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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Explores the world of backup singers that live just beyond the spotlight.
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Cast: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill. Directed by Morgan Neville.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Spike Lee.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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41 (2012)
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Explores the life and careers of George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jeffrey Roth.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A personal documentary that explores a universal human question: how much about your parents do you really want to know?
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Cast: Doug Block, Mike Block, Mina Block. Directed by Doug Block.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 91 min.
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Plot: An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.
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Cast: Filmmakers, critics, and fans of Alfred Hitchcock. Directed by Alexander O. Philippe.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 124 min. B&W/Color
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Plot: A naive orphan travels to NYC to search for her missing sister/Documentary of 1940's horror movie producer Val Lewton
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Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Cromwell, William Franklin, Steve Jones. Directed by Mark Robson/Constantine Nasr.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Highlights the construction of the new border walls along the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the effect on migrants trying to cross into the U.S.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by John Carlos Frey.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Immigration ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 180 min.
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Plot: An American Experience documentary of the activists that fought in the most important civil rights crusade in American history.
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Cast: Richard Brooks, Neal Huff, Jeanine Serralles, Kate Lyn Sheil, T. Ryder Smith. Directed by Rob Ropley.
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Categories: Television ∙ Documentary ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 115 min.
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Plot: Filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes.
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Cast: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.
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Cast: Ai Weiwei, Danqing Chen, Ying Gao. Directed by Alison Klayman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 57 min.
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Plot: American Soldiers fighting in the Iraq war and their homecomings.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jon Alpert and Ellen Goosenberg Kent.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Military ∙ Television |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 3 hour, 57 min.
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Plot: A documentary on The Who, featuring interviews with the band's two surviving members, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey.
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Cast: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle. Directed by Paul Crowder, and Murray Lerner.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: Covers the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.
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Cast: Features Norman Finkelstein. Directed by David Ridgen.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Amy (2015)
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 60 min.
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Plot: The story of six-time Grammy winner, Amy Winehouse.
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Cast: Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Yasiin Bey, Tony Bennett, Pete Doherty. Directed by Kirsten Sheridan.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A profile of Anita Hill, the African-American lawyer who challenged Clarence Thomas' nomination to the US Supreme Court.
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Cast: Anita Hill. Directed by Freida Lee Mock.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Supreme Court |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon, with newly-discovered footage.
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Cast: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins. Directed by Todd Douglas Miller.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Aviation |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A documentary about the joke every comedian knows but can never tell on stage.
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Cast: Jason Alexander, Lewis Black, David Brenner, Drew Carey, George Carlin, Andy Dick, Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Bill Maher, Howie Mandel, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, Robin Williams. Directed by Paul Provenza.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Film follows the lives of young Danish soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions. In Danish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Live footage with soldiers portraying themselves.. Directed by Janus Metz .
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 12 hours, 58 min.
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Plot: Investigates the high-profile thefts of some of the world's greatest pieces of art.
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Cast: Narration by Dion Graham and Eric Myers. Directed by Boise Vincent.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Don Argott.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Politics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: An investigation of the wrongful death of Carlos DeLuna.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Peter Gilbert and Steve James.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Evidence ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 86 min.
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Plot: Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s government issued propaganda films designed to reassure the atomic bomb was not a threat.
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Cast: . Directed by Jayne Loader.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 64 min.
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Plot: The U.S. Army's premier medical facility in Iraq puts a human face on the war's cold casualty statistics.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 73 min.
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Plot: A hard-hitting documentary on the largest polygamous cult in the U.S., the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints.
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Cast: Narration by Laurie Allen. Directed by Dot Reidelbach.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Religion ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 11 hours, 14 min. B&W/Color
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Plot: A visual history of the Beatles beginning in 1940 and ending with the breakup of the band at the end of the '60s.
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Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr. Directed by Neil Aspinall.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles' 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.
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Cast: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison. Directed by 2016.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic worldview. Based on the true story of an American Nazi Party leader in the 1960s.
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Cast: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russel, Billy Zane. Directed by Henry Bean.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Discrimination ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Follows controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman as he puts a billion dollars on the line in his crusade to expose Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history.
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Cast: William Ackman as himself. Directed by Ted Brown.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Business ∙ Banking |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: About Ginger Baker, the smashing drummer for Cream and Blind Faith.
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Cast: Ginger Baker, Jay Bulger. Directed by Jay Bulger.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: An examination of America's win-at-all-cost culture.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Chris Bell.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 78 min.
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Plot: An in-depth look at the world of coffee and global trade.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Mark Francis and Nick Francis.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Ethics ∙ Trade |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer.
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Cast: Suzanne Allee, Jeff Andrews, Kim Ashdown, Ken Balcomb, Samantha Berg, Dawn Brancheau, Diane Brancheau, Kelty Burn, Kelly Clark, Corinne Cowell, John Crowe, Dave Duffus, Daniel Patrick Duke, Howard Garrett, Dean Gomersall. Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animal |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 63 min.
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Plot: Focuses on the issues facing former NFL Players following their retirement, including their ironic struggle against the NFL Player's Union and the Owners they made rich.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Michael Felix.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 75 min.
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Plot: A search for a lost family, on both sides of a conflict, reveals a story that could only be told in the war-torn Middle East. In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles.
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Cast: Voice of Hiam Abbass. Directed by Noa Ben Hagai.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Foreign ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (7 disc set) 12 hours, 58 min.
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Plot: A film series exploring the evolution of the blues.
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Cast: Various Artists. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray 3 hours, 24 min.
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Plot: An impressive and eclectic group of artists gather at Madison Square Garden for a celebration of the music of Bob Dylan.
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Cast: Bob Dylan and The Band, and other performance artists.. Directed by Gavin Taylor.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 72 min.
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Plot: The 1977 London's Rainbow Theatre performance by Bob Marley and the Wailers, also includes a documentary on the singer's life.
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Cast: Bob Marley and the Wailers. Directed by Keef.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Story of an injured American veteran returning home from the war Iraq is set against the backdrop of the government's handling of the U.S.-led invasion.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: Tells about a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Stefan Forbes.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 152 min.
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Plot: An underachiever finds his calling when he gets discovered by a pornography director and is drawn into the lifestyle of the industry in the late 1970's.
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzman, Julianne Moore, Philip Baker Hall, Don Cheadle. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 58 min.
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Plot: The effects of 1915 killings by the Texas Rangers are still being felt today in South Texas and contine to perpetuate distrust between Mexican Americans and the Texas Rangers.
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Cast: Narration by Jon Dillon. Directed by Kirby F. Warnock.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 40 min.
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Plot: Documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them-saving endangered species one life at a time.
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Cast: Narration by Morgan Freeman.. Directed by David Lickley.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animal ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A documentary probe of America's predilection for gun violence, including an examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership.
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Constitutional ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 53 min.
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Plot: Story of how a team of underdog American rowers became gold medalists in the 1936 Olympics.
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Cast: Daniel James Brown, Eric Cohen, Timothy Egan. Directed by Margaret Grossi.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 70 min.
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Plot: Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona.
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Cast: Narration by Martin Sheen. Directed by Victor Mudd.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school's champion chess team.
