Monday, November 25

National Board of Review

2019 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2019 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2019 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerFor SamaFOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.AmazonJust MercyWorld-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.Amazon
2018 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2018 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2018 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award Winner44034A three-part story of Norway's worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway's political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.AmazonOn Her ShouldersNadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.Amazon
2017 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2017 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2017 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerFirst They Killed My FatherCambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.AmazonLet It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.Amazon
2016 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2016 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2016 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerCamerapersonExposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.Amazon
2015 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2015 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2015 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerBeasts of No NationA drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.AmazonMustangWhen five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.Amazon
2014 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2014 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2014 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerRosewaterIranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.AmazonSelmaA chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.Amazon
2013 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2013 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2013 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerWadjdaAn enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.Amazon
2012 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2012 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2012 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerPromised LandA salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.AmazonThe Central Park FiveA documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.Amazon
2011 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2011 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2011 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerCrime After CrimeThe story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American ...AmazonPariahA Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.Amazon
2010 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2010 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2010 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerConvictionA working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.AmazonFair GameCIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.AmazonHowlAs Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.Amazon