Documentary

• Title: Cover Your Ears
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Narrated by Kate Moss, Cover Your Ears examines the topic of censorship in the music industry over the years for a variety of reasons including racism, culture shifts, obscenity, violence, sex, religion, politics, and protest, activism, and revolution. The film sets out to examine how music can be a mirror for the world, reflecting the good and bad of the times, and how censorship of music really only tackles a symptom pointing out a disease rather than the disease itself.

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• Title: Power
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Director Yance Ford‘s documentary examines the history and historical impact the rise of police power has had in the United States. While not all of the various threads work equally well, the film does a solid job in explaining the genesis of police in terms of methods of stability and control of the status quo which have almost always been at odds with the needs of the disenfranchised. The film pulls in interviews from several authors and experts on the subject, including spending time on the job with an African-American police officer, as well as making us of various archival footage.

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• Title: The Greatest Night in Pop
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Making use of documentary footage nearly 40 years old, along with recent interviews with Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Dione Warwick, and Cyndi Lauper, director Bao Nguyen frames the story of one of the most unlikely nights in pop music when an eclectic group of artists came together to record a charity single which would raise more than $80 million for humanitarian aid in Africa.

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