"Democracy isn't a spectator sport." 24 January 2020 Factual 110 mins
This raucous journey into the heart of democracy captures an unusual rite of passage: 1,100 teenage boys from across Texas coming together to build a representative government from the ground up.
Watch the official Boys State 2020 trailer in HD below.
Ben Feinstein as Self
Steven Garza as Self
Robert MacDougall as Self
René Otero as Self
Eddy Proietti Conti as Self
Drake Roy Sound
Daniel Timmons Supervising Sound Editor
Laurene Powell Jobs Executive Producer
Michael T. Vollmann Co-Editor
Jesse Moss Producer
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01 January 2018
Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from being a filmmaker to a guerrilla fighter.
01 January 2008
Based on her book of the same name, Naomi Wolf presents controversial evidence that America has begun a frightening descent into dictatorship and fascism.
06 October 2023
A documentary film exploring what it takes to build a new, hopeful vision for democracy against enormous odds.
03 September 2004
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.
14 December 2024
A close-up look at the New Yorkers who took to the streets during the 2024 Presidential Election.
20 April 2017
Let's look back at the 18th presidential vote. The 13,500 ballot boxes were taken to 251 ballot count locations and were sorted by 1,300 automatic ballot openers.
08 November 2017
A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where past and present establish a dialogue.
01 January 2006
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power, he founds the National Fascist Party in 1921 and assumes political power in 1922, becoming the Duce, dictator of Italy.
12 July 2002
The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it takes as its starting point the consensus from The Depression onwards that Godzone economic policy should focus on achieving full employment, and explores how this was radically shifted by the 1984 Labour government.
18 April 1996
Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government - where privatisation of state assets was part of a wider agenda that sought to remake New Zealand as a model free market state.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2020:
16 December 2020
Salzburg. A few weeks before Christmas. Franz, in his late forties, secretly dreams of a career as a rock guitarist, but in real life he ekes out an unsuccessful existence as a music teacher.
01 September 2020
The slightly autobiographical but mostly made-up story of a gay man and a straight woman - who own a company together.
05 March 2020
A neighborhood divided by gang violence that may prove impossible to heal unless the killing stops in this tense drama.
17 July 2020
A darkly comic thriller, Alexandre Singh's "The Appointment" is a tale of doubling and mistaken identity that embraces the fantastical and supernatural qualities of Gothic literature, from E.
20 November 2020
Das Capital is an envisioning of rural north India and sets the canvas for the protagonist – Purshottam Ram played by Yashpal Sharma who is torn between his duties toward his family, his corrupt employers and a corrupt political system.
25 August 2020
Yeong-bin succeeded in getting a job. He is excited and buys food for his friends. Na-yeong is going to give a congratulatory gift to Yeong-bin for getting a job.
31 December 2020
The story of the former beauty queen and singer, Anita Bryant, who later in life gained notoriety by campaigning in the 1970s to repeal laws that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
06 November 2020
A woman struggles to keep her sanity as she deals with a neighbor that terrorizes suburbia with extreme noises.
06 September 2020
The Grolls, victimized minions of a dungeon, are relentlessly attacked by knights in search of adventure.
16 October 2020
In a dystopian Turkey, the Government begins installing new TV antennas to homes throughout the country.
10 November 2020
Thirty years after the infamous 'Death Farm' murders in rural Pennsylvania, serial killing is in season once more.
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