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In the rest of the film, Kleiman develops a relationship with a Peruvian village that has just received a huge shipment of low-cost laptops for its young children from the non-profit One Laptop Per Child. In much of the film, Kleiman asks the world’s luminaries in the technology field - such as technology guru Clay Shirky, psychologist Sherry Turkle and Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley - to give their two cents on what the networked world has done to us. Is the Internet going to bring with it a global village? Michael Kleiman’s film answers this question in a variety of ways. But the evidence against the pastor is fairly damning.

Robertson responded to the film after its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and the filmmakers have yet to fight back.

The only problem, according to the filmmakers of “Mission Congo,” is that Robertson was using much of the funds raised and the planes hired for the mission to invest in a diamond mining expedition. The region of the country on the Rwandan border was the site of settler camps full of those fleeing their country’s Civil War and genocide, and the camps had well-publicized problems with sickness and disease. In the mid-1990’s, televangelist Pat Robertson asked his followers to donate money to a fund that would be spent on a missionary aid deployment to the Congo. Check out the full list of films screening at DOC NYC, which runs from November 14-21, here. With such a wealth of rich material, it wasn’t easy to pare down the list of 132 films being shown at DOC NYC to these 10 titles and they are by no means the only films worth seeing. In its fourth year, DOC NYC, now the largest documentary festival in the U.S., will host panels and events featuring Errol Morris, Sarah Polley, Oliver Stone, Michel Gondry, Ricki Lake, Jonathan Franzen, Grace Lee Boggs, Jehane Moujaim and other filmmakers. “The films range from profound and mysterious to humorous and sexually provocative,” said DOC NYC’s artistic director Thom Powers, who also programs for the Toronto International Film Festival and curates DOC Club on SundanceNOW. Featuring documentaries about an eclectic mix of subjects: from an unknown photographer and a family-owned strip club to missionaries in Rwanda and the 90s indie film scene, this year’s DOC NYC lineup touches on the personal and political.