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Iran's Revolution on Film

When millions of Iranians flooded the streets in June 2009 to protest the disputed election, it was all recorded--on video cameras and cell phones. For the West, these grainy amateur images were the only witness to the uprising and the brutal crackdown. Recently, a group that has been collecting the digital documentation of last year's protests received 6,000 of these videos from a student leader who fled Iran. Here are some of these remarkable, often disturbing recordings that document a brave, brutal, and heartbreaking history. Many of these images have never been seen before.

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Hamedan, Nov. 13, 2009
Here we see further evidence of peaceful, courageous dissent within Iran. Again, the leaders of the protests are students: these are from Hamedan and have laid out their government-supplied lunches in a long line along the pavement. Their message: we will not be fed by a regime that silences us.

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