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Awards Season Documentaries

84th Academy Awards: Documentary (Feature)

Including Hell and Back Again, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Pina and Undefeated

NOMINEES

HELL AND BACK AGAIN

A film about a sergeant in the United States Marines Corps, who returns from the Afghanistan conflict with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Visit the official site www.hellandbackagain.com and connect with the film on Facebook and Twitter.

IF A TREE FALLS

Director Marshall Curry explores the origins, motives, and organization of the Earth Liberation FrontEco-terrorism and how the Department of Justice was able to find and arrest Daniel McGowan.

The official site is www.ifatreefallsfilm.com

PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY

The sequel to the landmark documentaries Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, which chronicle the arrest, 18 year imprisonment, and eventual release of the West Memphis Three.

The official site is www.paradiselost3themovie.com and connect with the film on Facebook and Twitter

PINA

3D documentary about the late Pina Bausch, directed by Wim Wenders.

The official site is www.pina-film.de

UNDEFEATED

The film documents the struggles of the Memphis’s Manassas Tigers as they attempt a winning season under a new coach after years of losses.

The official site is www.undefeatedmovie.com

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By Ambrose Heron

Editor of FILMdetail