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Easily one of the most astonishing and engaging cinematic works of the past decade, "Children Underground" is a profoundly intimate and heart-wrenching drama -- an Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature in 2001, and winner at nearly every major documentary film festival across the country. In a style that is altogether shocking, brutal, and deeply humanistic, filmmaker Edet Belzberg transports us to the streets of Bucharest, Romania, where we are introduced to a "family" of five homeless...
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Children Underground
When Romanian dictator Nicolei Ceaucescu outlawed the use of contraceptives and encouraged his subjects to have more children in a bid to increase his nation's population, his campaign had a terrible and dangerous side effect -- thousands of children were born to broken or dysfunctional families in a nation mired in political and economic instability, resulting in a large and rapidly growing population of homeless children in the city of Bucharest, with their numbers estimated at over 20,000. Children...
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This spine-tingling thriller in the tradition of "Dracula" and "The Lost Boys" will take you to the ultimate in supernatural evil: a town where every living soul is a vampire. Everyone ... except you. Allburg is an idyllic small town, far removed from the crime of the big city. Safe, peaceful ... and indeadly danger. When a vampire is released from his long imprisonment in an underground crypt, the unsuspecting town becomes the target of his unearthly bloodlust. One by one, the entire population...
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The lights are going out in the City of Ember, a time-limited underground haven created some 200 years ago by the higher-ups of humanity in a world on the brink of disaster. Meanwhile, many of its literally and figuratively in-the-dark citizens don`t suspect a thing. The only wise ones are two plucky teenagers (Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway) who are devoted to finding--with or without the help of the cagey Mayor Cole (Bill Murray)--the exit from Ember. Screenwriting credit for CITY OF EMBER, a refreshing...
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A fully comprehensive history of the B-boy, THE FRESHEST KIDS features footage of hip hop legends such as Kool DJ Herc, KRS-One and Afrika Bambaataa. Archival documentry footage allows lesser known names to explain the origins of the B-Boy, and the whole phenomenon is brought right up to date with footage of the current underground B-Boy renaissance. Over 90 minutes of extra material makes this an essential purchase for anyone interested in B-Boy culture.
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Showing the horrendous effects of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's oppressive regime, Edet Belzberg's CHILDREN UNDERGROUND is an unflinchingly brutal, eye-opening work of social commentary. Ceausescu's decision to ban contraception and abortion as a way of increasing the country's work force resulted in a generation of children born into a nearly incomprehensible state of poverty and destitution. CHILDREN UNDERGROUND focuses on five of these abandoned youths, who live, sleep, and scrounge for...
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