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TV Show: You Ain't Got These ( 2020 )
This is not a show about sneakers. It's a show about sneaker culture. Fitting in. And belonging to something bigger than yourself. Best of all? Lena Waithe is in it.
 
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Movie: Won't You Be My Neighbor? ( 2018 )
An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host, Fred Rogers.
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Movie: Willard: The Hermit of Gully Lake ( 2007 )
In the 1940's American-born Willard MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing authorities he lived as a hermit deep in the northern wilderness of Nova Scotia, Canada for more than 60 years inspiring folklore for generations.
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TV Show: While the Rest of Us Die ( 2020 )
From the Cold War to COVID, the secret history of the government's Doomsday plans. Based on the book by Garrett M. Graff, the six-part series exposes the U.S. government's flawed plans to protect its citizens. The show unpacks America's national security spending on hidden underground cities, a secret air force and a plan to suspend democracy in order to serve the interests of the elite class. The series features interviews with political figures including former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure, Protection and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke, and national security experts Malcolm Nance, Elizabeth Goitien and Paul Rieckhoff. It will be narrated by "Westworld" star Jeffrey Wright.
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Movie: What Is Consciousness? What Is Its Purpose? ( 2017 )
A probe into what modern neuroscience can tell us about consciousness and analyzes the implications of the cultural lens through which we tend to perceive it, revealing logical answers to some of humanity's oldest existential questions.
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Movie: We Live in Public ( 2010 )
A documentary focusing on the life of dot-com entrepreneur Josh Harris, and his exploits over the last decade.
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Movie: We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 ( 2010 )
We meet individuals from marginalized communities who describe what it was like to live through the 1918 flu pandemic. Their experiences raise questions about the pandemic: why did it kill so many people? Why were so many of the dead young adults? Where did this lethal flu come from? How can we keep a pandemic like that from occurring again? The film follows the search for answers from an expedition to Alaska in 1951 to collect tissue from bodies buried in the permafrost, to the scientists and epidemiologists working on the same questions today. It explains the relevance of research into the 1918 pandemic to the threat of current and future flu pandemics.
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Movie: We Don't Deserve Dogs ( 2021 )
A contemplative odyssey across our planet, looking at the simple and extraordinary ways that dogs influence our daily lives.
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TV Show: Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson ( 2021 )
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson will examine sound creation and the revolutionary technology that has shaped music as we know it. Each episode will follow Ronson as he uncovers the untold stories behind music creation and the lengths producers and creators are willing to go to find the perfect sound. Ronson explores music's intersection with artistry and technology in candid conversations with music legends and icons including Paul McCartney, Questlove, King Princess, Dave Grohl, Ad-Rock and Mike D from the Beastie Boys, Charli XCX and more, where he discovers the ways in which these unique tools have influenced their work.
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TV Show: Voir ( 2021 )
Film lovers examine the cinematic moments that thrilled, perplexed, challenged and forever changed them in this collection of visual essays.
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Movie: Uncle Tom ( 2020 )
In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a unique look at being black in America. Featuring media personalities, ministers, civil rights activists, veterans, and a self-employed plumber, the film explores their personal journeys of navigating the world as one of America's most misunderstood political and cultural groups: The American Black Conservative. In this eye-opening film from Director Justin Malone and Executive Producer Larry Elder, Uncle Tom examines self-empowerment, individualism and rejecting the victim narrative. Uncle Tom shows us a different perspective of American History from this often ignored and ridiculed group.
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Movie: Twice Colonized ( 2023 )
Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her youngest son unexpectedly passes away, Aaju embarks on a personal journey to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.
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Movie: Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia ( 2012 )
After viewing this provocative documentary, you will never look at Wikipedia the same way. Filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill engagingly explore the history and cultural implications of one of the most traveled and referenced sites on the Internet. A whole range of opinion is expressed about the impact of Wikipedia on the archiving of learning, from interviews with founder Jimmy Wales to commentators suspicious of the site's supposed neutrality. The documentary delves into the EssJay controversy in which a Wikipedian made false claims about his academic credentials and the battle over journalist John Seigenthaler's inaccurate entry. Evenhandedly weaving multiple perspectives about the impact of Wikipedia, the film provokes a deeper conversation on how knowledge is formed and what future generations will learn about history and the world.
