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Movie: The Way of Miracles ( 2021 )
Journey into human healing that follows holistic practitioner Dr. Mark Mincolla and his miracle patients.
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Movie: Tickling Giants ( 2017 )
The Arab Spring in Egypt: From a dictator to free elections, back to a dictatorship. One comedy show united the country and tested the limits of free press. This is the story of Bassem Youssef, a cardiologist turned comedian, the Jon Stewart of Egypt, and his show "The Show".
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Movie: JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass ( 2021 )
Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
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Movie: Life of Crime 1984-2020 ( 2021 )
A relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and desperate fight to survive the deadliest enemy ever to attack America.
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Movie: The Power Behind the New World Order ( 2011 )
A documentary exposing the evil Satanists plans to create a New World Order.
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Movie: Secret Space UFOs: Rise of the TR3B ( 2021 )
The legendary TR3B is said to be the very first Alien Reproduction Vehicle that the military built secretly for space travel.
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Movie: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story ( 2018 )
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
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Movie: The United States of Insanity ( 2021 )
The story of controversial rap duo Insane Clown Posse (ICP), their fans, and their ongoing struggle with the FBI in a landmark case that may be a bellwether of change for First Amendment rights in America.
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TV Show: Black Market with Michael K. Williams ( 2016 )
In his most personal project to date, Michael K. Williams journeys into the dangerous world of illicit trade.
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Movie: Escorts ( 2015 )
An insight into the lives of two self-dubbed high class call girls, Emily B and Cookie Jane.
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Movie: The Wall: Climb for Gold ( 2022 )
A uniquely emotional documentary feature film that will touch the heart of audiences around the world. Four female climbers face the sporting challenge of a lifetime as they attempt to compete in the first ever Olympic climbing competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Wall - Climb for Gold follows four elite climbers, Janja Garnbret, Shauna Coxsey, Brooke Raboutou,...Read all
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Movie: Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell ( 2015 )
Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rejection by record companies to global fame, bust-ups and a major comeback. Features friends, family and fellow musicians offering a candid, gritty and humorous profile of the overweight bullied kid who became a music icon...Read all
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Movie: This Changes Everything ( 2019 )
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
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Movie: #Dupe# ( 2021 )
This documentary explores Pompeii, that city cloaked in mystery which, over the course of history, has influenced culture and art, from Neoclassicism to Contemporary Art, through images and words by the great artists and writers who experienced, visited and imagined it: from Pliny the Younger to Picasso, from Emily Dickinson to Jean Cocteau. The film doesn't just deal with the volcano eruption, which has gone down in history, but with what the city of Pompeii itself was actually like: how its citizens lived their lives, spent their free time, experienced pleasure, passion, religion and their fate.
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Movie: Alive Inside ( 2014 )
Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, fights against a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music's ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it.
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Movie: Torn ( 2021 )
Alex Lowe's ill-fated climb and his son's arduous journey to return to the spot where his father perished.
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TV Show: Charlie Bee Company ( 2021 )
A Texas beekeeper rescues killer "Africanized" honeybees from desperate and dangerous situations while raising awareness about them
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TV Show: Titanic: Stories from the Deep ( 2019 )
A ground-breaking documentary series uncovering new history from 12,000 feet deep below the Atlantic Ocean. With the use of cutting-edge technology, the unique collection of artifacts salvaged from the underwater resting site of the wreck tells us brand new stories of love, deception, fate and heroics. Each episode follows the individual journeys of these artifacts from their recovery, to their connection to specific passengers on the ship and their connection to someone living today.
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TV Show: NOVA ( 1974 )
NOVA brings you stories from the frontlines of science and engineering, answering the big questions of today and tomorrow, from how our ancestors lived, to whether parallel universes exist, to how technology will transform our lives.
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Movie: Yab Yum ( 2021 )
Documentary about Yab Yum, once the most famous brothel in Amsterdam. It has been closed years ago because it was being used more and more for criminal activities.
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Movie: Cow ( 2022 )
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
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TV Show: The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek ( 2021 )
The Center Seat: 55 Years Of Star Trek is a multi-episode documentary series that takes viewers on the definitive in-depth journey behind the scenes of one of the greatest landmark franchises of all time: Star Trek. Celebrating the show's 55th anniversary, each episode focuses on a different chapter in the groundbreaking program's history, starting with its inception at Lucille Ball's legendary production company Desilu. Interviews with the cast, crew and experts reveal never-before-heard backstage stories and offer fresh insights. No stone is left unturned, including lesser-known aspects of the franchise like The Animated Series and Phase II. Additionally, The Center Seat features one of Leonard Nimoy's final in-depth Trek interviews. Star Trek is the most iconic television science-fiction saga of all time and remains more popular than ever. The Center Seat details how it began, where it's been, and how it's boldly going where no television series has gone before!