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Cast: Pobo Efekoro, Rachelle Ballantyne. Directed by Katie Dellamaggiore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Children ∙ Negotiation |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: Reveals the mystery surrounding the assassination of Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on February 21, 1965.
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Cast: Malcolm X and narrator Roscoe Lee Browne. Directed by Jefri Aalmhuammed.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Deals with the interplay of personal and political in the life of a complex, multi-talented essential figure in the history of American radicalism.
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Cast: Voice of Erick Todd Dellums. Directed by Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Details the murder trial of Delbert Ward.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 86 min.
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Plot: The story of saving Detroit through the eyes of firefighters charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.
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Cast: Firefighters portray themselves.. Directed by Tom Putnam.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Economics ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: Depicts the hijacking of a Rio de Janeiro bus in 2000. In Portuguese with English Subtitles.
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Cast: Newsreel footage with characters portraying themselves. Directed by Jose Padilla & Felipe Lacerda.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: Examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans.
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Cast: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wallace Shawn, George W. Bush, Martin Luther King, Jr., Helmut Kohl, Bela Lugosi, Barack Obama. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Economics ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: The first fully televised high profile court case of Pamela Smart, which rattled the consciousness of America.
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Cast: Pamela Smart, Eleanor Pam, Dan Pelletier, Paul Maggiotto, Raymond Fowler, Billy Flynn, Patrick Randall. Directed by Jeremiah Zagar.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: **** 1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 107 min.
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Plot: A typical, upper-middleclass family's world is instantly transformed when the father and youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes. Documentary.
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Cast: Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman, Jesse Friedman, Howard Friedman. Directed by Andrew Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A physician in Mexico leads a citizen uprising against the drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.
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Cast: Jose Manuel 'El Doctor' Mireles, Tim 'Nailer' Foley. Directed by Matthew Heineman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.
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Cast: Jack Abramoff, William Branner, Tom DeLay, Donn Dunlop, Kevin Henderson. Directed by Alex Gibney.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
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Cast: Yaniv (Nev) Schulman, Ariel Schulman, Angela Wesselman. Directed by Henry Joost.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Computer ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through a group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman.
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Cast: Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Angela Black, Calvin O. Butts III. Directed by Ken Burns.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Racism |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 75 min.
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Plot: A documentary made with multi-year, time-lapse cameras documenting evidence of Earth's changing glaciers.
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Cast: James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter. Directed by Jeff Orlowski.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A look at how one investigator spent ten years trying to expose Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme that scammed an estimated $18 billion from investors.
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Cast: Harry Markopolos, Frank Casey, Neil Chelo, Gaytri Kachroo, Michael Ocrant. Directed by Jeff Prosserman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Banking |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: In the past decade two million children have been killed in wars around the world and here some survivors tell their story.
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Cast: Narration by Susan Raymond. Directed by Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Military |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 119 min. B&W
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Plot: Powerful newspaper owner Charles Foster Kane was many things to many people, both in life and in death.
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Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt, Georgia Backus, Harry Shannon. Directed by Orson Wells.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Documentary ∙ Witness |
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Rated: Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Follows the money behind the rise of the Tea Party.
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Cast: Cast members portray themselves. Directed by Carl Deal & Tia Lessin.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Documentary ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 114 min.
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Plot: A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
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Cast: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald. Directed by Laura Poitras.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ National Security ∙ Politics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 286 min.
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Plot: George Harrison's friends, family, and band mates unite for a tribute concert on the one-year anniversary of his death.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Dhani Harrison
. Directed by David Leland.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 53 min.
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Plot: About a man who throughout his life assumed a series of fraudulent identities.
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Cast: James Arthur Hogue. Directed by Jesse Moss.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Cast: Brian Benben, Peter Boyle, Robert Carradine, David Clennon, Elliot Gould, Robert Loggia, Ron Rifkin, Martin Sheen. Directed by Jeremy Kagan.
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Categories: Television ∙ Documentary ∙ Constitutional |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: Based on perception of the United States's war with Iraq, with an emphasis on Al Jazeera's coverage.
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Cast: Joshua Rushing, Samir Khader, David Shuster, Donald Rumsfeld. Directed by Jehane Noujaim.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Politics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 54 min.
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Plot: Examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Copyright ∙ Media |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 145 min.
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Plot: Examines the nature, evolution, impact, and possible futures of the modern business corporation.
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Cast: Jane Akre, Ray Anderson, Maude Barlow, Chris Barrett, Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Samuel Epstein, Milton Freidman, Naomi Klein, Susan E. Linn, Luke McCabe, Mikela J. Mikael, Robert Monks, Michael Moore, Vandana Shiva, Steve Wilson. Directed by Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Documentary ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Activists infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Louie Psihoyos.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animal ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Burt Pugach went to jail for having acid thrown in the face of Linda Riss. Sixteen years later, they were married.
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Cast: Jimmy Breslin, Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach. Directed by Dan Klores.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Yoav Potash.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.
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Cast: Narrated by Forest Whitaker. Directed by Stacy Peralta.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Organized Crime ∙ Juvenile |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 53 min.
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Plot: A 1963 civil rights crisis unfolds at an Alabama school.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Robert Drew.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 150 min.
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Plot: This is a video from Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, held in June 2004. Planned extras include in-depth artist interviews, a mini-documentary, photo gallery, alternate angle, and more.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, J. J. Cale, B. B. King, James Taylor, Jeff Beck, Rocky Frisco, Pat Methany, Carlos Santana, ZZ Top. Directed by Ron de Moraes.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 240 min.
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Plot: Over 20 of the world's greatest guitarists play sidemen to each other, on one stage, for one day, to support one cause; Crossroads Centre rehab facility in Antigua.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Doyle Bramhall II, Robert Cray, Cheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, B. B. King, John Mayer, Willie Nelson. Directed by Martyn Atkins.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 240 min.
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Plot: A day-long concert featuring legendary musicians on June 26th, 2010 to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua.
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Cast: Various performers. Directed by Martyn Atkins.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Joe Berlinger.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Trial |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: Investigates how oil companies are shortchanging American taxpayers out of billions of dollars in royalties for drilling rights on public property.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Basil Gelpke and Raymond McCormick.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Natural Resources ∙ Economics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 63 min.
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Plot: Five transgender women share their prison experiences.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Janet Baus and Dan Hunt.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sexuality ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: This candid love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko.
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Cast: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara. Directed by Zachary Heinzerling.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Biography |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Follows the story of six people who are determined to end the sufferings in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur. In English, Arabic, and local language(s), with English subtitles.
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Cast: Luis Moreno-Campo, Adam Sterling, Ahmed Mohammed Abakar, Don Cheadle. Directed by Ted Braun.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 71 min.
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Plot: Explores the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color---particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture.
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Cast: . Directed by D. Channsin & Bill Duke.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Racism ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed a racehorse.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Louise Osmond.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Animal |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 57 min.
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Plot: Tracks three welfare-recipients' involvement in New York's controversial Work Experience Program.
