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Surviving Syria’s Prisons BBC2 review — a former prisoner returns to detention sites in hard-hitting documentary
Dissident Shadi Haroun visits the cells where detainees were kept and speaks to prison workers in pursuit of answers ...
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Dissident' on VOD, a Vital, Urgent Documentary About Slain Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Sex and Skin: None. Our Take: The Dissident is a tremendous documentary, efficiently weaving together Khashoggi’s biography, a love story, Omar’s journey and the transformation of its subject ...
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Trust Helped ‘Dissident’ DP Jake Swantko Frame Documentary About the Murder of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
The story was still moving as Fogel and Swantko were starting to think about following the scandal for the documentary that became “The Dissident,” now available on demand and in select theaters.
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Director Bryan Fogel Returns To Oscar Race With Jamal Khashoggi Documentary ‘The Dissident’
He won the Oscar for his 2017 documentary Icarus, which blew the lid off Russia’s sports doping conspiracy. In his new film, The Dissident, he turns an investigative lens onto the murder of ...
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Where and When ‘The Dissident’ Documentary Will Be Released
The Dissident, a new documentary from filmmaker Bryan Fogel, follows the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who never emerged from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after ...
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‘The Dissident’ documentary: What led to Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and what happened afterward
His brutal murder two years ago shocked the world. Director Bryan Fogel’s new documentary examines what led up to Khashoggi’s murder and the aftermath. It’s called “The Dissident.” Audiences can now ...
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The new documentary on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder plays out like a spy thriller
Like “Kingdom of Silence,” the recent documentary on the murder of Jamal ... direction of Saudi Arabian authorities — “The Dissident” also feels urgent, and retains the power to shock ...
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The Dissident tells the true story of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
Abdulaziz and Cengiz are now key figures in The Dissident, an explosive and chilling feature documentary about the Khashoggi murder directed by Bryan Fogel, who won an Oscar in 2018 for his debut ...
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‘The Dissident’ documentary presents the killing of Jamal Khashoggi as a thriller
“The Dissident.” Fogel, who won an Academy Award for the Russian doping scandal documentary “Icarus,” has once more sunk his teeth into the story of an endangered truth-teller, although ...
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The Documentary Aleksei Navalny Knew We’d Watch After His Death
The Oscar-winning film followed the dissident after an attempt on his ... opening moments of “Navalny,” the Oscar-winning 2022 documentary about the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A.
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Investigating the story of a prominent Chinese dissident accused of being a con artist
INSKEEP: Making the dissidents seem like ... which did that story in Thailand - they've retracted it. A German documentary seen by more than 2 million people - that's been taken down, as ...