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| 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 09 | Filed in: Films | |
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| 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 09 | Filed in: Films | |
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| 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 09 | Filed in: Films | |
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| 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 09 | Filed in: Films | |
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| 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 09 | Filed in: Films | |
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| 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 09 | Filed in: Films | |
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| 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 09 | Filed in: Films | |
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