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Cast: Narration by Tamara Tunie. Directed by Kathey Leichter and Jonathan Skurnik.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Employment ∙ Welfare |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A compelling look inside America's prisons, highlighting one man's unlikely and historic actions against the system.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Katy Chevigny and Kerstin Johnson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A history of Tyranny in the Heart of America; for decades Detroit has been an emblem of Urban decay.
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Cast: Nelson Jones. Directed by Daniel Falconer.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Economics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
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Cast: Noah Stewart, Rachel Gilmnore. Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Economics ∙ Business |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
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Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni, Kristen Wiig. Directed by Marielle Heller.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Romance ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.
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Cast: Narrated by Jeremy Scahill. Directed by Rick Rowley.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: The personal, political, and just plain surreal story of Fox News Chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes.
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Cast: Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck, Babette Bombshell, Catherine Corcoran, Mitch McConnell, Richard Nixon, Austin Pendleton, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan . Directed by Alexis Bloom.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ Media |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Story of the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team.
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Cast: Sean Penn as narrator. Directed by Stacy Peratta.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: In the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.
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Cast: Hillary Clinton, Angela Davis, Dolores Huerta. Directed by Peter Bratt.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 79 min. Color/B&W
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Plot: Archival footage and a Hitchcock double are blended to create a political documentary/thriller.
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Cast: Alfred Hitchcock, Ron Burrage, Mark Perry, Delfine Bafort. Directed by Johan Grimonprez.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 8 hours, 45 min.
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Plot: Struggles with responsibilities and choices as Downton Abbey adapts to the Roaring Twenties.
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Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Brendan Coyle, Tom Cullen, Michelle Dockery. Directed by Jullian Fellowes.
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Categories: Domestic Relations ∙ Documentary ∙ Television |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: A young girl trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her family to become an eagle huntress.
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Cast: Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Daisy Ridley, Rys Nurgaiv. Directed by Otto Bell.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Foreign ∙ Family |
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Rated: G Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc) 175 min.
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Plot: Live concert in Melbourne, Australia.
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Cast: Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy Schmidt, Glenn Frey. Directed by Carol Dodds.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: An examination of our dietary choices and the food we put in our bodies. Based on Jonathan Safran Foer's memoir.
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Cast: Narrated by Natalie Portman. Directed by Christopher Quinn.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Consumer ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 61 min.
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Plot: After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married.
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Cast: Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer. Directed by Susan Muska.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Gender |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Rendition of encounter between Adolf Eichmann and his Israeli police captain interrogation. German, Spanish, and Hebrew with English subtitles.
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Cast: Herbert Knaup, Ulrich Tukur, and Axel Milberg. Directed by Raymond Lee.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ War |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: Chronicles the life of a young Ghanaian man born with a severely deformed right leg, who today, against incalculable odds, is opening minds and effecting social and political change throughout his country.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 78 min.
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Plot: The modern suburbs have ultimately become an unsustainable way of living.
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Cast: Hosted by Barrie Zwicker. Directed by Gregory Greene.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Economics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Two young surfers travel the world in hopes of finding the perfect wave.
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Cast: Michael Hynson, Robert August. Directed by Bruce Brown.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ International |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Presents the corrupt business practices that led to the fall of Enron Corporation.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Alex Gibney.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NC-17 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: A look at the life and work of guitarist Eric Clapton told by those who have known him best.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd, George Harrison. Directed by Lili Fini Zanuck.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 65 min.
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Plot: Paints a revealing portrait of the seemingly desperate conditions that drove a mother and son to plead guilty to manslaughter in the killing of Aaron Maldonado.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Tommy Davis.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Explains how United States government policy has contributed to a gap between what scientists know about global warming and what the general public understands.
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Cast: Narration by Daniel B. Gold. Directed by Daniel Gold and Judith Helfand.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: An eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend a famous graffiti artist, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Banksy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Art |
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Rated: NR Stars:
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Chronicle of Greg Walloch's performances, life, daily trips to and from his Harlem apartment. His comedy act is based on the fact that he is disabled and openly gay.
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Cast: Greg Walloch, Stephen Baldwin, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara. Directed by Eli Kabillio.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Disability ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Jean-Paul Beaujon, Amaury Bussy, Yves Boulen. Directed by JR and Agnes Varda.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: Michael Moore's scathing documentary look into the policies of the Bush administration following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A seemingly random act detonates a chain reaction that exposes unspeakable realities and shatters a family.
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Cast: Chico Colvard. Directed by Chico Colvard.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Explores the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever.
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Cast: Kevin Costner, Derek Jeter, Denard Span. Directed by Jonathan Hock.
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Categories: Sports ∙ History ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray 95 min.
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Plot: Footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966.
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Cast: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger. Directed by Murray Lerner.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: About an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Cast: Witnesses Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser, Jurek (David) Plonski, Aliza Vitis-Shomron, Shula Zeder. Directed by Yael Hersonski.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Story of the nanny who earned a posthumous reputation of the most accomplished street photographers.
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Cast: John Maloof. Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 67 min.
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Plot: Explores First Amendment Rights through headline grabbing moments when our Constitution's integrity has been tested.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A film about the former US Secretary of Defense and the various difficult lessons he learned about the nature and conduct of modern war.
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Cast: Robert McNamara. Directed by Erol Morris.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Military ∙ War |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
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Cast: Interviewees include Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Gary Hirshberg, Joel Salatin. Directed by Robert Kenner.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: Three actors learn that their respective performances in an independent film are generating award-season buzz.
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Cast: Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Rannazzisi, Ed Begley Jr., Eugene Levy, Harry Shearer, Christopher Moynihan, Christopher Guest. Directed by Christopher Guest.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Media ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics.
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Cast: . Directed by Heidi Ewing and Alex Gibney.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Economics ∙ Consumer |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Alex Honnold vies to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's El Capitan, without ropes or safety gear.
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Cast: Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Alex Honnold, Sanni McCandless. Directed by Jimmy Chin, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Josh Fox.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Natural Resources ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
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Cast: Yuval Diskin, Carmi Gillon, Yaakov Peri. Directed by Dror Moreh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 208 min.
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Plot: Unseen photos and footage tracing the life of George Harrison.
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Cast: Featuring interviews with Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 78 min.
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Plot: An examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Rory Kennedy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A harrowing documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour, with much of the focus on the tragic concert at Altamont.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Various directors.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Safety |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Chronicles two female inmates - victims of horrific violence and tragedy - who are serving time in a Maryland juvenile detention center.
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Cast: Mia Guzman, Rachel Lloyd. Directed by Liz Garhus.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Juvenile ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: When a man is diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) he begins a video diary for his unborn son, as well as working to raise money for other patients.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Clay Tweed.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: An in-depth look at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Alex Gibney.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Religion ∙ Television |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: The rags to riches tale of conscious capitalism pioneer John Paul DeJoria.
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Cast: Dan Akroyd, Robert Cromeans, Eloise DeJoria. Directed by Joshua Tickell & Rebecca Harrell Tickell.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary ∙ Economics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.
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Cast: Peter Berg, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Morgan Spurlock. Directed by Morga Spurlock.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy ∙ Media |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A devastating take on grizzly bear activists who were killed in 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
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Cast: Timothy Treadwell, Jewel Palovak, Franc G. Fallico. Directed by Werner Herzog.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animal ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: In 1974 college student Patty Hearst was kidnapped by a terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Robert Stone.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Politics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 51 min.