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Movie: Trophy ( 2017 )
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.
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Movie: TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard ( 2013 )
An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.
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Movie: To Go Viking ( 2015 )
Follow the spectacular journey of a Viking Age group (texas Jomsborg Elag), as they make their way across Europe, where they participate in massive-scale Viking reenactments and a series of epic competitive battles, including full contact fighting. Their adventure culminates in Poland, where swords clash at the 17th International Slavs and Vikings Festival at Wolin in the historic birthplace of the 10th Century Jomsborg Army.
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Movie: Titixe ( 2018 )
A mourning tree, dancing sprouts, the language of clouds, ghosts, stories and seeds. This is an intimate mosaic of the last harvest of a Mexican family, before their small plot of land falls into abandonment.
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Movie: Tiny Tim: King for a Day ( 2020 )
The story about the outcast, Herbert Khaury's rise to stardom as Tiny Tim. Either considered a freak or a genius Tiny Tim left no one unaffected.
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Movie: Three Identical Strangers ( 2018 )
In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
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Movie: Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood ( 2008 )
Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic and religious reasons for what is known as the pre-code era of Hollywood movie making in the early 1930s, and those same factors which resulted in the drastic turn to working under the code for the twenty or so years starting in 1934. The "code" is the Hollywood Production Code of 1930 (also known as the Hays Code, so named for Will H. Hays, the first head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), which was developed in order for movie making in Hollywood to run smoothly in the face of increased outside censors. The code was largely ignored until 1934, when its enforcement was overseen by Joseph I. Breen who took over from Hays and who had a different agenda of moral purity. During those four years, pre-code Hollywood movies are characterized by their rawness and pushing the envelope of sexuality and moral ambiguity (with the depraved side often winning), which were not allowed under the code. What happened to the distribution of pre-code movies during the years that the code was enforced, the reasons for the slow breakdown of the code in the early to mid 1950s, and the reasons for renewed interest in pre-code movies later in the century are also discussed.
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Movie: Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True ( 2015 )
British documentary on race in the modern world.
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Movie: The War You Don't See ( 2010 )
Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
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Movie: The Trader ( 2018 )
A traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.
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Movie: The Sounds of Space (Short 2021) ( 2021 )
This short film takes you on a journey back in time and to the edge of our solar system and beyond, to discover what other worlds of sound are lurking beyond Earth's atmosphere.
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Movie: The Secret Life of Chaos ( 2010 )
Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand. It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how did we get here? In this documentary, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to uncover one of the great mysteries of science - how does a universe that starts off as dust end up with intelligent life? How does order emerge from disorder? It's a mindbending, counterintuitive and for many people a deeply troubling idea. But Professor Al-Khalili reveals the science behind much of beauty and structure in the natural world and discovers that far from it being magic or an act of God, it is in fact an intrinsic part of the laws of physics. Amazingly, it turns out that the mathematics of chaos can explain how and why the universe creates exquisite order and pattern. And the best thing is that one doesn't need to be a scientist to understand it. The natural world is full of awe-inspiring examples of the way nature transforms simplicity into complexity. From trees to clouds to humans - after watching this film you'll never be able to look at the world in the same way again.
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Movie: The Rise of the Anti-Vaxx Movement ( 2021 )
Documentary examining the origins and growth of the anti-vaccination movement, and its impact on global efforts to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic. Interviews with experts shed light on this well-funded and organised movement and its methods.
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Movie: The Price of Freedom ( 2021 )
A look into the inner workings of the NRA and its influence, featuring interviews with government leaders, NRA representatives and people whose lives have been personally touched by gun violence.
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Movie: The Pickup Game ( 2020 )
The Pickup Game is an inside look at the emergence of the 'pickup' industry - an business where self-styled seduction coaches travel the world, charging a small fortune to teach men skills they claim will guarantee success with women. For the instructors who are successful, it is a highly lucrative occupation, with many companies earning millions of dollars a year. It is also an industry rife with controversy and scandal. Several teachers have been deported from countries for their contentious methodologies and pickup businesses are often the subject of fierce public criticism. Despite this, men the world over collectively spend hundreds of millions of dollars to attend seminars, download online courses and have one-on-one coaching sessions with instructors they feel can give them the dating life of their dreams. In the minds of students, many of these instructors become more than just teachers. They become idols. From the glossy exterior, where courses are packaged as self-improvement, to the dark underbelly of sexual assault, pyramid scheme marketing and secret collusion The Pickup Game pulls back the curtain to reveal a world that is fascinating and horrific in equal measure.
