Movies tagged as "gay activism"

Laramie Project, The [2002, USA ] starting from $1.99

When a small town comes face to face with murder, everybody has a tale to tell.

Genres: Crime, Drama Actors: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Laura Linney, Summer Phoenix Directors: Moisés Kaufman, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   'Moisés Kaufman' (qv) and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of 'Matthew Shepard (I)' (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd's visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of "Angels in America" a year after Shephard's death.

Religulous [2008, USA ] starting from $1.99

Do you smell something burning?

Genres: Documentary Actors: Steve Burg, Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda, Bill Maher, Andrew Newberg, Directors: Larry Charles Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion. He interviews some of religion's oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers' Chapel. (Sign outside: "Jesus love you.") He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic. Written by J. Spurlin