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Human Rights Film Festival Sale
Presenting films, documentaries and eye-opening accounts of struggle, spirit, sacrifice and survival from all across the globe.
In association with the annual Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Madman Entertainment is offering the following films at a 25% off the recommended retail price - for a limited time.
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$29.95
Release date: 15/08/2007
The President of East Timor (Timor-Leste), Xanana Gusmao, takes us on a breathtaking and intimate journey. Revelations from the 24-year Resistance against Indonesian occupation, to the present-day challenges of the world’s youngest nation. The struggle...
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$34.95
Release date: 09/07/2008
A Film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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$29.95
Release date: 21/05/2008
Young Latif works on a Tehran construction site with his fellow Iranians and a few illegal Afghan workers. When Latif is given heavier tasks to accommodate new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and treats Rahmat cruelly. After one of...
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$19.95
Release date: 12/11/2003
Driven by moral agitation, Mike Moore explores the culture of violence in an America traumatised by terrorism, teenage killers and economic inequality. Moore puts the hard questions to trigger-happy suburbanites and militia members, alongside the likes of National Rifle Association spokesman Charlton Heston, shock rocker Marilyn Manson, South Park co-creator Matt Stone and surviving students of the Columbine High School shootings....
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$29.95
Release date: 31/08/2005
In 2001 the Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's 1600 year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. The film examines the lives of refugees in Afghanistan who now lives among the ruins... in particular an eight year old boy named Mir. The film follows Mir's life through the seasons of summer, winter and spring. It also documents, through anecdotal reports by some of the refugees, many of the atrocities committed by the Taliban, who are Sunni Muslims, against the Shia Muslims.
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$34.95
Release date: 15/02/2006
Following the incredible success of the Oscar nominated City of God, comes the explosive series City of Men - it follows the adventures of two teenage boys Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) and Acerola (Douglas Silva, who played Little Dice in City of God) as...
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$19.95
Release date: 07/12/2005
The bristling documentary about Al Jazeera, the satellite news network, during the American invasion of Iraq is a seminal film that explores how truth is gathered, presented, and ultimately created by those who deliver it. Control Room goes behind the scenes and stirs up a stew of contradictions by asking the vexing question, "What is truth?"...
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$29.95
Release date: 12/01/2005
The Corporation, an unprecedented box office hit and multi award-winning festival favourite!
In The Corporation, case studies, anecdotes and true confessions reveal behind-the-scenes tensions and influences in several corporate and ani-corporate dramas....
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$29.95
Release date: 14/05/2008
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to the Cold War enemy, the communist state of North Korea. He became a coveted star of the North Korean...
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$19.95
Release date: 22/09/2004
Near Penn Station, next to the Amtrak tracks, squatters have been living for years. Marc Singer goes underground to live with them, and films this "family." A dozen or so men and one woman talk about their lives: horrors of childhood, jail time, losing...
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