Movies: Press freedom
- 1975
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
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After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action....
- 2017
Storm - Letter of Fire (2017)
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The film is set in 1521 Antwerp, in a Europe ravaged by religious wars, and during the early years of the Reformation. It tells the story of the twelve year old, Falko Voeten – a printer’s son. When Falko’s father, Klaas Voeten, a printer of forbidde...
- 2021
The House (2021)
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A married couple retreats to a luxury, high-tech, fully automated house on a remote island. The house AI system goes rogue and turns against them....
- 2023
Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom (2023)
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Doaa el-Adl, the first woman to be awarded the esteemed Journalistic Distinction in Caricature, serves as a catalyst for transformation within the predominantly male-dominated realm of Egyptian political cartoonists. Challenging patriarchal norms, sh...
- 2010
Press (2010)
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The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces....
- 2007
Good Copy Bad Copy (2007)
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Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing and other technological advances....
- 2022
Ithaka (2022)
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The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much ev...
- 1932
Blessed Event (1932)
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A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press....
- 2019
Obaida (2019)
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OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. Fo...
- 2022
F@ck This Job (2022)
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In 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth....
- 2023
Truth (2023)
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Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home....
- 2019
Panodrama (2019)
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Tommy Robinson goes on the offensive by documenting how his own “hit piece” on his character was being constructed by the taxpayer-funded BBC for their popular investigative news special “Panorama.” In the film he manages to capture footage of the b...
- 2010
Psywar (2010)
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This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy and the relationship between war, propaganda and class. Includes original interviews with a number of dissid...
- 2023
The Killing of a Journalist (2023)
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A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in Slovakia since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret mur...
- 1969
Portraits of Freedom (1969)
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Ed Gerlock, Romeo Mariano, and DJ De Guzman shares their experience in documenting a range of events in the decades of media censorship....
- 1939
The Story That Couldn't Be Printed (1939)
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This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper....
- 1969
Operation Teak (1969)
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On the 10th anniversary of his band Rall Tide’s debut album, artist Peter Kotas takes you on a flowering multimedia tour of Detroit musicians trying to survive in a world where you can’t even enjoy a baseball game without supporting The Bay of Pigs. ...
- 1949
Clues to Adventure (1949)
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This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill ...
- 2022
Because I Choose Freedom (2022)
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Matthew Leung Ming-hong had been working as a breaking-news reporter for six years in Hong Kong but recently emigrated to the United Kingdom because of concerns about growing restrictions on journalists working in the city. Three Hong Kong media outl...