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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: 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: Sexology ( 2016 )
A taboo-breaking quest to discover the secrets of the female orgasm.
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Movie: Tina ( 2021 )
Exclusive access to the Grammy Award-winning artist to celebrate her career.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Monterey Pop ( 1969 )
A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.
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Movie: Chasing the Muse ( 2015 )
Porn Director steps in his own production as he finds his 'muse' and becomes obsessed by her.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Zappa ( 2020 )
An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.
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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: Apocalypse '45 ( 2020 )
Documentary Presents Never-Before-Seen Footage of the Grisly End of World War II.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Mommy Dead and Dearest ( 2017 )
In this documentary, the murder of Deedee Blanchard by her daughter Gypsey Rose is explored, as well as the circumstances leading up to the event.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Some Nudity Required ( 1998 )
A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.
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Movie: Escorts ( 2015 )
An insight into the lives of two self-dubbed high class call girls, Emily B and Cookie Jane.
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Movie: 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 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: 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: 1804: The Hidden History of Haiti ( 2017 )
The history of how Haiti won its independence, carrying out the first-ever successful slave rebellion.
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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: Deliver Us from Evil ( 2007 )
Documentary about Father Oliver O'Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children.
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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: 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: The Sorrow and the Pity ( 1972 )
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with Christian de la Mazière, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.
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Movie: Capturing the Friedmans ( 2003 )
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
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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: 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: Unseen ( 2016 )
In 2009, police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of a known sex offender. With access to the surviving victims, Unseen looks into how the murders of those women went unnoticed for so long.
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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: 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: 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: Revenge Porn ( 2015 )
This film investigates the dark side of sexting, revealing what can happen when your most intimate photos get into the wrong hands. For young people today, sharing intimate or sexual pictures via text message and social media is commonplace. This shocking documentary goes to extraordinary lengths to demonstrate just how an ex's appetite for revenge can have devastating, life changing consequences.
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Movie: Waco: The Rules of Engagement ( 1997 )
A reassessment of the tragedy at Waco that left 76 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect dead.
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Movie: Billie ( 2020 )
Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
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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: 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: The Weight of Gold ( 2020 )
A look at the mental health challenges Olympic athletes often face.
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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: 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: 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: The California Reich ( 1975 )
A documentary about the Nazi party in America.
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Movie: Prophet's Prey ( 2015 )
When Warren Jeffs rose to Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, he took control of a religion with a history of polygamous and underage marriage. In a short time, Warren managed to expand these practices and the power of his position in unprecedented ways. He bridged the gap between sister wives and ecclesiastically rape, befuddling the moral compass of his entire congregation. The film examines Warren Jeffs' life and shows how he became a worshipped and adored Prophet. Warren has a devout following numbering in the tens of thousands - many of whom would give their life at any moment with just one word from the Prophet. Despite a trail of abuse and ruined lives, Warren has maintained his grip on power.
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Movie: A Life in Dirty Movies ( 2013 )
A documentary shot at the end of pornographer Joe Sarnos's life, which reveals his attempt to make one last film, as well as his relationship with his wife, Peggy.
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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: George Harrison: Living in the Material World ( 2011 )
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese examines the life of musician George Harrison, weaving together interviews, concert footage, home movies and photographs.
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Movie: Jack the Ripper - The Case Reopened ( 2019 )
Documentary which aims to cast new light on the Whitechapel Murders, identify another victim and name the killer.
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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: Let It Be ( 1970 )
The filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Queen of Versailles ( 2014 )
A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis.
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Movie: Scary Stories ( 2019 )
Explore the history of one of the most controversial works of modern children's literature: The best selling teen classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which scared a generation of young readers and became one of the most banned books of modern times. Scary Stories creates both the ultimate celebration and dissertation of this iconic piece of horror literature. Scary Stories features more than 40 interviews, from family members of author Alvin Schwartz, to fellow children's book horror authors like R.L Stine "Goosebumps" and Q.L. Pearce, to folklorists, artists and fans discussing the impact that the books have had on both themselves as well as the culture at large. The documentary also explores the various times in which the books were banned or targeted by parent and religious groups as 'satanic' or otherwise too macabre for its targeted teen scholastic audience.
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Movie: The Truth About Mother Goose ( 1957 )
The true story behind various nursery rhymes is explored.
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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: Festival ( 1967 )
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show their range. The Osborne ...Read all
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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: Triumph of the Will ( 1935 )
The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Movie: Richard Pryor: Live in Concert ( 1981 )
The second stand-up performance of Richard Pryor filmed.
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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 Cheshire Murders ( 2013 )
A documentary about a brutal home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut in 2007.
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Movie: Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth ( 2013 )
Mike Tyson's one-man show is a fascinating journey into his storied life and career.
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Movie: Killing for Love ( 2016 )
The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through the rural community of Bedford County. Elizabeth and Jens had met in a university program for high achieving students. She was...
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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: Abused by My Girlfriend ( 2019 )
Documentary combining observational filming, interviews, personal and police archive footage to tell the story of Alex Skeel, a 23-year-old man from Bedford who survived an abusive relationship with his girlfriend Jordan Worth.
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Movie: Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost ( 2018 )
A documentary on the 40th anniversary of the largest murder-suicide in American history, when over 900 members of the Peoples Temple consumed a deadly cyanide-laced drink on the orders of leader Jim Jones.
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Movie: Dirty John, The Dirty Truth ( 2019 )
Docuseries of "Dirty" John Meehan, based on the true crime podcast.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Dunkirk ( 2004 )
A dramatized documentary about the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in May 1940.
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Movie: Woodstock ( 1970 )
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.
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Movie: Stripper ( 1986 )
The background: A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.
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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: Halston ( 2019 )
Prodigiously talented, Halston reigned over fashion in the 1970s and became a household name. But everything changed in the Wall Street era. With his empire under threat, Halston took the biggest gamble of his life.
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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: 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: 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: Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution with Howard Goodall ( 2017 )
With visually striking elements and never-heard-before recording session outtakes, award-winning composer and music historian Howard Goodall looks back at the creation and ongoing influence of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
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Movie: Who Took Johnny ( 2014 )
WHO TOOK JOHNNY is an examination into an infamous thirty-year-old cold case: the disappearance of Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch, the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. The film focuses on the heartbreaking story of Johnny's mother, Noreen, and her relentless quest for the truth about what happened on the tragic September morning in Des Moines when Johnny never returned from his paper route. Along the way there have been mysterious sightings, strange clues, bizarre revelations, and a confrontation with a person who claims to have helped abduct Johnny. Steeped in intrigue and conspiracy theories, WHO TOOK JOHNNY explores eyewitness accounts, compelling evidence, and emotional discoveries spanning three decades of the most spellbinding missing person's case in U.S. history
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Movie: A Dog's Life ( 1962 )
Nominally a documentary, this film combines a number of unrelated sequences (both real and staged) -- including a South Pacific "cargo cult", the ritual slaughter of a bull, tribal dances and rituals, and a visit to an ornate pet cemetery -- all focused on the lurid, sensational, and eccentric.