
Oscar nominated documentary short from 1978 about an Indian juvenile reformatory.

Oscar nominated documentary short from 1978 about an Indian juvenile reformatory.
1978-01-01
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5.8The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey is a 1978 American short documentary film directed by Jerry Aronson. Filmed over eight years, this chronicles the personal and political hardships faced by three Chippewa Indians. It was nominated in 1978 for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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4.1An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own personal war against an evil Nicaraguan general and his own personal army of vampires terrorizing the country.
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6.1Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American widow, Hildegarde. Even though his beautiful and pious mother lets his father get away with that, even if his little brother wets the bed. Arturo loves them all. He also loves to play baseball, even though he has to wait until spring. And he also loves the movies ... and Rosa. But she doesn't love him ...
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6.3The only daughter of the Chief of a band of gypsies, Reshma is strangely drawn to the only son of a rich and wealthy man, Kunverji. Strangely enough also, she finds out that Kunverji has drawn a portrait of her's even before they met each other. When Kunverji looks into this further, he finds that both he and Reshma are lovers from a past birth, and they were fated to meet in this birth, as they were unable to wed each other in the last birth. This fascinates both of them, however, Reshma's and Kunverji's dads are furious at this, and attempt to make sure that the two are separated. Reshma has been promised to wed Shakti Singh; and Kunverji is to wed, Neha. Will these two lovers be separated again during this birth?
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7.2Sandhya Joshi's mom had wanted her daughter to study, at least complete her graduation in Commerce, before getting married. Her husband, however, thought otherwise and before Sandhya could complete her education, he got her married to Madhav Desai, the first ever man to enter Sandhya's life. The marriage takes place and Sandhya moves in with Madhav and his mom. Madhav makes it clear that he wants a child from her, however, years roll by without the couple conceiving. The second man to enter Sandhya's life is Lakshman, who she hires to do the cooking and housekeeping. The third man is Anirban H. Pandopadhyay, a violinist, who lives in a rented apartment. Sandhya does not know that soon she will be arrested by the police for killing one of the three men in her life. Watch as events unfold to see who was killed and what possessed Sandhya to kill him.
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