What Is Democracy?
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1h 47m
Directed by Astra Taylor • Documentary • 2018 • Canada • English
Featuring Astra Taylor Angela Davis, Cornel West
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis and featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, and the personal and the political, in order to provoke and inspire.
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