He Named Me Malala
A forceful and exquisitely made piece of advocacy journalism.
He Named Me Malala
HE NAMED ME MALALA is an intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen attacked her friends' school bus. The then 15-year-old teenager, who had been targeted for speaking out on behalf of girls' education in her region of Swat Valley in Pakistan, was shot in the head, sparking international outrage. Yousafzai survived and has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014 became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
88
Language
English
Cast
Malala Yousafzai
FEATURED REVIEW
Ella Taylor, NPR
Early on in Davis Guggenheim's tender celebration of women's education activist Malala Yousafzai, we see the bright-eyed Pakistani teenager working her laptop in her family's new home in Birmingham, England. Fending off accusations of bossiness and "violence" from her younger brothers, the Muslim ...
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