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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also loved Standing in the Shadows of Motown.  Not about education, but about music.  So good.  Also like Buena Vista Social Club.[/quote]

DH and I loved [i]Standing the Shadows of Motown[/i].  If you liked that, you'll probably like [i]Gengis Blues [/i] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gengis_Blues.  It's about a blind blues musician who heard Tuvan throat singing on a shortwave radio.  (Tuva is a province in Russia where most of the people are ethnically Mongolian/Turkic).  He teaches himself how to do it.  The documentary continues with his trip to the Tuva and participation in the throat singing competition there.

For OP - you might like [i]Harlan County, USA[/i] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County,_USA.  It won an Oscar in 1976 and is about Brookside Mine coal miners and their wives striking against the Duke Power Company in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973.  It's really an amazing documentary and there's a scene that takes place after dark where the miners are shot at by company thugs and the  the film's director and the camera guy get beaten up.  The miners believe the violence was less than what it would have been because of the presence of the film crew - altho I believe one miner was shot a killed.

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