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'''"Days of Rage" The Film That Became The Name Of A Revolution ''' This film helped change the course of history" stated Gen Norman Schwarzkopf . "The most controversial film of the decade" declared Entertainment Tonight.  "Days Of Rage," the highly controversial 1989 film by award winning filmmaker Jo Franklin, called for Palestinian rights and statehood and became a cause celebre in the Middle East when special interest groups opposed the film and blocked its broadcast in the US for six months. King Hussein of Jordan asked a Washington Post journalist if he could send a copy of the film to him. Upon receiving the cassette, King Hussein broadcast it from the Jordanian TV throughout the entire MidEast which led to demonstrations by students across the region supporting the Palestinian cause.  These young Arab students and intellectuals ultimately became the young people who carried out the Arab freedom movement which began in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011 and continued across the entire region. Their demands for reforms and new governments reverberated their earlier calls for the same for the Palestinians. Ms. Franklin's award winning body of films on the Mid East were created following her work as the Senior Washington Producer of "Newshour" on PBS where she was responsible for the nightly coverage of the White House, Congress, MidEast, and Defense. As one of the first western journalists to interview Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and report the story of Islamic fundamentalism, she began to produce and direct a series of films on the area that were broadcast worldwide. "Saudi Arabia" a three part series had the largest audience ever recorded at the time by the PBS network for a public affairs series. "The Oil Kingdom" a three part series on Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the Unted Arab Emirates, and Oman was nominated for an Emmy and broadcast worldwide. "Days Of Rage" followed, as did "Islam: A Civilization and Its Art." The final documentary film on the region was the 2010 film "A Gift From the Desert:The Arabian Horse" by Ms. Franklin who is a rider and breeder of Arabian horses as well as President of SeaCastle Films. Millimeter Magazine named her one the 50 Top Film Producers in the US. She went on to create the Franklin Film Archive of the Middle East which has ben deemed "The World's Preeminent Film Archive" by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Ms. Franklin's expertise on the area led the Special Operations division of the US military to request her assistance during the War in the Gulf. "Nobody knows the Middle East---the people, the passions, the politics, and the culture--like Jo Franklin. Her work with the Special Operations Forces before and during the War in the Gulf proved invaluable" noted Col. Richard F. Brauer, Commandant of the Special Operations Forces. Ms. Franklin's articles on international politics have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Star, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times. Her 2011 release of ebook THE WING OF THE FALCON on Amazon Kindle gathered high praise "Riveting! I couldn't put it down. Never has the world of the Persian Gulf been rendered so real and understandable," wrote Jack Nelson, Pulitizer Prize Winner. The book which depicts Saudi Arabia's government, politics, society, Royal Family and carries a strong call for women's rights in the Arab world, is now in movie development. ...