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Smile Pinki
2008 · Megan Mylan · 39m
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Smile Pinki is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Megan Mylan which won the 81st Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). The film depicts the story of Pinki and Ghutaru, two children in rural India who receive corrective surgery for cleft lips.
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Read on Wikipedia →The Conscience of Nhem En
2008 · Steven Okazaki · 50m 21s
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The Conscience of Nhem En is a 26-minute documentary directed by Steven Okazaki, telling the stories of three survivors of the Tuol Sleng Prison. Also known as S-21, Tuol Sleng was where 17,000 Cambodians were imprisoned and killed in the late 1970s. The film follows a young soldier responsible for taking the ID photos of thousands of people before they were tortured and murdered by the Khmer Rouge. The documentary was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short.
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The Knights of Orlando
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Front Lines - The Life of the Soldier
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The Final Inch
2008 · Irene Taylor Brodskyand Tom Grant · 7m 22s
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The Final Inch is a short documentary about the effort to eradicate polio. It was directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky and focuses on health workers on the front lines of the fight to eliminate the disease.
It was filmed on location in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 81st Academy Awards.
The film debuted on HBO on April 1, 2009. The Final Inch is the first film project of Google.org, the philanthropic division of Google.
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The City
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The Squirrel Next Door
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The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
2008 · Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde · 9m 6s
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The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 is a 2008 American short documentary film created to honor the 40th annual remembrance of the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr. Directed by Adam Pertofsky, the film received a 2008 Oscar nomination in the "Best Documentary Short Subject" Category at the 81st Academy Awards.
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Front Lines - The Life of the Soldier
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Drawing from Life
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A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
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