question: Which film was released more recently, Baghdad ER, or Encounters at the End of the World?
answer: Encounters at the End of the World
context: Title: Song of the South
  Passage: Song of the South is a 1946 American live-action animated musical film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.  It is based on the collection of Uncle Remus stories as adapted by Joel Chandler Harris, and stars James Baskett as Uncle Remus.  The film takes place in the southern United States during the Reconstruction Era, a period of American history shortly after the end of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery.  The story follows 7-year-old Johnny (Bobby Driscoll) who is visiting his grandmother's plantation for an extended stay.  Johnny befriends Uncle Remus, one of the workers on the plantation, and takes joy in hearing his tales about the adventures of Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, and Br'er Bear.  Johnny learns from the stories how to cope with the challenges he is experiencing living on the plantation.
  Title: The Defender (novel)
  Passage: The story is about a Lamut (Evens) named Turgen whose family was killed by an illness which left him alone to his practice of medicine in his Yurt.  He then out of his loneliness befriends a group of rams near his yurt this cause the townspeople to look at him and start strange rumors that it is impossible for a man to befriend animals so he must be a sorcerer and shunned because of it.  While on coming back from his usual fishing and hunting round he hears crying and decides to help he goes inside the yurt to see 2 children.  The eldest one Tim approached Turgen and with all his kindness stayed to tend to the youngest child Aska as she was only but an infant.  As time past Marfa the mother of the children came from working to see Turgen tending to her children rather than being angry she was just surprised to find him in her home.  As it turns out one of the people who didn't listen to the shamans words was Marfa's late husband who left marfa with some enlightening information that turgen was a kind man that helped anyone that needed and that the shaman only spoke lies and this was proven to her as she came to see him tending to her children.From that point he frequently dropped by to see Marfa and he children bringing them meats, and salts to make sure that marfa did not need to work so hard and with that she was able to spend more time with her children.  With these visits Turgen's story about his past affiliation with the rams on how he hunted them for sport and that cause great sorrow in him to see these creatures being hunter for their horns and meats even though they were minding their own business.  With this gap of trust between them Turgen set out to create a wall of trust with the ram which he achieved by feeding them every day.  As time passed he began to bond with the herd of ram and watched them as they at his food offering and when the rams had encounters with other dangerous creatures like bears and wolves Turgen did everything in his power to help the rams with their fight even if it meant risking his life.  In the middle of September hunting season began this is where Turgen's struggle's begin as hunters start to come to the mountains and they are specifically looking for the rams to hunt.  Turgen places the responsibilities of guiding the rams to a safer spot in the mountains.  With the help of Marfa and her children he was able to lead the rams to safety while being watched by the hunter they threaten his life because of his acrions.  This is when Marfa stood up and pleaded to hunter to listen to reason and why Turgen had see the rams through.  As they listen they were reminded of the shamans words and ignored er words this is when Turgen stood and talk sense to the hunter and told them how the shamans words should not be headed since he was visited by spirit for helping the rams as the Lamut were very religious they believed a spirit haunted Turgen and now believed he was free since the rams were gone.  In the end Turgen was accepted back to the village and married Marfa and was able to live normal life.
  Title: Matthew O'Neill (filmmaker)
  Passage: Matthew O'Neill is a documentary filmmaker best known for his work on the HBO film "Baghdad ER", for which he and co-creator Jon Alpert won three Emmy Awards.
  Title: Encounters of Every Kind
  Passage: Encounters Of Every Kind is an album by Meco, released in 1978.  It was recorded after the success of Meco's platinum-selling album "Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk" and contains two sides of linked songs.  In contrast to the previous album (which dedicated a full side to the music from "Star Wars") and contrary to an album title that suggests a similar focus on the music from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", this album is actually made up of songs from a number of different popular movies, with no special focus on any particular film.  (Meco would return to this format for his 1982 album "Pop Goes the Movies".)  The music from "Close Encounters" only appears at the very end of the album.
  Title: Encounters at the End of the World
  Passage: Encounters at the End of the World is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog.  The film studies people and places in Antarctica.  It was released in North America on June 11, 2008, and distributed by THINKFilm.
  Title: Islamic Golden Age
  Passage: The Islamic Golden Age is the era in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century, during which much of the historically Islamic world was ruled by various caliphates, and science, economic development and cultural works flourished.  This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where scholars from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and translate all of the world's classical knowledge into the Arabic language.  This period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258 AD.  A few contemporary scholars place the end of the Islamic Golden Age as late as the end of 15th to 16th centuries.
  Title: Encounters of the Spooky Kind II
  Passage: Encounters of the Spooky Kind II is a 1990 Hong Kong martial arts comedy horror film produced, choreographed, starring Sammo Hung.  The film was produced by Hung's production company, Bojon Films Company Ltd.  It was released as "Spooky Encounters 2" in the US.  It is sometimes listed as "aka Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind 2 ".  Despite the title, the film is not a sequel to "Encounters of the Spooky Kind".  The film's Chinese title literally translates as "Ghost Bites Ghost".
  Title: Cairo–Baghdad air route
  Passage: The Cairo–Baghdad Air Route was an airmail route established by the Royal Air Force following a conference of British military and civil officials held in Cairo in March 1921.  The aim was to create an air link between Egypt, Mandate Palestine and British Mandate of Mesopotamia (Iraq), which were under British control following the end of World War I.  The western end of the route was the airfield at Heliopolis, on the outskirts of Cairo.  The eastern end was at Hinaidi airfield, just south of Baghdad.  It was intended the route would eventually extend to India.
  Title: Encounters of the Spooky Kind
  Passage: Encounters of the Spooky Kind () is a 1980 Hong Kong martial arts comedy horror film written and directed by Sammo Hung, who also starred in the lead role.  The film was produced by Hung's production company Bo Ho Film Company.  It was released as "Spooky Encounters" in the US.  It is sometimes listed as "Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind", more blatantly mimicking the title of the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977).  The film was the progenitor of the jiangshi film genre and one of Hong Kong's first kung fu horror comedies.
  Title: Baghdad ER
  Passage: Baghdad ER is a documentary released by HBO on May 21, 2006.  It shows the Iraq war from the perspective of a military hospital in Baghdad.  It has some relatively disturbing scenes in it (e.g. amputations), therefore the U.S. Army is officially warning that military personnel watching it could experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
citations: Encounters at the End of the World Baghdad ER