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The culmination of a trilogy of documentaries that have followed film director Terry Gilliam over a twenty-five-year period. Charting Gilliam's final, beleaguered quest to adapt Don Quixote, this documentary is a study of creative obsession. For over thirty years, Terry Gilliam has dreamed of creating a screen adaptation of Cervantes' masterpiece. The collapse of that infamous and ill-fated production only further cemented Gilliam's reputation as...
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CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth fearlessly captures footage of war zones. After receiving catastrophic injuries in the crosshairs of battle, she returns to work with more courage than ever. An intimate portrait of a trailblazing female photojournalist. Features interviews with Moth's family and friends, including CNN's Christiane Amanpour. A Sundance film festival premiere directed by Lucy Lawless.
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Faced with significant opposition to desegregation and the tragic assassination of Medgar Evers, Congress was urged to pass a comprehensive civil rights bill. Following President Kennedy's assassination in November, President Lyndon Johnson, with strong support from Roy Wilkins and Clarence Mitchell, vigorously advocated for the bill's passage, which was successfully achieved the following year. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans discrimination based...
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Comedian, disrupter extraordinaire Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) and her team of activists crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinic staff and bust stigma. Pop culture icons and next-gen comics fuel this six-year road film activating small-town folks to rebuild vandalized clinics, exposing wrongdoer politicians, domestic terrorists, and media neglect as the race to the bottom ensues. A bold call to action reminds us that when the...
8) Separated
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Academy Awardʼ-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family's plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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A Karachi garment factory fire kills 260 workers, amongst them Saeeda's only son. Her transformation from domestic mother to labour rights activist brings her to the centre of a re-emerging Pakistani labour movement and a chance for systemic change. Contains some English and Urdu language.
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The most recognizable woman in technology lives in our collective imagination. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence.
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United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a...
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Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry's diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. Over the course of director Sally Aitken₂s moving documentary, we become deeply invested in baby hummingbirds like Cactus and...
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A century after Alfred Hitchcock's first film, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today's society? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Eyes of Orson Welles, and The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As...
15) Zurawski v Texas
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Women denied abortions under Texas's ambiguous and unforgiving abortion bans band together with a fearless attorney to sue Texas. While battling in court against the state and its immovable Attorney General, the extent of their traumatic experiences is revealed as they wrestle to regain their reproductive futures and set a precedent for millions of other women and families. Zurawski V Texas reveals the dire impact of losing access to healthcare and...
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