Three Oscar nominated films will be shown at the Bermuda Documentary Film Festival this year.

The films — 'Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country', 'The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers', and 'Which Way Home'— are in contention for Best Documentary at Sunday's Academy Awards.

And they will now be among the ten feature length films screened at the Bermuda Documentary Film Festival (Bermuda Docs) from April 23 to April 25.

'Burma VJ', which has won 35 international awards, follows Burmese reporters who risked torture, life in jail and death to expose the military crackdown on the Buddhist monk uprising in September 2007.

Government intelligence agents understood the power of the camera, and the VJs became their prime target.

'Which Way Home', by Sundance-award-winning director Rebecca Cammisa, captures the freight train journey from Mexico to the United States of unaccompanied children who struggle to reunite with their parents or seek to escape life on the streets.

'The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers', tells the story of Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, who concluded in 1971 that the war was based on decades of lies.

He leaked 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times and was subsequently hailed as a hero and vilified as a traitor, but his change of heart led to Watergate, Richard Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

Bermuda Docs will be held in the TradeWinds Auditorium of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.

The remainder of the film line-up will be announced in early April. Tickets, $15, go on sale April 9 at www.bdatix.bm, at the I-store, 46 Reid Street, Hamilton, and at Fabulous Fashions (formerly Picture Perfect), Heron Bay Plaza, Southampton.