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Summary: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Runtime: 3 h 11 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000
Domestic: $ 52,767,889
Summary: Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
Runtime: 3 h 04 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 600,000
Domestic: $ 126,562
International: $ 194,048
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: Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 4,000,000
Domestic: $ 21,576,018
International: $ 36,435,957
Summary: Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
Runtime: 2 h 25 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Canada
Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,493,516
International: $ 1,112,166
Summary: An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
Runtime: 3 h 06 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: India
Language: Hindi
Movie budget: $ 300,000,000
Domestic: $ 753,600
International: $ 5,105,642
Summary: In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Runtime: 2 h 01 min
MPAA: R

Country: Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 4,800,000
Domestic: $ 4,064,200
International: $ 75,252,757
Summary: A documentary on the The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) in the wake of singer Natalie Maines' anti-George W. Bush statement at a 2003 concert.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: R

Production: Cabin Creek Films
Distributor: Starz
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,215,045
International: $ 687,167
Summary: The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 132,055
Summary: NO! SIR! tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who forced the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War
Runtime: 1 h 25 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 116,944
Summary: ONE BRIGHT SHINING MOMENT retraces George McGovern's bold presidential campaign of 1972 - a grassroots campaign that fought for peace and justice, and positioned ideas and people first. But what is remembered today as being the ul...
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Distributor: First Run Features
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 15,504
Summary: A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: Unrated

Countries: Italy, France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 168,065
International: $ 1,192,178
Summary: Looking at the former congresswoman's courage and perseverance in the aftermath of the 2011 assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and with a language impairment, aphasia.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 134,098
Summary: A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 807,117
International: $ 2,411,253
Summary: A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,291,255
Summary: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Runtime: 3 h 15 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 32,000,000
Domestic: $ 40,382,659
International: $ 129
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: A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 800,000
Summary: The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish
Domestic: $ 2,370
International: $ 761,372