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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
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
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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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: When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'Ă©tat in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: United States, Mexico
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,500,000
Domestic: $ 14,000,000
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