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Movie: Night and Fog (Short 1956)
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
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Movie: Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer ( 2021 )
One hundred years after the two-day Tulsa Massacre, one of America's most violent racial conflicts, this documentary explores the role of media during these early 20th century events and today's revived call for justice and anti-racism.
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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: P.S. Burn This Letter Please ( 2021 )
P.S. Burn This Letter Please is a documentary film about New York City's drag community. A box of letters, held in secret for nearly 60 years, ignites a 5-year exploration into a part of LGBT history that has never been told. The letters open a window into a forgotten world where being yourself meant breaking the law and where the penalties for "masquerading" as a wom...Read all
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Movie: Vice Versa: Chyna ( 2021 )
The rise and fall of wrestler Joanie Chyna Laurer, whose life was cut short in 2016. Her contributions to the WWE business and her pioneering work and her gripping tale of the "comeback" starting in 2015.
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Movie: An Unknown Compelling Force ( 2021 )
The truth of Russia's greatest unsolved mystery, the Dyatlov Pass Incident, is uncovered in this compelling documentary.
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Movie: Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten ( 2021 )
Deadly assault on the 100th anniversary of the crime in the context of other racial massacres and police killings.
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Movie: Broken Harts ( 2021 )
This two-hour film will examine the tragic lives and deaths of the mysterious Hart family, exploring the void between their idyllic online persona and the heart breaking reality in which their children lived - calling into question a system that critically failed to protect six innocent children.
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Movie: Roxanne Lowit Magic Moments ( 2021 )
Before social media, she was the queen of self-promotion and documented the glamour around her.
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Movie: Why Did You Kill Me? ( 2021 )
The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.
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Movie: Tina ( 2021 )
Exclusive access to the Grammy Award-winning artist to celebrate her career.
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Movie: The Day Sports Stood Still ( 2021 )
How Covid-19 changed college and professional sports and how professional players began publicly arguing for social justice and police reform in the wake of several instances of police killing unarmed black people. Features mostly NBA personnel.
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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: Operation Varsity Blues ( 2021 )
An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.
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Movie: Kid 90 ( 2021 )
An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye.
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Movie: Unraveled: The Long Island Serial Killer ( 2021 )
Unraveled: Long Island Serial Killer is a true crime streaming special that examines one of the biggest murder mysteries in American history. Its been a decade since eleven bodies were discovered on the coast of Long Island. Hosts Alexis Linkletter and Billy Jensen investigates the murders and expose the untold story of why the case remains unsolved.
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Movie: Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs (TV Special 2021) ( 2021 )
"The Lost Tombs," which will stream on Discovery+ in addition to airing on the Discovery Channel, chronicles the largest excavation in Egypt in 100 years. Dr. Zahi Hawass explores the infamous Valley of the Kings looking for Queen Nefertiti's treasure, among other priceless artifacts from the New Kingdom.
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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: 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: Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All ( 2021 )
An in-depth look at the parallel lives of renowned singer Whitney Houston and her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown.
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Movie: Dachau Liberation ( 2021 )
This amazing documentary presents interviews with former prisoners of the camp, who, in these terrible times, "were only numbers". Dachau...Hell on Earth. A place that brings back horrifying memories in those, who survived the camp, and fills with terror and disbelief those, who have solely heard of it. Kamil Kulczycki's docudrama "Dachau" tells the shocking story of the German concentration camp from the moment of its creation in 1933 to its miraculous liberation on April 29th, 1945.
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Movie: The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching the Gameshow Killer ( 2021 )
The real-life story behind the ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders. For the first time, all the key people who brought serial killer John Cooper to justice reveal their role in this extraordinary case.
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Movie: Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy ( 2021 )
In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
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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: Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Celebration (TV Special 2020) ( 2020 )
A Christmas celebration featuring heartwarming stories and amazing celebrity performances; Julianne Hough and Tituss Burgess host;
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Movie: Audrey ( 2020 )
Audrey Hepburn won her first Academy Award at the age of 24 and went on to become one of the world's greatest cultural icons: a once-in-a-generation beauty, and legendary star of Hollywood's Golden Age, whose style and pioneering collaboration with Hubert de Givenchy continues to inspire. But who was the real Audrey Hepburn? Malnourished as a child, abandoned by her father and growing up under Nazi occupation in Holland, Hepburn faced a life-long battle with the traumas of her past, which thwarted her dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, and cast a shadow over her personal life. Yet she found inner peace using her superstardom for good as a global ambassador for UNICEF and bringing her life full circle; first a victim of war, then a source of relief to millions.
