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Focuses on a group of students who discover what they believe is a government conspiracy to keep the existence of trolls in the north of Norway hidden from the general public.

PG-13 Thriller Horror 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 3.6 / 5
63% 37%

Two cat families in East Africa teach survive on their power and their cunning, while they protect and teach their cubs the ways of the wild.

G Documentary

  • 4.3 / 5
86% 14%
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Dereck and Beverly Joubert examine the dramatic decline in the number of lions in Africa and the moral duty to protect them.

PG Documentary 1 hr, 28 mins

  • 4.3 / 5
91% 9%

The documentary traces the life of a self-made man whose passion and perseverance took him from a Jewish orphanage in London to the absolute pinnacle of hairdressing.

PG Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 5 / 5
25% 75%
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Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.

G Biography Documentary 1 hr, 45 mins

  • 2.9 / 5
61% 39%

Features Fran Lebowitz expressing insights on social issues in an onstage discussion with longtime friend Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York.

Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

  • 3.8 / 5
35% 65%
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Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left La Aldea, a village in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. She was the last child born in La Aldea. Now, only fourteen people live there. Soon this village, like so many other rural communities all over the world, will be deserted. Alvarez returns for the first time to her ancestral home and makes a film about memory and the terrifying passing of time.

Documentary 1 hr, 55 mins

  • 2.9 / 5
25% 75%

Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo of Sesame Street, as he chases and ultimately achieves his childhood dream of working with master puppeteer Jim Henson.

PG Documentary 1 hr, 20 mins

  • 4.2 / 5
82% 18%

A baby orca gets separated from his family and unexpectedly starts making contact with people along a scenic fjord called Nootka Sound.

Documentary

  • 4.8 / 5
76% 24%

An animated documentary drama on the legendary Texas outlaw comic Bill Hicks.

Biography Documentary

  • 4.5 / 5
0% 100%

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.

War Historical 1 hr, 20 mins

  • 5 / 5
43% 57%

The story follows film footage purported to have been shot by the crew of Apollo 18. This moon mission from the early 1970s was officially canceled by NASA, but according to urban legend, it actually happened. Footage shows signs of alien life, and the events of the mission are built into a thriller storyline.

PG-13 Thriller Suspense

  • 3.1 / 5
71% 29%

For decades, the Schwinn-riding Bill Cunningham, cultural anthropologist, has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the New York Times Style section.

Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

  • 3.1 / 5
25% 75%

A look at the Vent Haven Convention, which bills itself as the ventriloquism capital of the world.

PG Documentary

  • 4 / 5
14% 86%

A documentary about legendary NYC nightclub owner Peter Gatien. Profiles Gatien’s rise and fall in the world of nightspot dominance as owner of Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium and Club USA.

Documentary

  • 3 / 5
59% 41%

Morgan Spurlock examines the world of advertising by making a film financed entirely by product placement.

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 2.2 / 5
55% 45%

An optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national and energy security and promotes health and a clean environment.

Documentary

  • 5 / 5
50% 50%

A 3D IMAX movie about the prehistoric world inhabited by pterosaurs -- flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet that lived alongside dinosaurs.

Documentary 3D

  • 4 / 5
75% 25%

An examination of a horrible crime through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry, scheduled to die eight days after his interview.

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 47 mins

  • 3.7 / 5
67% 33%

Explores the alleged usage of subliminal messaging in advertising, music, film, television, anti-theft devices, political propaganda, military psychological operations, and advanced weapons development, to determine if such tactics have succeeded.

Documentary

  • 3 / 5
0% 100%

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