After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment.
Social & External
The people behind it
Saleh Bakri
Salim
Cherien Dabis
Hanan
Adam Bakri
Sharif
Maria Zreik
Munira
Mohammad Bakri
Older Sharif
Muhammad Abed Elrahman
Noor
Sanad Alkabareti
Young Noor
Salah Al Din
Young Salim
Rida Suleiman
Malek
Yousef Zaalok
Young Ahmad
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When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
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Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
