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3) 117 days: an account of confinement and interrogation under the South African 90-day detention law
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In 1963, journalist Ruth First was arrested by South African authorities and detained in solitary confinement under the government's infamous ninety-day detention law. First's active resistance to apartheid had put her in the sights of South Africa's dreaded Special Branch of interrogators. Written in a spare, haunting voice, 117 days recounts First's grueling war of nerves with her captors - a record of suffering published, in the words of her husband,...
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In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night, accusing him of aiding Chechen rebels. Across the road their lifelong neighbor and family friend Akhmed has also been watching, fearing the worst when the soldiers set fire to Havaa's house. But when he finds her hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever...
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Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and brilliant writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison, Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, provoke and inspire. Mumia: long distance revolutionary is an inspiring portrait of a man whom many consider America's most famous political prisoner - a man whose existence tests our beliefs about freedom of expression....
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Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18, just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of "reform" that would eventually affect all of Tibet's citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1967, the Chinese destroyed monasteries across Tibet and forced thousands of monks into labor camps and prisons. Gyatso spent...
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Into the Current takes the viewer into the darkest corners of Burmas massive system of repression. The ordeal of political prisoners like Ko Bo Kyi illuminates the suppression of democracy activists through imprisonment, torture and isolation, but more importantly, the resolute commitment they embody for a people long denied their freedom. There is no better homage to the desire for a positive future for Burma than the stories this documentary presents....
16) Red sky at noon
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Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrolls in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines-but is there a traitor among them? The only thing Benya can truly trust is his horse, Silver Socks, and that he will find no mercy in onslaught of Hitler's...
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"A chronicle of the Iranian-American journalist's imprisonment, as well as a look at Iran and its political tensions"--Provided by publisher.
An Iranian-American journalist chronicles her imprisonment in Iran, and provides a penetrating look at the country and its political tensions, based on six years of research and interviews with Iranians across society.
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During Mandela's 27 years in jail he wrote a multitude of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and most memorably to his courageous wife, Winnie, and his 5 children. This book offers 255 of the letters to provide exceptional insight into how he maintained his inner spirits while living in almost complete isolation, and how he engaged with an outside world that became increasingly outraged by his plight....
19) Coming home
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After years as a political prisoner in a labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution, Lu returns to his devoted wife Feng, only to discover she has amnesia and is unable to recognize him.
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