Award-winning doc filmmaker Marc Levin and legendary graphic novelist Will Eisner individually took on the notorious anti-Semitic fraud The Protocols of Zion in the past year.
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Keep ReadingOn Sunday the 13th of February 2005 at the National Gallery of Canada, Pegi Nicol—Something Dancing About Her received its world première. The screening was timed to coincide with the opening of an exhibition
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