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Summary: Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.
Runtime: 2 h 22 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Franchise: The Hunger Games
Movie budget: $ 78,000,000
Domestic: $ 408,010,692
International: $ 287,209,927
Summary: In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 75,000,000
Domestic: $ 60,652,036
International: $ 47,100,000
Summary: In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 8,430,492
Summary: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,400,000
Domestic: $ 34,700,291
Summary: A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 8,323,085
International: $ 19,662,703
Summary: Central Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.
Runtime: 2 h 51 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 17,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,006,806
Summary: In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
Runtime: 1 h 06 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 51,198
International: $ 10,191
Summary: An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,595,031
Summary: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: PG-13

Domestic: $ 7,123,919
International: $ 1,221,379
Summary: An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: R

Language: Spanish
Domestic: $ 2,343,664
International: $ 5,355,431
Summary: Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 8,000,000
Domestic: $ 224,169
International: $ 684,678
Summary: A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 13,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,278,575
Summary: A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000
Domestic: $ 1,500,000
Summary: Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she is left on her own for a few days, durin...
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 23,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,750,110
Summary: A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,103,716
Summary: The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: M/PG

Countries: France, Algeria
Language: French
Domestic: $ 83,305
Summary: Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 177,490
Summary: The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, Mexico
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,316,495