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An investigative personal documentary about surveillance of an Arab-American community, extending the original’s concern with how fear, state power and media narratives shape Muslim lives.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
An investigative personal documentary about surveillance of an Arab-American community, extending the original’s concern with how fear, state power and media narratives shape Muslim lives.
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Personal footage from Syria traces idealism, war and displacement with unusual immediacy, resonating with the original’s focus on lives shaped by choices made amid conflict.
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A direct, ethically urgent documentary about witnessing atrocity and institutional inaction, suited to viewers drawn to the original’s uncompromising engagement with war’s aftermath.
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A quietly defiant work made under restriction, using intimate daily detail to expose how political systems confine individual lives—an understated companion to the original’s focus on exclusion and identity.
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01 / THE STORY
Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries as teenagers to join ISIS. Now they want to return but their countries don't want them back.
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