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Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives (2006), noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Now, in the second season of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor Gates continues that journey, utilizing a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the...
4) Gamemaster
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GAMEMASTER follows the trials and tribulations of designers as they create and publish board games. Conversations with industry legends like Klaus Teuber (Catan) help explore the cultural phenomenon of board gaming.
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EMILY @ THE EDGE OF CHAOS interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters (John Lithgow as Sir Isaac Newton, Lily Tomlin as Ayn Rand, Leonard Nimoy as Sigmund Freud, Richard Lewis as Aristotle, Matt Groening as Aldo Leopold). The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics – the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using...
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For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979—at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 as the Sandy Hook massacre played on television while Marion passed away. In between, Marion filled 70,000...
9) 74 Minutes
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After investigating over 500 claims of paranormal activity throughout the world, renowned paranormal investigator Chad Calek shares over an hour of the most intense paranormal activity he's ever documented during the course of his 25-year investigative career.
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Join paranormal veteran, Ross Allison, as he focuses his attention on the physical aspects of being touched by a ghost. His struggle to prove these phenomena takes a crucial turn when a real scientist and inventor, Chad Goodwin, joins his team as they take naked subjects into the most haunted sites known for supernatural physical contact.
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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,...
13) The Real Cancun
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It's fun and sexy, unscripted and uncensored, but more than anything, it's THE REAL CANCUN. Each year, over 40,000 college students travel to Cancun, Mexico, for spring break. But this year, for the first time, sixteen people will come together for eight days in a beachfront Cancun villa for the ultimate spring break vacation. Bonds will be forged, romances sparked, friendships tested and hearts broken, all amidst a backdrop of non-stop partying....
14) My Ghost Story
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Everybody has a ghost story. But how many people have filmed theirs? Welcome to MY GHOST STORY, where true and unbelievable stories of the paranormal are told by the people who lived through them - and actually captured their hauntings on tape.
15) Missing Mom
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This multi-award-winning documentary shows film director, Rob McCallum, and his brother, Chris, search for their Mom who's been missing for almost 25 years. The pair interview reluctant family members and discover distorted truths about their past.
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Nothing captures the magic of Christmas like a visit to Santa Claus. MIRACLE ON 19TH STREET is the story of a beloved NYC store Santa who, after nearly 30 years, is retiring to “the North Pole,” leaving behind an indelible mark on generations of children and families. To them, he is the real deal.
17) Hunting Bigfoot
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The worlds of narrative feature and documentary film are skillfully melded to capture this portrait of a broken man obsessively pursuing personal redemption in a world where many think he’s gone mad in his quest to find the elusive cryptid.
18) Trailer War
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Unleashed from the vaults of the Alamo Drafthouse, a meticulous selection of the best, strangest and most amazing coming attraction trailers in the world! Most have never been available in any home format, and all are presented for the first time in high definition.
19) BookWars
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The gritty world of New York City street booksellers told in a remarkable story that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life.
20) TFW No GF
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Born from the internet, the phrase "TFW NO GF" was originally used online to describe a lack of romantic companionship. Since then, it has evolved to symbolize a greater state of existence defined by isolation, rejection and alienation. The meme's protagonist, "WOJAK," has become the mascot to a vast online community consisting of self-described "hyper-anonymous twenty somethings" and "guys who slipped between the cracks." This documentary, TFW NO...
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