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Movie: Naked as Nature Intended ( 1961 )
Three girls on a tour of the English countryside meet up with two young women who introduce them to the joys of life in a nudist camp.
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Movie: I Am Bruce Lee ( 2012 )
Bruce Lee is universally recognized as the pioneer who elevated martial arts in film to an art form, and this documentary will reveal why Bruce Lee's flame burns brighter now than the day he died over three decades ago. The greatest martial artists, athletes, actors, directors, and producers in the entertainment business today will share their feelings about the one who started it all. We will interview the people whose lives, careers, and belief systems were forever altered by the legendary "Father of Martial Arts Cinema". Rarely seen archival footage and classic photos will punctuate the personal testimonials. Prepare to be inspired.
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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: Love, Cecil ( 2018 )
Respected photographer, artist and set designer, Cecil Beaton. was best known for his Academy Award-winning work, designing for such award-winning films such as Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with various models, artists and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career. Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler of his time, but a supreme arbiter of its tastes. From the Bright Young Things, to the front lines of World War II, and from the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue to a role as the Queen's official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural and political schisms of the twentieth century. In this warm - though critical - portrait, which blends archival footage and photographs with voice over from Beaton's famed diaries to capture his legacy as a complex and unique creative force. Dynamic and lyrical, Love, Cecil (2017) is an examination of Beaton's singular sense of the visual, which dictated a style and set standards of creativity that continue to resonate and inspire today.
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Movie: From the Ashes ( 2017 )
From the Ashes captures Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry and what its future should be under the Trump Administration. From Appalachia to the West's Powder River Basin, the film goes beyond the rhetoric of the "war on coal" to present compelling and often heartbreaking stories about what's at stake for our economy, health, and climate. The film invites audiences to learn more about an industry on the edge and what it means for their lives.
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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: Alien Chronicles: Top UFO Encounters ( 2020 )
Aliens and UFOs are more real than ever before. Thousands of sightings by highly credible witnesses worldwide cannot be denied. The big question is not whether the Aliens are here among us, monitoring us, perhaps preparing us for some kind of end game that will change humanity forever, but why is the government and military still denying the fact that we are not alone? While many of the sightings every year are debunked, it's the ones that defy description, obliterate our notions of physics and science and exhibit other worldly capabilities beyond our grasp. The mind blowingly bizarre and most mysterious Alien Encounters of all, these are the cases we call Alien Chronicles.
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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: 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: 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: Wigstock: The Movie ( 1995 )
Documentary/Concert film covering the annual Drag festival in New York City. Highlights include a performance by drag diva, Ru Paul, and the infamous Lypsinca.
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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: Stripped: Los Angeles ( 2020 )
An unflinching look at Los Angeles' top exotic & private dancers. Enter with a full-access pass into the lives of five women whose raw ambitions drive them through struggles and taboo to female empowerment.
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Movie: Elvis: That's the Way It Is ( 1970 )
Concert footage and backstage documentary of singer Elvis Presley.
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Movie: What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy ( 2015 )
Three men travel together across Europe. For two of them the journey involves a confrontation with the acts of their fathers, who were both senior Nazi officers. For the third, the eminent human rights lawyer and author Philippe Sands, it means visiting the place where much of his own Jewish family was destroyed by the fathers of the two men he has come to know. It is an emotional, psychological exploration of three men wrestling with their past, the present of Europe - and conflicting versions of the truth.
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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: The Kids Are Alright ( 1979 )
From the early black and white days to their colourful hedonistic era, you will Rock! See them at their most creative, and destructive, and experience The Who: Here!
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Movie: Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess ( 2012 )
A documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is considered the 'Lost Screen Goddess'.
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Movie: Hitler's Island Madness ( 2012 )
As soon as Hitler's forces occupied the Channel Islands in 1940 he ordered a series of fortifications to defend the only British territory he ever conquered. The problem was he never stopped - pouring men, concrete and weapons into the islands. By 1944 his officers talked of the Fuehrer's inselwahn - his 'island madness' and the Channel Islands had become the most fortified place on earth.
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Movie: A Race of Giants: Our Forbidden History ( 2015 )
Legends throughout the world testify that giants once walked the Earth. The Bible tells of the Nephilim, giants who were "the sons of God and the daughters of man," but in the modern world this is thought to be a myth. But if these accounts are merely myth, how can we have skeletal remains of human giants that are eight to twelve feet tall, that have been discovered throughout the world and throughout history? In America alone, there have been over 1,500 newspaper accounts of giant skeletons being found, including 3,781 skeletons of a race of blond haired giants exhumed on Catalina Island, CA in 1920. The fact is, there are many credible accounts of such discoveries including giants with double rows of teeth, and in some cases six fingers. So where is the evidence? Many have accused the Smithsonian of a cover-up, because they deny that such specimens ever existed, but why? Explore the history, the mounting evidence, and the theories about this amazing chapter in our forbidden history.
