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Silenced Firearms
Silenced may refer to: Films * ''Silenced'', a 2014 documentary by James Spione about three whistleblowers and the war on terror * Silenced (film), a 2011 South Korean drama film Literature * '' Silenced: China's Great Wall of Censorship'', a 2006 book by Oystein Alme and Morten Vågen Music * ''Silenced'' (album), a 2005 album by The Black Dog * "Silenced", a song by Mudvayne from ''The End of All Things to Come ''The End of All Things to Come'' is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Mudvayne. Released on November 19, 2002, the album expanded upon the sound of the band's first album, ''L.D. 50'', with a more versatile range of sounds, dy ...'' See also * Silence (other) * Silent (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Spione
James Michael Spione is an American director, producer, writer and editor of both documentary and fiction films. Early on in his career, he developed a reputation for suspenseful dramatic shorts; his later career, however, has been marked by a new focus on short and feature-length documentaries for both theatrical release and public television broadcast. His film, '' Incident in New Baghdad'', was nominated in the Documentary Short Subject category of the 84th Academy Awards. Life and career Born in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, Spione graduated with Honors in 1985 from the Film Directing program at the State University of New York at Purchase. He first achieved national recognition in 1987, when he received a Student Academy Award for his dramatic thesis film ''Prelude'', about an adolescent boy's solo journey into the Adirondack Mountains. During the 1990s, Spione wrote and directed several other notable dramatic shorts, including ''Garden'' (1994), which st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silenced (film)
''Silenced'' (; English: "The Crucible") is a 2011 South Korean crime drama film based on the novel ''The Crucible'' by Gong Ji-young, directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk and starring Gong Yoo and Jung Yu-mi. It is based on events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the Deaf, where young Deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s. Depicting both the crimes and the court proceedings that let the teachers off with minimal punishment, the film sparked public outrage upon its September 2011 release, which eventually resulted in a reopening of the investigations into the incidents. With over 4 million people in Korea having watched the film, the demand for legislative reform eventually reached its way to the National Assembly of South Korea, where a revised bill, dubbed the ''Dogani Bill'', was passed in late October 2011 to abolish the statute of limitations for sex crimes against minors and disabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China's Great Wall Of Censorship
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the second-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 province-level divisions: 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. China is considered one of the cradles of civilization: the first human inhabitants in the region arrived during the Paleolithic. By the late 2nd millennium BCE, the earliest dynastic states had emerged in the Yellow River basin. The 8th–3rd centuries BCE saw a breakdown in the authority of the Zhou d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |