Festival
5.4
1967
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Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, whos acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show their range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Richard Fariña, and others less well-known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and theres a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music.
Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché
6.3
2021
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The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mothers archives in this intimate documentary.
The Last Blockbuster
7
2020
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This nostalgic documentary reveals the real story of Blockbusters demise, and how one last location in Bend, Oregon keeps the spirit of a bygone era alive.
Carts of Darkness
6.8
2008
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This documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts.
Narcissister Organ Player
1
2018
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This hybrid performance/documentary film explores how the artist’s complex family history, in particular her relationship with her mother, compelled her to create the masked, erotic performance character Narcissister.
Chasing the Present
5
2019
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A materially successful young man, riddled with anxiety embarks on a worldwide journey of self inquiry, uncovering deep truths about who and what he is.
Pride and Protest
3
2020
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In the wake of the Birmingham protests against LGBTQ+ relationship education in primary schools, a team of queer community reporters of colour challenge homophobia and call out racism in LGBTQ+ spaces.
Escape from Room 18
7.6
2017
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John Daly, an ex-Neo Nazi, fled to Israel when his gang tried to kill him for being Jewish. An old Skinhead friend finds John 25 years later and suggests they visit concentration camps in an effort to make amends for their past.
JFK: The Making of a President
6.7
2017
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A documentary of the life leading up to the election of John F. Kennedy as president and the controversial life prior that created the legend.
Mondo Bizarro
6.3
1966
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A faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the womens dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor, goes inside the mailroom at Fredericks of Hollywood, watches an Australian who sticks nails through his skin and eats glass, checks out the art and peace scene in Los Angeles, takes in Easter week with vacationing college students on Balboa Island, observes a German audience enjoying a play about Nazi sadism, and, with the help of powerful military lenses, spies on a Lebanese white-slavery auction.
Reclaiming the Blade
6
2009
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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.
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
7.1
2021
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Reenactments drive this documentary investigating the mastermind behind a scam to sneak the kids of rich and famous families into top US universities.
Highway to the Arctic
6
2017
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Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. While the landscape is covered with snow and lakes of a thick layer of ice, blocking land transport, ice roads are converted to frozen expanses as far as the eye can see.
From Jail Cell to Stem Cell: the Next Con for the Ex-Con
6
2020
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The natural medicine industry is seduced by ex-cons, adulterated by fake docuseries and physicians with exaggerated credentials, and patients are hurt all in an effort to make money before the FDA catches up with them.
Lava
8.6
2018
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Erik is totally blind and is solo kayaking the length of the Grand Canyon. In Lava Falls, a large dangerous rapid, he discovers that despite what people might say, barriers can be real and they hurt .. a lot.
Putin: The New Empire
5.9
2016
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Since Russia was brought to its knees in the 1990s by crippling debt and the grip of the oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin has made it his mission to return superpower status to Russia. While not partisan to Putins wrongs, this insightful doc examines the logic and motivations of Putins vilified regime, and why he is so loved in his homeland.
On Putin's Blacklist
1
2017
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The Year London Blew Up
8
2005
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1974-1975 - a year of terrorism across London. Adapted for the screen from the book Timebomb.
Kim Swims
7.7
2017
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The inspiring true story of an accomplished open water swimmers attempt to become the first woman to swim 30 miles through a stretch of cold, rough and shark-inhabited waters off of the San Francisco coast.
America's Longest War
7
2013
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AMERICAS LONGEST WAR is a documentary about the extraordinary costs of the US governments 40-year war on drugs. Drug prohibition has failed. Drug usage rates have not declined, and illegal drugs are more available-and cheaper-than ever before. At the same time, the costs of the drug war are staggering. More than $1 trillion taxpayer dollars have been spent. More than 50,000 SWAT raids occur each year. Hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders are wasting their lives away in prison at our expense. And more than 60,000 people have been murdered in Mexico over the past six years. AMERICAS LONGEST WAR tells the stories of some of the victims of the drug war and, more importantly, points to a viable alternative approach to drug policy.
Unseen
8
2016
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In 2009, police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of known sex offender. With unprecedented access to the surviving victims, UNSEEN looks into how this killing spree went unnoticed for so long.
Children of the Tsunami
1
2012
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One year on: the Japanese tsunami through the eyes of its youngest survivors. On March 11, 2011 Japan was hit by the greatest tsunami in a thousand years. Through compelling testimony from 7-10-year-old survivors, the film reveals how the deadly wave and the Fukushima nuclear accident have changed childrens lives forever. The story unfolds at two key locations: a primary school where 74 children were killed by the tsunami; and a school close to the Fukushima nuclear plant, attended by children evacuated from the nuclear exclusion zone. Radiation and its possible long-term effects are a constant worry for parents and children who choose to remain in Fukushima. Many parents have placed severe restrictions on where their children can go, how they dress and what they can eat and drink.
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music
8.2
1997
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Sarah McLachlan: A Life of Music
0
2004
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An intimate look into Sarah McLachlans life.