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Movie: The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart ( 2020 )
An exploration of the history of the Bee Gees, featuring revealing interviews with oldest brother Barry Gibb, and archival interviews with the late twin brothers Robin and Maurice.
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Movie: Alabama Snake ( 2020 )
Alabama Snake explores the story of Oct. 4, 1991, when a violent crime was reported in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama. Glenn Summerford, a Pentecostal minister, was accused of attempting to murder his wife with a rattlesnake. The details of the investigation and the trial that followed have "haunted Southern Appalachia for decades." Alabama Snake features local historian and folklorist, Thomas Burton, who has spent his life studying the culture, beliefs, and folklore of Pentecostal snake handlers, painting a "Southern Gothic portrait" of Summerford and his tale of demon possession.
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Movie: Billie ( 2020 )
Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
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Movie: Who Killed the Lyon Sisters? ( 2020 )
Sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon vanish from a Wheaton, Maryland mall in 1975, launching a 40-year search for the girls. This case was one of the largest police investigations in the history of the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
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Movie: Zappa ( 2020 )
An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.
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Movie: The Mystery of D.B. Cooper ( 2020 )
A documentary that looks at the well-known case, which is largely regarded as the greatest unsolved heist in American history.
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Movie: Four Games in Fall ( 2020 )
Interviews with leading scientists, journalists, and legal scholars demonstrate how the Deflategate scandal was perpetrated in the face of evidence that the scheme to deflate footballs never took place. The film draws parallels between the Deflategate scandal and the tactics used to manipulate public opinion and subvert science in important issues impacting all citizens.
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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: Colette (Short 2020) ( 2020 )
In Nazi-occupied France, resistance took courage. Seventy-five years later, facing one's ghosts may take even more.
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Movie: Blue Code of Silence ( 2020 )
Forty years ago, policeman Bob Leuci and a group of prosecutors brought down New York's most corrupt police unit; a case that launched the careers of his prosecutors but gave Bob Leuci the legacy of NYPD's biggest "rat".
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Movie: Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb ( 2020 )
It is heralded as one of the most jaw-dropping, exciting, and important Ancient Egyptian discoveries in decades. And the discoveries have only just begun. Join a team of local archaeologists as they excavate never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, while piecing together the secrets of one Egypt's most remarkable tombs. News of the tomb discovery has gone around the world and it has been heralded as the most significant find in almost fifty years. The condition of the tomb is remarkable - but the real excitement lies in what is to come. The archaeologists hope they are going to unearth the possessions, grave goods, and mummies of the high-priest and his family - and with that information hoping to transform our understanding of this period of Old Kingdom history.
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Movie: Merely Marvelous: The Dancing Genius of Gwen Verdon ( 2020 )
Merely Marvelous is a celebration of the art and life of Broadway's greatest dancing star, Gwen Verdon. She overcame many obstacles, including rickets, the Hollywood system, a loveless first marriage and a difficult second marriage to choreographer/director Bob Fosse, to become a multi-Tony Award-winning performer. Gwen's life is told through interviews with family me...Read all
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Movie: Lennon's Last Weekend ( 2020 )
In December 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had not spoken to the media for more than five years. With a new album to promote Lennon was prepared to speak in New York to Radio One D.J. Andy Peebles of the BBC. John surprised everyone by candidly discussing a variety of subjects he'd never spoken of before including The Beatles break-up, his relationship with Paul McCartney, his battles with addiction, political issues in the US and UK, his family and his homesickness for Liverpool. He also talked about working with Phil Spector and David Bowie and how he produced many of his solo albums, which included great songs such as Imagine and Give Peace A Chance. Lennon's Last Weekend illuminates what was to be his final interview with an abundance of archival footage, photographs and conversations with people who knew him. Clearly invigorated and looking forward to making more music, Lennon's heartfelt honesty and forthright revelations make this film all the more potent as he was brutally shot and murdered 48 hours later. John Lennon was just 40 years of age when he died. December 2020 is the 40th anniversary of his death. He would have been 80 years of age.
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Movie: American Murder: The Family Next Door ( 2020 )
In 2018, 34-year-old Shanann Watts and her two young daughters disappear in Colorado. With the heartbreaking details emerging, the family's story made headlines around the world.
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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: Rose West and Myra Hindley - The Untold Story ( 2020 )
The extraordinary story of how the two most notorious women in British crime, the unscrupulous and brutal serial killers, Rose West and Myra Hindley, became friends and lovers in HM Prison Durham.