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Movie: The Pedal Movie ( 2021 )
A Documentary about the history, culture, and sound of guitar effects pedals, told by the builders who build them and the artists who use them.
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Movie: The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel ( 2020 )
Exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible - and how that threatens democratic freedoms.
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Movie: The Neutral Ground ( 2021 )
In December 2015, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments from public grounds. A forceful group of critics protested the decision, and fearing retaliation, no crew would agree to remove the statues.
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Movie: The Most Unknown ( 2018 )
The Most Unknown is an epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity's biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time? What is consciousness? How much do we really know? By introducing researchers from diverse backgrounds for the first time, then dropping them into new, immersive field work they previously hadn't tackled, the film reveals the true potential of interdisciplinary collaboration, pushing the boundaries of how science storytelling is approached. What emerges is a deeply human trip to the foundations of discovery and a powerful reminder that the unanswered questions are the most crucial ones to pose. Directed by Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney (The Search for General Tso, The City Dark) and advised by world-renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man), The Most Unknown is an ambitious look at a side of science never before shown on screen. The film was made possible by a grant from Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science.
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Movie: The Moon and the Sledgehammer ( 1971 )
Mr. Page and his two sons and two daughters live a primitive life in the woods in southern England with traction engines.
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Movie: The Man Who Married Himself ( 2010 )
Oliver has a mid-life crisis, and decides to get married - to himself. This is the story of his relationship, and how he discovers some truths about life and love on the way.
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Movie: The Light Bulb Conspiracy ( 2010 )
This is the story of companies who engineered their products to fail.
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Movie: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley ( 2019 )
The story of Theranos, a multi-billion dollar tech company, its founder Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire, and the massive fraud that collapsed the company.
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Movie: The Hidden Life of Trees ( 2021 )
When Peter Wohlleben published his book "The Hidden Life of Trees" in 2015, he quickly entered bestseller lists. The forester wrote vividly about his experience that trees are able to communicate with each other, a thesis explored here.
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Movie: The Great Hack ( 2019 )
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is examined through the roles of several affected persons.
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Movie: The Flu That Killed 50 Million ( 2018 )
It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus that will kill more than fifty million people - the Spanish flu.
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Movie: The Elephant Queen ( 2019 )
Athena is a mother who will do everything in her power to protect her herd when they are forced to leave their waterhole. This epic journey, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, takes audiences across the African savannah, and into the heart of an elephant family. A tale of love, loss and coming home.
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Movie: The Earth Is Blue as an Orange ( 2020 )
To cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
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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: The Divided Brain ( 2019 )
A film which explores a radical new idea - is there an imbalance between our brain hemispheres that is affecting how we live in our modern society?
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Movie: The Dark Ages ( 2007 )
The History Channel examines the Dark Ages from the fall of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade.
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TV Show: The Cult of The Family ( 2019 )
The Cult of The Family is a three-part investigation that chronicles the rise and fall of Australia's most notorious cult, "The Family" and its strange but charismatic female leader, Anne Hamilton-Byrne.
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Movie: The Conservation Game ( 2021 )
Set against the backdrop of a heated national debate on captive big cats in America, THE CONSERVATION GAME follows the story of Tim Harrison, an Ohio cop who stumbles upon a bombshell discovery while undercover at an exotic animal auction. He starts to suspect that America's top television celebrity conservationists may be secretly connected to the exotic pet trade. What follows is a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, filled with lies, deception, and cover-ups. As his investigation leads deeper into the secret world of the big cat trade, Tim and his team take their fight to the halls of Congress, pressing lawmakers to pass federal legislation that would end the private breeding and exploitation of these endangered animals. But when opposition comes from an unexpected source, Tim is forced to face the demons of his own past, while wrestling with the consequences of exposing his childhood hero.