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Plot: A psychology professor returns to the Oregon State Hospital, the location of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and recounts the stories of real patients who live in this famous hospital for the criminally insane.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jan Haaken.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Mental Health ∙ Sentencing |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Ground breaking investigation of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
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Cast: Narration by James Naughton. Directed by Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 52 min.
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Plot: Documentary on the oppression and girls worldwide in the 21st-century.
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Cast: America Ferrera, Nicholas Kristof, Diane Lane, Dipti Mehta, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union, Olivia Wilde. Directed by Maro Chermayeff.
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Categories: Women ∙ Documentary ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Explores one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. In German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Felix Moeller.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Foreign ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 60 min.
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Plot: Explores the 250,000 hate crimes committed in America each year.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Rachel Lyon.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Racism |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: An in-depth and engrossing look into the making of Francis Ford Coppola's epic Apocalypse Now.
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Cast: Cast portrayed by themselves. Directed by Various directors.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Fifty years after the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, their granddaughter reflects on their lives, principles, and ultimate sacrifice.
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Cast: Ivy Meeropol, Michael Meeropol, Robert Meeropol, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg. Directed by Ivy Meeropol.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Mary McDonagh Murphy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 9 hours, 38 min.
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Plot: Hundreds of interviews, classic footage and concert performances from the 1950's to the 1990's.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Ted Haimes.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 5 hours, 30 min.
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Plot: The story of the life and times of the super successful American soft-rock band, Eagles.
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Cast: The Eagles. Directed by Alison Ellwood.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America made up entirely of churchgoing Christians.
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Cast: . Directed by Bryan Storkel.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Religion ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: Explores the tragic story of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman killed during the civil rights movement.
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Cast: Narration by Stockard Channing . Directed by Irwin Winkler.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: Five remarkable Native American activists in four communities who are fighting to protect Indian lands.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Roberta Grossman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Energy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min. B&W
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Plot: A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love.
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Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts. Directed by Leonard Kastle.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 171 min.
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Plot: The lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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Cast: Arthur Agee, William Gates. Directed by Steve James.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Armed only with cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history.
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Cast: Mike Boettcher, Carlos Boettcher. Directed by Christian Turead & David Salzberg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: How the infamous McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit and similar cases were exploited as part of a right wing crusade to weaken civil justice.
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Cast: Al Franken, John Grisham. Directed by Susan Saladoff.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Damages ∙ Torts |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Eugene Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: History of The Beatles and their cultural influence.
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Cast: Tony Bramwell, Robert Christgau, Anthony DeCurtis. Directed by Tom O'Dell.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Story of two coalitions whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by David France.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 140 min.
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Plot: A detailed exploration into the global refugee crisis.
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Cast: Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos, Fadi Abou Akleh, Yamama Al-Awaad, Asmaa Al-Bahiyya, Eman Al-Masina, Maya Ameratunga . Directed by Ai Weiwei.
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Categories: International ∙ Documentary ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Weaves together rape crimes on college campuses, institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and families.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Kirby Dick.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Safety ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton
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Cast: Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Carville, Susan McDougal, and Jerry Fallwell. Directed by Nicholas Perry and Henry Thomason.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
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Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte. Directed by Raoul Peck.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Explores the country's shocking current fiscal condition and ways to avoid a national economic disaster.
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Cast: Actors portraying themselves and archival film footage. Directed by Patrick Creadon.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ Social Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 54 min.
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Plot: Explores the shadowy world of illicit trade.
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Cast: . Directed by Helen Fitzwilliam.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Centers on a young Frenchman who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
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Cast: Frédéric Bourdin, Adam O'Brian, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben. Directed by Bart Layton.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 134 min. B&W
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Plot: Two ex-convicts break into a Kansas farmer's home, and try to avoid being caught.
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Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Jeff Corey. Directed by Richard Brooks.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Evidence ∙ Sentencing |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD min.
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Plot: Suggests corrupt practices by financial and government institutions are fostering citizens' dependence on credit while creating a ballooning debt towards fiscal disaster.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Danny Schechter.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Banking ∙ Economics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 57 min.
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Plot: Focuses on the Hutu and Tutsi as they struggle through Rwanda's unique reconciliation process: Gacaca, a network of grassroots community courts.
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Cast: Narration by Margaret Travolta. Directed by Jahn Coll Metcalfe.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Justice ∙ Negotiation |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Explores the controversy and potential abuse of justice surrounding the1975 incident where armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Cast: Narration by Robert Redford. Directed by Michael Apted.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness for the crisis of global warming.
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Cast: Al Gore. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Categories: Environmental ∙ Documentary ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Examines economics professor and Clinton Administration cabinet member Robert Reich's crusade to expose the problem of income inequality.
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Cast: Robert B. Reich. Directed by Jacon Kornbluth.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ Economics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown.
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Cast: Narrated by Matt Damon; featuring Paul Volcker, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Barney Frank, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. . Directed by Charles Ferguson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Banking ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.
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Cast: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn. Directed by Brian Knappenberger.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
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Cast: Jason Burkett, Werner Herzog, Michael Perry. Directed by Werner Herzog.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 55 min.
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Plot: Explores children's life, general social conditions, and child soldiers in Uganda in 2003.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Ted Braun.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Children |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians.
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Cast: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A journey into the customs and beliefs of Mayans living on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun. Directed by Jayro Bustamante.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Documentary ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 4 hours min.
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Plot: Details Jackie's rise from humble beginnings to an American hero and pivotal figure in history.
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Cast: Keith David, Jamie Foxx. Directed by Ken Burns.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Biography |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: The life and work of the renowned primatology scientist, Jane Goodall, especially on her research about chimpanzees.
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Cast: Jane Goodall. Directed by Brett Morgen.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Animal |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Documentary on rock singer Janis Joplin, with her own words telling much of the story through a series of letters she wrote home over the years.
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Cast: Interviews with musicians P!nk, Kris Kristofferson, Melissa Etheridge, Bob Weir, Juliette Lewis. Directed by Amy Borg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Banking ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 155 min.
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Plot: Live performance in SoHo London.
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Cast: Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Joss Stone, Harvey Goldsmith. Directed by Stuart Watts.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A chronicle of the former president's tour for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
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Cast: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 4 hours, 39 min.
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Plot: A groundbreaking documentary series sheds new light on real-estate icon, Robert Durst, while unraveling one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in New York history.
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Cast: Robert Durst, Gary Napoli, Debra Kay Anderson. Directed by Andrew Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: The richest Russian challenges President Putin and a fight of the titans begins. Khodorkovsky journeys to exile, but returns to Russia knowing he will be imprisoned.
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Cast: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and narrated by Jean-Marc Barr. Directed by Cyril Tuschi.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, this documentary exposes a shocking American secret of the notorious judicial scandal.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Robert May.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Children |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Two brothers found tremendous success with their company, but as their company grew, they made decisions that would have lasting impact on both the public and their increasingly skeptical customer base.
