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Chiara 2022 A biography of St Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to become a nun after hearing St Francis preach

Jump The Heroes Behind the Gold 2021 Story about 1998 Nagano Olympic ski jump team competition, where Japan won a gold medal

Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020 A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life

The Life and Death of Owen Hart 1999 Documentary based on Owen Hart and his life outside of the ring, containing footage of his family after his sudden and tragic death

Gorging 2013 Canyoneering is the sport of descending canyons by means of hiking, climbing, rappelling and swimming Relatively obscure, the sport was brought to the mainstream in 2003 with the news of Aron Ralston who had severed his own arm while trapped in a canyon Experiencing an overnight spike i

I Am What I Play 2015 From the 1960s to the 1980s, the rock radio DJ played an unprecedented creative role in the rock music world I Am What I Play profiles four disc jockeys in major markets during this period their programming, their politics and their deep connections with musicians and fans in t

Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer 2017 A documentary portrait of Brazilian ballet star Marcelo Gomes

Dantes Inferno 1967 The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art

The Miracle Worker 1979 Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a half blind Yankee school

The Lost Aviator 2014 Set in the Golden Age of Aviation, Andrew Lancaster follows the life and times of his great uncle, Captain Bill Lancaster Against his familys wishes, he uncovers a fascinating tale of high adventures, obsession, a love triangle and a sensational murder trial

Heart Like a Wheel 1983 Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream

An intimate and captivating documentary follows pro cyclist Mark Cavendish's fast road to the top, tragic setback and incredible comeback.

Forced Perspective 2015 Forced Perspective is an intimate portrait of iconic Cleveland artist Derek Hess by filmmaker Nick Cavalier The film is a journey through Dereks struggle with alcoholism and bipolar and how these demons effect the artwork, presenting a voyeur into Dereks personal life, reveal

The Ragged Edge 2014 The Ragged Edge is a documentary about survival on and off the racetrack about riding the edge between victory and oblivion Its focus is Erik Buell Racing EBR, the only American sport bike company EBR is now racing for its survival This documentary combines the power, excitement

The Eternal Breasts 1955 Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness a breast

The Flowers of St Francis 1950 The film dramatizes about a dozen vignettes from the life of St Francis and his early followers, starting with their return in the rain to Rivotorlo from Rome when the Pope blessed their Rule, and ending with their dispersal to preach The unconnected chapters are like

Sajjan Singh Rangroot 2018 This film is based on Sikh regiments that went to the front lines during WWI Sajjan Singh, a polo aficionado, was a British Indian Army officer and Maharaja of Ratlam State, ruling from 1893 1947 He served on the Western Front during WWI

Lon Chaney A Thousand Faces 2000 Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary We learn of his deaf mute parents, his own long delayed ability to talk and the origins of his

The Day Carl Sandburg Died 2011 The Day Carl Sandburg Died is a dynamic exploration into the life and work of the iconic American, Carl Sandburg From an impoverished youth on the prairie of Illinois to the halls of Congress and the Ed Sullivan Show, it was a tale of perseverance and success During h

Marvin Hamlisch What He Did for Love 2013 Composer, conductor, genius, mensch, Marvin Hamlisch was as close to a modern day Da Vinci as it gets Hit after hit The Way We Were, Nobody Does It Better, The Sting, Chorus Line, Marvin was irrepressible and prolific His streak was staggering So what made a

Filiberto 2017 The deeds of a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and family to live the clandestine life of an armed revolutionary for Puerto Rican independence

All about Joe 2014 Trapped in a world he never made up, Joe struggles to find a job or even a meaningful relationship with anyone outside of his imaginary pal, Charlie Nubbins The only place Joe feels at home is on stage during a local poetry night attended by beautiful women Women who end up missin

Civil Ben Crump 2022 Crumps mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking while Black victims, Crump challenges America to come to terms with what it owes his

Leil Khargi 2018 Three people had to live together for one night

The Man Who Mends Women The Wrath of Hippocrates 2015 Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countr

The Real Anthony Fauci 2022 NA

Dr Petiot 1990 Based on the real life of Dr Marcel Petiot During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France for Spain Instead, he drugged them and burnt their bodies in his home, while stealing their valuable

Tail Gunner Joe 1977 A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President

Preston Sturges The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer 1990 NA

Lyra 2022 Follows the life of Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee by telling her story through her own work and words

a ha The Movie 2021 Three musicians, all in their fifties, are back on tour They have fans in every age group and play in huge sold out arenas around the world They travel in black Mercedes limousines each in its own stay separately in luxury hotels and have separate dressing rooms in the backstage

Anatomy of an Illness 1984 Biopic of Saturday Review editor and political journalist Norman Cousins who developed and promoted a self made health therapy consisting of intake of large quantities of vitamin C and making oneself laugh as much as possible

Dreamin Wild 2022 Musical duo Donnie and Joe Emerson spend everything they have to produce a record in the 1970s

Still Bill 2009 A portrait of soul legend Bill Withers

The Saint of Second Chances 2023 Mike Veeck, son of legendary Major League Baseball owner Bill Veeck, blows up his fathers career and then spends the next few decades learning the value of a second chance

Sharaku 1995 A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicip

Gorky 3 My Universities 1940 The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoys Maxim Gorky trilogy Having endured a painful youth in Detstvo Gorkogo 1938 and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Maxim Gorky reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and

The Arbor 2010 Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar

Night and Day 1946 The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s The films attempted biography matches many public myths surrounding Cole at the time, despite its lack of relationship with truth For instance, tru

Harley 2020 Harley, a successful criminal attorney, who represents the most despised people in society in Paterson, NJ, embarks on a quest to win the woman of his dreams and defeat the bully who antagonized him as a child

The Good Traitor 2020 Period drama centering on the life of diplomat Henrik Kauffmann, who was the Danish ambassador posted to Washington in 1939 When World War II started and the Nazis occupied Denmark on April 9th, 1940, Kauffmann declared himself to be the only true representative of the free Dan

Lord of the Ants 2022 Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming The informant is his partners father

Laura Ingalls Wilder Prairie to Page 2020 Laura Ingalls Wilder is celebrated for her autobiographical fiction that helped record the expansion of the American frontier into the Midwest Laura was born in 1867 to Charles and Caroline Ingalls in a log cabin north of Pepin,

Cura Brochero 2016 Cordoba, Argentina, 2013 Everyone gets ready to participate in Cura Brocheros beatification Santiago is a 55 year old independent producer who is about to make a film with scarce funds about Cura Brocheros life Luciano is a 40 year old actor who leads a miserable, hectic life mark

The Last Goldfish 2017 Manfred Goldfish tried to put a lid on the trauma that made him a refugee in 1939 When his daughter unearths Manfreds extraordinary story, she finds where she belongs, and we touch on the truth for millions of others

John Laurens War 2017 John Laurens War is the fight for freedom by John Laurens from South Carolina, for every slave in America along with every colonist During the War for American freedom, John told his slave owning father, We have sunk the Africans below the Standard of Humanity Along with his fr

The Dreamer of Oz 1990 The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the childrens book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz

FantastiCozzi 2016 A feature length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy