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Doc Trek
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The best documentaries PW has to offer.


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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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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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Movie: Zeitgeist ( 2007 )
Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues.
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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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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.