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Cast: Rich Smith, Tom Smith. Directed by Nick Berardini.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Business |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Irma Miko, Jewish Communist and political activist from age 14, joined the French Resistance in Paris in 1941. In French, Romanian & German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Yonathan Levy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 185 min.
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Plot: Chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Cast: Readings by Joanne Woodward, James Earl Jones, and Paul Newman. Directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph Mankie.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: Examines the tumultuous period after the verdict in the Rodney King trial through rarely seen archival footage.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Daniel Lindsay & T. J. Martin.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A dramatization of a town forced to confront itself when Matthew Shepard is found savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming.
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Cast: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Laura Linney, Summer Phoenix. Directed by Moisés Kaufman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Discrimination ∙ Sexuality |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: The 2004 campaign for re-election of Justice Warren McGraw for the West Virginia Supreme Court is dubbed the "nastiest" judicial race in 2004.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Wayne Ewing.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Supreme Court |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 40 min.
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Plot: As the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Rory Kennedy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: This film details the stories of five people who survived the Holocaust in Hungary.
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Cast: Bill Basch, Martin Basch, Dr. Randolph Braham, Alice Lok Cahana. Directed by James Moll.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: About the founders of The White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims at besieged city during the Syrian civil war.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Feras Fayyad & Steen Johannessen.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ History |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A coal mining corporation and a tiny community vie for the last great mountain in Appalachia in a battle for the future of energy that affects us all.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Bill Haney.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Energy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Investigates the health crisis that threatens NFL players and the long-term fortunes of football.
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Cast: Will Lyman as narrator. Directed by Michael Kirk.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: Looks back to the day Philadelphia police exploded the home occupied by the radical group MOVE.
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Cast: Birdie Africa, John Africa, Ramona Africa. Directed by Jason Osder.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: Explores an ironic setting for a town where many hundreds of people are sick or have already died from asbestos exposure.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Drury Gum Carr and Dough Hawes-Davis.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Depicts an American poet and social activist in the different decades of his life and activities.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jerry Aronson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A family's courageous fight to save their only son from the rare and fatal disease progeria.
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Cast: Documentary subjects portray themselves.. Directed by Sean Fine & Andrea Nix.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: A coming of age story about a family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express their feelings.
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Cast: Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Godfried, Alan Rosenblatt. Directed by Roger Ross Williams.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animation ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 70 min.
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Plot: Little Rock Central was a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement; this film examines the racial equality, education, and class at the high school today.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Brent Renaud.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Education ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Follows four cases brought before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigates the crimes of apartheid. In English and native languages with English subtitles.
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Cast: Narration by Helen Mirren. Directed by Debra Hoffmann and Frances Reid.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Conflict |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Traces the stories of courage in the years between the end of World War II and the formation of the state of Israel.
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Cast: Narration by Morgan Freeman. Directed by Mark Jonathan Harris.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: VHS 120 min. B&W
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Plot: After WWII, Jewish Holocaust survivors are moved into Displaced Persons' camps. After delays, more physical hardship, and years of uncertainty, they are permitted to begin new lives in Israel and the U.S.
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Cast: Morgan Freeman, Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margoyles, David Praymer. Directed by Mark Jonathan Harris.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Immigration |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A family that survives the political anti-communist genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers. In Indonesian and Javanese with English subtitles.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.
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Cast: Santino Majok Chuor, Peter Nyarol Dut. Directed by Megan Mylan.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Immigration |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 55 min.
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Plot: Couples, singles and advice givers answer questions about monogamy and infidelity.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Thom Powers.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 77 min. B&W
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Plot: The 1950s case of a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia for marrying across racial lines.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Nancy Buirski.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' fabled road trip across America.
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Cast: Stanley Tucci, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary. Directed by Allison Ellwood and Alex Gibney.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Illegal performance of what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."
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Cast: Philipe Petit, Jean Francois Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. Directed by James Marsh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Art |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: The annual journey of Emperor penguins as they march to their traditional breeding ground.
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Cast: Narrated by Morgan Freeman. Directed by Luc Jacquet.
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Categories: Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Recounts how Marshall University achieved a great comeback in sports history one year after losing their entire football program in an airplane crash.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Deborah Novak.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard.
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Cast: Mark Hogancamp. Directed by Jeff Malberg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Personal Injury |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time.
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Cast: . Directed by James D. Scurlock.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Consumer ∙ Debtor-Creditor |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Franny Armstrong and Ken Loach.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Trial ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 96 min.
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Plot: Looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.
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Cast: Stanton Glantz, Helmut Wakeham, Sam Roe, Patricia Callahan. Directed by Robert Kenner.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Ethics ∙ Natural Resources |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 141 min.
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Plot: An intensely intimate look at one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands of all time.
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Cast: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo. Directed by Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 2004 min.
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Plot: On May 2, 1963, the children of Birmingham, Alabama took to the streets to challenge segregation.
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Cast: Narration by Nick LaTour. Directed by Robert Houston.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Clay figures, archival footage, and narration recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
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Cast: Animation and archival footage. Directed by Rithy Panh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Foreign ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A man steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. His 84-year-old daughter thought he did it for patriotic reasons. A filmmaker spends more than 30 years trying to find the truth.
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Cast: Audio voice of Joe Medeiros. Directed by Joe Medeiros.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 4 hours, 30 min.
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Plot: A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.
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Cast: The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Otis Redding, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Directed by D. A. Pennebaker.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary ∙ History |
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Rated: **** Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: In 1971 a former Pentagon insider smuggled a top-secret Pentagon study to the New York Times.
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Cast: Daniel Ellsberg as narrator. Directed by Judith Ehrlich.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ War |
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Rated: Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 163 min.
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Plot: A first time drug mule is caught by law enforcement.
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Cast: Hugo Weaving, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, John Noble, Ewen Leslie
. Directed by Tony Mahony & Angus Sampson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Filmmakers assert that a former death-row inmate who was spared the death penalty was actually guilty, and an innocent man was sent to prison.
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Cast: Dexter Hammett, Joseph Alex, Jason Patrick. Directed by Christopher Rech & Brandon Kimber.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: Documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Cast: Ann Finnell, Patrick McGuinness, James Williamsb. Directed by Jean-Xaxier de Lestrade.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Media |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs.
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Cast: Mark Zupan, Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Joe Bishop, Andy Cohn. Directed by Dana Adam Shapiro.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Disability |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A documentary celebrating Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
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Cast: Gregg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Cliff, Aretha Franklin, Donna Jean Godcheaux, Rick Hall, Mick Jagger, Alicia Keys, Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Steve Winwood. Directed by Greg .
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: The inspiring story of a single mother caring for eleven adopted special-needs children.
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Cast: Susan Tom. Directed by Jonathan Karsh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success.
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Cast: . Directed by Paul Schwarz.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A documentary exploring the sex-trade and the enslavement of more than 27 million people worldwide.
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Cast: Christian Simpson, Jon Morgan Woodward, Sarah Agor, Julie Alexander. Directed by Benjamin Nolot .
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Documentary on folk rock musician Neil Young.
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Cast: Neil Young. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 103 min.
