The Terminal

Hanks airport film

A 2004 film directed by Steven Spielberg in which Tom Hanks plays a traveler stranded in an airport when his home country's government is overthrown, rendering his passport invalid.

The premise was inspired by Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived in Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport for eighteen years.

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Memoir of Latin American travel

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The Terminaldocumentary film

Non-fiction recorded visual narrative

cinéma vérité · An Inconvenient Truth

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