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Renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme's documentary tribute to Jimmy Carter centers around the former president's publicity tour to promote his controversial 21st book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. Carter is interviewed by Terry Gross, Tavis Smiley, Larry King and other media, meets adoring supporters in bookstores and faces protesters on college campuses, and stops off in New Orleans for a week to participate in Habitat for Humanity's house building for victims of Katrina.

The striking story of Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes, the flamboyant gangster who ruled Harlem's heroin trade during the 1970s before his arrest, and subsequently turned State's evidence and disappeared into the witness protection program.

Joe Strummer, front man for The Clash, was the quintessential rude boy, rebel musician, artist, and activist who melded raw creativity with radical politics and transformed punk rock into a social movement. Drawing on a shared punk history and a close friendship with Strummer, filmmaker Julien Temple reveals how--five years after his death--Strummer's influence is stronger than ever. Archival footage of Strummer, new and vintage interviews with Bono, Mick Jones, Nick "Topper" Headon, Terry Chimes, Bono, Don Letts, Joe Ely, John Cusack, Johnny Depp, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, Flea, Courtney Love, and Steve Buscemi show Strummer to be a complex man who used music to educate others about the injustices of the world.

Documentary filmmaker Michele Ohayon's unique and compelling film is about the power of love and the ability of human kind to rise above unimaginable suffering during the Holocaust. In 1943, Jack Polak, a young and unhappily married accountant, met and instantly fell in love with Ina Soep, the 20-year-old daughter of a wealthy diamond manufacturing family. The Nazis sent Jack, his wife and Ina to the same concentration camp, where they were living in the same barracks. Jack's wife objected to the presence of his "lover," so Jack and Ina began writing secret love letters which sustained them through the horrible circumstances of the war. Steal A Pencil For Me is their story.

Director Milena Kaneva documents the ongoing struggle for freedom and human rights in Myanmar/Burma, where the historic lawsuit brought by fifteen courageous villagers against a giant oil corporation shows how the Burmese people have been exploited, dispossessed, brutally beaten or killed by the current regime.

In filmmaker Ted Braun's compelling documentary about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Hillary Rodham Clinton and others step up to bring awareness about and demand an end to the devastating situation. Interviews with men, women and children living in displaced persons camps are painfully convincing.

Documentary filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix follow a group of children from a displaced persons camp as they travel across war torn Uganda to compete in their country's dance competition. The courageous children are inspiring beacons of light, and their dances--especially their tribe's traditional Blowa dance--are absolutely phenomenal.