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Plot: A two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
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Cast: Neil young, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, Rick Rosas, karl Himmel, Chad Cromwell, Pegi Young. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: An Englishman organizes the rescue of Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II.
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Cast: Klára Issová and Michal Slaný. Directed by Matej Minac.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 32 min. B&W
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Plot: Takes you inside the dehumanization world of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Narration by Michel Bouquet. Directed by Alain Resnais.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Foreign ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 75 min.
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Plot: Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.
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Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Jasper Britton, Leonard Berney, George Leonard, Branko Lustig. Directed by Andre Singer.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A return to Hampton to take a look at the still-disputed Allen Iverson incident and its impact on Iverson and the community as a whole.
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Cast: Features multiple Hampton natives and camcorder footage. Directed by Steve James.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Trial ∙ Racism |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.
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Cast: Campbell Scott as narrator. Directed by Charles Ferguson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Military |
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Rated: NR Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 2006 min.
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Plot: An all-American tale about an all-American garment produced in the bowels of the Los Angeles garment industry. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Amie Williams.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Economics ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Riveting testimonials from Black women rape survivor stories who defy victimization.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Aishah Shahidah Simmons.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Women ∙ Safety |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Gaspar Galaz, Vicky Saavedra. Directed by Patricio Guzman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 7 hours, 30 min.
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Plot: A saga of race, celebrity, media, violence, and the criminal justice system.
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Cast: David Gascon, Robin Greer, Peter Hyams. Directed by Ezra Edelman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Television |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A look at the life and work of a publisher who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch" to publication.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Daniel O'Connor and Neil Ortenberg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Media |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 74 min. B&W/Color
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Plot: A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.
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Cast: Narrated by Terence Davies. Directed by Terence Davies.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 60 min.
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Plot: A look into the underground world of dog fighting and exploration of the American Pit Bull Terrier breed.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Bobby J. Brown.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animal ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 78 min.
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Plot: Takes an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
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Cast: Narrated by Douglas Cheek. Directed by Robert Greenwald.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Media ∙ Politics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: 102 min.
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Plot: A portrait of unemployed job-seekers chasing the American Dream in the oil fields of North Dakota.
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Cast: Keegan Edwards, Jay Reinke . Directed by Jesse Moss.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Labor ∙ Religion |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Access to the newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape, with both peril and opportunity.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Andrew Rossi.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Media |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: The true story of Michael Alig, a party organizer whose life was sent spiraling downward when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
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Cast: Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid, Dillon Woolley, Marilyn Manson, Dylan McDermott, Mia Kirshner. Directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: An examination of the current state of political polarization in the United States of the America.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Brian Malone.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 75 min.
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Plot: Documents the work of a 200,000-member motorcycle group whose members act as honor guards at funerals for American soldiers killed in action.
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Cast: . Directed by Ellen Frick.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Military |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Carved from over 1,200 hours of rarely seen and never before seen footage spanning the band's career.
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Cast: Pearl Jam. Directed by Cameron Crow.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Follows Oliver North's unsuccessful 1994 bid for a Virginia Senate seat.
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Cast: Don Baker, Mark Goodin, Mark Merritt, Bill Clinton, G. Gordon Liddy, Oliver North, Chuck Robb, Douglas Wilder.. Directed by R. J. Cutler.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Media |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Documents the life of one of the greatest American singer/songwriters of the last century.
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Cast: Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines. Directed by Jim Brown.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 55 min.
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Plot: Chronicles icons from standup to sitcom, doctors and nurses, acting funny, and breaking barriers.
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Cast: Variety of television personalities. Directed by Steven Boettcher.
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Categories: Television ∙ Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 3 hours, 40 min.
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Plot: Chronicles icons from late night, sitcoms, game shows, and variety.
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Cast: Variety of television personalities. Directed by Steven J. Boettcher.
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Categories: Television ∙ Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 3 hours, 55 min.
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Plot: Chronicles icons from primetime soaps, miniseries, funny ladies, and superheroes.
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Cast: Variety of television personalities. Directed by Steven J. Boettcher.
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Categories: Television ∙ Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 3 hours, 55 min.
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Plot: Chronicles the icons from science fiction, crime dramas, kids' tv, and westerns.
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Cast: Variety of television personalities. Directed by Steven J. Boettcher.
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Categories: Television ∙ Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A documentary of the men who made the technology world what it is today.
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Cast: Noah Wyle, Anthony Michael Hall, Joey Slotnick, John DiMaggio, Josh Hopkins. Directed by Martyn Burke.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Trademark |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 700 min.
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Plot: A look into the diversity of the planet. 11 episodes.
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Cast: Narrated by David Attenborough. Directed by Alastair Fothergill.
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Categories: Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A compilation of TV coverage of the 1954 McCarthy-Army hearings.
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Cast: Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph N. Welch. Directed by Emile de Antonio.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 60 min.
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Plot: Cinema verite feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary
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Cast: Robert Drew, Hubert H. Humphrey, Joseph Julian. Directed by Robert Drew.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Story of the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark 1970s experiment to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by James Marsh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Animal |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: A high school in a small Mississippi town prepares for its first integrated senior prom.
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Cast: Morgan Freeman and Charleston High School Seniors. Directed by Nelson McCormick.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Racism ∙ Children |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: Documents the compelling human rights struggles surrounding same-sex marriage.
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Cast: Performers portray themselves. Directed by Geoff Callan and Mike Shaw.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A billionaire couple begins construction on a Versailles inspired mansion just prior to their empire faltering due to an economic crisis.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Lauren Greenfield.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Economics |
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Rated: Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 52 min.
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Plot: Discusses a prison simulation experiment conducted in 1971 with students at Stanford University and considers the causes and effects that make prisons such an emotional issue.
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Cast: Narrated by Philip G. Zimbardo. Directed by Ken Musen.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A memory trip about Japanese "internment camps" during World War II in America.
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Cast: Various commentators. Directed by Jorge Ramirez Suarez.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ History |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
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Cast: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bill Clinton, Sharron Frontiero. Directed by Julie Cohen & Betsy West.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary ∙ Supreme Court |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 76 min.
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Plot: The story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.
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Cast: Slava Fetisov. Directed by Gabe Polsky.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
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Cast: Bill Maher, Steve Burg, Francis Collins, George Coyne, Jeremiah Cummings, Dean Hamer. Directed by Larry Charles.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Religion ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: Explores the motivating principles and activities of the anti-Nazi resistance inside Germany.
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Cast: Narration by John Dildine. Directed by Hava Kohav Beller.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.
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Cast: Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington. Directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastion Junger.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A documentary which examines copyright issues in the information age.
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Cast: Interviewer: Brett Gaylor ; guests: Girl Talk, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Gilberto Gil, Marybeth Peters. Directed by Brett Gaylor.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Intellectual Property ∙ Copyright |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: The impossible triumph of Team Rwanda.
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Cast: Moderated by Forest Whitaker. Directed by T. C. Johnstone.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 9 hours, 25 min.
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Plot: An informative and entertaining look at the world of rock and roll.
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Cast: Various music artists.. Directed by Various directors.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A documentary about rock 'n' roll photographer Robert M. Knight and his mission to find the world's best new guitar player.
