Hunger
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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Hunger
2008
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Portrait of God
Duration: 1 h 10 m | 2001
Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective story. A middle-aged detective shadows the suspect through the highs and lows of South African society until he ends up in a gigantic prison in Cape Town bursting with murderers, thieves, and rapists.
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Malcolm X
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The Work
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Cruel and Unusual
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Out of Mind, Out of Sight
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Standard Operating Procedure
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52 Blocks: Show and Prove
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