An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002
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A historical recreation of Canada’s role in World War I, cast by descendants of the people who participated in it.
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