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Movie: The Fall of Berlin ( 1945 )
Over 40 Army cameramen from 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts' contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.
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Movie: Elvis on Tour ( 1972 )
Concert footage and offstage documentary of singer Elvis Presley.
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Movie: The Cockettes ( 2002 )
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
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Movie: Memory of the Camps ( 2014 )
Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
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Movie: Capturing Lee Miller ( 2020 )
Vogue model, artist's muse, fearless war photographer: Lee Miller had many lives. Built on images of Lee and by Lee, LEE MILLER - A LIFE ON THE FRONT LINE explores a pioneering female artist who broke taboos and defied expectations.
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Movie: Escape From a Nazi Death Camp ( 2014 )
From PBS - The Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on October 14, 1943 the inmates fought back, in the biggest and most successful prison outbreak of the Second World War. Of the 600 inmates present on the day of the escape, 300 escaped. Around 50 survived the war and of that 50, only a handful are still alive. This is their last chance to reveal the true story of their escape.
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Movie: Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation ( 2007 )
A documentary about Albert Fish, who was a sadistic and cannibalistic serial killer.
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Movie: 1917: The Real Story ( 2020 )
1917 was a pivotal year for both sides in the conduct of the First World War. Decisions made during that year were to have a profound impact on what happened the following year and the eventual outcome of the war. One of those events provides the backdrop for the incredibly successful movie by Sam Mendes, "1917". "1917" was a huge blockbuster success and was inspired by the director's great-grandfather. So how much was fiction and how much was fact? This documentary analyses the movie and looks at what elements are true, the real-life characters and what became of them.
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Movie: Juvenile Court ( 1973 )
An unobtrusive and naturalistic examination of the goings-on of a children's court, Memphis Juvenile Court 616.
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Movie: Colditz - The Legend ( 2010 )
Colditz Castle was a maximum security prison from which no one was meant to escape... but escape they did. Take a fresh look at the legendary escapes, featuring stories from both Colditz survivors and their extended families.
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Movie: Gettysburg: Darkest Days & Finest Hours ( 2008 )
This impressive and epic commemoration of the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg tells the story of the pivotal 1863 battle from the soldier's point of view. All new dramatic recreations tie the one-of-a-kind reenactment footage into an exciting spectacle.
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Movie: Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster ( 1997 )
Documentary examines the Titanic in the same way transportation officials examine modern-day disasters and uses results of the Discovery Channel's Titanic expedition to answer scientifically some of the mysteries surrounding the shipwreck.
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Movie: Story of a Junkie ( 1985 )
Critically Acclaimed documentary from director Lech Kowalski (DOA) following the life and times of a down-and-out heroin addict in 1980s New York.
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Movie: Heroes of the Holocaust: Oskar Schindler ( 2020 )
Heroes Of The Holocaust series profiles those who risked or gave their lives to save others. The word "hero" should never be used lightly, but there are those who embody every letter of the word. Oskar Schindler is one such man. Join us for an in-depth look at Oskar Schindler's humble beginnings, the bravery he showed in the face of extreme danger, and the lion heart he possessed to always put first the well being of others.
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Movie: Groomed ( 2021 )
Gwen van de Pas returns to her hometown in search of answers about the man who sexually abused her as a child.
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Movie: Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's War ( 2015 )
Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller talks about being a young Jewish man during WWII.
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Movie: Incest: A Family Tragedy ( 2007 )
An intense documentary investigating the dark and hidden world of sexual molestation of children by trusted family members or friends.
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Movie: Mondo Topless ( 1966 )
Completely topless. Completely uninhibited. The craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe.
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Movie: Hitler's Steel Beast ( 2018 )
At the end of the 1930s, Hitler ordered the construction of a special train that could transport him around safely and appease his growing paranoia. A veritable fortress on rails, this armored fifteen-carriage convoy served as his mobile headquarters, and was where he met privately with Pétain, Franco and Mussolini. It was also the target of numerous assassination plots by the British secret service. Equipped with the most advanced communication facilities and a battery of anti-aircraft cannons, its construction called for a team of the biggest names in engineering, while the luxurious interior of each coach was designed by the Führer himself. We travel to Germany to discover what's left of these exceptional trains, and dig through the few surviving archives to retrace the little-known history of this special train and pierce the secrets behind Hitler's beast of steel.