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Movie: Killing Patient Zero ( 2020 )
Gaetan Dugas, who grew up in Quebec City, was a Quebec flight attendant, who was openly and proudly gay, and he liked to wear makeup. In the early 1980s after he contracted what was initially called "gay cancer" in the media, he provided his blood samples and the names of seventy two (72) of his former sex partners. Gaetan Dugas was initially demonized because of his promiscuity, being openly gay, and he was wrongfully identified as patient zero, therefore being wrongfully identified for quite some time as the initial person responsible for introducing the AIDS virus into North America. Dugas's assistance with a subsequent medical study and his providing his sexual history played a key role in contributing to a study that helped prove HIV/AIDS was sexually transmitted.
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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: Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President ( 2020 )
This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America-with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett. Low on campaign funds and lacking in name recognition, Carter relied on support from these artists to give him a crucial boost in the Democratic primaries. Once Carter was elected, the musicians became frequent guests in the White House.
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Movie: Meeting the Beatles in India ( 2020 )
Filmmaker Paul Saltzman retraces his journey of 50 years ago when he spent a life-changing time with the Beatles at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram on the banks of the Ganges River. In 1968, he discovered his own soul, learned meditation, which changed his life, and hung out with John, Paul, George and Ringo. Fifty years later, he finds "Bungalow Bill" in Hawaii; connects with David Lynch about his own inner journey; as well as preeminent Beatles historian, Mark Lewisohn; Academy Award nominated film composer, Laurence Rosenthal.: and Pattie and Jenny Boyd. And much of this is due to Saltzman's own daughter, Devyani, reminding him that he had put away and forgotten these remarkably intimate photographs of that time in 1968.
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Movie: Devil's Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren ( 2020 )
Over the course of their 50-year career, Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate thousands of hauntings. Some of their most famous cases include the Amityville Horror house and the real-life Rhode Island home behind "The Conjuring" films.
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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: The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902) ( 2020 )
Eye Filmmuseum and the British Film Institute present a compilation film of newly-restored rare images from the first years of filmmaking. Immerse yourself in enchanting images of Venice, Berlin, Amsterdam and London from 120 years ago. Let yourself be carried away in the mesmerizing events and celebrities of the time, and feel the enthusiasm of early cinema that overcame the challenge of capturing life-like movement.
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Movie: Class Action Park ( 2020 )
A documentary that focuses on a dangerously legendary water park and its slew of injuries and crimes along with child safety concerns.
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Movie: Hanging Elizabeth Reed: A Ghost Story ( 2020 )
This is the story of Elizabeth Reed who in 1845 became the first woman to be hanged in Illinois. She was accused of poisoning her husband Leonard with arsenic laced tea and was convicted by a jury of 12 men. The circumstances of her arrest, trial, conviction, execution, burial, and afterlife have been debated ever since. Folklore exists today that suggests her spirit wanders the countryside.
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Movie: Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies ( 2020 )
The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today. It culminates in a discussion of "what are nude scenes like in the age of the #METOO movement" as well as a look at CGI nudity that seems a large part of motion pictures' future. The documentary will compare the use of nudity to further storylines vs. simple exploitation and discuss how nudity is used in movies today with the explosion of must-see television and its influence on the film medium.
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Movie: Apocalypse '45 ( 2020 )
Documentary Presents Never-Before-Seen Footage of the Grisly End of World War II.
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Movie: Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn ( 2020 )
A look at the events surrounding the murder of Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager in Brooklyn, who was killed in by a group of white youths.
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Movie: Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine ( 2020 )
Capturing the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, the film explores CREEM Magazine's humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse - spotlighting iconic features, interviews, and anecdotes along the way - then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later. Fifty years after publishing its first issue, "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" remains a seditious spirit in music and culture.
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Movie: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later ( 2020 )
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.
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Movie: The Weight of Gold ( 2020 )
A look at the mental health challenges Olympic athletes often face.
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Movie: Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind ( 2020 )
In Canada's history, there are few people who signified the nation's modern confidence in its arts more than Gordon Lightfoot. This singer-songwriter's singular talent in music changed the world's opinion of Canada's culture with his tremendous variety of songs that both celebrated the nation and touched its soul. Sparing nothing about Lightfoot's personal weaknesses and failures as well as his triumphs, this film covers Lightfoot's career from his own words and his closest associates with recordings of his greatest hits.
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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: Showbiz Kids ( 2020 )
A documentary about the highs and lows of children in show business, featuring interviews and examinations of the lives and careers of the most famous former child actors in the world.
