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  1. 181
    Published 2008
    “…Survivors of the last forty years of the troubled history of Peru, they tell us what they did to survive the gigantic inflation, the corruption, the violence of Shining Path and that of the army in Peru. …”
  2. 182
    Published 2006
    “…When disaster strikes and atrocities are committed, the world looks at the United Nations to intervene, react and to help, but for most of its history, the doors of the UN have been closed to indigenous peoples, and for decades they were left to fend for themselves. …”
  3. 183
    Published 1990
    “…Spata’s film is a generational chronicle of the atmosphere of two crucial moments in Czech history.…”
  4. 184
    Published 2005
    “…Verzio FF Submission On April 26, 1986, a security test at Chernobyl's nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union, triggered the greatest civilian nuclear catastrophe in history. Unable to cope with this political, environmental and human disaster, the Soviets built a wall of silence around the event. …”
  5. 185
    Published 1989
    “…Twelve days later, the Honecker regime was history. This is the actual GDR television broadcast of the event -- news coverage which the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called a masterpiece of disinformation.…”
  6. 186
    Published 2005
    “…Verzio FF submission Although Apartheid has officially been history for more than ten years, power relations in South Africa have not really changed. …”
  7. 187
    Published 1998
    “…Duration: 00:55:00 In a playful and slightly ironical way, the film conveys the history of the establishement of Soviet power in Uzbekistan. …”
  8. 188
    Published 2006
    “…Duration: 01:19:00 In 1897 the polar explorer Robert Peary invited six Greenlanders, including Minik, a six year old boy, and his father, to the Museum of Natural History in New York. As strange research objects, Inuits were an attractive exhibition at a the museum, but Minik was the only one of the six to survive the American climate, and his father's body was preserved in the name of science. …”
  9. 189
    Published 2007
    “…Verzio FF Submission In the mountain desert of the Bolivian Andes female emancipation has a particular form and history. In the village of Chorolque (5,600m above sea level) the main way of earning a living is to work in tin mines, demanding work which gives women the chance to have the same status as men, feed families abandoned by husbands, or at least be able to afford a treat. …”
  10. 190
    Published 2001
    “…Verzio FF Duration: 00:56:00 The film focuses on two protagonists whose views seem at first to embody opposing values and viewpoints: ex-Miss Estonia Tiina Jantson runs beauty contests, while Anne Eenpalu promotes traditional family values as leader of the Girl Scout troupe known as Home Daughters. Each has her own history: Tiina was a supermodel in the Soviet Union, Anne is a granddaughter of Kaarel Eenpalu, one of the presidents of the pre-war Republic of Estonia. …”
  11. 191
    Published 2009
    “…Mayor Pantazis Chronopoulos is a man on a mission, a self-proclaimed hero, who will stop at nothing to rebuild Sugartown after the biggest wildfires in Greece's history burnt his constituency to the ground. His vice Mayor and 24 villagers died in the devastating fires and he barely escaped with his life. …”
  12. 192
    Published 2005
    “…is a love story between two people who met in one of modern history’s worse imaginable moments, the Holocaust. …”
  13. 193
    Published 2007
    “…It is for this reason that we have chosen to adopt an animated figure to guide the viewer towards a more direct and immediate understanding of the more complicated issues, such as the realities of the global pharmaceuticals market and the history of the various international agreements that have been reached.…”
  14. 194
    Published 2008
    “…In spite of the initial secrecy and denial it is now known they were exposed to the highest levels of radiation in the history of the atomic age. The documentary follows Adi Roche and her team of Irish volunteers on a journey to remote and inaccessible mental asylums where young and old are locked up together; orphanages where abused and abandoned children live, despairing lives and hospitals where operations are carried out without anesthesia. …”
  15. 195
    Published 1997
    “…Her diaries provide a key to many of the events that would prove fatal for Russia, rerouting the course of European and world history. Having left Russia in 1900, she "buried" her diaries by turning them over to the Petersburg library under a false name. …”
  16. 196
    Published 2003
    “…The film features interviews with former students of the 'School of the Weimar Republic' and they tell its history from 1908 to 1944. The film features Arisztid Atkáry, Ernst Kleinschmidt, Beate Fütterer, Mária Fehérvári, Klári Horváth, Éva Kende, János Kornai, Sigmund Lust, Marianne Rényi, Tamás Sattler, and Éva Székely. …”
  17. 197
    Published 2008
    “…As a son of Turkish migrant workers who moved to Germany in the 1970s, the filmmaker also poses questions about his own history. He, too, has to combine two different lives, two cultures. …”
  18. 198
    Published 2002
    “…She never relied on anyone, least of all on the government and modern industrial technologies. As history would have it, after the break-up of the Soviet Union and in a period of general economic decline Janyl became famous in Europe, a star of the magazine Elle, and the director of her own workshop. …”
  19. 199
    Published 2006
    “…Some Kind of Sadness is Ramírez's poetic essay on the Peruvian soul, a series of fragments - history, scenery, and people. The documentary opens with images of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where Peru beat Austria in football. …”
  20. 200
    Published 1993
    “…This television documentary series offers the most comprehensive visual account of the 40-year history of a separate East Germany. The series covers all the important cultural, economic and political developments, from the founding of the GDR to the popular upheavals that finally brought the Berlin Wall down. …”
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