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Movie: One Day in Auschwitz ( 2015 )
Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon revisits Auschwitz 70 years after her liberation, together with two teenage girls the same age she was when she was brought to the camp.
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Movie: Queen: Days of Our Lives ( 2011 )
The life and times of the rock band Queen - told in two parts covering in part one the 1970's and in part two the 1980's and beyond.
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Movie: Imagine: John Lennon ( 1988 )
A biography of the rock music star.
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Movie: Signs of Evil - The Runes of the SS ( 2016 )
This documentary tells the gripping story of the SS symbol, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Movie: The California Reich ( 1975 )
A documentary about the Nazi party in America.
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Movie: Sympathy for the Devil ( 1969 )
Godard's documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of news media, the mediated image, a growing technocratic society, women's liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language. Cutting between three major scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio, the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy (Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within Western culture. Although he believes Western culture needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the rejection of intellectualisation. "There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual"
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Movie: Nureyev ( 2018 )
This striking and moving documentary from BAFTA nominated directors Jacqui and David Morris traces the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev. From his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train, to his dramatic leap to freedom in the West at the height of the Cold War, and unprecedented adulation as the most famous dancer in the world. The film highlights Nureyev's unlikely yet legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn and charts his meteoric rise to the status of global cultural phenomenon. Nureyev's life plays out like the sweeping plot of a classic Russian novel. His story is Russia's story. Blending never-before-seen footage, with an original score by award-winning composer Alex Baranowski and spellbinding newly choreographed dance tableaux directed by Royal Ballet alumnus, Russell Maliphant, Nureyev is a theatrical and cinematic experience like no other. This is a portrayal as unique as the man himself. There will never be another Nureyev.
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Movie: Paradise Lost 2: Revelations ( 2001 )
The case of the West Memphis Three, its questionable circumstances and the parties involved are followed up years later.
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Movie: Pocahontas: Beyond the Myth ( 2017 )
The story of Pocahontas has been passed down through the centuries. Her relationship with John Smith has been characterized as a romance that united two cultures and created lasting peace. However, the life of this American Indian princess was anything but a fairytale. Join us as we look beyond the fiction and reveal the real story of Pocahontas, a tale of kidnapping, conflict, starvation, cannibalism, ocean journeys, and the future of an entire civilization.
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Movie: The Queens ( 2019 )
From performing across world stages to winning (and losing) Drag Race or dealing with major tragedies, The Queens lifts the lace front, giving insight into one of the most fascinating and popular art forms.
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Movie: We Shall Not Die Now ( 2019 )
A chronicle of the Holocaust, exploring stories of survival, tragedy, hope, and resilience through one of history's darkest chapters.
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Movie: Cocaine Cowboys 2 ( 2008 )
Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the "Cocaine Godmother" Griselda Blanco, who is serving time at a nearby federal prison. Six months later, Cosby is a multi-millionaire, Blanco's lover, and the head of her $40 million a year cocaine business. Also known as "The Black Widow" for her propensity to permanently dispose of her men when she's done with them, Blanco will stop at nothing to ensure that Charles is faithful to her. Cosby soon learns that he's in way over his head.
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Movie: Grey Gardens ( 1975 )
An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy, live their eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton.
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Movie: Ghosts & Witches of Olde England ( 2001 )
"Ghosts and Witches of Olde England" is a remarkable journey. Tour around the country to explore some of the best examples of fright inducing ghost, hauntings and witch folklore ever related.
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Movie: 3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy ( 2015 )
3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy tells the riveting story of a doctor who made millions preying on the poor and vulnerable of Philadelphia. Told through the eyes of police officers, detectives, reporters, jurors, and victims, the film chronicles a systemic miscarriage of justice that ravaged West Philadelphia for decades.
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Movie: Belushi ( 2020 )
Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi's death, director R.J. Cutler's documentary examines the too-short life of once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.
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Movie: The Cult of JT LeRoy ( 2014 )
JT LeRoy was a teen prostitute, addicted to heroin and infected with HIV, when a therapist encouraged him to write his life stories. Buoyed by a cadre of celebrities, he published three critically acclaimed books. His death in 2006 left his fans and supporters bewildered, angry, and betrayed. Others saw his fate coming.