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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: Keith Haring: Street Art Boy ( 2020 )
The story of international art sensation Keith Haring, told using previously unheard interviews.
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Movie: Quarantine Cat Film Fest ( 2020 )
Amateur filmmakers from around the world filmed their beloved cats during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. This compilation reel brings together the cutest, funniest, and bravest, exclusively filmed during the pandemic.
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Movie: Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn ( 2020 )
A look at the life and work of New York power broker Roy Cohn.
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Movie: Be Water ( 2020 )
Rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong to complete four films. Charting his struggles in two worlds, Be Water explores questions of identity and representation through rare archive, intimate interviews, and his writings.
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Movie: Epstein: Behind the Façade (Short 2020) ( 2020 )
During his lifetime Jeffrey Epstein was known as both a well respected businessman and a despicable monster. Explore the facts and conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's life and the highly debated circumstances of Epstein's death in Epstein: Behind The Facade.
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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: Bombshells and Dollies ( 2020 )
Feature length Documentary on the Contemporary Pinup Girl Lifestyle and The Miss Viva Las Vegas Pinup Contest - 'Celebrating every woman's right to total body acceptance, to be self-confident and to be gorgeous!'
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Movie: Out of Shadows ( 2020 )
Out Of Shadows claims to lift the mask on how the mainstream media and Hollywood manipulate and control the masses by spreading propaganda throughout their content. The goal is to wake up the general public by attempting to shed light on how we all may have been lied to and potentially brainwashed by a "hidden" enemy with an apparently sinister agenda. This project was the result of almost two years of blood, sweat, and tears by a team of self proclaimed "woke professionals". It's been independently produced and funded and is available on many different platforms for free for anyone to watch. Donations keep our team fed and clothed.
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Movie: Return to Belsen ( 2020 )
Survivors and liberators of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen speak of the day liberation came, 75 years later.
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Movie: A Thread of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy ( 2020 )
An SUV with a female couple and their six adopted children plunge into the Pacific Ocean, leaving behind more questions than answers.
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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: My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys ( 2020 )
Corey Feldman and director Brian Herzlinger take a hard look at Hollywood and present the case that Hollywood is an industry inundated with pedophiles. As an Ambassador for Child USA, Corey Feldman introduces the organization's founder and CEO Marci Hamilton as they fight to change the statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases. Corey Feldman speaks about his own childhood sexual abuse while a Hollywood teen idol, as well as the allegations made against those he and others, say abused the late actor Corey Haim. Though the movie looks at past abuse, the focus is on what can be done to protect children in Hollywood today and in the future.
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Movie: Indigenous People of the Americas: Cherokee (Short 2020) ( 2020 )
Known as Aniyvwiya, or "Principal People" in the Cherokee language, the Cherokees are amongst the most noble and proud of the American tribes. In Indigenous People of the Americas: Cherokees, we take a look at their origins, their culture and their struggles.
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Movie: Back to the Titanic ( 2020 )
Back to the Titanic documents the first manned dives to Titanic in nearly 15 years. New footage reveals fresh decay and sheds light on the ship's future.
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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: Obscene Beauty ( 2020 )
Obscene Beauty examines New York's Burlesque scene and how it has withstood the test of time. It looks at the artistry and self expression of Burlesque and how it combines social political expression, art and comedy within each short three minute performance. The docu-movie examines the history, impact and dancers involved in this art form and how it forms part of New York's cultural scene.
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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: 4 Presidents ( 2020 )
What is the common thread among the only four U.S. Presidents who have been assassinated: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy? They were also the only four presidents ever to take money-issuing control away from the private banks and turn it over to the U.S. Treasury. Within a year of each president doing so, they were murdered. And within months of their vice-pr...Read all
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Movie: The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words ( 2020 )
Interviews with former children who survived the Holocaust concentration camps and who were rehabilitated in a disused aircraft factory overlooking Lake Windermere in the UK, and whose experiences in adjusting to freedom in a foreign country were dramatised in The Windermere Children (2020). It also describes their experiences as they were rounded up by the Germans in their home towns and taken by cattle train to concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
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Movie: Jasper Mall ( 2020 )
A year in the life of a dying shopping mall.
