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  • The New Watchdogs

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    In 1932, the writer Paul Nizan published “The New Watchdogs” to denounce the philosophers and writers of his time who, sheltering behind intellectual neutrality, imposed themselves as true watchdogs of the established order. Today the watchdogs are journalists, editors, and media experts who’ve openly become market evangelists and guardians of the social order. In a…

  • Game Change

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    During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.

  • A Royal Affair

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    A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

  • Masquerade

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    Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

  • The Campaign

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    Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

  • Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

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    Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out her dog’s relatives are being used as cosmetic test subjects, she heads to Washington D.C. to fight for animal rights.

  • The Rose of Versailles

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    Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and…

  • Defiance: Fighting the Far Right

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    In 1976, young Sikh Gurdip Singh Chaggar is murdered in west London. The National Front are rising. So young British Asians join forces to defend themselves.

  • The Shooter

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    The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.

  • Complicit

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    An MI5 officer’s attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?

  • Secretly, Greatly

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    Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are shocked when they are ordered to kill one another or face death at the hands of an elite hit team.

  • Freedom From Choice

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    Freedom From Choice explores the endless layers of backroom dealing that is the US lobbying industry. Through a series of thought-provoking interviews, experts from numerous industries explain in simple terms how the political ‘revolving door’ creates unfair regulations which affect their industry. Supplemented by recent news clips and archival footage, the experts paint a startling…

  • House of Cards

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    Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C.

  • Transparency: Pardarshita

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    Transparency: Pardarshita, chronicles chase of a common man from offshore to India. It explores India Against Corruption movement or Anna Andolan along with backstage scenarios that led to subsequent birth to the Aam Aadmi Party.

  • Clear and Present Danger

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    Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill…

  • The Fog of War

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    Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company’s president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

  • Tomorrow and I

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    This series reimagines Thailand in a dystopian future where technology scrapes at the surface of old customs, exposing rips in the fabric of culture.

  • 1993

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    Rome, 30 April 1993. A crowd throws coins at Italian politician Bettino Craxi – as if the Civil War has begun. Be quick if you want a place in the new system. Now, it’s every man for himself. 1993 is the last chance to set up the Second Republic. Everyone fights their own battles.

  • ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.

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    “ACCA” is a giant unified syndicate residing in a kingdom split into 13 autonomous regions. ACCA was formed back when there was threat of a coup d’etat, and has continued to protect the peace for almost one hundred years. Jean Otus, vice-chairman of the inspections department at ACCA headquarters, wanders through the 13 districts, checking…

  • Bitter Lake

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    An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia’s relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

  • Where to Invade Next

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    To understand firsthand what the United States of America can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” some to see what they have to offer.