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Sigur Ros' November 2008 performances at London's Alexandra Palace, captured on rough, high-contrast monochrome HD.

Documentary Music

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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

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The public life of Yves Saint Laurent was an extravagant spectacle, as a design prodigy and then the grand coutourier of a fashion empire, he influenced fifty years of style and was an icon to millions -- but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. In Pierre Thoretton's L'Amour Fou, Pierre Berge, the man with which YSL shared four decades of his life, reflects on the equally extravagant history of their personal relationship.

NR Documentary Foreign

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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

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Four Chicago high school poetry teams prepping to compete in the world's largest youth poetry slam.

Documentary

  • 3.4

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Five different relationship stories: high school sweethearts, octogenarian lovebirds, the divorced father of two teenagers, a gay single man and a traditional Indian wedding.

Documentary

  • 2.3

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Five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times, from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.

Documentary

  • 2.9

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Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd, Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer and family man, pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the '60s.

Drama Biography

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  • 2.2

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A documentary on Sarah Palin that speaks with school friends, family and Republican colleagues of the former governor of Alaska.

Documentary Political

  • 2

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Children who work as many as 12 hours a day, six months a year in the scorching hot sun, without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working here, in our back yard, in America.

Documentary

  • 3.7

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Exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director William Colby told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl.

Historical Documentary 1 hr, 44 mins

  • 3.8

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57%

Thunder Soul tells the true story of Conrad O Johnson and the Kashmere Stage Band, a mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse.

PG Documentary

  • 4.8

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The docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan, when mass student uprisings coincided with the beginnings of the far-left United Red Army group, which tortured and murdered its “deviant” members during a 1972 training session.

Documentary

  • 4.5

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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

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