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Movie: Everything - The Real Thing Story ( 2020 )
Dubbed 'the black Beatles' by the British tabloids, the 'other' four lads from Liverpool recount their incredible story from the tough streets of Toxteth to the bright lights of New York - a journey of international stardom as Britain's pioneering million-selling soul and funk band. Against a backdrop of prejudice and political turmoil in the 1970s, The Real Thing were the first all-black British band to hit #1 in the UK pop charts, with the universally-loved 'You To Me Are Everything'. Other hits like 'Can't Get By Without You', 'You'll Never Know What You're Missing' and 'Can You Feel the Force' set dance-floors alight, but their proudest moment was composing the rousing 'Children of the Ghetto' - the first ever protest song to address the plight of black immigrants in Britain. The group's massive success has been tempered with racism, drug addiction and suicide but, for the very first time, original band members Eddy Amoo, Chris Amoo and Dave Smith reveal the brutally honest truth behind their trailblazing 50-year career. After five decades together, they remain the godfathers of black British music.
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Movie: Trump 2024: The World After Trump ( 2020 )
Addresses the aggressive movement to transform America, strip away its freedoms and Judeo-Christian values.
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Movie: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael ( 2019 )
Pauline Kael, the New Yorker film critic for 25 years until the early 1990s, was a lightning rod of American culture. She waged a battle to be recognized and her opinions made her readers hate or love her. Her distinctive voice pioneered the art form, and was largely a result of stubborn determination, huge confidence, and a deep love of the arts. The movie also shows 20th-century movies through Pauline's eye, and shows Pauline's own life through moments of other movies. The filmmakers had complete access to the subject -- through Gina James, Pauline's only child and the executor of her estate; friends and colleagues; and Pauline's personal archives. With over 30 new interviews, including David O. Russell, Quentin Tarantino, Camille Paglia, Molly Haskell, Alec Baldwin Greil Marcus, Paul Schrader, John Guare and Joe Morgenstern. Sarah Jessica Parker voices Pauline through her writing and letters.
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Movie: Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini ( 2019 )
A documentary about the life of Tom Savini. The film covers his early days in Pittsburgh, and his rise to stardom as Hollywood's most sought after special effects wizard.
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Movie: Fulci for fake ( 2019 )
The first biopic about Lucio Fulci. With never seen before footage, photos and interviews.
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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: Elton John: Uncensored ( 2019 )
Elton John will reflect on his career and performances, as well as talk about addiction and how fatherhood has changed his life.
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Movie: Square One: Michael Jackson ( 2019 )
An investigation into the original 1993 allegations against Michael Jackson brought by the Chandler family.
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Movie: Shattered Dreams: Sex Trafficking in America ( 2019 )
Shattered Dreams is an Emmy award-winning documentary that examines the pervasive, dark underworld of sex trafficking in America. Heart wrenching personal stories from survivors of the illicit sex trade and leading experts reveal how vastly misunderstood and disregarded this important human rights issue has been. As hundreds of thousands of victims' lives are destroyed by this multi-billion-dollar industry, the complex challenge of targeting the cause of this deeply embedded problem is exposed. Will increased awareness finally drive real solutions to save lives or will we continue to let this underground industry thrive in America?
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Movie: Capturing Chris Watts ( 2019 )
The disturbing case of a father who killed his own family for the sake of an affair.
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Movie: Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed ( 2019 )
Through a wealth of personal archive, the Prince Consort's influence in shaping Britain is revealed.
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Movie: I Am Patrick Swayze ( 2019 )
An inside look at the life of Patrick Swayze as told by the people who knew him best.
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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: Fascism on a Thread- The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema ( 2019 )
A look at the ideas and people that was involved in the naziploitations movies.
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Movie: Adolf Island ( 2019 )
Forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls seeks out a Nazi SS camp constructed in secrecy on the British Channel island of Alderney during World War II.
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Movie: Deep in Vogue ( 2019 )
A film about Northern Vogue and its people. DEEP IN VOGUE celebrates the colorful, queer, emotional and political stories of Northern Vogue and its people. Synonymous with the black, gay ballrooms of 1980s New York this documentary asks why we need Vogue in Manchester now more than ever. Over the course of a year, film makers Dennis Keighron-Foster and Amy Watson charted the build up to the Manchester ICONS Vogue Ball. Exploring themes from the internal politics of Vogue to its external politics like disenfranchisement of black youth, LGBT issues, a shrinking welfare state, a dearth of art spaces and modes of expression, a reductive and commercialized gay scene and a lack of safe spaces for the truly different. DEEP IN VOGUE is about people coming to love and accept themselves, finding a new family through vogue. The film explores the history of vogue and ballroom, in which Black and Latinx gay men and trans people sought an aspirational artistic outlet in the 1980s, in much the same way that gay, queer, trans and QTIPOC people seek a safe space today.