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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: Creating Woodstock ( 2019 )
For three days in August 1969, nearly a half-million young people descended upon Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for the rock 'n' roll event that defined a generation. Mythologized for 50 years, the filmmakers set the record straight with "Creating Woodstock," the most comprehensive examination of how the festival came to be.
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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: Hitler's Hidden City ( 2009 )
Hitler's Hidden City is a subterranean adventure under the streets of Berlin, following the work of a team of German archaeologists and historians exposing and exploring the last remaining structures of the Third Reich. We gain rare access to an underground city ordered and -- in part -- designed by Hitler himself, part of a vast network of over 1000 bunkers and many miles of tunnels, much of which has remained sealed since the war. Eyewitnesses and historians add colorful stories to cutting edge CGI that bring to life this network of bunkers, how they were built and how they were used in the dark days of the downfall of Berlin.
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Movie: America Before Columbus ( 2009 )
History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn't exactly a New World, but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways.
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Movie: Limelight ( 2011 )
A documentary on former New York City club owner Peter Gatien.
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Movie: The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years ( 1989 )
Documentary showcase, what life was like for the music artists living during the Los Angeles Heavy Metal scene in the mid and late 1980s.
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Movie: Sound City ( 2013 )
A documentary on the fabled recording studio that was located in Van Nuys, California.
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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: Fidel ( 1973 )
FIDEL provides a unique view of Cuba's controversial and most polarizing leader. In 1968, Castro took filmmaker and activist Saul Landau on a weeklong jeep ride through the eastern mountains. There, he plays baseball with a group of peasants, visits his pre-school and trades jokes with a 98-year old man. Fidel also listens to the people's concerns about food distribut...Read all
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Movie: Have You Seen Andy? ( 2003 )
"Have You Seen Andy?" is the personal story of a childhood friendship abruptly ended by the tragic abduction of a young boy. On a hot summer day in August 1976, ten year-old Andy Puglisi was playing along with dozens of other children at the Higgins Memorial Pool in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Then suddenly, he disappeared. Twenty-two years later, filmmaker Melanie Perkins, Andy's childhood friend, begins her search for answers in this feature-length documentary. 2008 Emmy Award Winner - Best Investigative Journalism.
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Movie: Catfish ( 2010 )
Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
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Movie: The Cheshire Murders ( 2013 )
A documentary about a brutal home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut in 2007.
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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: American Hollow ( 1999 )
This film tells the tale of a close-knit Appalachian family that has changed little in the last 100 years.
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Movie: Mysteries of Egypt ( 1998 )
Egypt is and ever was a place of mystery. Many rumors spread around the great Pyramids of Gizeh (the only one of the seven wonders of the world left), their age ranges - in different theories - between 3,000 and even 12,000 years. Here, an old Egyptian is asked by his granddaughter about those mysteries of which we all heard in one way or the other. The action takes us to Howard Carter, who, after years and years of searching, finally found King Tutankhamen's (Tut-ench-Amun) grave in 1922. This was a major event in archaeology, as this grave was never robbed and therefore in the same condition as it was left (est.) 1339 B.C. We also get to see the Nile's wells and other historic landmarks that make Egypt an important part of world history.
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Movie: The Decline of Western Civilization Part III ( 1998 )
The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film that follows the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers.
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Movie: The Double Life of George Michael ( 2018 )
George Michael. He was one of the greatest pop stars of his generation, with millions of albums sold around the world both as part of the pop duo Wham! and as a soloist. But behind the persona, things were not all they appeared.
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Movie: Echoes That Remain ( 2009 )
Echoes That Remain paints a rich portrait of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust. Folk stories, parables, and anecdotes come together in a complex tapestry woven from archival research and oral histories.
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Movie: Glen Campbell: The Rhinestone Cowboy ( 2013 )
Profile of singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, a story of success, disgrace and redemption.
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Movie: Richard III: The New Evidence ( 2014 )
Modern scoliosis sufferer Dominic Smee and a team of scientists and medieval warfare experts embark on an extraordinary journey to reveal new research that's changing our knowledge of a defamed medieval king.
