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An intimate conversation between the director and her mother, the dynamic activist and scholar Srbijanka Turajlić, reveals a house and a country haunted by history. What begins as the chronicle of a childhood home grows into an elegant portrait of a charismatic and brilliant woman in times of great political turmoil.
2002) Lightning
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With new scientific knowledge, we know how electrical charges inside clouds are created, and new technology can monitor lightning moving through the sky. However, it can hit anything, anywhere, at any time…and it cannot be stopped. Nowhere is unaffected by this devastating and frightening natural.
2003) Dark Days
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This acclaimed documentary explores the surprisingly domestic subterranean world of a homeless community living in a train tunnel beneath NYC. Through stories heartbreaking and hilarious, tunnel dwellers reveal their reasons for taking refuge and their struggle to survive underground. With a hypnotic soundtrack by legendary DJ Shadow, DARK DAYS is still an enduring classic, more than fifteen years after its initial release. Winner of the Cinematography...
2006) Ice Guardians
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Exploring one of the most controversial positions in the history of sport, ICE GUARDIANS journeys into the toughest job of the NHL: the Enforcer. With unprecedented access to past and present players the humanity and struggles of the role is revealed. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Alberta Film & Television Awards** and the **Leo Awards**. *"Harvey delivers an in-depth cultural and sociological view of the sport, while making a compelling...
2007) El field
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International border crossing as a daily constant is an unusual life habit. Especially when Mexican urban dwellers do so to work as agricultural field laborers in the United States. In a time when immigration has taken the political center stage across the globe, El field contributes to the discussion by providing a compelling portrait in motion of the life, work and industry of a forgotten section of the largest, busiest land transit border in the...
2009) Untouchable
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When the most powerful lobbyist in Florida discovers that the nanny has sexually abused his daughter, he harnesses his extraordinary political power to pass the toughest sex offender laws in the nation. UNTOUCHABLE chronicles his crusade, and its impact on the lives of several of the 800,000 people forced to live under the kinds of laws he has championed. The film interweaves intimate portraits of men and women who have been branded sex offenders...
2010) Ballets Russes
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A dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia became not one but two rival dance troupes who fought the infamous “ballet battles” that consumed London society before World War II. BALLETS RUSSES maps the company’s Diaghilev-era beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris--when artists such as Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso,...
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He’s won practically every honor there is in the world of football. As the star player of Real Madrid, Ronaldo makes headlines wherever he goes. From winning his second Ballon d’or to heading his own fashion line, Ronaldo has the world at his feet. An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the icon that will appeal to both ardent fans and football newbies!
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Learn about how The Graduate redefined an era. This new co-production from 3DD & Sky Arts, goes in search of the cinematically sublime. Those films that have transcended their era to enter the pantheon of greats. In this episode, devoted to The Graduate, its story will be told with detail, affection, looking for the truth behind the myth, all the trials and triumphs that went into forging a classic. But this isn’t simply history, the standard making...
2014) Artifishal
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A film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction.
2015) La Arrancada
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Jenniffer is a young sportswoman questioning her career as a national athlete in Cuba. Her mother, Marbelis, is the tough boss of a public fumigation center in downtown Havana. As her brother is getting ready to leave the country, Jenniffer struggles to find her place. This intimate family chronicle, seen from the perspective of two women, unfolds the portrait of a generation unsure of what’s next in Cuba.
2017) Nurse Helen Fairchild
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Bravery, compassion and the will to save lives motivated the young Nurse Helen Fairchild to leave home in Pennsylvania and embark on a journey to Europe, where she served as a surgical nurse during the World War I. This short documentary recounts her fascinating story and the quest for Fairchild's recognition as a war hero who died at the front lines.
2018) 95 and 6 to Go
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In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker Kimi Takesue finds an unlikely collaborator while visiting her resilient Japanese-American grandfather in Hawai’i. A recent widower in his 90s, Grandpa Tom immerses himself in his daily routines until he shows unexpected interest in his granddaughter’s stalled romantic screenplay and offers advice both shrewd and surprising. Tom’s creative script revisions serve as a vehicle for his memories of love,...
2019) Stu's Show
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After a chance meeting with Lucille Ball, Stu's life is dramatically changed as he's asked to work for her personally. Stu's passion for show business and several close friendships to Hollywood legends help save the love of Stu's life.
2020) Targeting El Paso
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Examine how El Paso became Trump's immigration testing ground, and then the target of a white supremacist through interviews with border patrol agents, militias, local advocates, and migrants.
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