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A report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police to search the Algiers Motel. A group of young people staying there are forcefully and viciously interrogated by the riot task force. By the end of the night,...
Bernie Sanders has inspired a generation - but who inspired him? Most people in America do not know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Eugene...
Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of nearly a decade, Quest is the portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Quest Rainey and his...
When Obama dropped the microphone, he knew what he was doing: this gesture remains a powerful way of underlining some final words. Derived from the 1980s rap scene, it signals the point when words reach...
This docudrama, narrated by Kevin Spacey, unravels some of America’s most significant presidential elections. Using archive footage, interviews with candidates, key players, historians and experts, along...
After the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 US election, Dr Christine Cheng, Lecturer in International Relations at King’s discusses what she thinks could be a rejuvenating outcome of the election, and...
When we cast a ballot, how do we know if our vote counts? Filmmaker Jason Grant Smith takes the viewer on a six-year journey into the heart of American democracy: the vote. What began as an investigation of...
The televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr in the summer of 1968 are now considered to have changed the way television news programmes were made forever....
Documentary chronicling the attempted take-over of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. As his behaviour becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents...
Based on the book ‘The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964’, by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time (including Lyndon B Johnson, Barry...
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