Half Value Life (2009)
• December 31st, 2009 • 0h 25min
Documentary
Overview
A Girl listening to the radio from home, a Woman Walking at Her Workplace. The camera follows their steps in parallel, focuses on the mirror they look at, putting lipstick on. Inside the Court mistreated Women telling their stories. On television, the report of a terrorist attack, outside, in the city. Mrya Basher is the first woman in Afghanistan to have become a senior provincial investigator officer, a high-responsibility position woman are often considered incapable to carry. By actively supporting mistreated young women she puts her life in serious danger.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
A Small Part of Me
Released on: 2017-08-18
Documentary
Tobin, a transgender teen living in Squamish, BC, prepares for his acting debut where he’ll be playi...
Night and Fog
Released on: 1959-04-27
Documentary, History
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Oleg and the War
Released on: 2017-04-09
Documentary, War
The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life has been turned upside down by the ongoing war in East...
Crushed
Released on: 2024-04-13
Documentary
Through a powerful visual metaphor, Camille Vigny gives a first-person account of the domestic viole...
Ripple
Released on: 2024-03-21
Documentary, Drama
Rae Ripple, a welder from the outskirts of West Texas transforms neglected metal into works of art a...
Movie Trailer
Released on: 1950-12-31
Documentary
A compilation reel of local movie theatre trailers for upcoming events, such as a “Bug-o-Rama” festi...
Contras' City
Released on: 1969-01-01
Documentary
A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation betwee...
Let's Ask Nostradamus
Released on: 1953-06-06
History, Drama, Documentary
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the Frenc...
Golden Gloves
Released on: 1961-01-01
Documentary
A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for...
It's Your Health
Released on: 1949-01-01
Documentary
Tommy Davis asks dentist Dr. Hendricks about his older brother Jim, a star halfback who failed his A...
Still Processing
Released on: 2021-05-30
Documentary
A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first tim...
Daybreak Express
Released on: 1953-01-01
Documentary, Music
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
The Captain
Released on: 2022-05-16
Documentary
Of Maine’s more than 5000 commercial lobstermen only 4% are female. The Captain celebrates that fear...
Argini
Released on: 1954-01-01
Documentary
A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that...
From One Second to the Next
Released on: 2013-08-07
Documentary
Stories of serious traffic accidents caused by texting and driving are told by the perpetrators and ...
The Story of Alfred Nobel
Released on: 1939-02-18
History, Documentary, Drama
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and...
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
Released on: 1895-03-22
History, Documentary
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
