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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: 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: 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: In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 7,857,741
International: $ 3,572,284
Summary: The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Genres: Drama, History
Runtime: 2 h 34 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 151,971
International: $ 2,007,243
Summary: In 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Country: Lithuania
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
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: 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: After suffering a heart attack, retired General José Mendieta is haunted by his past as an officer in Operation Condor, the CIA-backed campaign of political repression in Latin America.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Bolivia
Language: Spanish
Domestic: $ 24,638
International: $ 116,795
Summary: This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 516,893
International: $ 67,216
Summary: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 45,200
International: $ 46,633
Summary: Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-o...
Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Countries: Iran, Italy, Japan
Language: Farsi
Domestic: $ 23,520
International: $ 18,252
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: When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact...
Runtime: 1 h 26 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Domestic: $ 10,236
Summary: Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
Runtime: 1 h 13 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 130,152
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: 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: 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