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Cast: Features Jeff Beck, Slash, Santana, ZZ Top, Joe Bonamassa, Sick Puppies, Tyler Bryant. Directed by John Chester.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Television |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: This documentary shows a Flint, Michigan native and his efforts to meet with the president of General Motors to show him the economic effect caused by the closing of a GM plant there.
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Cast: Michael Moore, James Bond, Pat Boone, Rhonda Britton, Anita Bryant. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A career-spanning documentary on the Rolling Stones.
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Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Christina Aguilera, Buddy Guy, Jack White. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to the legendary filmmaker's sudden flight from the United States.
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Cast: Cast portrays themselves. Directed by Marina Zenovich.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Trial ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in a revolution by revealing it. Russian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Andrei Alexandrovich, Fedor Alexandrovich, Igor Alexandrovich. Directed by Chad Gracia.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 81 min.
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Plot: The story of two Italian immigrant radicals who were executed in 1927 offers insights into present-day issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.
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Cast: Voices of Tony Shaloub and John Turturro . Directed by Peter Miller.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Immigration |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Documents 40 years of photographs by Sebastião Salgado in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus.
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Cast: Sebastião Salgado. Directed by Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Art |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life.
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Cast: Peter Falk, Doug Cronin. Directed by Arnold Shapiro.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Conflict ∙ Safety |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: Explores how modern police interrogation tactics (including lies, threats and false evidence) place extraordinary pressures on suspects.
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Cast: . Directed by Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars:
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Malik Bendjelloul.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Amidst the American hunger for instantaneous news and up-to-date "facts," this film uncovers the vast and invisible world of government secrecy.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Peter Galison and Robb Moss.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ Media |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 90 min.
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Plot: A documentary chronicling Vogue's editors preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue.
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Cast: Anna Wintour, Vera Wang, Ocsar De la Renta. Directed by R. J. Cutler.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Documentary of Richard Hambleton, a founder of the street art movement in New York City.
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Cast: Richard Hambleton, Paul DeRienzo . Directed by Oren Jacoby .
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 8 hours, 23 min.
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Plot: Documents the Holocaust without archival footage, interviewing survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis.
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Cast: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Hanna Zaidl, Jan Piwonski, Itzhak Dugin. Directed by Claude Lanzmann.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Racism |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 75 min.
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Plot: First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus is interviewed on the history and current state of free speech.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Liz Garbus.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Constitutional ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 40 min.
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Plot: Recounts the remarkable legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Cast: . Directed by Helaine Head.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Education ∙ Supreme Court |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Michael Moore's 60-city tour of college campuses and other venues to showcase what the filmmaker calls "the birth of a new political generation."
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: Four Chinese-American teens reveal a heartbreaking sense of self-awareness as they attempt to answer the uniquely human question, 'Who am I?'
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 79 min.
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Plot: A heart-rending tale of an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Josh Aronson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Disability ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A documentary on the fabled recording studio that was located in Van Nuys, California.
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Cast: Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Tom Petty, Neil Young, John Fogerty, Paul McCartney. Directed by David Grohl.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ History |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: winning the National Spelling Bee.
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Cast: Harry Altman, Angela Arenivar, Ted Brigham, April DeGideo, Neil Kadakia, Nupur Lala, Emily Stagg, Ashley White. Directed by Jeffrey Blitz.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ Juvenile |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 53 min.
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Plot: Story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation.
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Cast: Bob Moses, Governor William Winter, Lawrence Guyot, Jerry Mitchell. Directed by Dawn Porter.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: The story of three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are.
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Cast: Grant Achatz, Thomas Keller. Directed by Joseph Levy.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Business ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Jehane Noujaim.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 5 hours, 59 min.
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Plot: Was the death of Kathleen Peterson accidental or was she murdered by her husband, author Michael Peterson?
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: Examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Errol Morris.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Military |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD ( 2 disc set) 116 min.
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Plot: The story of the Funk Brothers, the group of musicians that played on every single hit Motown record from the label's beginnings to 1972.
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Cast: Various artists.. Directed by Paul Justman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Traces the birth and failure of new media company govWorks.com.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaine.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Business ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: An arranged marriage comes to a tragic ending in Iran, in 1986.
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Cast: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno, Navid Negahban, David Diaan. Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A young girl being home-schooled on a goat farm finds her devout values challenged after she meets an amateur bull rider.
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Cast: Sara Carlson, Colby Trichell, Tim Carlson. Directed by Roberto Minervini.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Religion |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
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Cast: John Buchan, Tom Butler, Pixie Bigelow, Deirdre Bowen. Directed by Sarah Polley.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ Communications |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 57 min.
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Plot: Fashions a fascinating discovery of the lost story behind a true American classic poem entitled "Strange Fruit".
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Cast: Narratorated by Dorothy Thigpen . Directed by Joel Katz.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Uncovers the personal, real-life stories of familiess navigating a roller-coaster of bureaucracy on their journeys through the international adoption system.
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Cast: Mariska Hargitay as narrator. Directed by Thaddaeus Scheel.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ International |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and subjecting himself to a "McDonald's only" diet.
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Cast: Morgan Spurlock, Bridget Bennett, Dr. Lisa Ganjhu, Don Gorske. Directed by Morgan Spurlock.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Explores the life of surfer Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz.
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Cast: Features Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz. Directed by Doug Pray.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min. B&W
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Plot: Rock Spectacular featuring some of the greatest pop performers of the 60s.
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Cast: Chuck Berry, The Pacemakers, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, James Brown, The Rolling Stones. Directed by Steve Binder.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 56 min.
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Plot: The story of the 71-day occupation at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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Cast: Narration by Bill Means and Floyd Red Crow Westerman. Directed by Charles Abourezk.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Alex Gibney .
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Follows the struggles of five grassroots individuals and their transformation into national activists in the 9/12 March on Washington.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Pritchett Cotton.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 71 min.
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Plot: The lives of a runaway boy and an ambulance driver in Karachi come together through a dying humanitarian. In Pashtoto with English subtitles.
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Cast: . Directed by Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Foreign ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: This documentary recounts the investigation of a criminal case of a man falsely accused of murdering a Dallas police officer.
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Cast: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson. Directed by Errol Morris.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A look into the American movies rating board.
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Cast: Kirby Dick, Becky Altringer, Allison Anders, David Ansen, Darren Aronofsky. Directed by Kirby Dick.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Censorship ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Spinal Tap, the world's loudest heavy metal band, has their fateful tour chronicled in this "mock-umentary."
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Cast: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer. Directed by Rob Reiner.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth.
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Cast: Eddy Galland, Natasha Josefowitz, David Kellman, Robert Shafran . Directed by Tim Wardle.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family ∙ Children |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: This one man play tells the story of his role in the civil rights movement and the people that influenced him.
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Cast: Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Michael Stevens.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama ∙ Supreme Court |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 122 min.
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Plot: A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councilor.
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Cast: Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano. Directed by Rob Epstein.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Chronicles a year in the life of a one-room schoolhouse in rural France. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Nicholas Philibert.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Education ∙ Children |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 76 min.