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Movie: Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps ( 2017 )
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.
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Movie: The Kennedys' Irish Mafia ( 2016 )
This set details the never before told story of the Irish who surrounded JFK and the Kennedy family
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Movie: A Yiddish World Remembered ( 2004 )
Films, photographs and interviews depict Jewish life in the "shtetls" of Eastern Europe.
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Movie: Inside the KKK ( 2015 )
Dan Vernon journeys into the heart of America's most notorious supremacist group, with access to a modern day Missouri chapter: The Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Movie: The Hippie Temptation ( 1967 )
Explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park.
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Movie: The Last Days ( 1999 )
In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz.
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Movie: Steal a Pencil for Me ( 2007 )
A compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering.
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Movie: Once Were Brothers ( 2020 )
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band is a confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band. The film is a moving story of Robertson's personal journey, overcoming adversity and finding camaraderie alongside the four other men who would become hi brothers in music and who together made their mark on music history. Once Were Brothers blends rare archival footage, photography iconic songs and interviews with many of Robertson's friends and collaborators including Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison Martin Scorsese, Peter Gabriel, Taj Mahal, Dominique Robertson, Ronnie Hawkins, and more. In a career spanning six decades, Robbie Robertson has continued to create as a songwriter, producer, performer, actor, author and film composer. A half-Mohawk, half-Jewish kid from Toronto, Robertson would travel from the dives of Yonge Street to the deep South as an ambitious 16-year-old on a musical mission. His raw talent would thrust him into the spotlight and put him at the center of a cultural revolution, backing Bob Dylan on his notorious 1966 "electric" world tour and later, as a member of The Band, collaborating with Dylan on the ground-breaking Basement Tapes and inventing Americana with songs like "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." After 17 years, The Band called it quits with a lavish farewell concert on November 25th, 1976, at San Francisco' Winterland Ballroom, immortalized in the seminal concert film, The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese - considered by many as the greatest rock and roll film of all time.
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Movie: Streetlight Harmonies ( 2020 )
Streetlight Harmonies shines a long overdue spotlight on the artists and celebrates the music that defined the musical generation of Doo-Wop. Utilizing all-new interviews along with HD restored archival footage the film will explore the history and social impact of this timeless era.
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Movie: The Concert for Bangladesh ( 1972 )
The first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise humanitarian relief funds for the refugees of the Bangladesh 1971 war.
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Movie: The Summer of Love ( 2017 )
The story of the cultural, social, and political changes that were brought about following the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco.
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Movie: Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook ( 1997 )
It was a nightmare that shocked not only New York, but all of America. The public outcry about the Willowbrook State School for people with developmental disabilities resulted from Geraldo Rivera's expose on WABC after he had entered Willowbrook with a film crew in 1972, using a stolen key.
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Movie: Rainbow Bridge ( 1972 )
A documentary about various singers, musicians, artists, astrologers, etc., who attended a "New Age" gathering in Maui, Hawaii.
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Movie: Mansfield 66/67 ( 2017 )
MANSFIELD 66/67 is about the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield's life, and the rumours swirling around her untimely death.
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Movie: Hells Angels Forever ( 1984 )
What starts off as a squadron of American daredevil bombers in World War II, branded by society as renegades, turns into a revealing ride into the world of honor, violence, and undying passion for motorcycles on the road.
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Movie: Motown Merry Christmas ( 1987 )
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Movie: Frank Zappa ( 1971 )
Zappa, Beefheart, Alice Cooper and LA's Lunatic Fringe.
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Movie: Magda ( 2015 )
"Magda" is the true-life story of Magdalena Kasprzycki, a breast cancer survivor living a quiet life in Los Angeles. As a Polish woman born into a noble family, she was a teenager while living in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the early 1940s. Magda was recruited by her brother to become a spy for the Polish Underground Resistance Army during World War II.
