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Framing same-sex marriage as the next great civil rights challenge, Saving Marriage navigates the long, complicated political and legislative process with a human context, giving a face to a topic that is often eschewed as empty political rhetoric.
He also is quite civil towards Sophie, business-minded and somewhat unsure of himself.
This is a very mature investigation of a racist Mississippi town where the brutal murder of three civil rights activists took place in 1964.
Agent Alan Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Agent Rupert Anderson (Gene Hackman) find themselves investigating the disappearances of three civil rights workers in a small, segregated town in Mississippi.
William Holden's character, in the Civil War-era Western "Escape From Fort Bravo" (1953), has a very appropriate name.
"The Empire in Africa" is a courageous examination of a tragic and complex topic, the civil war in Sierra Leone, its propaganda-driven portrayal in the international media, the global commercial interests at stake, the regional and international contribution to the continued violence and the effects on the civilian population of war and poverty in a country that is extremely wealthy in natural resources.
but it manages very well to suck you into the Cuban civil war.
I think I have pretty much seen all of the movies associated with the civil war in Yugoslavia.
In this film you'll see the sort of things you see when you quick-empty a bottle of vodka and then go and start a civil war.
while after winning the civil war they might have implemented censorship for the sake of keeping slaves quiet, they wouldn't have used such a statist policy for its own sake.
I suspected a movie about a soldier trying to find his courage in the civil war, filmed during (and reflecting the values of) the fifties, was not going to be very good.
It focuses around the ground breaking legislation that has Massachusetts at the forefront of this generation's civil rights movement.
One of the most painful depictions of war I've ever seen, this shows the effect of a civil war on ordinary people in a very powerful way.
This movie was based on the murders of the three civil rights workers in 1964.
Sherman was a southerner turned "yankee" during the civil war.
It shows, realistically, the indignities women suffered to gain their right to vote- one is shocked that the U.S. government would have the audacity to treat political prisoners in such a fashion (but then again, this is Woodrow Wilson, who led some of the U.S.'s greatest civil rights infractions)--especially in a fight that should never have had to happen.
My heart and feelings are with all those unfortunate but brave people who stood out for their self-respect and civil rights.
Being part of the front lines of the struggle for civil rights; he is summoned into the Viet Nam War.
I have yet to see the 1960's remake (or 1950's?) but I would definitely check the remake out for changes in plot and theme because of social change (the predominance of the civil rights movement.)
In this case the theory is that the "Gator" acquired this "taste" because of all the bloodshed from the civil war that had gone on for years in that country.
I'm not racist, but why the hell are blacks and whites mixing with each other in a bar in 1866, in Texas, a year after the civil war!?! Second, the editing is atrocious, the worst I've ever seen.
In World War II (when this film is set), homing pigeons more or less cleaned up with 32 out of 54 awarded for displaying conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty whilst serving with British Commonwealth armed forces or civil emergency services (according to Wikipedia).
Saving Marriage is a moving, emotional documentary on the struggle for civil gay marriage in Massachusetts.
Central America saw some of the most brutal and repressive civil wars and regimes.
El Salvador, which this film depicts, was in the throes of yet another wave of civil disorder, pitting the large and very poor underclass against the small numbers of privileged upper class with predictable results.
In 1866, Kansas, the American civil war has just finished and the armies disbanded.
In Ukraine, Putin would be happy to turn a peaceful opposition’s ouster of a corrupt government into a civil war.
Striking Syria might not end the civil war there, but it could prevent the eruption of a new one in Ukraine.
Twenty years of invasion, civil war, and drought have left Afghanistan's institutions in ruin.
But, like Freud, I still have hope that – with the help not just of culture, but also of a civil society willing to defend it – we can learn to control our basest urges, and avoid another disastrous division of the world.
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