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Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series
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The Apology
This documentary follows the personal journeys of three former ‘comfort women’ who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial […]
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Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz
This documentary tells the fascinating story of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor and lifelong advocate of “law not war.” After witnessing Nazi concentration camps shortly after liberation, Ferencz […]
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The Unafraid
The Unafraid (2018) is a feature-length documentary that follows the personal lives of three DACA students in Georgia, a state that has banned them from attending their state universities and […]
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Soul City & Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund
Soul City (2016) is a documentary that tells the story of a group of civil rights activists and city slickers who attempt to build a multiracial utopia in North Carolina […]
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Messenger on a White Horse
This homage to the fearless investigative reporting of the Buenos Aires Herald during the disappearances and murders of Argentinians between 1976 and 1983, utilizes impeccable archival footage and testimonies from […]
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The Uncondemned
The Uncondemned tells the gripping and world-changing story of a group of young international lawyers and activists who fought to make rape a crime of war, and the Rwandan women […]
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Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney contends that America’s richest citizens have “rigged the game in their favor,” and created unprecedented inequality in the United States. Nowhere, Gibney asserts, is this […]
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RBG
DATE: Tuesday, October 2, 7pm LOCATION: Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105) 114 S. Buchanan Blvd. Durham, NC PARKING: Available in the Visitors’s Lots. More info. Popcorn and drinks […]
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Vita Activa: The Life of Hannah Arendt (2015)
The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt caused an uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of the “Banality of Evil” when referring to the trial of Adolph Eichmann, which […]
Other Human Rights Events at Duke
- Raíces, Rutas, y Ritmos: The Influence of Latin American Music in North Carolina
- Raíces, Rutas, y Ritmos: The Influence of Latin American Music in North Carolina
- Raíces, Rutas, y Ritmos: The Influence of Latin American Music in North Carolina