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" Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country. "

Matthew Heineman

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" If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see. "

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" 'Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world. "

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" Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos. "

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" I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story. "

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" We have a disease care system, not a health care system. "

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" Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions. "

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" There's a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon. "

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" We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and more drugs - we actually consume more prescription drugs in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined. "

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" My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border. "

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" With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape with their ability to spend time with their stories and subjects. "

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" The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns. "

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