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DOC NYC · 2015

DOC NYC 2015

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The Anthropologist

The legacy of Margaret Mead.

(Country: US, Russia, Peru, Kiribati; Year: 2016; Director: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger; Writer: Daniel A Miller; Stars: Mary Catherine Bateson, Susan Crate, Margaret Mead, Kathryn Yegorov-Crate)

Barge

The voyage of a Mississippi towboat and its precious cargo to its destination in New Orleans.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Ben Powell)

Bluespace

Bluespace sets out on a creative expedition to two planets: Earth, where rising seas threaten our existence, and Mars, whose canals and ice offer science-fiction authors and astrobiologists the promise of terraforming and colonisation.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Ian Cheney)

A Good American

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If you have a love of maths, or even just a love of puzzles, there are parts of this film that you will find compelling.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
The story of code-breaker Bill Binney and the computer program he claims could have prevented 9/11.

(Country: US, Austria; Year: 2014; Director: Friedrich Moser; Writer: Friedrich Moser, Friedrich Moser; Stars: William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis, Kirk Wiebe, Tim Shorrock, Jesselyn Radack, Diane Roark)

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I Am Sun Mu

Documentary about the North Korean defector and pop artist.

(Country: US, South Korea, China; Year: 2015; Director: Adam Sjöberg; Writer: Adam Sjöberg)

A Journey Of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

Following a group of Bangladeshi women police officers on a UN peacekeeping mission to Haiti.

(Country: US, Pakistan; Year: 2015; Director: Geeta Gandbhir, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy)

Newman

A backwoods inventor's battle against the establishment.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jon Fox)

P.S. Jerusalem

Filmmaker Danae Elon grew up in Jerusalem as the daughter of writer Amos Elon, then relocated to New York City. In this film, she chronicles what happens when she and her husband Philip, a French-Algerian Jew who never lived in Israel, move their family to Jerusalem.

(Country: Canada, Israel; Year: 2015; Director: Danae Elon; Stars: Luai Musa Hatib, Amos Touitou Elon, Andrei Touitou Elon, Tristan Touitou Elon, Philip Touitou)

The Sunshine Makers

The untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Cosmo Feilding-Mellen)