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Nazis on the Run: The Hunt

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The Nuremberg Trials continue. Chief United States Prosecutor, Robert H Jackson, makes convincing statements that leave a lasting impression on the court.The prosecution is getting more intense as days go by. Questions about the final solution and each Nazi’s involvement leave an uncomfortable atmosphere in the court room. Once a united party, it quickly becomes every man for himself.The Nuremberg Trials are putting every man up against four charges; crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity and conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes. Intense questioning opens up new information about the Nazi Regime, and the extreme influence Hitler had on his party.Another search has begun. Becoming known as the ‘worlds most wanted Nazi’, Adolf Eichmann was the mastermind behind the network of death camps in German occupied Europe, and people wanted him to suffer the way his victims did. He was the next target.

Ted Bundy

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This shocking docu-drama explores the life of Ted Bundy, the infamous and charismatic serial killer of the 1970s.

The Show Must Go On

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In the wake of the global pandemic, The Show Must Go On chronicles the race against time to save live theater and an army of theater-makers determined to win that race. In March of 2020 and for the first time in history, the performing arts were decimated worldwide when theater shut down indefinitely in every country except one: South Korea. From the frontlines in Seoul, this film follows two theatrical productions, the World Tour of The Phantom of The Opera and the South Korean Tour of Cats, that pushed ahead safely against all odds during the pandemic and helped show the way forward. And a continent away in the UK, the film simultaneously follows composer and empresario Andrew Lloyd Webber as he uses the example set by his Korean colleagues to envision a new future for theater on Broadway and the West End. The Show Must Go On chronicles the survival of the performing arts and the worldwide resuscitation of an artform with the fate of a global industry at stake. But more importantly, the film tells a human story, one of the resilience of storytellers and their determination to come together to heal, create, and inspire.

Beyond Pollution

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Beyond Pollution is an exhaustively researched and elegantly executed expose on an avoidable tragedy that began with an oil spill but had far-reaching, and unreported repercussions, uncovering what really happened, why, and who really benefited.

Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows

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Soul singer Syl Johnson struggled for decades before leaving the music business in the 1980's to open a Chicago fried-fish chain. Since then, he’s become one of the most-sampled artists in hip-hop. The list of artists who've used his 1967 song Different Strokes includes Run-DMC, NWA, Public Enemy, the Wu-Tang Clan, the Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, Michael Jackson, Jay Z and Kanye West. With a lively soundtrack and an original score by Yo La Tengo, this documentary celebrates one man who can’t stop the music.

Slacker Uprising

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Footage from Michael Moore's "the birth of a new political generation" of a 60-city tour of college campuses and other venues.

Searching for Home: Coming Back From War

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Built on the pillars of The Truth, The Healing and The Hope, SEARCHING FOR HOME: COMING BACK FROM WAR is an emotional and unflinching look at returning veterans and their search for the "home" they left behind, physically, mentally and spiritually. From World War II, Korea and Vietnam to modern-day conflicts, SEARCHING FOR HOME is a multi-generational documentary that chronicles the journey of the men and women, who have left "home, " only to return to new and difficult challenges as profoundly-changed people. SEARCHING FOR HOME captures, up close and personal, the lives of veterans struggling with issues of grief and trauma, some for as many as 60 years. Unprecedented access allows the viewer to personally witness the hidden wounds, disturbing memories and the devastating impact of PTSD. Searching for Home then chronicles the healing and the hope of these brave men and woman, utilizing a myriad of treatments, healing activities and above all helping others along the healing path.

Jihad in America: The Grand Deception

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It is a threat that is right in front of us -- just below the surface and hidden in plain sight. " Jihad in America: The Grand Deception" exposes the history and structure of the subversive menace behind the public mask -- The Muslim Brotherhood in America. This investigative documentary exposes how Muslim Brotherhood-linked leaders rose to prominence right here in the United States, and how they exploit American values under the cover of religion for their ulterior political agenda. Based on an extensive collection of primary source materials, including internal records of the MB, startling first-person accounts and chilling and exclusive undercover video and audio of these groups behind closed doors.

Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much

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"Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much" is an award winning documentary film from CJ Wallis about a math genius from Texas named Ted Slauson and his life of memorizing and documenting the prize amounts on "The Price Is Right. " Keeping track of items and their prices began as a hobby for Slauson, until age 18 when he became eligible to be selected as a contestant on the show. The film explores Slauson's experience as a 37-time audience member, that results and exposes Ted’s role in a 2008 perfect bid showcase scandal that rattled news outlets like Esquire, Time Magazine, and TMZ and ended in Slauson being banned from the show. CJ Wallis and Mallory Kennedy produced the film which features “The Price Is Right”s 5 time Emmy award winning producer Roger Dobkowitz and television icon Bob Barker who provide the film with rare, never-before-seen content and perspective from their 35 years on the show.

Wet House

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An immersive, vérité-based film that introduces, to most, the concept of wet houses— harm reduction residential facilities that allow chronic, relapsing alcoholics to continue drinking—as well as the controversial and often thankless work the institutions do. By documenting daily life at The Glenwood, we make the financial case for these facilities (showing their practical and cost-saving benefits) and highlight the immense tolerance that fuels the care given there. And by telling individuals’ stories, we demonstrate how the wet house functions as a highly accommodating care model for a disease that has complex, individual manifestations. Because of our culture’s focus on sobriety as the only response to alcoholism, wet houses are relatively uncommon, despite being a clear ‘win win’ for communities and residents.

Generation Iron

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This critically acclaimed documentary follows seven larger-than-life competitors vying for glory in the 2012 Mr. Olympia, the ultimate bodybuilding contest that catapulted Arnold Schwarzenegger into stardom. From the producer of the acclaimed classic PUMPING IRON and narrated by Academy Award®-nominee Mickey Rourke (THE WRESTLER), this true story of dedication, rivalry, victory, defeat, and triumph follows an array of magnificent bodybuilders as they prepare for, then participate in, the Olympia showdown in Las Vegas. These athletes include 2011 Mr. Olympia winner Phil Heath, Brooklyn underdog Kai Greene, Texas maverick Branch Warren, Japanese expatriate Hidetada Yamagishi, Germany's Dennis Wolf, Curacao-born Roelly Winklaar, and the forward-thinking Ben Pakulski. Featuring Schwarzenegger (THE EXPENDABLES FRANCHISE), Lou Ferrigno (THE INCREDIBLE HULK), and Michael Jai White (THE DARK KNIGHT, FAST & FURIOUS 7).

The Thin Blue Line

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In 1976, Randall Adams was wrongly sentenced to death for the murder of a Dallas cop. Errol Morris' documentary exposed the truth and is credited with overturning Adams' conviction. Discover the spirit of independence.

Unknown Distance

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When does the battle end? After five tours and ten years as a Marine Sniper, Sergeant Douglas Brown, alongside Director and Producer Gordon Clark, take us on an emotional journey across America, documenting the powerful testimony of returning combat veterans -- all trained with a deadly skill set, now rendered useless. Failing to prevent death, and the act of taking a human life, can shatter a soldier’s religious and spiritual views, resulting in moral injury. How do these soldiers fit back into a society that supported them when they enlisted but became ambivalent when they returned?

All I Can Say

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Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself religiously from 1990-1995 with a video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of twenty-eight. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In the hundreds of hours of footage, Hoon meticulously documented his life—his family, his creative process, his television, his band’s rise to fame, and his struggle with addiction. He filmed his daughter’s birth, and archived the politics and culture of the 90s, an era right before the internet changed the world. Created solely with his own footage, voice, and music, this rare autobiography is a prescient exploration of experience and memory in the age of video. It is also Hoon’s last work, completed twenty-three years after his death.

