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Ric Esther Bienstock
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Speechless · 2026Speechless
2026
MovieDocumentary
In 2017, Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock set out to investigate campus free speech controversies - and uncovered an ideological war reshaping universities and democracy itself. With secret recordings, raw phone footage, and unprecedented access to professors, administrators and students on the front lines, Speechless is an eight-year investigation into how pressure from the Left inside campuses provoked a fierce counteroffensive from the Right - turning higher education into a political battleground and exposing what’s lost when debate gives way to dogma.
Deadly Currents · 1991Deadly Currents
★ 8.01991
MovieDocumentary
The film focuses on Gaza and the West Bank where soldiers and youths are caught up in the Intefada, and on the clash of history and ideas in regions to which both peoples have historical claims.
Ms. Conceptions · 1995Ms. Conceptions
1995
MovieDocumentary
A documentary about single mothers by choice.
Boxing: In and Out of the Ring · 2001Boxing: In and Out of the Ring
2001
Movie
"An investigative documentary that takes viewers inside the high-stakes business of boxing. It is an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the fight game from both sides of the ropes with access to the FBI's investigation of the International Boxing Federation and a ringside seat at the contract negotiation for the most lucrative deal in the sport's history."
Tales from the Organ Trade · 2013Tales from the Organ Trade
★ 6.42013
MovieDocumentary
A look into the underground world of trafficking human body parts.
The Good Nazi · 2018The Good Nazi
★ 6.32018
MovieDocumentary
By tracking scientists and Holocaust survivors in Lithuania, The Good Nazi tells the story of a Schindler-type Nazi officer who turned his back on his dark ideology and risked his life to save hundreds of Jews.
Charging The Rhino · 2007Charging The Rhino
★ 8.02007
MovieDocumentary
On June 29, 1941 thousands of Jews were herded into a courtyard in Iasi, Romania and were massacred by German and Romanian soldiers. Many of the Jacobovicis of Romania died that day. Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici goes back to the land of his forebears and explores issues of memory - his and Romania's. Charging the Rhino is a documentary about the Romanian Holocaust. Romanian fascists shot filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici’s father, Joseph, during WWII. Romanian communists shot his cousin, Sasha, during the Cold War. Through their stories the film explores the devastating history of fascism and communism in Romania and the life-altering affect it had on the psyche of those who endured Romania’s unimaginable.
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