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55 Steps(2018)

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Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life(1976)

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The Hitler Gang(1944)

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Karla(2006)

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Gorillas in the Mist(1988)

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Milk(2008)

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown(1989)

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

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Take-Off(1979)

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The Look of Silence(2014)

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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars(2018)

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Miss Hokusai(2015)

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

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Josh: Independence Through Unity(2013)

Fatima, a teacher living her elite life in Karachi, shattered, when her nanny Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Fatima travels to investigate her disappearance and finds a dangerous truth about Nusrat and her village.

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Man on the Moon(1999)

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