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cbayer

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Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:36 PM Feb 2013

This year's Oscar Nominated Full-legth Documentaries Streaming on Netflix


5 Broken Cameras
2012
NR
1hr 34 min
In this moving documentary, a Palestinian farmer chronicles his village's nonviolent resistance to the presence of encroaching Israeli settlers and military. As camera after camera gets shot or otherwise destroyed, the farmer continues filming.



How to Survive a Plague
2012
NR
1hr 49m
This passionate documentary focuses on the grass-roots crusade in the 1980s and '90s to speed up efforts at developing treatments for the HIV virus. The film follows AIDS activists to Washington, where they challenge the government to act.


The Invisible War
2012
NR
1 hr 37m
This documentary calls attention to little-known facts about the high prevalence of rape within the ranks of America's armed forces. Interviews with military personnel, elected officials and rape victims provide alarming evidence.

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This year's Oscar Nominated Full-legth Documentaries Streaming on Netflix (Original Post) cbayer Feb 2013 OP
Thanks for posting this. NV Whino Feb 2013 #1
5 Broken Cameras is a great film Mnpaul Feb 2013 #2
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