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Movie: Kidnapped for Christ ( 2014 )
A young evangelical filmmaker is granted unprecedented access inside a controversial Christian behavior modification program for teens, where she discovers shocking secrets and young students that change her life.
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Movie: That Vitamin Movie ( 2016 )
A respected documentary maker, hears from a friend, that his long term depression has been helped after watching a video entitled, "Food matters" and following a nutritional protocol involving high doses of vitamins, as outlined by a featured speaker in Foodmatters, by the name of Andrew W Saul. Beatie visits Saul and is given an outline of Orthomolecular Medicine, the protocol envisaged by Nobel prize winners and eminent scientists.
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Movie: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) ( 2021 )
SUMMER OF SOUL is part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten--until now. SUMMER OF SOUL shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, and more.
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Movie: Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché ( 2021 )
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.
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Movie: The Diabetes Solution ( 2021 )
A group of families and doctors reveal a corporate cover-up in exposing the truth about Diabetes management, in this seminal documentary about the disease.
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Movie: Music for the Movies: Tôru Takemitsu ( 1994 )
A documentary of the Japanese film composer Toru Takemitsu, featuring interviews and clips from films he scored.
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Movie: Infamy ( 2005 )
A feature-length documentary about graffiti culture as told through the experiences of six well-known graffiti writers and a graffiti buffer.
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Movie: Rescue Me: A Home 4 Spot ( 2019 )
Rescue Me explores the highs, lows and daily realities of running an urban animal rescue. It tells the story of Diana England, a retired nail-stylist, who started her own dog rescue in Las Vegas, a Home 4 Spot.
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Movie: Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream ( 2019 )
The journey of two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream: creating the world's first fully painted feature film.
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TV Show: The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling ( 2018 )
When Garry Shandling passed away in 2016, he was widely remembered as a top stand-up comic and the star of two of the most innovative sitcoms in TV history. But to those who knew him, the "real" Garry Shandling was a far more complex person. Now, Judd Apatow has created a remarkable portrait of this iconic comedian in the four-and-a-half-hour documentary The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling.Epic in scope and intimate in detail, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling features conversations with more than 40 of Shandling's family and friends, including James L. Brooks, Jim Carrey, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Coulier, Jon Favreau, Jay Leno, Kevin Nealon, Conan O'Brien, Bob Saget, Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman, and four decades' worth of TV appearances, along with personal journals, private letters and candid home audio and video footage that reveal his brilliant mind and restless soul.
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Movie: Zeitgeist ( 2007 )
Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues.
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TV Show: The Ascent of Civilisation ( 2015 )
What were the Vikings really like? What did the Romans accomplish? And do the singular achievements of the ancient Greeks live on in us today? The Ascent of Civilisation questions the myths and unravels age-old clichés about these ancient cultures. It examines their strange and sometimes amusing idiosyncrasies, gives fresh insights into who they really were, and provides a novel take on their societies, peppered with surprising new revelations. This is a new look at the Ancients that will change our perception of them.
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Movie: Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) ( 2023 )
A different perspective on the climate change debate supported by the scientists who signed the Clinton World Climate Declaration.
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Movie: Spermworld ( 2024 )
Three men enter the new wild west of baby making - online forums where sperm donors connect with hopeful parents - but find themselves exchanging more than just genetic material.
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Movie: At the Drive-in ( 2017 )
Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free.
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TV Show: Mammals ( 2024 )
Full of new, never-before-seen behaviors, this series offers fascinating insights into the most successful animal group in the world. From the tiny Etruscan shrew to the giant blue whale, Mammals will reveal the secrets of their success, and how their winning design, incredible adaptability, unrivalled intelligence, and unique sociability have all contributed to their remarkable rise. 
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Movie: Europa: The Last Battle ( 2017 )
World War II revisionist film that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews--as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel.
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Movie: Revealed: How to Poison a Planet ( 2024 )
Investigates toxic chemicals that have sparked an international health and environmental catastrophe, and examines a decades-long battle between some of the world's largest chemical companies and the contaminated communities fighting for
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Movie: You Can Call Me Bill ( 2023 )
An intimate portrait of William Shatner's personal journey over nine decades on this Earth, You Can Call Me Bill strips away all the masks he has worn to embody countless characters, and reveals the man behind it all.