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The Capote Tapes 2019 Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capotes greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of New Yorks glittering jet set society Instead, it sparked the downfall of the iconic author of Breakfast at Tiffanys and In Cold Blood Through never before heard audio archives and intervie

Leaving Africa (2015) Finnish Riitta, 66 and Kata from Uganda, 63 are closest of friends and together they are running sexual health and gender equality education in Uganda. Riitta has been in Uganda for 27 years. She has already passed the retirement age but returning to Finland feels daunting as h

They Say It Cant Be Done 2019 Four fascinating stories of entrepreneurs making a huge positive impact on global problems, and obstacles they must overcome I highly recommend it

Andy Murray: Resurfacing (2019) A documentary film that tracks the tennis star's devastating injury journey between 2017-2019. From the front lines of surgical theatres, to the intimate corners of his home, we live alongside and witness Andy at his most vulnerable. Considered Britain's greatest spor

Woody Allen A Documentary 2011 A documentary on Woody Allen that trails him on his movie sets and follows him back to Brooklyn as he visits his childhood haunts

10 Things You Dont Know About 2012 2014 Henry Rollins discusses different subjects throughout history

Dark Side of Comedy 2022 Featuring different comics and their personal journeys, explores the internal battles, unexpected fame and societal pressures in the comedy world

Koshien Japans Field of Dreams 2019 Filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki follows a coach and his team as they try to win Japans national high school baseball championship

Trashed 2012 Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons and us from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope

Blackbird Descending (1977) "Malcolm Le Grice, one of the leading avant-garde filmmakers in Britain, has made a feature length work which is (...) one of the most accessible films to come out of the experimental area of cinematic exploration in recent years. The secret of its appeal is that ot engag

Licensed to Kill 1997 Winner of both the Directors and Filmmakers Trophy awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Licensed to Kill goes behind the media headlines of recent high profile anti gay murders to investigate their causes Attacked by gay bashers in 1977, filmmaker Arthur Dong probes the hearts

Face au Vide (2020) In the collective imagination, mountaineering is seen as an elitist and dangerous activity. When the mainstream press talks about mountaineering, it is generally to relate a drama or an ...

Mountain Devil 2 2022 A team of investigative journalists set out to find out the truth behind a mysterious book published in 1976 that claims to prove the existence of Bigfoot in the foothills of Pennsylvania

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One 1968 Filmmaker William Greaves is shooting a series of screen tests in New York Citys Central Park for the two leads of a feature length movie, with the working title of Over the Cliff Simultaneously, he has a documentary filmmaking crew filming the behind the scenes m

Songs for While Im Away 2020 The story of how a young black boy from working class 1950s Dublin, became Irelands Greatest Rock Star As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, a wildman

The Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash 2018 Fans, cast members, and celebrities alike gather at Hollywood Forever Cemetery to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Disneys Hocus Pocus and its long lasting impact

Inside Costa Concordia Voices of Disaster 2012 Told by some of the survivors who were on board the luxury cruiser, this is the story of a tragic wreck and of the search and rescue operation that followed it On 13 January 2012, there

Revolution of Our Times 2021 Due to political restrictions in Hong Kong, this documentary following protestors since 2019, is broken into pieces, each containing interviews and historical context of the conflict

The Boys Who Said NO 2020 Focuses on the anti war draft resistance movement in the Oakland CA area during the US war against Vietnam

Great White Serial Killer Fatal Christmas 2022 After a surfer dies off Morro Bay, California on Christmas Eve, shark attack investigators Ralph Collier and Brandon McMillan use forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts to identify the suspected killer an 18 foot great white s

SOMM 3 2018 Three of the greatest legends in wine meet to drink the rarest bottles of their careers, while the best blind tasters of today gather to settle an age old argument The results could change the world of wine forever

Paul T Goldman 2023 NA

Thomas Banks Quest for Love 2019 Falling in love is never easy, especially when youre different Thomas Banks is a young, gay playwright with cerebral palsy who is on a quest to find true love He struggles to find someone who will commit, looks for love in all the wrong places and crosses many hurdle

Freedom Uncut 2022 Freedom is George Michaels last and final work George reflects on a life changing period of his life when he allows us access to his memories, thoughts, unseen footage and photographs never before seen

