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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Susette Kelo, a small-town paramedic, develops as the hesitant leader of her working-class neighbors in their fight to save their homes from political and corporate entities intent on taking the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation. Her battle goes all the way to the US Supreme Court and the controversial decision gave government officials the power to destroy a neighborhood for the benefit of a multibillion-dollar corporation.
3) Denial
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biographical drama recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system, in cases of libel, the burden of proof is on the defendant, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team, led by Richard Rampton (Tom Wilkinson), to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. Nominated...
4) Denial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Deborah Lipstadt speaks out against Holocaust denier David Irving over his falsification of history, she discovers that the stakes are higher than ever in the battle for historical truth. Now faced with a libel lawsuit in British court, Lipstadt and her attorney have the heavy burden of proving that the Holocaust actually happened, in a riveting legal fight with stunning consequences.
Series
Criterion Collections volume 753
Language
English
Description
Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This film is a story of romance, revenge, and murder set in the 1920's. It is based on the true and powerful account of the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, D. C. Stephenson, a man whose struggle for power led him to corruption, cruelty and a passion for an unattainable woman.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An artist should remain poor." His determined intervention...
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