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The narrator collides with animal-shaped shooting targets in the woods. She sets out to unravel a breathtaking and fascinating cultural-historical tangle of animal and human rights: the power of a gaze, the objects of exhibition, and the secondary power of being under scrutiny.
Ellipsis (2021 )
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An exclusive interview with The Sopranos creator David Chase, where he talks about his childhood memories of Newark, the vision behind the series and The Sopranos on the big screen.
David Chase: A Sopranos Session (2021 )
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Delve deep with this series that explores everything from supernatural creatures and unsolved crimes to horrific conspiracies that both baffle and fascinate. This investigative series explores the lesser-known, often terrifying stories you've never heard.
Dark Passages (2021 )
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1.8 trillion dollars in student loan debt is what’s separating more than 40 million Americans to achieve their goals in life. This crisis is only getting bigger and more dangerous.
The Real Cost (2021 )
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A star - A hero - A legend - Few athletes compare to the sheer magnetism of Diego Maradona. In a career spanning 5 decades he brought unimaginable skill to the game of football. He did the impossible - and then he did it again and again. Now, football is left without a God. Reflect and celebrate the incredible life and achievements of the greatest ever - Maradona.
Maradona: The Greatest Ever (2021 )
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Follows three young Texas cowgirls tasked with carrying on their families' legacies amidst a volatile landscape and industry. The film explores the modern West: a place where the male cowboy mythology must answer to a new, honest, and some would say subversive, female story. The jarring transition between generations illuminates the weight of heritage and tradition. As the old guard wanes, these three women stand amidst the vast ranchlands of Texas. Who has the authority to claim our traditions when only those who have been overlooked are left to carry them on?
Good Ol Girl (2021 )
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In Ukraine, on the 26th of April 1986, a catastrophe shook the whole of Europe, and the world experienced a fatal day that became engraved in its history – A major nuclear accident at Chernobyl turned an entire city into a post-apocalyptic ghost town. Tens of thousands of lives were ruined. Today, nature has begun reclaiming the area of the exclusion zone surrounding the old power plant. But the consequences and the suffering are still felt today. Chernobyl is a lesson for the present. It warns us about the risks of our ever-evolving modern society. But Chernobyl taught us more importantly about the cost of lies. By highlighting the flaws in the Soviet Union system, it revealed how they can lead to disaster, and how the way we tell information about what really happened can cause harm. The past cannot be undone, but we can learn from it.
Chernobyl: The Invisible Enemy (2021 )
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Balkan comedian Pedja Bajović leads his first English language comedy special.
Pedja Bajovic: The Balkan Brain (2021 )
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IFBB Pro Tony Torres built a lucrative lifestyle which came crashing down after covering for a friend who committed a murder. After being chased by the FBI he was sent to prison for five years. Once he did his time, Tony had to build back his life.
Iron Temple (2021 )
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Ascension to Ararat (2021 )
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Follow the offstage, unlikely romance of the king of country, Blake Shelton, and pop princess, Gwen Stefani. Both stars braved their share of challenges on the way to writing their own love song.
Blake and Gwen: Now and Then (2021 )
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The queen of quirky and record-breaking female artists in the music industry, a slice of pure Americana. With her kooky style and witty lyrics, she's a true pop star for the millennium. She's renowned for her unconventional style; always bright, sweet and humorous. From her kooky outfits to her giant sweets themed stage tours. Perry's early fashion and style has raised eyebrows. However, she's very upfront about showing off her figure and has no problem using her looks to help promote her music. Throughout her career, Katy Perry has sold more than 18 million albums and 125 million singles globally, making her one of the best selling music artists of all time. Best-loved for her relationship with her fans and her passion for current affairs. She continues to be a role model and an ally and proceeds to speak up for what she truly believes in. She achieved her intention to evolve as an artist but has always managed to stay true to her original, unconventional and quirky Californian girl.
Katy Perry: Sweet Dreams (2021 )
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Mariah Carey, the Songbird Supreme, the Queen of Christmas. American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Best known for her five octave vocal range, melismatic singing style and signature use of the whistle register. Some of her prestigious awards include five Grammy Awards, numerous Grammy nominations, many Radio Music Awards and American Music Awards, Billboards "Artist of the Decade" and the World Music Award for "World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium." Mariah Carey. The Music. The Voice. The Divine Diva. Her record breaking album releases and unique vocal range has placed her above anyone else. Mariah has continued to prove her music is timeless, she is the only artist with a number one hit in four different decades with her legendary holiday hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You." Dripping in diamonds and glitter, Mariah is a legend of the industry. This is - Mariah Carey, Darling Diva.
