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The best documentaries PW has to offer.


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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: Enemies of the State ( 2021 )
An American family becomes entangled in a bizarre web of secrets and lies when their hacker son is targeted by the U.S. government, making them all ENEMIES OF THE STATE.
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Movie: Eddy's Kingdom ( 2020 )
Eddy Haymour is a barber, an eccentric entrepreneur, a psychiatric patient, a kidnapper, and a hostage taker. A controversial character, he has been called both madman and visionary. Our 90 minute documentary, Eddy's Kingdom, chronicles the saga of Haymour's obsession with creating an island theme park in Kelowna BC, which culminated in a hostage taking in Lebanon. His present day quest is to confront the current BC government and get the island back in his possession. At his side is his daughter Fadwa, the only family member who still talks to him.
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Movie: Earthlings ( 2005 )
Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.
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TV Show: Earth at Night in Color ( 2020 )
Using cutting-edge cameras and a revolutionary editing process, Earth at Night in Color presents nature's previously unseen marvels with striking new clarity. Captured across six continents, from the Arctic Circle to the African grasslands, this pioneering work follows the moonlit lives of animals at night, revealing new insights and never-before-seen behaviors into some of our favorite species' nocturnal habits. The show will also introduce relatively unknown creatures who are sure to become new icons of the animal kingdom.
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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: Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family ( 2017 )
"Data Mining the Deceased" prods the industry behind the exponential intensity in genealogy. What are the motivations of the key players and how are their ambitions affecting the millions of North Americans who are searching for answers?
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Movie: Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove ( 2000 )
Members of the so-called "Bohemian Club" Include Former Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan. The Bush Family Maintains a Strong Involvement. Each Year at Bohemian Grove, Members of This All-Male "Club" Don Red, Black and Silver Robes and Conduct an Occult Ritual Wherein They Worship a Giant Stone Owl, Sacrificing a Human Being in Effigy to What They Call the "Great Owl of Bohemia."
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TV Show: Dale Winton's Florida Fly Drive ( 2018 )
Travelogue series in which Dale Winton explores the sunshine state of Florida.
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Movie: Cow ( 2022 )
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
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Movie: Count Me In ( 2021 )
You can have rhythm without music but you can't have music without rhythm.
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TV Show: Core Kyoto ( 2013 )
The ancient capital, Kyoto, continues to be innovative after 1,200 years. We dive deep into its core in this definitive program.
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Movie: Clinton Cash ( 2016 )
An investigation into how the Clintons have amassed millions in personal wealth through foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation, a supposed charity, in exchange for political favors while Hillary Clinton was the US Secretary of State.
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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: Clerk ( 2021 )
A documentary on the career and life of filmmaker and raconteur Kevin Smith.
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Movie: Chronos ( 2021 )
Expanding on the themes of Gaia and the Biosphere film series "CHRONOS" takes you on a journey around our beautiful planet. You will explore the wonders of the world that make us human our spirituality and the human experience on Earth and beyond. Narrated by Lauren Clare. Directed by Dominique Mueller and Jennifer Athena Galatis.
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Movie: Cher and the Loneliest Elephant ( 2021 )
A magnificent story in which the superstar Cher flies across the world during a pandemic to save Kaavan, a bull elephant from 35 years of incarceration.
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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: Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes ( 2021 )
Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes features on-camera interviews between Farrow and some of the interviewees featured in his investigations against Weinstein's sexual misconduct, including former employees of the Hollywood producer as well as Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, the woman who wore a wire that caught audio evidence of his misconduct. 
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Movie: Brave New World ( 1980 )
In a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called 'engaging', is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma. People are hatched and cloned on conveyor belts to meet the requirements of five different social classes, from ruling Alphas to robot-like Epsilons. Bernard Marx is a different Alpha male with an inclination to thinking. He and a girl called Lenina Disney go visit a reservation of 'savages' where they meet a handsome young man John and bring him back to 'civilization'. John turns out to be the son of the director of the cloning authority, which causes a scandal and makes John a celebrity freak. John falls in love with Lenina but his desire is ruined by his antiquated sexual morale derived from reading Shakespeare. John hates the over-social but anti-emotional civilization, asks to be sent to live in isolation, and gets a job as a lighthouse guard. But even there he can't forget Lenina or escape his celebrity status.
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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: Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed ( 2021 )
Bob Ross brought joy to millions as the world's most famous art instructor. But a battle for his business empire cast a shadow over his happy trees.
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Movie: Blind Spot ( 2008 )
Blind Spot is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroad, which offers two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don't our way of life will collapse.
