Robert the Bruce
By Ben Wasserman April 23, 2020
A sequel of sorts to Mel Gibson’s wildly successful, albeit historically inaccurate, 1995 epic Braveheart.
A sequel of sorts to Mel Gibson’s wildly successful, albeit historically inaccurate, 1995 epic Braveheart.
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Cooking becomes an outlet for a 12-year-old boy to explore and tweak culture through cuisine.
Ambitious in scope, the documentary tracks the historic, but by no means dead, practice of gerrymandering.
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