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Movie: Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed ( 2021 )
Alice Roberts recounts a campaign of excavations led by archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson that between 2014 and 2018 uncovered two sites crucially connected with the construction of Stonehenge. The first discovery was the Welsh quarry where the bluestones of Stonehenge were broken out of the volcanic outcrop. The dating of the quarry led to the search for a second site where the stones were originally set up in a circle for 400 years before being transported to their current location at Stonehenge.
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Movie: Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There ( 2003 )
Interviews and archival footage are used to tell the story of post-war Broadway through the 1960s.
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Movie: The King of Communism: The Pomp & Pageantry of Nicolae Ceausescu ( 2002 )
The story about the national personality cult of the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu.
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Movie: Aroused ( 2013 )
Aroused is a feature documentary film capturing the making of a Fine Art photographic book shot by Deborah Anderson, featuring 16 of the Worlds most successful Adult film Stars. As questions are asked in this intimate film, the girls reveal more than just their naked skin.
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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: 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: Bee Gees: In Our Own Time ( 2010 )
"In Our Own Time" is a new film on the long and illustrious career of the legendary Bee Gees, from their modest beginnings to unrivaled worldwide success in the "70's to the tragedy of losing their brothers Maurice and Andy. The story is told "in their own words" by Barry and Robin from extensive new interviews, and the film also includes archive interview footage of Maurice, videos, TV appearances and live performances.
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Movie: Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper ( 2016 )
Gloria Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper discuss their notable family's history.
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Movie: Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation ( 2012 )
Explores the music scene in Greenwich Village, New York in the 60's and early 70's. The film highlights some of the finest singer/songwriters of the day.
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Movie: The River Ran Red ( 2008 )
The River Ran Red, part of The Witnesses Trilogy, is a 60 minute documentary about the epic search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Using eyewitness testimonies, the filmmaker, himself a survivor, weaves a story of terrifying intensity, from the highland waters of the Euphrates to the burning deserts of Syria, to the final resting place of those who died in and around the river.
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Movie: The True Story of the Mary Celeste ( 2007 )
On the 5th of December 1872, the American-registered brigantine, the Mary Celeste, was found drifting in the Atlantic. The ship was in good condition. Its cargo was intact. However the 10 people on board were missing without trace. An official inquiry in Gibraltar failed to find the cause of their disappearance and since then, rumour, wild speculation and many theories have been proposed. In the 135 years that have passed, the mystery of this "ghost ship" has never been solved - until now. This is not another re-telling of this famous story or another theory which cannot be proved. A four-year investigation for this programme has turned up new information including a transcript of the ship's lost log. Now, vital new clues have enabled an international team of experts to finally solve what is widely regarded as the greatest mystery of the sea. The first accurate model ever created of the Mary Celeste has been used to create stunning CGI scenarios by RED VISION, the UK-based award-winning graphics studio. Interviews with members of the families of the American captain and the German seamen who were accused of murdering those on the Mary Celeste. Rare archive and the personal possessions of those on board which have never been seen outside the families of those whose lives were touched by this event. Filmed in full HD at the locations where this remarkable story unfolds: The Azores, The US, Germany, Gibraltar and the UK.
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Movie: Kiss and Tail: The Hollywood Jumpoff ( 2009 )
Go deep into the underworld of hip-hop groupies and video vixens where sex is the backstage pass and young ladies use their bodies as a way to promote themselves and further their own careers. Jump Off takes a provocative look at the seedy side of the music business where hip-hop groupies pay a high price to get a taste of the celebrity lifestyle. Hear the real, raw truth about the groupie lifestyle from the scene's biggest stars. Get the inside story from one of hip-hop's most notorious femmes, Karrine: Superhead Steffens. Reenactments show how Karrine sexed her way through the hip-hop world, climbing her way up the ladder before crashing to the bottom. Now a bestselling author, she's still kissing and telling, but the huge stars she allegedly bedded are telling their side of the story.
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Movie: Roger & Me ( 1989 )
Director Michael Moore pursues GM CEO Roger B. Smith to confront him about the harm he did to Flint, Michigan with his massive downsizing.
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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: Teaserama ( 1955 )
A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.
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Movie: The Méliès Mystery ( 2021 )
Son of a shoe manufacturer, Georges Méliès decided to devote himself to magic. In 1888, he used his share of the inheritance to buy the Robert-Houdin Theater, Boulevard des Italiens, where his fairy-tale shows drew crowds. Seven years later, dazzled by the animated image of the Lumière brothers, he launches into a new art form, cinema. His thirst for enchantment led him to invent special effects. But the evolution of the public's taste and the passage of the cinema to the industrial era put away his dream machine. Forgotten, he ends up running a toy store in the Montparnasse train station. In 1923, in a fit of despair, he destroyed the negatives of his films. Since then, film buffs all over the world have found and restored reels.
