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War & Peace

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The Way We Get By

by Aron Gaudet

Premiere: November 11, 2009

Over the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine.

This Way Up

by Georgi Lazarevski

Premiere: August 25, 2009

The security wall being built by Israel on the West Bank has isolated a nursing home, leaving its residents to face old age in the throes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

by Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath

Premiere: July 21, 2009

This Academy Award-nominated film chronicles Thavisouk Phrasavath and his family’s escape from Laos after the Vietnam War. In America, they find a different kind of war.

The Reckoning

by Paco de Onís, Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates

Premiere: July 14, 2009

Over 120 countries have united to form the International Criminal Court to prosecute perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.

Inheritance

by James Moll

Premiere: December 10, 2008

Inheritance is the story of Monika Hertwig, the daughter of mass murderer Amon Goeth, and her efforts to come to terms with her "inheritance."

Soldiers of Conscience

by Gary Weimberg, Catherine Ryan

Premiere: October 16, 2008

When is it right to kill? In the midst of war, is it right to refuse? Eight U.S. soldiers, some whom have killed and some who have said no, reveal their inner moral dilemmas.

9 Star Hotel

by Ido Haar

Premiere: July 22, 2008

A group of young Palestinian men work illegally as construction laborers in the Israeli city of Modi'in. Caught between Israeli security laws and a Palestinian Authority they see as having failed them, they work for Israeli contractors by day while hiding from police by night.

Lumo

by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III, Co-directed by Louis Abelman and Lynn True

Premiere: September 18, 2007

Lumo Sinai was raped by marauding soldiers in the Congo, which resulted in a fistula, a medical condition that renders her incontinent and threatens her ability to bear children.

The Camden 28

by Anthony Giacchino

Premiere: September 11, 2007

How far would you go to stop a war? The Camden 28 recalls a 1971 raid on a draft board office by 'Catholic Left' activists protesting the Vietnam War and its effects on urban America.