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Speechless Review: The Conversation that Nobody Wants to Have

by Pat Mullen
April 6, 2026
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In Speechless, Ric Esther Bienstock observes the fight for free speech on campuses and a battleground for America's culture wars.

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How The Librarians Observes First Responders in the Culture Wars

by Pat Mullen
October 7, 2025
Features/Interviews

An interview with The Librarians director Kim A. Snyder on her documentary about book banning across the U.S.A. and the fight to protect young minds.

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Higher than Acidic Clouds Review: Defying Censorship, One Frame at a Time

by Jason Gorber
May 1, 2025
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Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari defies censorship with Higher than Acidic Clouds a metaphorical film about silence, dreams, and freedom.

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Nobody Wants to Talk About Jacob Appelbaum Review: Where the Truth Lies?

by Pat Mullen
June 22, 2024
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Jamie Kastner offers an intriguing portrait of the elusive journalist, hacker, and WikiLeaks aid in Nobody Wants to Talk About Jacob Appelbaum.

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The Edge of Democrazy

by Pat Mullen
April 23, 2024
Features/Hot Docs

Norwegian Democrazy directors/producers Bård Kjøge Rønning and Fabien Greenberg bring a freedom of speech debate to The Changing Face of Europe at Hot Docs.

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Ithaka Review: The Fight for Assange and for the Free Press

by Pat Mullen
March 19, 2023
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Ithaka chronicles the campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as his father John Shipton and fiancée Stella Morris remind audiences of the implications for the free press at stake in their

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What the G-20?

by James Buffin
September 1, 2010
Features

Filming in the streets of Toronto during the recent G-8/G-20 Summit was a very strange and unsettling experience.

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Erase the Tapes

by Suzan Asycough
September 1, 2010
Features

Joe Berlinger’s Crude triggers a First Amendment battle over a documentary about Amazon rainforest people taking on Chevron.

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Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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