Namibia, Sanctuary of Giants 2016 NA

Enlighten Us 2016 ENLIGHTEN US THE RISE AND FALL OF JAMES ARTHUR RAY is the story of the motivational rock stars meteoric rise, fall and return to the 11 billion self help industry after his negligent homicide conviction in the death of three clients at a sweat lodge at one of his events As this sto

Light in the Water 2018 In 1982, soon after the first Gay Games, West Hollywood Swim Club, as it was known then, registered as the first openly gay masters swim and water polo club This feature documentary film follows their battle for acceptance from their humble beginnings, to how these men and wo

Blood Road 2017 The mysteries surrounding her fathers death in the Vietnam war lead ultra endurance mountain biker Rebecca Rusch on an emotional journey as she pedals 1200 miles of the Ho Chi Minh trail

Kiss the Ground 2020 A revolutionary group of activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians band together in a global movement of Regenerative Agriculture that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world

Artifishal 2019 A look at the challenges ecologists and conservationists face in the lucrative salmon hatchery industry

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Every Brilliant Thing (2016) A son creates a list of things worth living for--all in an attempt to raise the spirits of his chronically depressed mother--in this adaptation of the acclaimed one-character show.

NoBodys Perfect 2008 NOBODYS PERFECT is a documentary which shows Niko von Glasows search for eleven people who, like him, were born disabled due to the side effects of the drug thalidomide These eleven people are also prepared to be photographed for a calendar, and photographed naked, allowing peop

FlightRisk 2022 From the Emmy winning, Oscar nominated team behind The Square comes another urgent global investigation, following everyday people who find themselves in the midst of a tragedy when two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed only five mont

The Nuns, the Priests, and the Bombs 2018 Nuclear disarmament activists, including Catholic nuns and priests, challenge the security of Americas nuclear weapons when they break into two top secret facilities, including the Fort Knox of uranium Are they criminals or prophets sending a wake up call to

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (1987) Filmed during the design and realization of the Sainsbury extension to the National Gallery in London, Venturi speaks of the revelatory experiences with classical architecture that led to ...

Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy 2016 In 2013 former Chadian dictator Hissein Habres arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived this tragedy

Alice is Still Dead 2019 In an intimate and unflinching account dealing with grief, Alice is Still Dead tells the story of a murdered loved one from the victims family perspective From the detectives notification to her family to facing the killer in court, we see the pain, anger and heartbreak a fa

The Secret World of 2021 2022 A behind the scenes exploration of Britains biggest snack rivalries

The Last Movie Painter 2020 A thrilling journey through the world of Renato Casaro, one of the most important living illustrators that the worlds film poster industry has ever known

We Are Not Ghouls 2022 US Air Force JAG Attorney Yvonne Bradley was assigned to defend a man held at Guantanamo Bay Believing Guantanamo held the worst of the worst, her world was turned upside down once she arrived in Cuba and began to untangle an unimaginable case

Billy Mize the Bakersfield Sound 2014 Billy Mizes contributions to Country music shaped the industry His charm and golden voice are legendary among the insiders A performer on the brink of fame, his is a spectacular tale about identity and sacrifice amidst a Country music revolution

India Awakes (2015) Noted Swedish author, commentator, and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explores an inherited British bureaucracy which created layers of rules and regulations. However, globalization and economic liberalization have created fluidity between classes - and greater ambiti

Food on the Go E il cibo va 2017 An exceptionally appetizing documentary about the Italian diaspora and its cooking heritage, which retains its flavours even across the Atlantic

Ellen DeGeneres The Beginning 2000 The smart, sassy actresscomediennes third solo HBO special features material taped in front of a live audience at NYCs Beacon Theater In this show, Ellen makes her triumphant return to the irreverent, irresistible humor that launched her career

Escaping Captivity The Kara Robinson Story 2021 When 15 year old Kara Robinson is abducted in broad daylight, she plots her escape from a serial killer

Birders (2019) Bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world's most beautiful bird species.

Ocean to Sky (2019) For this feature-length documentary Michael Dillon revisits his award-winner From the Ocean to the Sky, about Edmund Hillary's Ganges jet boat expedition. Back in 1977, Dillon filmed ...