Top 20 movies like Band of Exile

Band of Exile

Here in Toronto, four young Somali refugees are finishing high school. What did they bring with them? What did they find in Canada? Their testimonies, about us and about themselves, interspersed with newsreel footage and sequences of a theatrical creation in which they put all their soul, make them immediately endearing and overturn many prejudices held against refugees. A film that makes you want to get to know them better.

Band of Exile is of 0 hour(s) and 58 minute(s). It is Produced By:  ONF | NFB. It was released on 2023-01-18.

Genres: Documentary

1. Glimpses of Ontario

Glimpses of Ontario

This Traveltalk series short visits Ontario, the second largest province of Canada. Toronto is the province's largest city, sitting on the shores of Lake Ontario. After the War of 1812, the Rideau Canal was built connecting the Ottawa River to Lake Ontario. The canal figures prominently in the geography and history of the City of Ottawa, the capital of Canada.

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2. Abdul & Hamza

Abdul & Hamza

Abdul & Hamza, two Somali immigrants, are hiding in an abandoned house near Serbo-Romanian border.

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3. Carnaval (Carnaval)

Carnaval

Once a year, people from different marginalized communities meet together in the woods to delve into the art of circus and have this discipline become a common way to express themselves, away from the city.

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4. Beyond Kicks

Beyond Kicks

In the early 1970s, a group of young volunteers, the Free Youth Clinic of Winnipeg, operated a "crisis bus" to rescue young people experiencing bad drug trips, usually from LSD.

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5. American Teen

American Teen

A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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6. There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace

There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace

There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace looks at the transformation of an iconic Toronto block - where the world famous Honest Ed's store once lived - through the stories of its community members as they reconcile their history with the future, all while facing the biggest housing crisis the city has ever seen.

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7. Swagger (Swagger)

Swagger

A teen-movie documentary, Swagger carries us in the midst of the astonishing minds of eleven teenagers from an underprivileged neighborhood.

It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

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8. Convivencia (Convivencia)

Convivencia

(Convivencia)

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9. HARRAGA – Those Who Burn Their Lives (Marokkos verlorene Kinder)

HARRAGA – Those Who Burn Their Lives

Imad, Nourdine, Walid and Hamza are a group of young Moroccan boys living in a cave under the lighthouse in the Spanish exclave Melilla. They wait for their chance to cross the sea, spending their time with drugs, video calls with their mothers, and filming themselves for YouTube while breaking into the harbor.

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10. The Last Mooseskin Boat

The Last Mooseskin Boat

This short documentary follows Gabe Etchinelle as builds a mooseskin boat as a tribute to an earlier way of life, where the Shotah Dene people would use a mooseskin boats and transport their families and cargo down mountain rivers to trading settlements throughout the Northwest Territories.

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11. Santa Camp

Santa Camp

Every summer, a horde of professional Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and elves descend on a campsite in the New Hampshire woods to learn the tricks of their trade. But this year is different. The organizers, members of the one-hundred strong New England Santa Society, have decided to tackle a complicated and historic problem – the lack of diversity in the Santa industry. They enlist a Black Santa, a Santa with a disability, and a transgender Santa, each with their own surprising Santa origin story.

It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.

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12. The Hippie Temptation

The Hippie Temptation

CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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13. Beyond LSD

Beyond LSD

Educational film for parents to discuss LSD with their children.

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14. Barn av stjerner (Barn av stjerner)

Barn av stjerner

(Barn av stjerner)

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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15. Cracked Not Broken

Cracked Not Broken

Lisa is a middle-class white woman from Toronto, Canada. She's also addicted to crack cocaine. To maintain her habit, she works as a prostitute while living in a hotel room. She's tried to get clean, but knows too well how easy it is to relapse. Meanwhile, she participates in Toronto's needle exchange program to reduce her risk.

It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.

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16. Green Light (Sinal Verde)

Green Light

Moments of a group of high school students at a party, before the college admission tests start.

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17. The Dialogue

The Dialogue

The journey of eight diverse youth in China confronting cultural differences. Crossing Borders - Widening Horizons - Building Bridges between Cultures

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18. Limits of Europe (Hranice Evropy)

Limits of Europe

A prominent Czech journalist Saša Uhlová leaves her family and joins “cheap labour force” in Western Europe. Undercover, she works at an asparagus farm in Germany, tries her hand as a maid at a hotel in Ireland and takes care of the elderly in France. She experiences first-hand the struggles of Eastern European low-wage workers whose sacrifice and hard work allow for the Western society’s comfort. What is the real price that Europe pays for exploiting its own citizens? How do the lives of economic migrants, who have been forced to leave their children and elderly parents, look like? And why are privileged Europeans looking the other way?

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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19. Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth

Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth

An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with financial assistance of the Woman’s Relief Corps targets teachers as well as junior and senior high school students in the war on drugs. Narcotics are classified and effects of opiates, stimulants, and barbiturates are summarized and dramatized

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20. Biopic

Biopic

A biopic of the legendary Paul Bellini, by Bellini, of Bellini, for Bellini.

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