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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Bomb Girls | Michael MacLennan | 2012 | Canada |
Bomb Girls profiles four women who work in a Canadian munitions factory building bombs for the Allied forces fighting on the European front during World War II. The series highlights how the war thrust these women into new worlds,... |
Chittagong | Pain, Bedabrata | 2012 | India |
A young boy's reminiscences reveal the long-standing tensions and little-known revolts leading to Indian Independence. Jhunku Roy finds himself torn between his belief in British justice and the growing revolutionary spirit in East Bengal in the... |
The Bletchley Circle | Andy De Emmony | 2012 | United Kingdom |
This TV miniseries portrays the lives of four British women in the years after WWII. All women worked as codebreakers in the top secret Bletchley Park, helping British forces interpret German codes during the war. As the women have returned to... |
Venuto al mondo / Twice Born | Castellitto, Sergio | 2012 | Italy; Spain |
An Italian professor returns to Sarajevo with her son fifteen years after fleeing the Bosnian War. She intends to tell her son about real mother and father, but she discovers a more horrible truth instead. |
Argo | Affleck, Ben | 2012 | United States |
On November 4, 1979, militant Iranian activists storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid-level CIA... |
The List | Murphy, Beth | 2012 | United States |
A modern day Oskar Schindler story that focuses on Kirk Johnson, a young American fighting to save thousands of Iraqis whose lives are in danger because they worked for the U.S. to help rebuild Iraq. After leading reconstruction teams in Baghdad... |
Rock Ba-Casba / A Rooftop in Gaza | Horowitz, 'Yariv' | 2012 | Israel |
The year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Arab population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one... |
Emperor | Webber, Peter | 2012 | United States, Japan |
Emperor investigates a critically important decision regarding the post-World War II world. In the aftermath of the Japanese surrender, U.S. Army General Bonner Fellers must decide whether to try Emperor Hirohito for war crimes or forge another... |
Sunday School with Franz Hinkelammert | Finn, Jim | 2012 | Argentina |
In this documentary, Franz Hinkelammert, a German-born liberation theologian, economist, and philosopher who specializes in Latin America, critiques the new world order based on neoliberalism, religious fundamentalism, authoritarianism, and... |