Films-part+3

**A list and brief of social studies films-**



 * Brooklyn (** tells the profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love)

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**Spare Parts ( USA/DREAMERS/ robotics/teacher/engagement)**
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=DeliMan ( restaurant and catering, delis in NY, food,cuisine)=

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**Fanie Fourie's Lobola (South Africa/ coloured marriages/ stereotypes/ comedy)**
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**Beasts of No Nation ( child soldiers/based on the book)**
media type="youtube" key="oRsaclO0VbU" width="560" height="315" ==**Unexpected ( pregnancy/USA/pregnant teacher and student,teaching science at an inner-city school **)==

media type="youtube" key="zzq7dfZn31k" width="560" height="315" =Timbuktu (a cry from the heart about bigotry, arrogance and violence, and it seems that he also has something to say to us right now about the aggressive philistinism practised by Islamic State) = media type="youtube" key="f7YeoB5bSBY" width="560" height="315" =The Reluctant Fundamentalist (political thriller/a post 9/11 film/a movie about the impact on one man of the [|Al Qaida]  attacks and the American reaction to them) = media type="youtube" key="pTwU0ooaU4s" width="560" height="315" = = =The Audience=

media type="youtube" key="MW81oUhhv3U" width="560" height="315" =Samba ( Omar Sy is the eponymous Senegalese kitchen worker, detained and ordered to leave France even though it has been his home for a decade. When twitchy immigration advocate Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) takes on his case, both are pushed to breaking point – his frustration and her burnout rage proving a combustible cocktail) in French! = media type="youtube" key="i3mHgMsHvUM" width="560" height="315" = = =**Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy,suitors,being an independent woman)**= media type="youtube" key="WCm1XNVD_0c" width="560" height="315" = = =**He Named Me Malala**=

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= = =**Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ( cancer/US/school)**= media type="youtube" key="2qfmAllbYC8" width="560" height="315" =**Misfits (gay and transgender teenagers/USA/religious society)**= media type="youtube" key="0ucXeUnsln4" width="560" height="315" =**Gimme Shelter (drugs/being a teenage mother)**=

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media type="youtube" key="fjAQPtvA8Ak" width="560" height="315" = = =**Testament of Youth**= =**(** a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view) = media type="youtube" key="0tP7k4wqVJo" width="560" height="315" =**Southern Rites ( Blacks vs Whites, black and white proms,Georgia)**= = = =**Straight Outta Compton**=
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 *  Half of a Yellow Sun ( about lives in Nigeria torn apart by the 1960s Biafran war: the attempt to create a secessionist state whose flag showed the top half of a hopeful rising (not setting) sun) **=====

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** La Jaula De Oro ( Powerful yet unsentimental thriller keeps audiences guessing as four Central American kids head to the U.S. by train)** ======

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**Amira and Sam**
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**Black or White**
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**Still Alice**
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**Trash (Brazil/poverty/three kids)**
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**Not Without My Daughter (Iran, culture clash, violence, USA)**
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**Miss Jules**
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**Selma (1965/Martin L.King/equal voting rights/civil rights movement)**
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**Mitt (about Mitt Romney)**
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**The Retrieval-takes place in 1864, the year before the Civil War ended**
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**South Central (1992, blacks in the USA, son and father relationships)**
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==**The Namesake (**depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, two first-generation immigrants from West Bengal, India to the United States, and their American-born children Gogol and Sonia . The film takes place primarily in [|Kolkata], [|India]; [|New York City]; and various [|New York] state suburbs.**)**==

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**The Startup Kids (great film for ICT students)**
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**George Washington (2000)- deceptively simple story of a group of children in a depressed small town who band together to cover up a tragic mistake.**
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**Sleep Furiously ( Welsh language!)**
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==**Punk in Africa (Three chords, three countries, one revolution...PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe)**==

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**Rape for Profit (USA, teenagers, industry, human exploition, sold for sex, Internet prostitution)**
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**Mary and Martha (Africa, malaria, voluntary work)**
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==**12 Years a Slave (**based on the 1853 autobiography of [|Solomon Northup], a free black man who was kidnapped in [|Washington, D.C.], in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of [|Louisiana] for 12 years before his release)==

