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Over 100 years, cinema has
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clubs where young people
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run after a failed bank heist. Exploring people’s reactions to
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depict the beginnings of the country’s ‘Troubles’ – a period
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a divided 1970s Belfast.
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early 1970s, a time when the country was strictly divided along
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Hotel Rwanda is the true story of Paul Rusesabagina -­ a man
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refugees who faced certain death at the hands of their own
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in 1994. With over a million people slaughtered in only three
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