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Movie: Breaking Vegas ( 2004 )
Documentary tracing the attempts of a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institue students to become rich playing blackjack at casinos throughout the United States and the attempts of the casinos' management to thwart them.
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Movie: Australia After Dark ( 1975 )
A 1970s 'Ozploitation' documentary looking at a random collection of stories from the "dark side" of Australian culture.
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Movie: Freewheelin' ( 1976 )
Stacy and his friends are the best skateboarders around. They know all the latest tricks and stunts, and each has mastered his own incredible style. This fascinating movie will bring you along as they tour cities enjoying the sights and becoming the main attraction wherever they go. Loaded with classic footage from the early days of the original Zephyr team (of "Dogtown and Z-Boys" fame.)
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Movie: The Bermuda Triangle ( 1979 )
A documentary that explores the legends, facts and folklore about the dreaded "Bermuda Triangle".
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Movie: Journey Into the Beyond ( 1975 )
A "journey" into the world of the supernatural.
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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: Mated ( 1952 )
A video "marriage manual" explains differences between sexes.
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Movie: Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films ( 2003 )
The history of traffic safety educational films and their notoriously lurid content.
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Movie: Europe in the Raw ( 1963 )
Russ Meyer's documentary about the underground vice world of Europe.
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Movie: Orphans of the Genocide ( 2013 )
Orphans of the Genocide is an eye-opening visual journey through never-before-seen archival footage and discovered memoirs of orphans who lived through the the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Over 150,000 orphans were rescued by American and Scandinavian organizations. One of these orphans was Satenig, the mother of American pathologist and euthanasia proponent Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
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Movie: Last Days in Vietnam ( 2014 )
During the final days of the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. An unlikely group of heroes emerged as Americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands.
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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: 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: Freddie Mercury, the Untold Story ( 2000 )
Biography of the lead singer of Queen.
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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: Lincoln@Gettysburg ( 2013 )
From PBS - How the telegraph helped Abraham Lincoln to reshape America. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln proved himself a master of a new frontier--not on the battlefields of the Civil War, but in his "high-tech" command center, the War Department Telegraph Office. The telegraph was the "Internet" of the nineteenth century, and it gave Lincoln powers of command, communications, and control never before exercised by a commander-in-chief. He used this new technology to connect the country to him--receiving nearly live dispatches via telegraph from his generals in the field and sending out his plans for the nation faster and with more clarity than ever before. The results of Lincoln's pioneering experiment in electronic leadership would ultimately lead to the fields of Gettysburg. There, one battle turned the tide of the Civil War--and became the setting for the 272 words of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the speech that recast the American ideal as a national creed. Lincoln@Gettysburg unfolds the greatest turning point in American history, the rebirth of a nation, and the dawn of the information age.
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Movie: Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu ( 1998 )
Documentary recounting the life story of Louise Brooks in 5 sections: "Lulu in Toe Shoes"; "Lulu in Hollywood"; "Lulu in Berlin"; "Lulu in Hell"; and "Resurrection". Narrated by Shirley MacLaine and featuring numerous interviews with friends and relatives of the legendary star, it also contains excerpts from many of her films including her first on-screen appearance.
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Movie: Trouble Behind ( 1991 )
During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites sought their former jobs and positions in the community. In 1919, a race riot occurred. Whites put the African-Americans on railroad cars and ran them out of town. In Trouble Behind, members of the Corbin community speak out on the issue. The filmmakers also interview former members of the Corbin, which at the time of filming had only one black family. Some Corbin residents express confusion as to why African-Americans don't move back. Others openly use racial epithets. Some young adults seem troubled by the racism, past and present. Others don't.
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Movie: Frat House ( 1998 )
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Movie: Flannery ( 2020 )
"Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic..." Flannery O'Connor, 1958. Shy, funny, devout, disabled--words that describe one of the most acclaimed American short story writers of all time. Flannery O'Connor's stories about the southern U.S. have inspired writers, artists and musicians for decades with their dark humor and "gothic" sensibilities. "Flannery" tells the life story of a brilliant, young woman who died before she was forty through the eyes of contemporary writers and artists with cartoons, animations, never-before-seen archival footage and great music. Tommy Lee Jones, Alice Walker, Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff, Hilton Als, Alice McDermott, Bill T. Jones, Lucinda Williams--all share their opinions, their art and their music in this feature-length, NEH-funded documentary. How can people go to church AND commit murder, she wonders...?
