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Bhutto: Making the Ultimate Sacrifice for Democracy

2m 27s / TV-PG
In 2007, with Pakistan roiling in turmoil and under the thumb of yet another military dictator, Benazir was called back as the country's best hope for democracy. The very night of her triumphant return, a double-suicide bombing assassination attempt killed 170 of her supporters.
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A Film Unfinished: Secrets From the Cutting Room Floor

2m 31s / TV-PG
Archivist Adrian Wood describes finding the outtakes from an infamous work of Nazi propaganda that clearly demonstrate the care the filmmakers took to create a false picture of life in the Warsaw Ghetto that would reinforce the official stereotypes and myths used to justify the brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against the Jewish people in Europe.
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A Film Unfinished: Scenes from the Warsaw Ghetto Staged to I

1m 15s / TV-PG
A survivor recounts his participation in a staged scene from an infamous work of Nazi propaganda -- "The Ghetto" -- that depicts rabbis and petitioners visiting a bureau where their grievances are cordially heard amidst a number of dubiously placed props -- including a large, lit menorah -- put there by the filmmakers who believed it would lend authenticity to the scene.
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A Film Unfinished: Finding a Work of Nazi Propaganda

1m 3s / TV-PG
A decade after World War II, East German archivists began to sort through what remained of Hitler's propaganda machine. Thousands of films were discovered in the exact location in which they had been stashed, including a lone copy of a film with no soundtrack or credits entitled "The Ghetto."
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A Mystery Unravels from a Reel of Film

1m 59s / TV-PG
This haunting film about a film examines a classic Nazi propaganda film used by historians for decades to provide insight into the realities of life in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. The recent discovery of a second reel in an East German archive has thrown the veracity and intent of the Ghetto footage into question.
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Marwencol: The Golden Rule

36s / TV-PG
In the lore of Marwencol -- the miniature World War II-era town built by Mark Hogancamp -- American and German soldiers converged simultaneously -- not to fight, but to "be friendly with each other" in this imaginary refuge from the kind of conflict that forever impacted Hogancamp's reality.
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Marwencol: Was I a Bad Guy...Was I Mean?

31s / TV-PG
After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Mark was discharged with little memory of his previous life. He began to ask others what kind of a person he was, in order to rebuild a sense of who he was before his beating.
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Marwencol: Action and Adventure! Romance and Redemption!

2m 17s / TV-PG
After being beaten into a coma, Mark Hogancamp is left brain damaged and traumatized. He devises his own brand of therapy by constructing a 1/16th-scale World War II-era town in his backyard, and weaving complex storylines around his doll characters. Through Marwencol, Mark embarks on a long journey back into the real world, both physically and emotionally.
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Waste Land: Lucy Walker's Fascination with Garbage

1m 48s
Waste Land Director Lucy Walker discusses her fascination with garbage and explains how she partnered with Brazilain artist Vik Muniz to make the film. The Oscar-nominated documentary is coming to Independent Lens on April 19 at 10pm (check local listings).
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Waste Land: Discussion with Director Lucy Walker

1m 39s
Director Lucy Walker discusses her Oscar-nominated documentary Waste Land, which is coming to Independent Lens on April 19 at 10pm (check local listings). The film follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz as he creates portraits of people using found materials from the places where they live and work.
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Oscar-Nominated Waste Land Premiering on PBS

2m 9s / TV-PG
Waste Land, one of this year's Oscar-nominated documentaries, is coming to Independent Lens on April 19 at 10pm (check local listings). Brazilian artist Vik Muniz creates portraits of people using found materials from the places where they live and work. We meet Muniz as he embarks on his next project, inspired by the trash pickers at the largest landfill on earth.
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Waste Land: Finding Art in the Dump

42s / TV-PG
Artist Vik Muniz photographs Tiao -- one of the catadores ("garbage pickers") in the world's largest garbage dump in Brazil -- in a pose reminiscent of David's painting "The Death of Marat."
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Jean-Michel Basquait: Turning Street Energy Into High Art

1m 21s / TV-PG
Basquiat had a special talent for taking "street energies" and making them into high art. During his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a wunderkind and a phenomenon. Discovered through his graffiti art in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side, he sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and later became best friends with Andy Warhol.
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Jean-Michele Basquait: Who was SAMO?

1m 4s / TV-PG
In the late 1970s, graffiti tags by SAMO -- the moniker shared by Jean-Michel Basquiat and friend Al Diaz -- became ubiquitous on New York's Lower East Side. Discovered through his graffiti art in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side, he sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and later became best friends with Andy Warhol.
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The Wunderkind of the Lower East Side

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In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a wunderkind and a phenomenon. Discovered through his graffiti art in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side, he sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and later became best friends with Andy Warhol. Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in a definitive documentary.
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Forbidden Art: Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Stalinist, or Anti-Esta

2m 31s / TV-PG
The Desert of Forbidden Art tells the incredible story of how one man -- Igor Savitsky -- stashed a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars in a far-off desert of Uzbekistan. One painter represented in the collection -- Mikhail Kurzin -- tried to follow the Soviet style, but he couldn't stand it.
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