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This Aint No Mouse Music 2013 Roots music icon Chris Strachwitz is a detective of deep American music music thats the antithesis of the corporate mouse music dominating pop culture Since 1960, he has been the guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, bringing Cajun music out of Louisiana, Tex

Chocolate Road 2021 Three renowned chocolatiers Maribel Lieberman, Susumu Koyama and Mikkel Friis Holm take us through the process of craft chocolate making all the way from the tree to the final chocolate piece On their journey, each of them finds how important it is to know the roots of their prim

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

Mr Landsbergis 2021 Documentary about Lithuania in the years 1989 to 1991, when the Baltic country broke away from the Soviet Union Because of the peaceful protests with much singing, this period was later also called the singing revolution As one of the founders of the independence movement, Vytaut

Little Stones 2017 From a graffiti artist speaking out against domestic violence in the favelas of Brazil to a dancer rehabilitating sex trafficking survivors in India, LITTLE STONES follows four women from around the world who use art to empower women and girls

The Wobblies 1979 Investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble rousing workers in the field and factory

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

Distant Harmony 1987 In 1986, Luciano Pavarotti was invited to Beijing to present La Boheme, conduct master classes and perform concerts for more than 150 million people Academy Award winning filmmaker DeWitt Sage captures every moment of Pavarottis travels, from the tenors famously cheerful exchang

Waking Dream 2018 Waking Dream weaves together the stories of undocumented young people as they sit in limbo between deportation and a path to citizenship In 2012, DACA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals gave 800,000 undocumented young peopl

Stuck in the Groove A Vinyl Documentary 2021 A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records Featuring Interviews with the experts, musicians and fans alike, Stuck in the Groove takes you on a journey of vinyl mania, music and nostalgia

Thats Entertainment, Part II 1976 Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers

The Flagmakers 2022 From National Geographic Documentary Films, Academy Award winning director Cynthia Wade, award winning director Sharon Liese and executive producer Giannis Antetokounmpo, The Flagmakers poses one of todays most pressing questio

The Holly 2022 THE HOLLY goes deep inside a gentrifying community in Denver, where a shooting case involving an activist becomes a window into the political machinations of urban development and the citys gang activity

Calle Lopez 2013 A portrait of different characters working and living in one of the busiest, noisiest streets of Mexico Citys Downtown

Ardal OHanlon Tomb Raider 2022 Ardal OHanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish men and women using archaeology, answering his deepest questions about what it means to be Irish

Murder in the Front Row The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story 2019 In the early 1980s, a small group of dedicated Bay Area headbangers shunned the hard rock of MTV and Hollywood hairspray bands in favor of a more dangerous brand of metal that became known as thrash From the tape trading netw

Willie Nelson American Outlaw 2020 Willie Nelson American Outlaw captures the most iconic moments from a one night only concert event honoring Willie Nelson and his music This two hour program is packed with over 20 original performances, never before seen interviews and captivating behind the scene

Why Knot 2016 Why are love and sex so closely tied together And what if we try and separate the two Filmed over the course of 4 years, Why Knot weaves the history of monogamy with the personal story of a filmmaker attempting an open relationship with the woman he loves When his younger brother in Du

Black Sabbath The End Of The End 2017 Documentary following Black Sabbaths iconic last gig a sold out hometown performance on 4 February 2017 at Birminghams 16,000 seat Genting Arena

Lost Track New Zealand 2020, Taking you on a journey of a lifetime through the remote wilderness of New Zealand in search of perfect waves and life long memories. Follow surfer Torren Martyn and filmmaker Ishka Folkwell as they embark on a four month motorcycle adventure into the depths of the la

The Test and The Art of Thinking 2018 For decades, the SAT amp ACT have loomed colossal as a teenage rite of passage for those aspiring to college in the U S The experience, and the score, remain indelible for many Students, academics, and test taking professionals expose the bias and influence, bot

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

Money Machine 2020 On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of more than 20,000 concertgoers from his hotel room at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas In a matter of minutes, Paddock killed 58 people and wounded more than 400 It was the largest mass shooting in the history of the United Sta

Shagay, sovet! (1926) Dziga Vertov records the achievements, and some failures, of the Moscow soviet.

