot: A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
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Cast: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox. Directed by Roman Polanski.
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Categories: Human Rights ∙ History ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker. Directed by Oliver Stone.
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Categories: War ∙ Human Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Gay activists raise money to support U.K. miners during a 1984 labor strike. Based on true story.
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Cast: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott, George MacKay, Joseph Gilgun, Ben Schnetzer. Directed by Matthew Warchus.
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Categories: Labor ∙ Human Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: Documents the compelling human rights struggles surrounding same-sex marriage.
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Cast: Performers portray themselves. Directed by Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: At a time when it was Australian government policy to train aboriginal children as domestic workers, a young girl decides to lead her little sister and cousin in a daring escape from their internment camp.
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Cast: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Ningall Lawford, David Gulpill, Kenneth Branaugh. Directed by Phillip Noyce.
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Categories: Family ∙ Human Rights ∙ Juvenile |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: After five-year-old Jack and his mother escape from the enclosed surroundings that has been his entire life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery.
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Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Megan Park
. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD (2 disc set) 197 min. B&W/Color
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Plot: A man hires cheap Jewish labor during WWII, turning his factory into a refuge from the Nazis. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, Embeth Davitz. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Human Rights ∙ International |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: The story of Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo, Clara Segura. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Human Rights ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison.
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Cast: Aidan Gillen, Fionnula Flanagan, Helen Mirren. Directed by Terry George.
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Categories: Biography ∙ History ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: 107 min.
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Plot: In Auschwitz concentration camp, a prisoner attempts to save the body of a boy he takes for his son from the flames. In Yiddish and German, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak. Directed by László Nemes.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ War ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: *** 1/2
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Format: DVD 150 min.
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Plot: A Polish-Catholic concentration camp survivor embroiled in a lovers' drama in post WWII Brooklyn.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol. Directed by Alan J. Pakula.
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Categories: Human Rights ∙ War ∙ Immigration |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: In an overpopulated future dystopia, a police detective uncovers a terrible government secret.
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Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotton, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson. Directed by Richard Fleischer.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A lone wolf secret agent, is assigned the task of rescuing the kidnapped daughter of a high ranking government figure, only to discover along the way a larger, more sinister plot.
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Cast: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill. Directed by David Mamet.
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Categories: Government ∙ International ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min. B&W
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Plot: Set in a German POW Camp for enlisted American airmen, a spy is discovered to be living in one of the prison barracks after an escape attempt fails resulting in the deaths of two inmates.
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Cast: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: War ∙ Drama ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A wildly successful president of a TV Network who suffered a nervous breakdown discovers that all the housewives in Stepford are strangely blissful.
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Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, Faith Hill, Glenn Close. Directed by Frank Oz.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Human Rights ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: An arranged marriage comes to a tragic ending in Iran, in 1986.
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Cast: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno, Navid Negahban, David Diaan. Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 127 min.
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Plot: Superman battles a trio of super powered villains.
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Cast: Christopher Reeves, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper. Directed by Richard Lester.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 71 min.
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Plot: The lives of a runaway boy and an ambulance driver in Karachi come together through a dying humanitarian. In Pashtoto with English subtitles.
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Cast: . Directed by Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Foreign ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Madeleine McGraw, Christina Hendricks, Jordan Peele, Keanu Reeves . Directed by Josh Cooley.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Human Rights ∙ Property |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A film about the war crimes of the American diplomat, Henry Kissinger.
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Cast: Henry Kissinger, Brian Cox, Anna Chennault, Amy Goodman, Alexander Haig, Seymour Hersh. Directed by Eugen Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Documents the trial of Issa Sesay, former general of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), accused of war crimes in the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: When Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac accepts a U.N. peacekeeper position in postwar Bosnia, she discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring.
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Cast: Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Anna Anissimova. Directed by Larysa Kondracki.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Human Rights |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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