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Movie: Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10 ( 2019 )
This chilling documentary uses intimate survivor testimonies, archival footage and legal records to tell the story of the over 400 young women who underwent medical experimentation in Auschwitz under Carl Clauberg, an enterprising, sadistic gynecologist. Clauberg, who had already made a name for himself as a research scientist who volunteered his services to Heinrich Himmler of the SS to both help eradicate future generations of Jews and to avail himself of a pool of captive research subjects. These experiments, which sterilized many of the women, was also what spared them from the gas chambers. Many of the women, who were deported to Auschwitz from across Nazi-occupied Europe, were so young that they did not understand their reproductive systems before suffering their destruction. This admirably crafted film traces the history of the survivors and the subsequent attempts to bring Clauberg to justice, which includes examining his -and these women's - enduring contribution to research on birth control and fertility and the role of German companies Siemens and Schering in profiting off the findings.
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Movie: Mission to Murder Hitler ( 2009 )
Documentary, also known as "Mission to Murder Hitler", chronicling Valkyrie, the true story of a German Resistance group attempting to murder Adolf Hitler.
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Movie: John Lennon: Love Is All You Need ( 2010 )
This incredible documentary features in-depth contributions from wives Yoko Ono and Cynthia Lennon, son Julian Lennon and many previously unseen interviews with John himself. Through rare footage, we learn of his rise to fame with The Beatles, his divorce from Cynthia, his first meeting with Yoko, split-up of the band, and his decision to become a solo artist and advocate for world peace. Lennon: Love is All You Need captures one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century with some truly unique interviews and unseen footage from those closest to him.
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Movie: Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful ( 2020 )
Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Helmut Newton came of age ensconced in the seductive decadence of an 'anything goes' Berlin under the Weimar Republic. His teenaged apprenticeship under commercial photography pioneer Yva - who perished in the Holocaust - coincided with his family's persecution under the rise of the Third Reich and the emergence of the striking aesthetics of infamous Nazi propagandist, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. He escaped with members of his family in 1938 and met his life partner June while in Australia working as a commercial photographer. The couple eventually settled in Paris where Helmut's gradual evolution beyond the, then, conservative confines of fashion photography coincided with the radical political upheaval of 60s France. Interpreting the most traumatic political and cultural shift in German history, Helmut established his artistic legacy by effectively channeling his past into an erotically charged, highly-subversive portfolio dominated by bold 'Aryan'-esque women in stilettos navigating the shadowy past of Helmut's motherland. Replete with Helmut's arresting imagery, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL features creative accomplices Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling, Isabella Rossellini, Marianne Faithfull, Anna Wintour and widow June Newton as they reflect on Helmut's life and legacy.
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Movie: Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell ( 2021 )
This documentary features rare footage filmed by Christopher Wallace's best friend, Damion "D-Roc" Butler, and interviews with his closest friends and family, revealing a side of Biggie Smalls that the world never knew.
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Movie: After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler ( 1940 )
Mixture of re-enactments and documentary footage relates the story of the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazis in Germany and the danger they pose to Europe and the rest of the world.
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Movie: Genocide ( 1984 )
Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.
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Movie: The Velvet Underground and Nico ( 1966 )
"A Symphony of Sound" - depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground and Nico at the Factory, 231 East 47th St., (loft on 4th floor), New York City. It is essentially a one long loose improvisation including some private conversations and a brief visit from the NYPD.
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Movie: The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 ( 1981 )
With a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler's rise to the power.
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Movie: Punk '76 ( 2013 )
Sex, Drugs, Clothes & Rock 'n' Roll. Along with a strong dash of political dissent, every ingredient was present in the Molotov cocktail that was Punk in '76. Following its UK cinema release, this brand new documentary starts the punk journey at 430 Kings Road, London, the SEX shop of punk's 'enfant terrible' pair of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. SEX was the melting pot that spawned the punk movement and its cultural vanguard - The Sex Pistols. Featuring major contributions from Tony James, Gene October, Jon Savage, Glen Matlock, Jah Wobble, Caroline Coon, Steve Severin, Charlie Harper, plus archive performances from some of Punk's early London bands, this is one of the great stories of British music history in the 20th Century.
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Movie: Gay USA ( 1977 )
Shot on one day by 25 different cameramen across the USA under the co-ordination of Arthur J. Bressan Jr. this film documents Gay Pride parades across the United States in the late 70s.
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Movie: Dawson City: Frozen Time ( 2018 )
The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
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Movie: Ghosts of California ( 2003 )
This documentary investigates five of California's most haunted sites: Alcatraz island, Bodie Ghost Town, Hotel Del Coronado, The Whaley House and The Winchester Mystery House.