An Inconvenient Tax 2011 Albert Einstein once wrote, The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax The product of 95 years worth of additions, subtractions, deductions, and exclusions, it has become such a headache that many are calling for it to be drastically simplified or even re

David Lean A Self Portrait 1971 An intimate look at the career of David Lean, this 1971 documentary by Thomas Craven features an extensive interview with the director, who discusses his work and his approach to filmmaking

This Place Rules 2022 Follows events and characters surrounding the January 6th, 2021 insurrection of the U S Capital Building in the days preceding the attack

John Cage Journeys in Sound 2012 NA

All In St Bernards 2022 A tiny, 100 year old Catholic school in Fitchburg, Massachusetts is struggling with insolvency We follow the dramatic campaigns to raise money and enrollment as well as a magical football season that together saved a beloved inst

You Are Not a Soldier 2021 As filmmaker Maria Carolina Telles comes to terms with the death of her father, a man who regretted never making it to the frontlines of World War II, she focuses her lens on the life of another man who had his own unique experience as a civilian in the midst of combat awa

Ancient Apocalypse 2022 NA

Master of Light 2022 George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison travels to his hometown to paint his family members Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life

Grand Cru 2017 Pascal Marchand, an aspiring poet from Montreal, arrived in the mythical land of Burgundy to work the harvest at age 21 Enchanted by the region, he settled there and embarked on an unlikely path to winemaking stardom Now over 30 years later, he is renowned as an artist and innovator,

David Spade Take the Hit 1998 Youve seen him as a man of many faces on Saturday Night Live, as co star of Tommy Boy and Black Sheep, and as a star of the hit TV comedy series Just Shoot Me Now, acerbic actorcomedian David Spade performs in his first solo TV special Hes made a name for himself as a l

Wintopia 2019 The recorded footages of a Canadian documentary filmmaker for a final film called UTOPIA, as narrated by his daughter

Queen of the Pythons 2019 The 13 foot female snakes daily life in a sub tropical valley in South Africa

Southwest of Salem The Story of the San Antonio Four 2016 A documentary that follows the struggle for exoneration of four Latina lesbians who were wrongfully convicted of gang rape against two young girls

Distant Constellation 2017 A Tarkovskian dream like landscape, featuring the inhabitants of a Turkish retirement home where pranksters, artists and old casanovas seduce us to confront the true nature of time

Tour du monde Le phenomene foot des quartiers 2022 NA

Explosion 1812 2012 On April 27, 1813, American forces defeated the British at York present day Toronto and captured the capital of Upper Canada but not before suffering their own losses History Televisions Explosion 1812 looks at the Battle of York and unearths new evidence around this lesser known

Fanny The Right to Rock 2021 FANNY The Right to Rock reveals the untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles Features Bonnie Raitt, Joe Elliott

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

Shake the Dust 2014 Shake the Dust is a feature documentary that tells the stories of break dancers from conflicted third world communities around the globe who, although separated by cultural boundaries and individual struggles, are intrinsically tied to one another through their passion for dance

Mr Dressup The Magic of Make Believe 2023 Take a detailed look about at famed, iconic television show from Canada that impacted multiple generations across its 39 year presence on television and its on going legacy

The Jam About the Young Idea 2015 A retrospective view of The Jam, as told through archival footage, interviews with band members, and commentary from those influenced by the band and its music

Shark Superpower 2022 Two teams of experts go to extraordinary lengths to take shark science into the wild as they investigate two of the most iconic shark superpowers speed and bite force In California the race is on as Andy Casagrande attempts to

That Click 2019 A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has portrayed over sixty years of pop culture This fascinating feature takes a closer look into the career of one of the most important photographers of the last century

On Thin Ice 2021 Jack Brooks escaped the pogroms in 1923 and went on to become one of the premier speedskaters of interwar America He skated with the U S Olympic team, and traveled to Lake Placid in 1932 for the III Olympic Winter Games But his dream was cut short Singled out because of the religion