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Movie: The Colour Of Ink ( 2022 )
Toronto inkmaker Jason S. Logan harvests colours from the wild-weeds, berries, bark, flowers, rocks, rust-and sends custom-made inks to artists around the world, from a New Yorker cartoonist to a Tokyo calligrapher.
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Movie: The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (Short 1970)
A portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.
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TV Show: The Blues ( 2003 )
The Blues anchors a multi-media celebration that raises awareness of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music worldwide.Under the guiding vision of Executive Producer Martin Scorsese, seven directors will explore the blues through their own personal styles and perspectives. The episodes in the series are motivated by a central theme: how the blues evolved from parochial folk tunes to a universal language.
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Movie: The Big Squeeze ( 2021 )
The computer game chain GameStop created so much chaos in the stock market that it forced large hedge funds to their knees. How could it happen? Here we follow different people who were brought together during 2020 because of their interest in GameStop's future. Some had invested in the chain's stock, others wondered about it. While the chain's employees trusted that the company would pay their salaries at a time when millions of people went bankrupt and became unemployed.
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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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TV Show: The Andy Warhol Diaries ( 2022 )
After he's shot in 1968, Andy Warhol begins documenting his life and feelings. Those diaries, and this series, reveal the secrets behind his persona.
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Movie: The Alpinist ( 2021 )
Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. The free-spirited 23-year-old makes some of the boldest solo ascents in history. With no cameras and no margin for error, Leclerc's approach is the essence of solo adventure.
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Movie: TFW NO GF ( 2020 )
Born from the internet, the phrase "TFW NO GF" was originally used online to describe a lack of romantic companionship. Since then, it has evolved to symbolize a greater state of existence defined by isolation, rejection and alienation. The meme's protagonist, "WOJAK," has become the mascot to a vast online community consisting of self-described "hyper-anonymous twenty somethings" and "guys who slipped between the cracks." TFW NO GF asks: How has the zeitgeist come to bear down on a generation alienated by the 'real world'? Meet the lost boys who came of age on the internet- places like 4chan and Twitter, where they find camaraderie in despair.
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Movie: Terms and Conditions May Apply ( 2013 )
A documentary that exposes what corporations and governments learn about people through Internet and cell phone usage, and what can be done about it ... if anything.
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Movie: Syncopation ( 1942 )
Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer, from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. Prior to the making of the film RKO held a contest for the readers of 'The Saturday Evening Post" to vote on the musicians to make up the All-American Dance Band featured in the film; the magazine's readers chose, in the above-the-title listing: Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Jack Jenney. Gene Krupa, Alvino Rey, Joe Venuti, and singer Connee Boswell.
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Movie: Subject ( 2022 )
It focuses on the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking. It examines well-known documentaries of the past decade and reveals the impact their commercial success has had on the lives of the onscreen subjects.
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Movie: Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street ( 2021 )
Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children's series in TV history. From the iconic furry characters to the songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed our world.
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Movie: St. Louis Blues ( 1958 )
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will's music played by a symphony orchestra.
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Movie: State Funeral ( 2021 )
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator's personality cult. The news of Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Farewell, and receive an unprecedented access to the dramatic and absurd experience of life and death under Stalin's reign. The film addresses the issue of Stalin's personality cult as a form of terror-induced delusion. It gives an insight into the nature of the regime and its legacy, still haunting the contemporary world.
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Movie: Spaceship Earth ( 2020 )
The true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth's ecosystem called Biosphere 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially re-imagine a new world.
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Movie: Slay the Dragon ( 2020 )
It influences elections and sways outcomes-gerrymandering has become a hot-button political topic and symbol for everything broken about the American electoral process. But there are those on the front lines fighting to change the system.
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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: Sisters with Transistors ( 2021 )
Follows the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.
