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Synopsis: A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.

Genre: Documentary

Director(s): Davis Guggenheim

Actors: Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai, Khushal Yousafzai

Production: 20th Century Fox

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 6 wins & 19 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.9
Metacritic:: 61
Rotten Tomatoes:: 72%

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: PG-13
Year:: 2015
: 88 min
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ZIAUDDIN:
Love marriage
in America
and love marriage
in Pakistan...
are very different things.
You can't have dates,
you can't have
romantic meetings.
You onIy see someone,
she sees you...
and the next step is not
any dating or any meeting.
The next step is to tell
your father and mother,
''I want that girI.''
(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )
IsIam has given us the right to
defend ourseIves.
Any poIice or soIdier that attacks
MusIims are infideIs!
ZIAUDDIN:
ln the very beginning,
Fazlullah was not violent...
but he became stronger
and stronger and stronger.
(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
I am a seeker of knowIedge searching
for the right path.
As a MusIim, it's my duty to ...
spread what I have Iearned to the pubIic,
in the name of God.
ZIAUDDIN:
They started killing policemen
and blasting police stations.
MALALA:
Taliban are
a small group of people.
They think that God is a tiny,
little, conservative being.
But for us,
God is not that tiny.
God has sent us to this world
to see how would we live.
Would they choose a bad way
or a good way?
-(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS )
-(CAMERAS CLICKING)
My name is Shettima Harouna.
My daughter
is Margaret Shettima.
My daughter is 17 years.
Her name is Sarah Samwell.
My daughter's name is Aisha,
she is seventeen years oId.
I'm not going to say my daughter's name
because whenever I do
I have a Iot of emotion and break down.
REPORTER 1:
lt's 100 days
since Boko Haram
abducted more than 200 girls.
REPORTER 2:
The abduction
of the Nigerian schoolgirls
continues to dominate
the national conversation.
REPORTER 3:
For three months,
parents called
for the safe return
of their daughters.
Now they hope it's the voice
of a teenager
that will make the difference.
MALALA:
l'm still 1 7.
l'm still a teenager.
What should l do?
How can l help?
REPORTER 4:
Malala Yousafzai
has joined the campaign
to find Nigeria 's
missing schoolgirls.
REPORTER 5:
Much-needed help
arriving with 1 7-year-old
Malala Yousafzai
now in Nigeria...
bringing with her
worldwide attention.
REPORTER 6:
President Jonathan
clearly hadn't expected
that Malala would be so tough
and focused.
I asked the President,
''What promises do you make?''
I met him today
and I toId him...
''You are
the eIected President.
''You need to fuIfill
your responsibiIities.
''And your responsibility
is to listen to your people. ''
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
lt is so hard to get
things done in this world.
You try, and too often
it doesn't work.
But you have to continue,
and you never give up.
(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )
Zafar AI-MuIk
Ahmad Sher Khan
Paidur Khan and his sons,
AbduI Qahar Khan
ZIAUDDIN:
lf somebody
said something
openly against the Taliban...
they would be warned.
Bakht JamaI ...
MiaguI Jan Pacha
Dr. Haider AIi
We know about you.
You'll face the music.
They would go early
in the morning...
and next day
he wouId have been killed.
(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING
IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
MaIaIa Yousafzai targeted IsIam.
So, we tried to kill her.
GUGGENHEIM:
Who was the person
who shot Malala?
It was not a person.
It was an ideoIogy.
MALALA:
When l'm in a car,
looking through the window...
l like just to be silent
for a while.
Sometimes l feel
that l am in England
but it's just
for a short time.
l'm not going
to live here forever.
When l think of Swat,
l think
that it's just a story.
lt's something that happened
and l can
never see Swat again.
GUGGENHEIM:
What would happen
if you went back today?
If I wouId go back,
wouId I be shot?
Of course I wouId be.
They said, ''If you come back
we're going to shoot you.''
l just want to go once
just to see that house.
Just once.
Just look at it.
AtaI.
Just Iet me do something eIse.
This is boring.
She's Iooking at the pictures.
GUGGENHEIM:
Who's that?
Shane Watson.
This is Shane Watson and he's
a really good cricket pIayer.
And there's another one
as well,
who is one of my favorites.
GUGGENHEIM:
I think you Iike him
more than just for cricket.
No, I just Iike him
for cricket.
And I aIso Iike Shahid Afridi.
GUGGENHEIM:
Yeah?
MALALA:
He's the Pakistani cricketer.
He is an amazing cricketer.
One of the best cricketers.
