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Explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time—the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights and global economy.

PG Documentary

  • 5 / 5

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Exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture.

Documentary

  • 5 / 5

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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%

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A documentary about Miami's pot smuggling culture in the 1970s and 1980s through three colorful stories of marijuana smugglers.

R Documentary 1 hr, 41 mins

  • 5 / 5

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A living legend in the horse world, Buck Brannaman was the inspiration for The Horse Whisperer. For this true cowboy, horses are a mirror of the human soul. Reared by an abusive father, Buck eschews violence. By teaching people to communicate with horses through instinct, not punishment, he frees the spirit of the horse and its human comrade. Crisscrossing the world with Zenlike wisdom, Buck promulgates grace in the bond between man and horse.

PG Documentary 1 hr, 29 mins

  • 5 / 5

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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

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Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

PG Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 5 / 5

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35%

An experimental documentary that contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South as potent metaphors of personal and collective destiny.

Documentary 1 hr, 12 mins

  • 5 / 5

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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

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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

  • 5 / 5

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Shot by filmmakers all around the world, the documentary aims to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the July 24, 2010.

Documentary

  • 4.6 / 5

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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

  • 5 / 5

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75%

The stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.

Documentary

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 / 5

60%

40%

A documentary about the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape.

Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

  • 5 / 5

32%

68%

A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape: the anti-graffiti vigilante. These dedicated blight warriors stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters. Yet several of these vigilantes have become the very menace they set out to eliminate. In their relentless attempt to stamp out graffiti, they have turned to illegally and destructively painting other people's property.

Documentary

  • 5 / 5

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46%

Documents the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama that follow the band, A Tribe Called Quest, even today and explores what’s next for a group many claim are the pioneers of alternative rap. Having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of its groundbreaking music since the group’s much-publicized breakup in 1998

R Documentary Music

  • 5 / 5

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The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life - from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age - has been less widely understood.

NR Biography Documentary

  • 5 / 5

67%

33%

Follows Phil Rosenthal as he travels to Russia to meet about doing a local version of "Everybody Loves Raymond."

PG Comedy Documentary 1 hr, 26 mins

  • 5 / 5

67%

33%

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