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Plot: This film explores the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the personal loss of two families and depicts the toll on human life and family ties exacted from suicide bombings in the Middle East.
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Cast: Avigail Levy, Khadra al-Akras. Directed by Hilla Medalia.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Conflict ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc) 239 min.
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Plot: A story that tracks the band from their Gainesville beginnings to their 30 anniversary celebration.
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Cast: Tom Petty, Ron Blair, Mike Campbell, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
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Categories: Musical ∙ History ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.
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Cast: Violette Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson. Directed by Keith Maitland.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animation ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Discussion and photographs of life behind barbed wires in Manzanar War Relocation Center. In English and Japanese with subtitles.
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Cast: Narration by George Takei. Directed by Junichi Suzuki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A film about the war crimes of the American diplomat, Henry Kissinger.
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Cast: Henry Kissinger, Brian Cox, Anna Chennault, Amy Goodman, Alexander Haig, Seymour Hersh. Directed by Eugen Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Human Rights ∙ Government |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: The legal battles of the great American boxer against being conscripted into the US military during the Vietnam War.
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Cast: Muhammad Ali, Rahaman, Ali, Louis Farrakhan ; with archival footage of Malcom X, Elijah Muhammad. Directed by Bill Siegel.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Sports |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min. B&W
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Plot: The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.
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Cast: Michael Brown, George W. Bush, Julie Chen. Directed by Carol Deal and Tia Lessin.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ Safety |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: Chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
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Cast: John Trudell, robert Redford, Jockson Browne, Kris Kristofferson, Amy Ray, Bonnie Raitt, Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard. Directed by Heather Rae.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: After being blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo finds a way to continue his work.
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Cast: Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Josh Lucas, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, Donald Sutherland. Directed by Peter Askin.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Engagingly explores the history and cultural implications of Wikipedia.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Media ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 81 min.
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Plot: Explores the ferocious political battle in the U.S. over equal marriage rights.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Jim deSeve.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: The story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved Beatle to an outspoken artist and activist.
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Cast: Appearances by John Lennon, Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, Yoko Ono Lennon, Gore Vidal. Directed by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Provides a look into the secrets and deep pockets of the pro-life movement.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Stephen Fell and Will Thompson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Women ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 40 min.
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Plot: An underwater look at the diverse coastal regions of Southern Australia, New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific areas and the impact of global warming on the oceans.
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Cast: Narration by Jim Carrey. Directed by Howard Hall.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Animal |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Follows animal rights lawyer in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans.
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Cast: Steven M. Wise. Directed by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Documentary ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 122 min.
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Plot: A look at the career of consumer advocate Ralph Nader from wannabe presidential candidate to public pariah.
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Cast: Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Howard Zinn. Directed by Henriette Manel and Steve Skrovan.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Politics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: The absurd true story of the legal battle over the "Million-Dollar Baseball."
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Michael Wranovics.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy ∙ Property |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 77 min.
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Plot: A tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films
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Cast: Narrated by Martin Scorsese. Directed by Kent Jones.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 55 min.
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Plot: Inter splices random chatter captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Errol Morris.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: Follows a handful of promising kids through a public education system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth.
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Cast: Bill Strickland, Geoffrey Canada, Michelle Rhee, Randi Weingarten. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Education ∙ Children |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A look at the impact of the retail giant on local communities.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Robert Greenwald.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Business ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Art |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Documents the trial of Issa Sesay, former general of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), accused of war crimes in the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War ∙ Human Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: Exposes the many ways the public school system has failed children and our future by robbing students of all freedoms due largely to irrational fears.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Cevin Soling.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Children ∙ Education |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 66 min.
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Plot: Highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse.
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Cast: . Directed by Robert Greenwald.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Free Speech ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Highlight the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit.
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Cast: Narration by Vik Muniz. Directed by Lucy Walker and Karen Harley.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Employment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Through the eyes of famous chefs, audiences will see how they make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system.
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Cast: Dan Barber, Mario Bstali, Massimo Bottura, Anthony Bourdain. Directed by Anna Chai & Nari Kye.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Consumer ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Four modern stories of remarkable courage while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term 'genocide'.
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Cast: Samantha Power, Benjamin Ferencz, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Emmanuel Uwurukundo. Directed by Edet Belzberg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Covers a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival.
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Cast: Narrator for various performers is Richard Pryor. Directed by Mel Stuart.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Story of the radical activists of the 1970s and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
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Cast: Interviews with: Bernadine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Brian Flanagan, and others. Directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's disastrous 2013 mayoral campaign.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves.. Directed by Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A feature documentary chronicling the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Micheal Beach Nicoles and Christopher K. Walker.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Offers an intimate view of life after war: the pride, isolation, fear, anger and pain of post-traumatic stress that affects vets and family members alike.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Kim Shelton.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Military ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: An in-depth look at the asylum process of the federal U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Immigration ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 147 min.
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Plot: An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.
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Cast: Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Miskelly. Directed by Amy Berg.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Even though wealthy nations have sent vast amounts of assistance to Africa much of the continent remains mired in poverty, famine, and bloodshed.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Brandon Kline and Daniel Kline.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Government ∙ Economics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 4 hours, 15 min.
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Plot: Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans.
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Cast: . Directed by Darleen Asevedo and Jay Asevedo.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Economics ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A look at the rock band The Doors, with rare exclusive footage.
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Cast: Johnny Depp, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison. Directed by Tom DiCillo.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical ∙ Trial |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer.
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Cast: Narration by Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Education ∙ Economics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Number 2 on America's Most Wanted list, James 'Whitey' Bulger terrorized the city of Boston for years without ever being charged with so much as a misdemeanor.
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Cast: Characters portray themselves. Directed by Joe Berlinger.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
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Cast: Narration by Martin Sheen. Directed by Chris Paine.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Energy ∙ Economics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War.
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Cast: Interviews with Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, John S.D. Eisenhower, and Dan Rather. Directed by Eugene Jarecki.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Military ∙ Economics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Explores the history and legacy of the Brown vs. Board of Education concept of "separate but equal" school segregation was unconstitutional.
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Cast: Narrated by Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Peter Gilbert.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: The story of the Industrial Workers of the World, which in the early 20th century managed to organize various categories of unskilled workers into a single monolithic union.
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Cast: Narration by Roger Baldwin. Directed by Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Labor ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host, Fred Rogers.
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Cast: Joanne Rogers, Betty Aberlin, David Bianculli. Directed by Morgan Neville.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 228 min.
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Plot: Film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.
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Cast: Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Sha-Na-Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, Arlo Guthrie, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Lawre. Directed by Michael Wadleigh.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Chronicles the life and times of a populist poet, balladeer, rabble-rouser, and prototypical ramblin' man.
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Cast: Narrated by Peter Coyote. Directed by Peter Fumkin.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Anti-corporate activists travel from conference to conference, impersonating members of the World Trade Organization.
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Cast: Phil Bayly, Andreas Bichlbauer, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno,
Michael Moore. Directed by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, and Sarah Price.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: An encounter between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and a child detainee in Guantanamo Bay Prison.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Luc Cote and Patricio Henriquez.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Military ∙ Children |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 79 min. B&W
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Plot: "Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Documentary |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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