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This film chronicles the journey of two men who embark on a 30-day fast at True North Health, a fasting retreat center in Santa Rosa, California, in order to find relief from serious health problems. The documentary includes interview with patients, staff, and fasting experts such as Alan Goldhamer, D.C, Douglas J. Lisle, Ph.D., Ronald Cridland, M.D, and Scott V. Anderson, M.D. The film demonstrates how therapeutic fasting can help the body to indergo rapid metabolic change.

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The fight for women's voting rights has rarely been given as dramatic a treatment as in Iron Jawed Angels. Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) and Frances O'Connor (Mansfield Park) star as second-wave suffragettes Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who led the final fight for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The film highlights the emmense power of political fasting, also known as hunger striking, an act of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fasting as an act of political protest.

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This film details the horrific prison conditions that motivated IRA leader Bobby Sands to begin a hunger strike in 1981, that led to his death and that of 8 other prisoners, but also eventually won some concessions for the IRA prisoners, that they had been unable to achieve in any other way. In one remarkable scene, Sands explains why he and the inmates of the notorious Maze Prison in Northern Ireland are about to embark on a hunger strike. Ultimately, the hunger strike, which claimed 10 IRA members, led to an international outcry and to Britain's Iron Lady tacitly recognizing the prisoners as political in nature.

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Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-Oscar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of India and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Gandhi continues to provoke the British authorities using nonviolent civil disobedience, is in and out of prison several times, and goes on periodic hunger strikes to influence events.