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This documentary looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.
Nominated for a Social Justice Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL journeys into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone several decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster in April 1986. The tightly regulated 1000 square mile Dead Zone remains one of the most radioactively contaminated places on Earth, complete with military border guards.
Surprisingly, a defiant, spirited group of elderly women scratches out an existence in this lethal landscape. The resilient babushkas are the last survivors of a small community who refused to leave their ancestral homes after the Chernobyl disaster.

It's a super provocative power-play that's brought Russia eye-ball to eye-ball with the rest of the world in a high-stakes battle of wills. Who'll blink first? Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to seize a big chunk of neighboring Ukraine and is actively surveying other parts of that country while all but daring Europe and America to take him on. Crimea - once a sort of cheery sea-side destination for holidaying Soviets - is the hot-spot. Foreign Correspondent reporter Eric Campbell is there summoning all his experience covering the region to navigate this complex and explosive story

The city of L'viv, founded in the late Middle Ages, was a flourishing administrative, religious and commercial center for several centuries. The medieval urban topography has been preserved virtually intact (in particular, there is evidence of the different ethnic communities who lived there), along with many fine Baroque Era and later buildings

A powerful and compelling account of the violent Maidan Square battles. Ukrainian-born filmmaker Damien Kolody travels to his homeland to document the brutal 2014 insurrection from the streets, as the people of Ukraine spontaneously rise up against their corrupt and oppressive government, going to war in the pursuit of a better future

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