Hot Docs

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  Action Boys

  Byung-Gil Jung

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  You have to be a little bit crazy to want to become a stuntman in the movies, risking your life in the name of entertainment yet doubling a...

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  Afghan Star

  Havana Marking

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  "If there was no signing then the world would be silent," proclaims a blind little boy at the start of this remarkable film about freedoms...

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  Amerika Idol

  Barry Avrich

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Amerika Idol has one of those zingy premises that must have sounded great at a pitch meeting: the government of Zitiste, a small village in...

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  Amerika Idol: A True Story

  Barry Avrich

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Early on in Amerika Idol, a documentary about a small Serbian town that decides to build a sculpture of Rocky Balboa for "inspiration" and...

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  Ashes of American Flags

  Brendan Canty and Christoph Green

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  It sounds unlikely but Ashes of American Flags is an uncommonly vivid and astonishing live concert film, tracking Chicago's Wilco on a U.S....

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  Best Worst Movie

  Michael Stephenson

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Michael Stephenson was 12 years old when he landed his first movie role, the lead in an Italian horror epic called Goblins. One year later...

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  Broke

  Rosie Dransfeld

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Before these rough economic times, the middleclass patronized pawnshops as often as they did flop hotels or needle exchange programs. But a...

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  Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

  Anders Høgsbro Østergaard

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  The full title says it all: Reporting from a Closed Country. Since 1962 a military regime has run this Southeast Asian nation with a cruel...