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Movie: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson ( 2005 )
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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Movie: Getting Over ( 2018 )
A man discovers a box of interviews with his father, a heroin addict who died of AIDS in 1997. What he finds will uncover generations of family secrets, forcing him to redefine his own past, doubt his present, and question his future.
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Movie: Hitler and Stalin: Roots of Evil ( 2002 )
Exploring the minds of two of the 20th century's most brutal dictators and mass murderers, Adolf Hitler & Joseph Stalin. Based on recent psychological and medical studies, this program explores the personalities of these ruthless leaders, who were directly responsible for around sixty millions of deaths, their paranoia, suspiciousness, cold blooded actions and lack of human feeling.
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Movie: Hitler's Eastern Headquarters: The Wolf's Lair (Short 2017) ( 2017 )
Nazi delusions preserved in concrete - a place shrouded in mystery and still a symbol of the horror of the Nazi regime. This documentary tells the story of the clandestine construction of the Wolf's Lair from the perspective of milit
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Movie: Queen: Hungarian Rhapsody - Live in Budapest '86 ( 1987 )
On 27th July 1986, British stadium rock band Queen broke new ground by playing for the first time in Hungary, a country which was still under a communist dictatorship behind the Iron Curtain.
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Movie: Michael Jackson Unmasked ( 2009 )
So much has now been said about the turbulent life and phenomenal career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. Perhaps more than any other icon in history of popular music, Michael Jackson remains a charismatic but elusive figure of heated debate. But one fact will forever remain undisputed... his extraordinary talent for creating truly original music, loved by millions. And despite setbacks that would have ended careers of lesser men, Michael Jackson's legions of fans remain as loyal today as they have ever been and his accomplishments as the King of Pop during the 1980's will always remain some of the most impressive in music history. Featuring candid contributions from Janet Jackson, Brook Shields, Gladys Knight and from the King of Pop himself. Plus rare behind the scenes footage, this documentary dares look into the life of one of the most enigmatic and flamboyant pop stars of our time.
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Movie: Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her ( 1994 )
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race- on stage, in films, on radio and television. Including clips from Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Belle of the Nineties, and Klondike Annie. In addition to home movies and archival footage, Anthony Quinn, Rex Reed and Robert Wise provide interviews.
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Movie: Team Foxcatcher ( 2016 )
Documentary filmmaker Jon Greenhalgh examines the life of Dave Schultz, a professional wrestler who was part of 'Team Foxcatcher', funded by multi-millionaire John du Pont.
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Movie: Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told ( 2013 )
Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, one man who will change the history of the world forever. It follows his childhood to the death of his mother and his broken ambition to become an artist, then further to his entry into politics. His service in the army, accolades, his writing Mein Kampf, politics and most importantly Germany's revival are well explained followed by WW2. It also covers the effect on Germany's after the WW2 defeat up until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Movie: 14-18: The Noise and the Fury ( 2008 )
A documentary of World War I, exploring how soldiers accepted their conditions in the trenches when no clear reason had been given for the fight.
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Movie: Prosecuting Evil ( 2019 )
A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.
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Movie: The Search for Mengele ( 1985 )
Josef Mengele, the 'Angel of Death,' was the most notorious SS doctor at Auschwitz. He sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths and performed appalling experiments on adults and children.
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Movie: Hardcore: The Larry Flynt Story ( 2004 )
Documentary on infamous pornographer, activist and US politician Larry Flynt, also founder of the Hustler magazine empire and nightclub chain.
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Movie: OnlyFans: Selling Sexy ( 2021 )
ABC News Originals documentary, "OnlyFans: Selling Sexy," examines the voyeuristic and profit-making world of the online platform OnlyFans.
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Movie: The Donner Party ( 1992 )
In 1846, a large wagon train left Springfield, Illinois for California. In July of that year, following the advice of The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California written by a pro-emigration promoter named Lansford Hastings, the Donner party left the main body of emigrants to take a never before tried "shortcut" across the Great Basin. The Donner Party arrived at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, the last mountain pass before California, weeks behind schedule and short of food. The first blizzard of the season started only one day before they planned to head up and over the Sierra Nevada. With 95% of their journey already completed, they would be forced to wait months to make the final push, enduring the most unfavorable Sierra Nevada winter in history. The group was trapped on the eastern side of the Sierra for five months, culminating in death and cannibalism. Of the 87 men, women, and children in the Donner Party only 46 survived to reach California.
