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By Jennifer Merin, About.com

A list of documentary films soon to be released theatrically or on DVD.

11. I For India

Acclaimed at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, I For India is an intimate, poignant look at the immigrant experience. In 1965, Yash Pal Suri bought two Super-8 film cameras, two projectors, and two reel-to-reel recorders and sent one of each to his parents in India. He intended to capture his experiences in England and share them with his family back home. During the ensuing decades, Yash filmed his surroundings, expressing his thoughts and observations. Forty years later, Yash's daughter Sandhya Suri used the footage to create a film about her family then and now.

12. Yiddish Theater: A Love Story

Holocaust survivor Zypora Spaisman conquers all hearts with her passion for art, life and Yiddish. This is the story of her struggle to keep the old art form of Yiddish theater relevant, and to help an older actress find significance and a stage in a world that worships youth. Shooting in New York City during the eight days of Hanukkah, during an extremely cold winter, director Dan Katzir shows Zypora heatedly trying to raise funding to keep the show running. Interviews with legendary Yiddish theater actors--Shifra Lerer, Felix Fibich, Seymour Rechzeit and others--make this film priceless.

13. RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

On DVD, Shane O'Sullivan's documentary explores events surrounding Bobby Kennedy's tragic assassination in 1968, and concludes that killer Sirhan Sirhan may not have acted alone.
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14. The Singing Revolution

Music has sustained the Estonian people through decades of occupation and terror, starting with the Soviets in 1939, then the Nazis, and then the Soviets again. By the end of World War II, more than one-quarter of the population had been deported to Siberia, were executed, or had fled the country. Filmmakers James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty's documentary shows how music has been an integral part of Estonia's struggle for freedom. Their successful bid for independence is known as The Singing Revolution.

15. Taxi To The Dark Side

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney's Taxi To The Dark Side follows the trail of American military torture of suspected terrorists from the disappearance and death of a taxi driver in rural Afghanistan to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo. Gibney's evidence--footage and photographs of victims, interviews with families of those killed and with torture survivors, with former soldier interrogators, military top brass, John Yoo, JAG attorneys, and video clips showing the smug indifference of America's elected and appointed officials--is absolutely shocking. Releasing in January, the film presents a pressing issue that must be addressed. It's an extremely important, extraordinarily compelling and well-made documentary that must not be missed.

16. Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show

Subtitled 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland this is actor/comedian Vince Vaughn's auto-documentary to chronicle his stand up comedy show tour.

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