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Helen’s War: Portrait of a Dissident (2003)

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clip 'Lift your soul not your face'

This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

Australian Dr Helen Caldicott has been campaigning for a nuclear-free world for thirty years. She is trying to raise money in the USA for her campaign. Medical writer Joe Keon hears her on the radio and creates a fundraiser for the cause.

Curator’s notes

The filmmaker has given the audience a sense of events as they unfold with the observational style of documentary.