Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains (2007)

Description: Embarking on a national publicity tour to promote his new book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, former US president Jimmy Carter ignites an international firestorm of controversy when he argues that only Israel 's complete withdrawal from the occupied territories can bring lasting peace to the Middle East . Intimate, informative and altogether engrossing, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains is a candid portrait of a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian and statesman whose compassion and steadfast sense of justice remains undiminished by time. Directed by Academy Awardr-winner Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs Best Director, 1991; Philadelphia, 1993).