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“Lake of Fire”
Other documentaries have tackled the tricky topic of abortion, but nothing can match the comprehensive, illustrative “Lake of Fire.” A tough sell during its theatrical release, director Tony Kaye (“American History X”) spent years reaching out to interview subjects on every side of the political spectrum—from clergymen to political activists, from doctors to historians. Nothing is off limits, but as shocking and provocative as the film is, it succeeds at going beyond the rhetoric, protest signs and legal opinions to discuss the medicine, politics and faith at the core of the nation’s most controversial moral debate.