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Movie: Sherpa ( 2015 )
A fight on Everest? It seemed incredible. But in 2013 news channels around the world reported an ugly brawl at 6400 m (21,000 ft) as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. In 1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay had reached the summit in a spirit of co-operation and brave optimism. Now climbers and Sherpas were trading insults - even blows. What had happened to the happy, smiling Sherpas and their dedication in getting foreigners to the top of the mountain they hold so sacred? Determined to explore what was going on, the filmmakers set out to make a film of the 2014 Everest climbing season, from the Sherpas' point of view. Instead, they captured a tragedy that would change Everest forever. At 6.45am on 18th April, 2014, a 14,000 ton block of ice crashed down onto the climbing route through the Khumbu Icefall, killing 16 Sherpas. It was the worst tragedy in the history of Everest. The disaster provoked a drastic reappraisal about the role of the Sherpas in the Everest industry. SHERPA tells the story of how, in the face of fierce opposition, the Sherpas united in grief and anger to reclaim the mountain they call Chomolungma.
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Movie: Set! ( 2021 )
Often referred to as "The Olympics of Table Setting," eccentric personalities and old rivalries come to a head as contestants compete for the "Best of Show" ribbon at the Orange County Fair table setting competition. Watch on Discovery+
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TV Show: Secrets of Big Data ( 2022 )
Technology is the great paradox of the twenty first century. While it's inarguable that it has enhanced certain aspects of our lives, it's hard to ignore the detrimental effects it can inflict on society at large. These are the stories of the future that big data is bringing to our doorsteps. The real-world impact of predictions and surveillance. The power of artificial intelligence and autonomous machines. For better or worse, these are the Secrets of Big Data.
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TV Show: Secret Knowledge ( 2013 )
In a series of authored films, some of our most engaging experts reveal their favourite hidden objects, forgotten places and artistic passions.
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Movie: Seaspiracy ( 2021 )
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption.
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Movie: Scrap ( 2010 )
Scrap is a feature documentary which follows the history of two eccentric builders and their amazing structures which were both built by a single man: "The Forevertron" built by Tom Every and "Bishop Castle" built by Jim Bishop. The film focuses on the eccentric architects of these structures, as they are as fascinating and awe inducing as their creations.
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TV Show: Scotch! The Story of Whisky ( 2016 )
Three-part series in which David Hayman surveys the state of the Scotch whisky industry, meeting coopers and coppersmiths, a master blender and distilling students to discover the craft and science involved.
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Movie: Samsara ( 2012 )
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
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TV Show: Rotten ( 2018 )
This docuseries travels deep into the heart of the food supply chain to reveal unsavory truths and expose hidden forces that shape what we eat.
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Movie: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain ( 2021 )
A documentary about Anthony Bourdain and his career as a chef, writer and host, revered and renowned for his authentic approach to food, culture and travel.
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Movie: Reel Injun ( 2009 )
The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
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Movie: Reclaiming the Blade ( 2009 )
The Medieval and Renaissance blade, a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans of old. An object of great complexity, yet one with a singular use in mind- it is designed to kill. The truth of the sword has been shrouded in antiquity, and the Renaissance martial arts that brought it to being are long forgotten. The ancient practitioners lent us all they knew through their manuscripts. As gunslingers of the Renaissance they were western heroes with swords, and they lived and died by them. Yet today their history remains cloaked under a shadow of legend.
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Movie: RBG ( 2018 )
The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
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Movie: Prism ( 2021 )
PRISM explores the legacy and effects of the racism inherent in photographic technology, which was developed with white skin in mind.
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Movie: Pocahontas: Beyond the Myth ( 2017 )
The story of Pocahontas has been passed down through the centuries. Her relationship with John Smith has been characterized as a romance that united two cultures and created lasting peace. However, the life of this American Indian princess was anything but a fairytale. Join us as we look beyond the fiction and reveal the real story of Pocahontas, a tale of kidnapping, conflict, starvation, cannibalism, ocean journeys, and the future of an entire civilization.
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Movie: Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch ( 2014 )
Angela Sun's journey of discovery to one of the most remote places on Earth, Midway Atoll, to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, industry, legislators and activists who shed light on what our society's vast consumption of disposable plastic is doing to our oceans, and what it may be doing to our health.
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Movie: Obedience ( 1962 )
Documents the famous Milgram experiment, which measured the willingness of test subjects to obey authority in ways contrary to their own judgment and conscience.
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Movie: Nowhere ( 1997 )
A group of teenagers try to sort out their lives and emotions while bizarre experiences happen to each one, including alien abductions, bad acid trips, bisexual experiences, suicides, bizarre deaths, and a rape by a TV star. All of this happens before "the greatest party of the year".
