Documentary

• Title: Power
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Director Yance Ford‘s documentary examines the history and historical impact the rise of police power has had in the United States. While not all of the various threads work equally well, the film does a solid job in explaining the genesis of police in terms of methods of stability and control of the status quo which have almost always been at odds with the needs of the disenfranchised. The film pulls in interviews from several authors and experts on the subject, including spending time on the job with an African-American police officer, as well as making us of various archival footage.

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• Title: The Greatest Night in Pop
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Making use of documentary footage nearly 40 years old, along with recent interviews with Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Dione Warwick, and Cyndi Lauper, director Bao Nguyen frames the story of one of the most unlikely nights in pop music when an eclectic group of artists came together to record a charity single which would raise more than $80 million for humanitarian aid in Africa.

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• Title: The Mission
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The Mission tackles the preventable killing of missionary John Allen Chau whose death was caused by hubris wrapped in a flag of faith which even his own family saw as troubling. Buying into the Evangelical idea to forcibly spread the word of Christianity across the globe led the 26 year-old missionary fueled in part by propaganda on a hairbrained scheme of invading one of the most isolated islands left on the planet despite the obstacles in his way.

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