Taylor Swift: America's Sweetheart

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The country/pop superstar has taken the music scene by storm, going multi-platinum on her first album, earning four Grammy Awards for her second and being listed in the 2013 Forbes list of top-earning celebs under 30. Born on the 13th December 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania she showed an early interest in musical instruments. At the age of 11 she made her first trip to Nashville hoping to get a recording deal but it wasn’t until 4 years later that she got signed to a label- Big Machine Records. A best selling singer-songwriter, musician, record breaker and actress in her own right Taylor Swift is a true phenomenon. Through her own words and great archive footage this film takes an incredible look at the life and times of this truly amazing young artist.

The Edge

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Between 2009 and 2013, the England Test Cricket team rose from the depths of the rankings to become the first and only English side to reach world number one. The Edge is a compelling, funny and emotional insight into a band of brothers’ rise to the top, their unmatched achievements and the huge toll it would take. One of the toughest sports on the planet, and psychologically perhaps the most challenging, this is test cricket like you’ve never seen it before. Directed by Barney Douglas (Warriors), the film explores the ruthless intensity of the game, the impact it can have on players’ mental health and the extreme price of success. Featuring incredible unseen footage from the period and compelling new interviews from star players and coaching staff including: Andrew Strauss, Sir Alastair Cook, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott and Andy Flower, The Edge will reveal the team’s intense and often hilarious pursuit of success.

Duran Duran - Rio (Classic Album)

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This latest addition to the acclaimed Classic Albums series takes us to the early eighties and the release of Duran Duran’s second album ‘Rio’. Released against a backdrop of riots, record unemployment and the Falklands War this optimistic and celebratory album would generate a string of hit singles and ground-breaking videos and catapult Duran Duran to global stardom. This film tells the story behind the writing, recording and subsequent success of the album through new interviews, musical demonstrations and both new and archive performances.

Rubble Kings

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From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay a unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop culture. Rubble Kings chronicles life during this era of gang rule, tells the story of how a few extraordinary, forgotten people did the impossible, and how their actions impacted New York City and the world over.

The Corporation

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One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. It is the dominant institution of our time. A complex, sobering, yet darkly amusing documentary, The Corporation takes its audience on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. Mark Achbar, co-director of the influential and inventive Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation's ascent. Based on Bakan's best-selling book, "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power", the film has achieved international critical and box office success. Winner of 10 audience awards, including Sundance, and 26 awards in total from prestigious festivals around the world, it stands as the top-grossing Canadian feature documentary of all time. The Corporation includes encounters and interviews with CEOs and top-level executives from a range of industries: energy, pharmaceutical, computer, tire, carpet, sporting goods, public relations, branding, news, advertising, and undercover marketing, as well as the first management guru, the first corporate-sponsored university students, a Nobel-prize winning economist, a corporate spy, and a range of academics, critics, historians and thinkers. The Corporation reveals that legally, a corporation is granted the status of a "person", and asks: "If that's the case, what kind of person is it?" To assess the "personality" of the corporate "person," a checklist is employed, using diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization and the DSM IV, the standard diagnostic tool of psychiatrists and psychologists. It turns out the operational principles of the corporation give it a highly anti-social "personality": it is self-interested, inherently amoral, callous and deceitful; it breaches social and legal standards to get its way; it does not suffer from guilt, yet it can mimic the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism. A disturbing diagnosis is delivered: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism meets the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath. The Corporation depicts numerous, inspiring, corporate harm reduction strategies employed by individuals and organizations working to regulate, re-write and reform this formidable societal force.

The Taking (2023)

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A radical examination of one of the most recognizable landscapes in the world. This illuminating documentary explores Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising. The Taking scrutinizes how a site located on Navajo land came to embody the fantasy of the “Old West,” replete with self-perpetuating falsehoods, and why it continues to hold mythic significance in the global psyche.

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