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1) Rendition
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
2) Colditz
Publisher
Distributed by Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This films tells a remarkable story of the prisoners in the German POW camp called Colditz.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A psychological scripted thriller based on the famous true story of Elizabeth Smart, a fourteen-year-old girl who escaped from her captors after living a life of terror.
This LIFETIME film chronicles the true story of the June 2002 abduction of 14-year-old Elizabeth Ann Smart from her home in Salt Lake City by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchel. Over the course of her nine-month captivity, Elizabeth was starved, drugged, raped, and subjected to...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Jewish-American journalist, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in January of 2002. The violent act became an international scandal as the group that claimed responsibility for the crime demanded the liberation of prisoners from the American detainee prison in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. The American government does not give in to the terrorists' demands. Mariane travels to Pakistan and is alone, searching for the most important person in her life....
7) Frost/Nixon
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Three years after leaving office, Richard Nixon confronts the questions of his time in office when the Watergate scandal ended his presidency in a history-making interview with British television personality David Frost.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Honeydripper: "Tyrone Purvis will try anything to keep his blues lounge, The Honeydripper, alive. So when a popular guitar player fails to slow up for a packed Saturday night, Purvis turns to a young wanderer for help"--From container.
Race to freedom: the Underground Railroad: "Chronicles the dangerous journey of four determined slaves from a cotton plantation in America to the "Promised Land" in Canada."--From container.
Nightjohn: The story of...
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