And he had the Iongest
and the biggest six
in history.
ATAL:
Oh, this one!
It's this one!
-See?
-(CROWD CHEERING)
COMMENTATOR ON VIDEO:
He smashed it miles!
It went miIes away.
ATAL:
But he's
not good anymore.
He is good.
He's getting oId.
He can't even pIay. (LAUGHS )
GUGGENHEIM:
Do you think
you couId ever ask
a boy out on a date?
(LAUGHS )
My brother can tell me
that he has got
a girIfriend...
but I can't tell him
that I have got a boyfriend.
MaIaIa says
that you can have a girIfriend
but she can't have
a boyfriend.
I think she's wrong.
It's all up to her.
GUGGENHEIM:
Who's that?
ATAL:
I have no idea.
MALALA:
Brad Pitt.
GUGGENHEIM:
lf there's a boy you like...
why can't you pick up
the phone and ask him,
''Let's go to a movie''?
(LAUGHS ) No, it wouId be
quite embarrassing.
And the other thing is that
if my famiIy wouId know,
it wouId be
a surprise for them.
And they wouId be astonished.
''MaIaIa asked a boy?''
And there is Roger Federer.
-GUGGENHEIM:
You Iike him?
-Yeah.
GUGGENHEIM:
You Iike tennis
or you Iike his haircut?
(LAUGHS )
I Iike his haircut.
MALALA:
It's aIways changing.
One of my friends,
the Taliban
stopped their car...
and showed them
the head of a slaughtered man.
They said, ''lf you don't
follow the real lslam
''that we're showing you...
''then you can be the next
person like this man. ''
They were not about faith.
They were about power.
ZIAUDDIN:
They are cruel people
who are misusing
the name of lslam.
They are the enemies of lslam.
They used to bring innocent
people to the square...
sometimes shoot them
in the square
and sometimes slaughter them
in the square.
They used to leave a note
on the body...
''lf you go against
the Taliban,
''this could be you tomorrow. ''
Many people, they thought
that if they speak...
they will be killed
the very next day.
I was feeIing that if I don't
speak, I wouId be the most
sinfuI and the most guiIty man
in this worId.
As a schoolboy,
the hardest times...
were the moments when
a teacher asked me to stand
and read a passage
from a book.
GUGGENHEIM:
Tell me about
your father's stammer.
When he taIks?
Yeah.
Mmm.
(STAMMERS ) MaIaIa. MaIaIa.
MALALA:
One thing that
l noticed in my father...
even if he stammers
for one minute,
he will try to say that word.
He never stops.
The first time
you can just stop it.
And you can say
another word instead.
But my father never does that.
ZIAUDDIN:
My father
was a very passionate
and emotional speaker.
A fiery speaker.
The most eloquent man
l have ever seen in my life.
He used to give sermons
in the mosque every Friday.
My father would be shouting

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Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai (Malālah Yūsafzay: Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی‬‎; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu. On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after taking an exam, Yousafzai and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt in retaliation for her activism; the gunman fled the scene. Yousafzai was hit in the head with a bullet and remained unconscious and in critical condition at the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, but her condition later improved enough for her to be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK. The attempt on her life sparked an international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle reported in January 2013 that Yousafzai may have become "the most famous teenager in the world". Weeks after the attempted murder, a group of fifty leading Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her. Taliban officials responded to condemnation by further denouncing Yousafzai, indicating plans for a possible second assassination attempt which was justified as a religious obligation. Their statements resulted in further international condemnation.Following her recovery, Yousafzai became a prominent activist for the right to education. Based out of Birmingham, she founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation, and in 2013 co-authored I am Malala, an international best seller. In 2012, she was the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize. In 2014, she was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi. Aged 17 at the time, this made her the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2015, Yousafzai was a subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary He Named Me Malala. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of Time magazine featured her as one of the most influential people globally. In 2017, she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada. Yousafzai attended Edgbaston High School from 2013 to 2017, and is currently studying for a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. more…

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