Genre: Political Documentaries
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
Cast: Ai Weiwei
Directed by: Alison Klayman
This compelling documentary explores three years in the life of celebrated Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who uses social media and his art to inspire protests against the state, and…
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The Diamond Queen (2012)
Cast: Andrew Marr
For the first time in modern history, a monarch reaches her Diamond Jubilee. To mark the occasion, this program presents a definitive analysis of the queen's reign, examining her…
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Finding North (2012)
Directed by: Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush
Using personal stories, this powerful doc illuminates the plight of the 49 million Americans struggling with food insecurity. A single mother, a small-town policeman and a farmer are among…
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The House I Live In (2012)
Directed by: Eugene Jarecki
This documentary shines a harsh light on America's "war on drugs" and its long-term impact on society. Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki captures the stories of dealers, police officers, prison…
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Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged (2012)
Directed by: Chris Mortensen
Novelist and social philosopher Ayn Rand shook up the literary world with the publication of Atlas Shrugged, her deeply political novel. This documentary examines the roots of her ideas and…
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A Fierce Green Fire (2012)
Directed by: Mark Kitchell
This engaging documentary profiles the evolution of environmental movements over the past five decades, from early efforts at conservation and protests against pollution to the radical…
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Normal School (2012)
Directed by: Celina Murga
A secondary school presidential election in Argentina is the backdrop for this wry look at how politics (of every kind) affect everyday life. As the pupils' campaigns are a microcosm of…
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How to Start a Revolution (2012)
Cast: Robert Helvey, Jamila Raqib, Gene Sharp …
Directed by: Ruaridh Arrow
Gene Sharp, an American political scientist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, has long advocated nonviolent protest, and his passionate writings have influenced revolutionaries around the globe…
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Payback (2012)
Cast: Margaret Atwood, Raj Patel, Louise Arbour …
Directed by: Jennifer Baichwal
Drawing from Margaret Atwood's book, documentarian Jennifer Baichwal examines the role of debt throughout human history. The film holds religion, politics, literature and sociology up to…
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How to Survive a Plague (2012)
Cast: Bill Bahlman, David Barr, Gregg Bordowitz …
Directed by: David France
This passionate documentary focuses on the grass-roots crusade in the 1980s and '90s to speed up efforts at developing treatments for the HIV virus. The film follows AIDS activists to…
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Words of Witness (2012)
Cast: Heba Afify
Directed by: Mai Iskander
Witness Hosni Mubarak's ouster through the eyes of reporter Heba Afify, who engaged in the protests while writing for an Egyptian newspaper. Amid the fervor and danger of the Arab…
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Code of the West (2012)
Directed by: Rebecca Richman Cohen
This political documentary follows a 2011 attempt by Montana lawmakers to repeal the state's medical marijuana law -- the first U.S. state to do so. The film portrays the complexities of…
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End of the Road (2012)
Cast: Peter Schiff, Eric Sprott, James Turk …
Directed by: Tim Delmastro
Chronicling the current state of the global economy, this sobering documentary also asks influential members of the finance and investment communities for their predictions on the…
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Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards (2012)
Cast: Rania Ajami, Muammar Gadaffi, Fathiya Tabishat …
Directed by: Rania Ajami
Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards takes fascinating look inside one of the Mid-East's most unusual military units, Libya's elite female military corps who were assigned to guard the…
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Dreams from My Real Father (2012)
Cast: Frank Marshall Davis, Ann Dunham, Stanley Dunham …
Directed by: Joel Gilbert
This film chronicles Barack Obama's life journey in socialism starting with evidence that Obama's real father was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA propagandist who…
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Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2012)
Cast: Morton Downey Jr., Gloria Allred, Michele Bachmann …
Directed by: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger …
Rude, crude and polarizing, Morton Downey Jr. was the profane right-wing prince of talk show hosts during his brief heyday in the late 1980s. This colorful documentary includes archival…
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Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady (2012)
Cast: Margaret Thatcher
Directed by: Alan Byron
Featuring interviews with prominent journalists and politicians, Alan Byron's documentary chronicles Margaret Thatcher's hard-fought rise to power, from her humble beginnings as a…
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Downeast (2012)
Directed by: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
An Italian entrepreneur's attempts to open a lobster processing plant in rural Maine shed light on the challenges of putting a community back to work. But his efforts aren't…
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Koch Brothers Exposed (2012)
Cast: Bernie Sanders, Van Jones, Bill McKibben …
Directed by: Robert Greenwald
From environmental pollution to their efforts to dismantle social security for working Americans, the Koch Brothers have launched a large network, attacking American values. This revealing…
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2016: Obama's America (2012)
Cast: Dinesh D'Souza
Directed by: Dinesh D'Souza, John Sullivan
Conservative best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza questions where America will be in 2016 if President Barack Obama were to serve a second term, and hypothesizes about how Obama's…
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
Cast: Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Erykah Badu …
Directed by: Göran Olsson
From 1967 to '75, a film crew aimed cameras at major figures in the Black Power movement, creating hours of footage that remained unreleased for decades. In clips, Stokely Carmichael,…
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The Last Mountain (2011)
Cast: Bobby Kennedy Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Don Blankenship …
Directed by: Bill Haney
This gripping documentary follows ordinary citizens in West Virginia's Coal River Valley as they wage a campaign to prevent the infamous Massey Energy Company from expanding ruinous…
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Wiebo's War (2011)
Cast: Wiebo Ludwig
Directed by: David York
Paced like a thriller, this documentary chronicles back-to-nature Christian and accused eco-terrorist Wiebo Ludwig's struggle to save his little patch of Northern Canada from the scourge…
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Kennedys' Home Movies (2011)
Cast: Stockard Channing, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis …
Three generations of Kennedys as we've never seen them before captured in home movies and rare footage. From Joe Kennedy and Joe Jr. through John, Robert and Edward "Teddy" Kennedy.…
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Farmageddon (2011)
Cast: Linda Faillace, Adam Helfer, Mark McAfee …
Directed by: Kristin Canty
Americans' right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and…