01 Jan 2000
Speakers for the Dead
A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the resulting turmoil over it.
Facing East
This story follows the history of the most over buried commercial cemetery in America. It comes full circle to present day and documents a non profit's efforts to take care of the abandoned and abused burial ground.
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