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CNN - All Business: The Essential Donald Trump (2016) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 13, 2016

In All Business: The Essential Donald Trump, CNN reveals the moments that made the man – the challenges he’s overcome, the critics he’s silenced, the controversy that follows wherever he goes, and the confidence engendered in his every word. The documentary, featuring interviews with Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump, follows his journey from his childhood in Queens, to his early years in Manhattan and Atlantic City, to primetime fame and now the Republican nominee for president.

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PBS POV - Reportero (2013) Movies

Posted by vivid23 at Jan. 12, 2013

Reportero follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly, as they stubbornly ply their trade in one of the deadliest places in the world for members of the media.

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Dead Silence (2007) Movies

Posted by fekmax at March 17, 2014

Every town has it's own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her.

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PBS Frontline - The Tank Man (2006) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Jan. 3, 2016

After all others had been silenced, his lonely act of defiance against the Chinese regime amazed the world. What became of him? And 20 years later, has China succeeded in erasing this event from its history?

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Lumiere Productions - Ghosts of Attica (2001) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 3, 2020

"A searing and powerful reminder that no matter how much trauma ordinary people may endure, they will not be silenced." - Prof. Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy Attica. Like Watergate and Vietnam, it is an icon of recent history. Gov. Rockefeller's brutal re-taking of the prison- a nine-minute, 1600-bullet assault that took the lives of 29 inmates and 10 guards held hostage put an end to the four-day rebellion.

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ITVS - Tower (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 12, 2019

On Aug. 1, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. When the gunshots were finally silenced, the toll included 16 dead, three dozen wounded, and a shaken nation left trying to understand what had happened. Archival footage is combined with rotoscopic animation in a dynamic, never-before-seen way to illustrate the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors.

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BBC - Rise of the Nazis (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 16, 2019

Powerful and resonant series that looks at how Hitler and the Nazis seized power in Germany and ushered in the death of democracy.

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BBC - London Calling: Cold War Letters (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 8, 2019

For over 25 years, the BBC gave voice to the silenced people of East Germany by inviting them to secretly write in to a radio programme called Letters without Signature. Broadcast on the BBC’s German Service, the programme gave voice to ordinary East German citizens who wrote about life under the repressive communist regime.

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UKTV - The Umbrella Assassin (2006) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Jan. 10, 2019

Georgi Markov's death by poisoned umbrella in 1978 remains unsolved, but it is thought the Bulgarian dissident writer was silenced by the KGB. Hear more about this Cold War mystery.

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UKTV - Secret War (2011) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Dec. 15, 2020

Just when you thought you knew everything about WWII, Secret War uncovers more incredible stories that exist under the radar. As bombs were dropped from planes, missiles were launched and tanks were deployed all over the world, another kind of war was being waged by the Allies: a secret war – a war of espionage.

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