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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: H. H. Holmes: Original Evil ( 2018 )
Humanity has achieved great heights. We have landed on the moon, placed a powerful computer in our pockets, cured numerous diseases and brought the world the most evil and deranged serial killers. There are very few that stand out quite as much as H. H. Holmes and his Murder Hotel. In fact, his notoriety is so great that Hollywood embarked on a blockbuster about him and now it is even claimed that Britain's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper, was none other than H. H. Holmes himself. He presided over the "castle". A devilish architectural creation in downtown Chicago made specifically to murder people. Trap doors, chutes, false doors, hidden passageways and spy holes made the Murder Castle the infamous building of its age. Many victims were beaten to death; some were strangled, and others gassed. And yet others were tortured on racks before they lost their lives. When he was finally caught, he confessed to twenty-seven murders, although it is believed by many that he murdered over 200. But it is not the number of deaths that is the cause of his devilish fame; it is in fact the methods he used. This is the tale of the evil dark lord of the Murder Castle - guts and all.
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Movie: Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century ( 2015 )
through different audio and visual files, this documentary reconstructs a new and unfamiliar look about public and private life of one of the most important men of state in Europe: winston churchill
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Movie: Wild Appalachia ( 2013 )
An exploration of the Great Smoky Mountains in the southeastern US. Features a look at the flora and fauna of the region and includes profiles of the rangers who patrol its vast wilderness.
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Movie: The Lovers' Guide: Igniting Desire ( 2011 )
The ground breaking guide is back with another no-holds-barred exploration of the pleasures of love-making.
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Movie: Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen ( 2011 )
It's Charlie Sheen's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.
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Movie: San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 ( 1906 )
Footage of the aftermath of the great San Francisco earthquake, which struck on the morning of April 18, 1906, destroying a large part of the city.
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Movie: Soft Fiction ( 1979 )
Five women bare their personal experiences with addiction, abuse, sexuality, and more.
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Movie: The Love Epidemic ( 1975 )
A series of risque sketches highlighting the dangers of venereal diseases.
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Movie: The Murder of Becky Watts: Police Tapes ( 2017 )
Susanna Reid looks back on the evidence that showed who killed Becky Watts.
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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: Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's ( 2013 )
A documentary on the Manhattan department store with interviews from an array of fashion designers, style icons, and celebrities.
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Movie: The Truth Behind: UFOs ( 2011 )
The Truth Behind: UFOs looks at UFOs sightings around the world. It looks at recent sightings in Connecticut and Israel. It also goes to Rachel, Neveda, to follow a group of UFO hunters searching for objects in the sky. It looks at the legend of Area 51 and the account of Bob Lazar who said he worked there. It also discusses the Roswell crash and the AVRO car.
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Movie: Jefferson's Secret Bible ( 2012 )
Relatively few people know that along with authoring the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson also compiled his own text, drawn carefully from passages extracted out of the New Testament, that he titled "The Life and Morals
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Movie: Momo: The Sam Giancana Story ( 2011 )
The Giancana family unites to make "Momo: The Sam Giancana Story." His daughters speak publicly for the first time on Momo's involvement with the assassinations of Marilyn Monroe and JFK.
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Movie: Nazi Art Thieves ( 2017 )
This film examines the mechanisms of Nazi extortion during World War II, and is interspersed with current issues surrounding restitutions. It retraces the incredible stories of 3 major works having belonged to Jewish collectors. From their plundering by the Nazis to their final restitution: Man with a Guitar by Georges Braque, Herbstsonne by Egon Schiele and Sitting Woman by Henri Matisse.
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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: Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol ( 1976 )
Captures revealing moments in Andy Warhol's public and private life: the opening of the 1970 Whitney Museum retrospective, a party held at John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home, a heated telephone conversation between Warhol, Viva and Brigid Berlin.
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Movie: The Wall: A World Divided ( 2010 )
THE WALL looks inside the revolution that swept across Europe with the November 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall, to understand how this remarkable event helped end the Cold War without a fired shot.
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Movie: Curse of the Elephant Man ( 2003 )
The case of the elephant man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease ravaged his body?
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Movie: The Hollywood Complex ( 2011 )
We follow several kids with families with a dream of their offspring becoming a TV- or movie star, who for three months live in an apartment complex, where the management host a variety of events and trains them towards such a career.