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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
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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
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Summary: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,400,000
Domestic: $ 34,700,291
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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: 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: 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
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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: 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
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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: 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: 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: When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: 14+

Countries: United States, Mexico
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,500,000
Domestic: $ 14,000,000
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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: 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
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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: 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: 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
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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: In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose work is re-writing history, tries to rebel. He meets a kindred spirit named Julia and they fall into a love affair.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 8,430,492
International: $ 1,052