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Hunger

By Lyndall Stein

Some of the most inspiring campaigners are young people, who can see the world with a much clearer focus, whose experience of injustice, cruelty or risk is experienced with vividness and a sense of urgency...
02nd Jul 09Filed in: Films
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To Kill A Mockingbird

By Rachael Stokes

To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, is set in the sleepy town of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s...
01st Jul 09Filed in: Films
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Missing

By Marjorie Ellis Thompson

The film that most profoundly affected me was one that I saw in 1981, Missing by the Greek director Costa Gavras, who had earlier done the very moving film Z about the life and death of a Greek politician who advocated nuclear disarmament...
01st Jul 09Filed in: Films
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Threads

By Nick Wilson

The film Threads follows a family in Sheffield through all-out nuclear war. I first saw it when it was broadcast in 1984, when I was 14...
17th Jun 09Filed in: Films
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The Name of the Rose

By Dinah Cox

I suppose I am cheating by choosing a film that is based on a book. I can’t recommend Emberto Eco’s book highly enough and I must say I rather enjoyed Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film even though it is different from the book in a variety of ways...
17th Jun 09Filed in: Films
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The Man Who Planted Trees

By Bill Knight

A work of fiction, it tells the story of one shepherd's long and successful singlehanded effort to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the Alps...
17th Jun 09Filed in: Films
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Midnight Express

By Thomas Lawson

Midnight Express is a powerful indictment of poorly resourced prisons, wherever they are. The prison system portrayed in this film was Turkey’s in the 1970s, though it was filmed in Malta...
17th Jun 09Filed in: Films
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