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Release Year: 2002

April 13, 2020

The Last Just Man

An examination of the Rwandan Genocide through the eyes of Lt. General Romeo Dalaire, the Canadian commander of UN peacekeeping operations at the time, The Last Just Man is a compelling and revealing historical deconstruction of the forces behind a tragic failure to achieve peace

April 13, 2020

Legacy

Legacy tells the story of a Chicago family living in the projects and their transcending of hardships. Shot over a five-year period, this emotional feature looks, with an intimate eye, into three generations of powerful women – how they winter through the murder of a son, welfare, drug addictions...

April 13, 2020

Dark

Dark tells the story of one Dark Freeman, a young African American man who finds himself torn between his tough urban roots - living as a resident on the impoverished, crime-ridden south side of Chicago - and his day-to-day life, in the comparatively wealthy and privileged University of Chicago, ...

April 13, 2020

Amandla

In this moving testimony to the power of song, Amandala documents the vital role South African freedom songs played in the nearly half-century struggle against apartheid.

April 13, 2020

Brown Sugar

Following the evolving relationship of a revered music critic and a successful, though unfulfilled, music executive in New York, Brown Sugar uses a love story to parallel the history of hip-hop music.

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