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**Diana**
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**The Dirties (bullying at schools)**
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**We steal secrets ( wikileaks)**
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**Indie Game ( ICT class, designing games)**
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**American Violet**
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**Bhopal: Prayer for Rain ( historical-drama film set amidst the real-life //Bhopal// disaster that had occurred in India on December 2–3, 1984) **
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**Boy A (getting a second chance in life, bullying, prison, rehabilitation period)**
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**Boy ( New Zealand, being a boy and needing a father's figure)**
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**The Selfish Giant (Great Britain, A contemporary fable about two teenage boys who get caught up in the world of copper theft) **
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**Living on One Dollar ( global issues, poverty)**
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**100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience (computer gaming industry, Japan)**
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==**The Citizen (a tale of a Lebanese immigrant who arrives in America on Sept. 10, 2001 and experiences a predictable series of crises as he attempts to become a citizen has its quietly moving moments)**==

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**Darwin (unexpected inspiration in a group of people who live against the odds)**
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**Blackbird (2012-a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario/ students/emotions/violence)**
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**The Butler ( slavery in the USA/ Blacks vs Whites in the USA,working as a butler)**
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**The Hunt ( kindergarten/ crime)**
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**Inequality for All (USA,economy)**
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**Mother of George (culture clash/Nigerian vs American culture,American individualism)**
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**Unlawful Killing ( death of Diana ,documentary)**
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==**Changeling (A respectable single mother in 1920s Los Angeles, she one day comes home from work to find that her little son, Walter, has gone missing. Already embarrassed by its reputation for incompetence and corruption, the Los Angeles Police Department frantically searches for the boy to give the press a good-news story)**==

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**Tiger Eyes (It tells the story of a young girl relocating to New Mexico after her father's death, where she meets a good-looking Native American boy called Wolf.)**
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**Girl (immigration/love/ being a parent/Mexico/wrong choices)**
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**Harrow: a very British school**
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**Somewhere Between**
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**Marathon Boy**
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===[|//The Trials of Cate McCall// (2013)]===

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**Temple Grandin**
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**Jobs (social media/ media/ Apple/ becoming successful)**
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**August Osage County**
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==**My Left Foot (The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb) **==

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==**Django** (Deep South,Texas,t he film follows an African-American slave (Foxx), and an English-speaking, German [|bounty hunter] posing as a traveling dentist (Waltz), named Dr. Schultz. In exchange for helping Schultz collect a large bounty on three outlaws (hiding-in-plain-sight in the south, working in the slave trade) that he has never seen – but Django has, while being == == trafficked – Schultz buys and then promises to free Django after they catch the outlaws the following spring. Schultz also promises to teach Django bounty hunting, and split the bounties with him, if Django assists him in hunting down other outlaws throughout the winter. Django agrees – on the condition that they also locate and free his long-lost wife (Washington) from her cruel plantation owner (DiCaprio). ==

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==**The Devil's Knot (** three teenagers known as the [|West Memphis Three], who were convicted for killing three young boys and subsequently sentenced to life in prison) ==

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Our Generation-<span style="background-color: #e8f0f4; color: #444444; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">A documentary on the Australian Aboriginal struggle for their land, culture and freedom - a story that has been silenced by the Government and mainstream media. Featuring the stories of the remote Yolngu of Northeast Arnhem Land, one of the last strongholds of traditional Aboriginal culture in Australia, as well as the voices of national indigenous leaders, historians and human rights activists, the film explores the ongoing clash of cultures that is threatening to wipe out the oldest living culture in the world.

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**Belle ( Hanging on the wall of the Ambassador’s Room in Scone Palace in Perthshire is a portrait, painted in 1779, of two young women standing side by side in a garden). **
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==**Savannah (**SAVANNAH is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his loyal friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side.==

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**Fed Up-obesity/USA**
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**Ivory Tower ( 2014-education/ colleges/USA)**
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