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Directed by legendary producer Don Hahn ("Beauty and the Beast"), this documentary looks at an era of Disney animation celebrated by fans but not yet immortalized by historians. The film will cover the talent behind the movies of the 1980s and '90s, charting the success of such filmmakers as John Lasseter, Brad Bird, John Musker, Ron Clements, Glen Keane, Henry Selick, Tim Burton, and Don Bluth from their time at CalArts in the '70s through the early '90s boom that culminated with Hahn's record-setting hit, "The Lion King".

PG Documentary 1 hr, 26 mins

  • 3.9 / 5
59% 41%

"Waiting for Superman" examines the crisis of public education in the United States through multiple interlocking stories—from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system.

PG Documentary 1 hr, 42 mins

  • 4.4 / 5
73% 27%
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A documentary on the dangers of nuclear weapons with interviews from experts and world leaders.

PG Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 3.2 / 5
43% 57%

The documentary explores the history of burlesque in the United States through interviews with the performers.

Documentary

  • 5 / 5
56% 44%
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"Cheech and Chong’s Hey Watch This" is a feature film showcasing the duo’s reunion tour titled "Cheech & Chong: Light Up America", where they performed together for the first time in over 25 years. The duo performed for more than 100 audiences, grossing eight figures, making the act one of the highest grossing tours of 2008-2009.

R Comedy Documentary 1 hr, 23 mins

  • 3.1 / 5
79% 21%

The story of an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempt to locate and befriend Banksy, one of the most famous graffiti artists, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results.

R Comedy Documentary

  • 4 / 5
41% 59%
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Documentary about the life and career of comedian Joan Rivers as she turns 75-years-old.

R Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

  • 3.7 / 5
44% 56%

Beneath the surface of the sea, on the other side of the mirror, life's primitive harmony reaches down to unsullied depths. The film sets out to meet the creatures of the sea: those that are known and the many that still have to be discovered. It is a venture into the fullness of the sea to show how prodigiously it teems with life, and into the deepest ocean beds to meet living fossils that belong to world prehistory. Follows the whiplash turns of a shark, the speedy swimming of a swordfish and the gliding manta ray. Explores the dens of giant cod, spiny monkfish, orange roughy and the giant squid in their natural habitats.

G Drama Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

  • 4.1 / 5
75% 25%

A documentary about Jack Rebney, who became infamous with his foul-mouthed outtakes from an RV sales video which was passed hand-to-hand on VHS tapes, years before YouTube turned it into a full-blown viral phenomenon.

NR Comedy Documentary 1 hr, 27 mins

  • 2 / 5
32% 68%

The documentary examines an unfinished Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto.

NR Drama Documentary 1 hr, 28 mins

  • 2.5 / 5
40% 60%

An attempt to discover the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge responsible for Cambodia’s genocide.

Documentary 1 hr, 34 mins

  • 1 / 5
75% 25%
  • 2.1 / 5
50% 50%

A year in Phoenix's life after he publicly gave up acting and tried to establish himself as a hip hop musician.

R Documentary 1 hr, 48 mins

  • 3.8 / 5
34% 66%

A Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 2 / 5
67% 33%

A young man from Belgium looking to change his life has an unexpected encounter in Central Park when he meets a hawk. Compelled to follow this extraordinary creature, he buys a video camera and sets out to track the hawk.

Documentary 1 hr, 25 mins

  • 3.7 / 5
88% 13%

A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.

R Documentary 2 hrs, 0 mins

  • 4.3 / 5
28% 72%

A political documentary that examines two philosophies for the roles of the federal government as examplified by Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.

Documentary

  • 2.9 / 5
84% 16%

A documentary covering the musician Neil Young through two concerts in 2007.

Documentary 1 hr, 22 mins

  • 1 / 5
44% 56%

Over the course of one year, the film follows the Second Platoon in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, a stronghold of al Qaeda and the Taliban, and observe the soldiers' back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as they push back the Taliban.

R Documentary 1 hr, 33 mins

  • 3.8 / 5
59% 41%

Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Anthony Geffen and featuring the vocal talents of narrators Liam Neeson, Hugh Dancy, the late Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman, "The Wildest Dream" is a breathtaking mountaineering adventure that seeks to provide answers to the enduring mystery of the death of George Mallory on Mount Everest. Foremost among them: Did Mallory succeed in reaching the summit before he and fellow climber Sandy Irvine died that fateful day in 1924?

In 1999, renowned American mountaineer Conrad Anker made a discovery that reverberated around the globe. High in Mount Everest's "death zone," he found the remarkably preserved body of George Mallory—75 years after the British explorer mysteriously vanished during his attempt to become the first man to summit the world's tallest peak.

In the quest for answers, Anker returns to Everest in 2007 with British climbing prodigy Leo Houlding, replicating as closely as possible Mallory's fateful expedition. The men retrace the North East Ridge Route, even removing the 90-foot ladder from the infamous Second Step to "free climb" this terrifying section of the mountain, just as Mallory and Irvine would have done 83 years earlier.

Far more than a documentary about mountain climbing, "The Wildest Dream" tells the passionate story of a man torn between two overwhelming and competing loves: his wife and the mountain that ultimately took his life. Told through revealing letters between Mallory and his beloved Ruth, the film combines previously unseen archival photos and film footage with the present-day story of Anker's expedition.

PG Documentary 1 hr, 34 mins

  • 3.6 / 5
74% 26%

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