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Movie: Tina ( 2021 )
Exclusive access to the Grammy Award-winning artist to celebrate her career.
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Movie: Encounter with the Unknown ( 1975 )
Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother forecasts the deaths of the three young men she holds responsible, on 7, 14, and 21 days hence. And, one by one, her grim predictions come true. Next, a ghoulish sound emanates from a mist-shrouded hole in the Earth near where a Missouri boy has lost his dog. The boy's father is lowered into the hole and lets out an agonizing scream! Finally, a senator returning home from a party finds a lost girl on a bridge and learns from her father that she died years earlier!
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Movie: Sins of My Father ( 2009 )
This is the incredible story of Pablo Escobar, the infamous boss of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, told for the very first time by his son, Sebastian and his widow Maria Isabel Santos. In Nicolas Entel's film Sebastian tells of his extraordinary childhood, growing up with a father he loved but whom he knew to be Colombia's enemy number one. He tells of times of extraordinary luxury and extravagance, and other times on the run. And Sebastian and his widow open the family vaults to share their private and long hidden archives. But this is also the story of two of Escobar's most prominent victims, the Minister of Justice and a politician about to be elected President of Colombia, as told by their sons. They were among hundreds that Escobar had killed in the 1980's. The film follows Sebastian as he tries to break the cycle of revenge and assassination by seeking reconciliation with the sons of his father's victims.
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Movie: Sexology ( 2016 )
A taboo-breaking quest to discover the secrets of the female orgasm.
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Movie: Anne Frank Remembered ( 1995 )
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
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Movie: Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story ( 2019 )
A documentary about the little-known Josiah Henson, the escaped slave who inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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Movie: The Jeffrey Dahmer Files ( 2013 )
An experimental documentary that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalized scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer, during the summer of his arrest in 1991.
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Movie: Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations ( 1940 )
After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. Includes the marathon, men's diving, and American track star Jesse Owen's sprint races at the 1936 Olympic games. The production tends to glorify the young male body and, some say, expresses the Nazi attitude toward athletic prowess. Includes the lighting of the torch at the stadium and Adolf Hitler looking on in amazement as Jesse Owens wins an unprecedented four Gold Medals.
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Movie: GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II ( 2018 )
GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish American men and women who fought in World War II. In their own words, veterans both famous and unknown (from Hollywood director Mel Brooks to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) bring their war experiences to life: how they fought for for their nation and their people, struggled with anti-Semitism within their ranks, and emerged transformed, more powerfully American and more deeply Jewish.
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Movie: Mondo Bizarro ( 1966 )
A faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the women's dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor, goes inside the mailroom at Frederick's of Hollywood, watches an Australian who sticks nails through his skin and eats glass, checks out the art and peace scene in Los Angeles, tak...Read all
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Movie: Last Mysteries of the Titanic ( 2005 )
In the Last Mysteries Of The Titanic DVD, Academy Award-winning director James Cameron leads a team of underwater explorers on a series of historic dives to document the remains of the world's most famous shipwreck. Using two, $20-million research subs, four mini-robots, a seafloor-to-satellite data system and a suite of the most advanced cameras and lights, Cameron's team provides real-time images of the ship's interior, including hidden passageways and vast rooms that haven't been seen in over 90 years.
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Movie: Gone with the Wind: The Remarkable Rise and Tragic Fall of Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 2015 )
When Lynyrd Skynyrd emerged onto the world stage in 1973, it was the result of a collective determination; the group had struggled and fought to gain real recognition ever since their formation eight years before. And although they were initially identified, both in the music industry and in the media, as just another act in the then booming Southern Rock movement, it became quickly apparent that not only were Skynyrd a distinctly individual collective, but also they had the potential to become one of the finest rock bands in history. Led by the headstrong and domineering Ronnie Van Zant, a tough, blue collar brawler with a powerful stage presence, distinctive vocals and gritty, honest lyrics, his energy and vision propelled the group until its tragic end in 1977. This films tells the story of the rise and fall of a remarkable band.
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Movie: Zappa ( 2020 )
An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.