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On May 17, 1968, three Catholic priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. This poetic act of civil disobedience helped galvanize an increasingly disillusioned American public against the Vietnam War. This documentary examines this Sixties protest within our current times, when foes of Middle East peace, abortion,...
223) Enciéndeme
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"Nada volverá a ser lo mismo. El destino del Punto Omega es desconocido. Todas las personas por las que Juliette se preocupa quizás estén muertas. La guerra quizás ha terminado incluso antes de empezar. Juliette es la única que se enfrenta al Restablecimiento. Sabe que, si ella sobrevive, el Restablecimiento debe acabar. Pero para derrocarlo y acabar con el hombre que estuvo a punto de matarla, Juliette necesitará la ayuda de una persona...
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At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked...
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During the twelve years of Hitler's Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did - the pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his close friend and brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi - and offer new insights into the fearsome difficulties...
232) Last Hope Island
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"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, London became a refuge for the governments and armed forces of seven occupied nations that escaped there to continue the fight. As the only European democracy still holding out against Hitler, Britain became known to occupied countries as "Last Hope Island." Getting there, one young emigre declared, was "like getting to heaven." In this epic, character-driven...