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Sophie Scholl was a member of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group based in Munich University, 1943. Sophie and her brother are captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by a Gestapo officer quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, di find out more...

With over two years of investigation, including the collection of a million and a half words of interview transcript, 'Standard Operating Procedure', from director Errol Morris, is the story behind the infamous photographs taken by US soldiers in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Not as interesting or revelatory as you might hope, and hamstrung as Morris is by the fact that most of those interviewed aren't that bright or able to verbalise why they did what they did, and are only clear that they were hun find out more...

Starting with the murder in an Afghan prison of an innocent taxi-driver by American soldiers, this brilliant documentary outlines the lines of command from Cheney and Rumsfeld down to those on the front line. We learn about the techniques of torture and who authorised which methods. We hear about some of the history of CIA torture methods, the irrelevance of torture to extracting information and its use as a weapon of terror and political posturing by those in power in Washington. find out more...

A gripping, Oscar nominated, reconstruction of the rise of the Baader-Meinhof Group, a bunch of radical terrorists who rose in the mid-70s using military means, arson, bank raids, assassinations and kidnappings, to attempt the overthrow of the German state, many of whose personnel had their roots in the country's Nazi state. find out more...

Idealistic Joe allies with Thorne, a political prisoner who appears to offer a more humane and egalitarian world than that of the existant corrupt regime, and assists him in a successful coup. Unfortunately Thorne is not the man Joe had hoped he would be and so begins an unequal conflict between the two as the world descends into an ‘Orwellian' horror. Historical references in the film include Jean-Paul Marat, Kim Jong-Il, Fidel Castro, Benito Mussolini, Augusto Pinochet, Francois Duvalier, Jean find out more...

Dr David Gale is an impassioned campaigner for the abolishment of capital punishment, a man of peace and humanity. When Gale is tried and convicted to death for the rape and murder of a fellow campaigner one begins to understand his incentive. An investigative reporter, Bitsy Bloom is increasingly fascinated by the man and through a series of interviews begins to believe in his innocence, but can she prove it before he's helped off his mortal coil. The Life Of David Gale is a tense race against find out more...

The Road To Guantanamo is the story, (part dramatic reconstruction/part documentary), of four friends who set off from the Midlands in September 2001 for an innocent wedding and holiday in Pakistan. Two and a half years later, only three of them returned home. find out more...

A flight explodes in mid-air during take off near Washington DC. Later that day, as a shocked capital struggles to come to terms with the disaster, a diplomatic catastrophe envelops the British Embassy. A cat's cradle of tangled affinities and conflicting interests told through interlinking stories unfold as British Ambassador Mark Brydon slowly realises that he is being played by an invisible puppeteer with great power. If you can ignore the unlikely prospect of Her Majesty's representative thi find out more...

Trilogy consists of three stand alone stories, all set in Grenoble, and three different genres, thriller, comedy and melodrama, that taken as a whole become inextricably linked. A contemporary tour de force by Lucas Belvaux that calls to mind Kieslowski's ‘Three Colours' trilogy. In this, the first of the trio, Bruno is an idealistic hard line terrorist, who, after a brutal prison break and regardless of his former comrades' reticence, sets about continuing the violent career his incarceration c find out more...