He Named Me Malala

Summary: 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.

Release Date: October 22, 2015

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Director: Davis Guggenheim

Writer: Malala Yousafzai

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ, Participant, National Geographic Channel, Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation, Little Room, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures, National Geographic Channel, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United Arab Emirates, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,668,936

International: $ 764,670

Box office:

Domestic:$2.7MInternational:$764.7KWorldwide:$3.4M

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(Walt Disney Studios subsidiary)

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The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this -1% lower than the critics.

73%72%

The Metacritic audience rated this 1% higher than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

61/100

Metacritic User:

62/100

25%71%

25% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

71% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

Arab57.14%Jewish14.29%White14.29%Asian14.29%

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Violence3/5

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Race	White	Black	Latino	Total	Visuals	Info
Kairos	7	3	2	12		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.kairos.com/demos
Ethnic	5			5		This is the most reliable data source for accurate ethnic breakdowns of famous people. Often the information is crowdsourced by users and they cite all their sources (family trees, obituaries, census archives, etc.) on the bottom of the page. The only issue is converting their ambiguous and inconsistent verdicts into quantifiable variables. Source: https://ethnicelebs.com/
Familysearch	3			3
Forebears	2			2
Crowd	1			1		This is the crowdsourced dataset created by users like you! We greatly appreciate your cooperation in making ZR the most accurate and massive database on the internet. Sometimes the verdicts are submitted by looks alone, sometimes users attach an image and a source link. Due to this inconsistency please take the results with a grain of salt and click each actor for more info.
Total	18	3	2	23
Cast Percentages	78.26%	13.04%	8.7%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":78.26,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":13.04,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":8.7,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (2010) Percentage	63.7%	12.6%	16.3%		{"name":"U.S. Population (2010)","series":[{"name":"White","y":63.7,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0.55,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":5.61,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":12.6,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":0.92,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":0.9,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":16.3,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":4.56,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":1.71,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (2010) Representation	+14.56	+0.44	-7.6		{"name":"U.S. Population (2010)","series":[["White",63.7],["Black",12.6],["Latino",16.3]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":78.26,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":13.04,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Latino","y":8.7,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2010) Percentage	77.06%	7.85%	8.32%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2010)","series":[{"name":"White","y":9431400000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":603500000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":961200000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":82500000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1018000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":143100000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2010) Representation	+1.2	+5.19	+0.38		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2010)","series":[["White",77.06],["Black",7.85],["Latino",8.32]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":78.26,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":13.04,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Latino","y":8.7,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	71.15%	9.47%	8.18%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":12171466347118,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":1189049387729,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":1620865652423,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":123389392842,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1400105258356,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":602832559545,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	+7.11	+3.57	+0.52		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",71.15],["Black",9.47],["Latino",8.18]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":78.26,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":13.04,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Latino","y":8.7,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
World population (2009) Percentage	15.3%	12.7%	5.73%		{"name":"World population (2009) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":12681869669,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":39038138382,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":9530507330,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":104251561526,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":86514066935,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":223481923411,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":55528852386,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":148132790510,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":2299078689,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (2009) Representation	+62.96	+0.34	+2.97		{"name":"World population (2009) ","series":[["White",15.3],["Black",12.7],["Latino",5.73]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":78.26,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":13.04,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Latino","y":8.7,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%	6.38%	9.35%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+41.78	+6.66	-0.65		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48],["Black",6.38],["Latino",9.35]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":78.26,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":13.04,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Latino","y":8.7,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
Notes			Many Latinos check "White" or "Other" on the Census. So this overlaps with "Mixed" race and "White." Also, when there was a discrepancy with the percentage listed on the Wikipedia table and our calculated numbers, the Wiki table's numbers were used. Likewise, when the population total was missing from the Census pdf, the estimate was calculated using the percentage from the Wiki table. NOTE: It turns out that the reason America doesn't have a separate "Latino" race is because the League of Latin American Citizens protested against discrimination towards Mexicans and got themselves to legally be considered "White." Check the research links in our Google Doc for more info.

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This film gets a 3.5/5 family friendly score

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Message 5/5	Major themes are courage, integrity, and perseverance. No matter what challenges are thrown at you, you can overcome them as long as you know who you are, stay grounded in what you believe, and speak when your voice needs to be heard. Promotes the importance of family and standing up for what you believe in. Underlines the necessity of education for all children everywhere and portrays school and study in an extremely positive light.
Role model 5/5	Malala is one of the bravest, most eloquent teenagers out there; she's 100% inspiring. And she's also a typical teenager (albeit one who lives an atypical life), which makes her even more relatable. Her father is her biggest fan (and is thoughtful, brave, and passionate in his own right), her mother is supportive, and her brothers are allies in her fight for girls throughout the world (as well as siblings she sometimes squabbles with).
Violence 3/5	Though the exact moment when Malala was attacked isn't shown because it wasn't filmed, viewers see images of the bloody scene and moments when she was being prepped for some of her many operations; her bruises and scars are a testament to what she's been through. News footage of armored vehicles, gun-brandishing Taliban enforcers, the aftermath of public executions, fiery explosions, and more hints at the menace that Malala and her neighbors had to deal with. Plenty of talk about threats the Taliban made against others, including beheadings.
Sex 0/5	Reminisces of Malala's parents' romance; suggestion that Malala fancies certain handsome athletes.
Consumerism 0/5	Any product logos appear by happenstance, not for commercial purposes.
Dove Rating https://dove.org/review/11610-he-named-me-malala/
Faith 0/5	None
Sex 0/5	None
Language 0/5	None
Violence 2/5	Soldiers seen with rifles in animation and in live-action footage; some blood seen in the bed and on the bus where Malala was shot, but it is brief and not gratuitous; some blood seen on bandages; comments about the Taliban threatening to kill Malala and others; explosions and truck seen on fire; photos of a bombed school; mentioned that three schools were bombed in one night; video of DVD and CD burnings; a covered-up corpse is carried; a reenactment of a man with a gun who prepared to shoot Malala.
Drugs 1/5	Girl is on IV and given medicine for her recovery.
Nudity 0/5	None
Other 1/5	The mention of people who have suicidal thoughts; the criticism of some people toward Malala.

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