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Some interesting docs for rainy afternoons.


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Movie: X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story ( 2007 )
A documentary about Traci Lords, one of the most popular American porn stars of the 1980s, who almost brought down the industry when it was discovered that she had been under 18 years old.
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Movie: Mr. Untouchable ( 2007 )
The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching na...Read all
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Movie: Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' ( 2007 )
Details the making of Stephen King & George A. Romero's 1982 horror anthology classic, from conception through to completion.
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Movie: Crazy Love ( 2007 )
The bizarre true story of Linda Riss and Burt Pugach.
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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: Returning to Jedi ( 2007 )
Returning to Jedi is an in-depth look at the making of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. It features rare alternate takes, production audio, on-screen facts, cast and crew commentary, storyboards, behind the scenes footage and reconstructed scenes.
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Movie: The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws' ( 2007 )
After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways Jaws has helped to shape common elements of pop culture.
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Movie: Building Empire ( 2006 )
Building Empire is an unofficial commentary on The Empire Strikes Back. Starting with the movie itself, it adds behind the scenes footage, audio interviews with the cast and crew, alternate angles, reconstructed scenes, text facts and more to give an in-depth look at the process which brought the film to the big screen.
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Movie: Inside Deep Throat ( 2005 )
An examination of the infamous pornographic film Deep Throat (1972), covering aspects from the film's creation to its cultural impact.
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Movie: The White Diamond ( 2005 )
About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana, hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-tops. But this logistic effort will not be without risk. Twelve years ago, a similar expedition into the unique habitat of the canopy ended in disaster when Dorrington's friend Dieter Plage fell to his death. With the expedition is Werner Herzog, setting out now with a new prototype of the airship into the Lost World of the pristine rain forest of this little explored area of the world, to record and tell this unique story.
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Movie: Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television ( 2004 )
Tells the story of EC Comics, the controversy that led to the end of mainstream horror comics, and the HBO anthology series "Tales from the Crypt".
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Movie: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second ( 2003 )
Playboy unveils the hottest moments in the history of film. This feature-length documentary traces the evolution of sex in Hollywood cinema and uncovers the formula for successfully arousing audience interest around the world.
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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: Behind the Ears: the True Story of Roger Rabbit ( 2003 )
The complete documentary on the production of the movie.
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Movie: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood ( 2003 )
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
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Movie: Forever Ealing ( 2002 )
This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions. At the end we see the resurrection of Ealing with the release of _Importance of Being Earnest, The (2002)_.
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Movie: The Kid Stays in the Picture ( 2002 )
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans (the film shares the same name as Evans's famous 1994 autobiography).
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Movie: Lost in La Mancha ( 2002 )
Terry Gilliam's doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.
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Movie: Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' ( 2001 )
Retrospective documentary on the making of the cult classic "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
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Movie: Just, Melvin: Just Evil ( 2001 )
An in-depth look at the director James Ronald Whitney's family history of incest spanning at least three generations and the devastating consequences that include drug abuse and alcoholism.
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Movie: Grass ( 2000 )
The history of the American government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.
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Movie: The Filth and the Fury ( 2000 )
A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.
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Movie: Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania ( 1999 )
An hour of gargantuan gorillas, deadly dinosaurs, one-eyed giants & colossal beasts!
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Movie: The Mystery of Chaco Canyon ( 1999 )
America's Stonehenge?
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Movie: The Harryhausen Chronicles ( 1998 )
Narrated by actor Leonard Nimoy and featuring appearances by George Lucas and Ray Bradbury, this film documents Ray Harryhausen's remarkable visual effects work, including his hand in Mighty Joe Young, 20 Million Miles to Earth and Clash of the Titans.
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Movie: Mary Pickford: A Life on Film ( 1997 )
A biography of the life and career of silent-film star Mary Pickford, known during her day as "America's Sweetheart". This documentary shows that she was not simply just the top actress of her time, but also a successful producer, a creative writer and director, a savvy businesswoman and a founding member of United Artists, one of the most important and innovative studios in Hollywood's history.
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Movie: Microcosmos ( 1996 )
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
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Movie: Crumb ( 1995 )
An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
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Movie: Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror ( 1994 )
The history of Hammer Films and their legacy, narrated by the studio's most beloved stars, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
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Movie: Children of God ( 1994 )
A family describes their time within a religious cult, one that perpetuated pedophilia, sexual abuse, and prostitution.
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Movie: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse ( 1991 )
Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.
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Movie: Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town ( 1988 )
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toontown is a behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It originally aired as a television special to promote the film. Although the special was never released on any home video format, a documentary "Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit" was included as its replacement.
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Movie: Terror in the Aisles ( 1984 )
A compilation of scenes from many science fiction, crime drama and horror films of the 1930s through 1980s.
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Movie: Vietnam Requiem ( 1984 )
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Movie: The Making of 'Thriller' ( 1983 )
From Michael Jackson we take a look behind the "Thrills" of Thriller
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Movie: The Atomic Cafe ( 1982 )
Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
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Movie: Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story ( 1981 )
The life and death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.
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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: The Hellstrom Chronicle ( 1971 )
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
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Movie: The Epic That Never Was ( 1965 )
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.