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- ↑ "Special Features: DVD Extras". Videomaker.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
- ↑ Burden of Dreams (1982)|The Criterion Collection
- ↑ Hearts Of Darkness - Trailer – YouTube
- ↑ Lost in La Mancha | Film | The Guardian
