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In 1976 the military junta that had recently seized power in Argentina declared martial law and suspended the constitution.
Argentina ?s ?Dirty War? had begun, a state-sponsored terror campaign in which over 30,000 people branded opponents of the regime would disappear. In 1977, a small group of mothers overcome their fear and begin to gather in protest in front of the Presidential Palace, demanding to know the fate of their missing loved ones. Told in a series of moving testimonials intermixed with archival footage and historical background, this modern classic of documentary filmmaking tells the story of ordinary women compelled by extraordinary circumstances to stand up in the face of brutality with unyielding moral force. A must-see film documenting the power of people to stand up to malicious state power.
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