ROE VS. WADE

DescriptionDescription This 1989 production is the superb telling of the true story of Norma Mccorvey (Jane Roe), an unwed mother whose landmark case before the U S. Supreme Court led to the legalization of abortion in 1973. A powerful and subtle examination of this controversial issue with excellent performances from Holly Hunter and Amy Madigan.

ROSEMARY

DescriptionDescription Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this tale of love and loneliness. Robert Manganelli brings a hearing audience into a deaf...

SAM PECHINPAH: MAN OF IRON

ILL-FATED LOVE (AMORA DE PERDICAO)

IN SEARCH OF OUR FATHERS

DescriptionDescription This remarkably candid documentary traces director/writer Marco Williams's search over the course of nearly seven years for the father he never knew. Slowly, painfully, after traveling to Paris and to numerous cities in America, Marco Williams ends his search in Springfield and learns the truth about James Berry - the father whose name he...

RETURN TO THE PROMISED LAND (VERATARTS AVEDYATS YERGIR)

RETURN TRIPS

DescriptionDescription Return Trips is an impassioned documentary which should appeal to anyone attempting to rediscover their cultural heritage. By tracing American Jewish emigration and assimilation through rarely-seen archival photographs and newsreel footage (placing emphasis on their own family histories), filmmakers Rosenbush and Siegel describe their return to the devout Judaism of their ancestors. Colorful interviews...

IL CAPITANO

REFUGEES

DescriptionDescription Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human tragedy by following middle class, mostly white Americans involved in the San Diego anti-immigration...

A RESPECTABLE LIFE (ETT ANSTANDIGT LIV)

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