A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country’s authoritarian government.
Tag: politician
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Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery
When hard boiled private eye Donald Strachey finds his latest client dead, an apparent suicide, Albany’s favorite gay detective smells a rat and decides to take matters into his own hands. With the help of his straight-laced but adoring husband Tim and his occasionally too-eager assistant Kenny, Strachey’s investigation leads him on a dark and dangerous trail into the world of “gay conversion therapy”.
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Classmates
The story revolves around the college graduate class of 1992. In 2006, working in different corners of the world, the friends get together for a class reunion to revive the joy and laughter of their student days. Shockingly, on the night of the reunion, one of the classmates is almost murdered and goes into a coma.
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Good Night, and Good Luck
Livestreamed from the penultimate show at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, this stage adaptation of George Clooney’s 2005 film follows the story of journalist Edward R. Murrow’s stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
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The Trial of Tony Blair
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
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Rendition
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect “disappears” on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
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Recount
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add “hanging chad” to every American’s vocabulary.
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Puppet Masters
Unfulfilled promises of politicians, victims of the system, backstage of election campaign.
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Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called “video nasties” caused in Britain during the 1980s.
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Fair Game
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.