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United States. Language. English. Stranger at the Gate is a 2022 American short documentary film directed by Joshua Seftel. The documentary is about an Afghan refugee named Bibi Bahrami and the members of her little Indiana mosque, who come face to face with Richard "Mac" McKinney, a U.S. Marine who has secret plans to bomb their community center.
In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to ...
The Transgender Pride Flag was created by American transgender woman Monica Helms in 1999. [143] [144] Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender woman, [145] to memorialize the murder of transgender woman Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts. [146]
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
Candid Microphone (1948–1954) featuring Allen Funt and produced by Ben K. Blake. Cavalcade of Broadway (1949–1952) - 12 New York nightlife shorts. Charley Chase (1937–1940) - 20 two-reelers. Cinescope (1939–1941) - 17 one-reel documentaries including a few travelogues by André de la Varre.
320541675. The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for The New York Times. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company ...
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
The first full trailer was released in March 2011. [116] In May 2011, the USO girls from the film performed aboard the USS Intrepid at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum as a part of the 2011 Fleet Week celebration in New York City. [117] In June 2011, Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins teamed with Marvel to search for real-life super-soldiers.