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Movie: Nanook of the North ( 1922 )
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
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TV Show: Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean ( 2021 )
Combining exclusive access and interviews with never before seen footage shot by Oscar winning director D.A Pennebaker this 3-part documentary series explores the rise and fall of automotive icon John DeLorean, the poster boy of late ‘70s corporate greed. Epitomising these hubristic times with his grandiose vision of the car of the future, the series will show how John DeLorean came to captivate the world.
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Movie: Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things ( 2016 )
How might your life be better with less?
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Movie: Microtopia ( 2013 )
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Movie: Marketing the Messiah ( 2020 )
This documentary shows how Christianity grew from a small Jewish Sect into the Catholic Church, with an emphasis on how Jesus's apostles rejected Paul's version of Jesus, but Paul's version eventually became the orthodox Catholic view.
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Movie: Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art ( 2021 )
Made You Look is an American crime documentary about the largest art fraud in American history set in the super rich, super obsessed and super fast art world of New York.
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Movie: Lost Temple of the Inca ( 2020 )
Legendary archaeologist Johan Reinhard spent his career searching for the lost temples of the Inca Empire in Peru, discovering all but one: Ausangate, named after one of the most sacred mountains in the Empire. Now in his seventies, he's handed the torch to environmental scientist Preston Sowell, who believes he has found the temple at the headwaters of the Amazon River, along with mysterious artifacts, ruins and endangered wildlife. This film follows Sowell's journey of discovery, loss and adventure as he seeks to protect this sacred place from environmental devastation.
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Movie: Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World ( 2016 )
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World is a movie starring Elon Musk, Lawrence Krauss, and Lucianne Walkowicz. Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
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Movie: Lily Topples the World ( 2021 )
Lily Topples The World follows 20-year-old Lily Hevesh - the world's greatest domino toppler and the only woman in her field - in a coming-of-age story of artistry, passion, and unlikely triumph.
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Movie: L'île aux Cannibales ( 2011 )
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later
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Movie: Legend of Lead Belly ( 2013 )
Huddie Ledbetter was born into poverty, battled racism, and did time, but in spite of his early hardships, or perhaps because of them, he became one of the great musicians of the 20th century. We trace the life and career of Lead Belly, a man praised by critics and revered by artists, whose unique music crossed a host of genres and influenced countless industry legends, from The Beatles to Led Zeppelin to Nirvana and beyond. See how his talent, humanity, and determination defeated all that stood in his way to make his voice heard, then and now.
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Movie: Last Days of the Arctic ( 2011 )
RAX is a photographer who has made a career of capturing the human faces of climate change, and the vanishing lifestyles of the Far North.
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Movie: Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections ( 2020 )
Finnish hacker and election expert Harri Hursti investigates election-related hacks, uncovering just how unprotected voting systems really are.
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Movie: Jivin' in Be-Bop ( 1946 )
A musical film in the style of a documentary, featuring 19 musical and dance numbers, by many notable musicians.
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Movie: Jekyll Island, The Truth Behind The Federal Reserve ( 2013 )
This film is about the greatest rip-off in history - the very way money and debt are created and controlled. This affects everyone on the planet, and is the basic cause of all of our economic problems today. Until we all recognize this - in every nation - there is nothing any national government does will fix the problem, and all of us will see mounting debts and sinking standards of living. Our children will inherit this mess, and it will get worse every single year. The truth is that depressions are NOT normal. They are contrived. The truth is that nations don't need a national debt. The truth is that nations don't have to borrow. Why would you borrow when you can create the money you need? The truth is that governments generally aren't PRINTING money wildly; governments are BORROWING money wildly. The good news is we CAN fix this. It won't take a war or a revolution; it only takes a simple understanding of the problem, and its simple solution. The truth is that ANYONE can understand what's going on. This is not rocket science. The truth is that those who are making money off this rip-off want to keep you confused - confused about the basic facts of what your money is and who creates it.
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Movie: Jamestown: Pioneers of America ( 2017 )
This documentary examines the conditions and circumstances that ultimately led to the birth of the Unites States, and the extremely important, yet little known, role Polish immigrants played in the genesis of America as a country in the New World.
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Movie: In the Basement ( 2014 )
A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.