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+ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ~ 3.21.08

+ Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter ~ 3.14.08

+ Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) ~ 2.29.08

Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It presents a dramatised version of the Battleship Potemkin uprising that occurred in 1905 when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime.

Potemkin has been called one of the most influential films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the World's Fair at Brussels, Belgium, in 1958

+ Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid"~ 2.22.2008

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy... The Kid was director Charlie Chaplin's first full-length film and is considered one of his best.

Co-starring five-year-old Jackie Coogan, whom Chaplin discovered on a Los Angeles vaudeville stage, The Kid is the story of a child abandoned in a limousine by his unwed mother (Edna Purviance). When The Little Tramp finds him, he tries unsuccessfully to find a home for the boy. Obliged to keep him, The Little Tramp teaches the youngster about life on the streets and just as they have bonded and become a family, the boy's mother returns in a bittersweet finale.

+ Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War (Venezuela Bolivariano: Pueble y Lucha de la IV Guerra Mondial) ~ 2.15.2008

Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War by Marcelo Andrade Arreaza examines the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization. The film shows the evolution of the popular movement in Venezuela from the 'Caracazo' riots of 1989 to the massive actions that brought revolutionary president Hugo Chavez back to power, 48 hours after a U.S.-led military coup in 2002.

The film ends with an epilogue that show the next steps that the Venezuelan people are taking, not only to fight against the oligarchy and imperialism, but to exercise what is called in the popular movement: Revolution within the Revolution. The focus of this 76 minutes documentary is how the Bolivarian Revolution, thanks to its incredible grassroots and networking power, is a revolution that transcends the national frontiers of Venezuela and contributes with concrete alternatives to the fight against neoliberal capitalism.

2.8.2008 | Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People)

2.1.2008 | 1969 Columbia Revolt

Documentary film by Newsreel on the Columbia University student strike and takeover in 1969. This film is available for any use in the Public Domain.

1.11.2008 | Live Free or Die Hard

CANCELLED BY MPAA