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Summary: This is the true story of Sung Neng Yee, now known as Nora Lam, who fled from Communist China to Hong Kong for her palpably real Christian faith.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,212,828
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Summary: Kurdish teachers Said and Reeboir roam Iranian villages near Iraqi border during war. Said guides displaced men, marries widow Halaleh. Reeboir joins child smugglers. Amid danger, they try teaching nomadic students while soldiers ...
Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Countries: Iran, Italy, Japan
Language: Farsi
Domestic: $ 23,520
International: $ 18,252
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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
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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
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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
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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

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,103,716
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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
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Summary: An anthropologist goes to Haiti to research a drug that makes someone appear dead by suspending all vital signs.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,595,031
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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
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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
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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

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 75,000,000
Domestic: $ 60,652,036
International: $ 47,100,000
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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
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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: 14A

Countries: United States, Mexico
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,316,495
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Summary: Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Brazil, United States
Language: Portuguese
Domestic: $ 397,517
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Summary: A doctor in 1968 Prague struggles with monogamy to his wife's frustration, 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