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March 5, 2014 Marina Galperina

Rehad Desai’s Miners Shot Down documentary feature just premiered at the One World Film Festival 2014 in Prague. Using unedited news and archival footage and testimonies, the film exposes the 2012 massacre of workers at the Lonmin-owned platinum mine in Marikana. The police had opened fire on protesting miners and killed 34, then falsified documents and testimonies. Some of the […]

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January 29, 2014 Marina Galperina

“This is my first visit to America. On the drive to jail, I saw the Brooklyn Bridge. I recognize it from the movies.” That’s the world’s most famous arms dealer Viktor Bout, in the above clip of the The Notorious Mr. Bout. But Lord of War? Nicholas Cage? No, Bout  — currently serving time somewhere in Illinois — never lived […]

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