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The Fallen

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1hr 25min
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2008
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Synopsis: It represented an unforgivable calamity and bore unmistakable parallels to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina: in February 2006, a group of 63 miners became trapped beneath an avalanche at Mexico's Pasta de Conchos coal mine. The Mexican government of President Vicente Fox responded not with an immediate, heroic rescue (as one might well expect) but with seemingly limitless delays, cover-ups and deception - much of it attributable to the fact that the mine should have been closed down months ... Full Synopsis
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Directed by Ari Taub with a naturalistic style and a nonpartisan eye, The Fallen finds its humanity in the dailiness of a soldier's life, in the long stretches of nothing, where tensions swell and the killing of a deer can spark a mutiny. Full Review
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