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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: Being James Bond: The Daniel Craig Story ( 2021 )
In this special 45 minute retrospective, Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year tenure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage spanning from 'Casino Royale' to 'No Time To Die', Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, in the lead up to his final performance as the iconic secret agent.
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Movie: Becoming Bond ( 2017 )
The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), despite having never acted a day in his life. Then after being offered the next six Bond films and a $1 million signing bonus, he turned it all down...
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Movie: Banking on Bitcoin ( 2016 )
Bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the Internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism. The film shows the players who are defining how this technology will shape our lives.
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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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Movie: A Tale of Two Coreys ( 2018 )
The story of teen heartthrobs Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, whose lives were forever changed by the glitz, glamour, and darker side of show business.
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Movie: Ascension ( 2021 )
The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream." This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
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Movie: Aquarela ( 2019 )
Water is the main protagonist, seen in all its great and terrible beauty. Mountains of ice move and break apart as if they had a life of their own. Kossakovsky's film travels the world, from the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal and Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma, to Venezuela's mighty Angel Falls in order to paint a portrait of this fluid life force in all its glorious forms. Fragile humans experience life and death, joy and despair in the face of its power.
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TV Show: Ancient Apocalypse ( 2021 )
Ancient Apocalypse investigates six catastrophic stories of how the world's greatest civilisations collapsed.Every continent has its ruins — places where only stones tell the tale of a fallen people. They might lay buried under the Earth, in the shade of jungle canopy or amidst the teeming industry of a modern city. However, they all raise the same questions: How could something so great all but vanish? Why do civilisations collapse?In this 6-part series, we uncover the scientific reasons why some of history's most fascinating peoples have disappeared in the face of the natural world's might. We investigate the end of The Akkadian Empire, The Lost City of Helike, Sodom and Gomorrha, The mystery of the Sea Peoples, The Maya Civilisation and Doggerland. Some of the world's greatest natural disasters reduced these societies to nothing.
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Movie: American: The Bill Hicks Story ( 2010 )
Photo-animated feature documentary, uniquely narrated by the 10 people who knew Bill best.
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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: A Gray State ( 2017 )
A documentary about the mysterious death of fringe political filmmaker David Crowley, who was found dead alongside members of his family in their suburban Minnesota home in January of 2015.
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Movie: A Glitch in the Matrix ( 2021 )
Are we in fact living in a simulation? This is the question postulated, wrestled with, and ultimately argued for in the latest provocation from acclaimed documentary stylist Rodney Ascher (Room 237, The Nightmare) through archival footage, compelling interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a collection of cases from some of our most iconoclastic figures in contemporary culture.
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Movie: Aftermath: The Remnants of War ( 2002 )
Based on the award-winning book by Donovan Webster, this film exposes the human remains, environmental damage, and psychological trauma of military conflict which remain after the fighting stops and the troops go home. The program features interviews with individuals involved with the reparation of the residual devastion - people who destroy unexploded munitions at Verdun and in Sarajevo, recover and identify skeletons of battlefield casualties at Stalingrad, and help victims of Agent Orange in the Aluoi Valley, Vietnam. Archival footage sets each segment in its historical context.
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Movie: 33 & Beyond: The Royal Art of Freemasonry ( 2017 )
An unprecedented journey into the world of Freemasonry.
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Movie: 1986: The Act ( 2020 )
In 1986, pharmaceutical companies extorted the US Congress into giving it the best business model in the world: no lawsuits for vaccine products that are mandated by law to be injected into children - products that have never been properly tested for safety. Vaccines that are currently being rushed-to-market for COVID-19 require even less rigorous testing of their capacity to cause harm. Man and microbe, from Polio to COVID19 - A dramatic never more relevant forensic examination of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its consequences. What happens when an ancient wisdom - a mother's intuition - is pitted against powerful interests in a race against time?
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Movie: 1984 ( 1985 )
Longing for freedom, the lowly bureaucrat of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith, summons up the courage to write down his unspoken desires in his little secret diary. Serving silently at the pleasure of the grim, autocratic hyper-state of Oceania, Smith knows that the English Socialist Party's supreme leader, the omnipotent Big Brother, watches his every move, condemning the already terrified people into a life of slavery. Under those dire circumstances--as the totalitarian government's suffocating stranglehold tightens more and more--Julia, another equally seditious party member, crosses paths with Winston, and a dangerous clandestine affair begins. Now, there's no turning back, and, sooner or later, the illicit couple will have to pay for its hideous crimes against the dictatorial state. What makes a good citizen?
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Movie: 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible ( 2021 )
Fearless Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks in seven months.
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Movie: 13th ( 2016 )
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.