National Board of Review

2009 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerBurma VJ: Reporting from a Closed CountryUsing smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.AmazonInvictusNelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.AmazonThe Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of ...Amazon

2008 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerTrumboThrough a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. ...Amazon

2007 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerPersepolisA precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.AmazonThe Great DebatersA drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.Amazon

2006 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerWaterA thesis picture. In 1938, Gandhi's party is making inroads in women's rights. Chuyia, a child already married but living with her parents, becomes a widow. By tradition, she is ...AmazonWorld Trade CenterTwo Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.Amazon

2005 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerInnocent VoicesA young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.AmazonThe Untold Story of Emmett Louis TillNever-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman.Amazon

2004 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerConspiracy of SilenceA can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents, the suicide of Frank Sweeney, a parish priest and the expulsion of Daniel McLaughlin, a ...AmazonFahrenheit 9/11Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.AmazonThe Passion of the ChristDepicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.Amazon

2003 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award Winner44085The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.AmazonCapturing the FriedmansDocumentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.AmazonDirty Pretty ThingsAn illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.AmazonThe Magdalene SistersThree young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.Amazon

2002 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerAraratInterrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.AmazonBloody SundayA dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.AmazonRabbit-Proof FenceIn 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.AmazonThe Grey ZoneA Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.Amazon

2001 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerBaranIn a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.AmazonJung (War) in the Land of the MujaheddinA film about a group of compassionate doctors who struggle to start and operate basic hospital facilities in wartorn Afghanistan.AmazonThe Sun Behind the MoonAfter an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.Amazon

2000 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerA Time for Drunken HorsesYoung Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.AmazonBamboozledA frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.AmazonBefore Night FallsThe life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.AmazonKadoshTwo sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.AmazonQuillsIn a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.AmazonSound and FuryIf you could make your deaf child hear, would you? Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, ...