Mariah Carey: Darling Diva (2021 )
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Along with Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, Amazon is one of the Big Five companies in the US tech industry. It has become one of the most influential companies in the world. In 2018, it surpassed 100 million subscribers worldwide. It took someone like Jeff Bezos to build the revolutionary business. The American audacious entrepreneur, one of the worlds’ richest business leaders…and founder of the giant tech company and world’s largest marketplace. As of February 2021, he was reported to be the second-richest person in the world, with an estimated worth of $185 billion, after Elon Musk.
Tech Billionaires: Jeff Bezos (2021 )
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City of Ali is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of how the death of Muhammad Ali brought the people of his Kentucky hometown - and the world - together for one unforgettable week.
City of Ali (2021 )
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The COVID-19 pandemic cut the world off from experiencing live comedy, but laughter prevailed. We followed comedians and comedy club owners across the country and saw how the pandemic didn't stop comedy, it reinvented it.
2020: A Comedy Special (2021 )
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A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ray's centenary year. The film covers Ray's life and early works, focusing on the making of his first film Pather Panchali.
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali (2021 )
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Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in a punctual dissertation around the phenomenon of the nostalgic feeling, discoursing on a late capitalistic landscape of social emotions, which are of yore, yet coloured of the postmodern tint of pixelated neo-noir, a socio-philosophical flâneur’s trip in critical theory escorted by the spirits of French post-structuralists. For a Sociology of Nostalgia revisited.
Hauntology of the Retrodromomania (2021 )
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Full Circle is a film that celebrates one woman’s triumph in conservation: the Great Gull Island Project, Helen Hays’ 50-year quest to save two species of threatened seabirds. During her long term study, she vastly increased the numbers of nesting Roseate and Common Terns on a small, uninhabited island in Long Island Sound.
Full Circle (2021 )
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Joining Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas on his annual pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Mark Cousins gives an intimate glimpse into the life of the legendary icon behind some of the most controversial and acclaimed films of all time.
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021 )
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As 3-year-old Emilio is ready to start school, his family finds itself cornered in the United States' most segregated education system - New York City public schools. Fighting for their son's right to an inclusive education - where Emilio and other children with disabilities would be taught alongside their classmates without disabilities - film director Olivier and his wife Hilda investigate the personal stories of students and their parents in the US. With children with disabilities worldwide less likely to attend school, these experiences expose just a handful of the widespread injustices currently taking place in the educational system and beyond for kids with disabilities.
Forget Me Not (2021 )
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The Show Must Go On, a new documentary about efforts to bring the world tour of The Phantom of the Opera and the South Korean tour of Cats to their respective opening nights in the wake of COVID-19, is now in post-production. Shot in South Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom, the film features Andrew Lloyd Webber as well as the touring companies. The doc is directed by Emmy winner and Broadway producer Dori Berinstein and her daughter Sammi Cannold, who helmed Lloyd Webber's Evita at City Center in 2019.
The Show Must Go On (2021 )
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Marilyn Monroe is easily the most iconic woman of 20th Century Hollywood. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson and raised in Los Angeles, Marilyn reached the height of fame in Hollywood, leaving behind the troubled world that Norma Jeane had once lived in. Her undeniable sex appeal and star quality still has as much influence today as it did then, and her image can still be seen in major cities around the world. Marilyn created a legacy that continues decades after her tragic death, and has a history of iconic moments that will keep her at the forefront of Hollywood forever.
Marilyn Monroe: Beauty is Pain (2021 )
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Six courageous women come out of the shadows of the cannabis underground to forge a path to legalization. But with corporations taking over the industry, they must fight for a piece of the American Dream in the market they helped create.
Lady Buds (2021 )
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If there was an award for the most stylish opening scene, it would go to Álvaro Pulpeiro for ‘So Foul a Sky’. A road movie and a immersive report from a Venezuela on the verge of collapse. Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s classic novel ‘Nostromo’, we are led into a twilight world where allegiances change among the travellers under the enormous dome of the sky. Pirates and pilgrims cross tracks, and oil is traded on the black market in the middle of nowhere. Crackling car radios relay an ideological battle of words. Has the oil cast a curse on Venezuela? The country is in the midst of the worst political and humanitarian crisis that South America has experienced in the 21st century. Instead of trying to explain the chaotic situation, Pulpeiro places us in the middle of it. A sensory and cinematic film, where the oil runs like thick, black blood through the arteries of the road network and connects us with some of the people who are trying to make life work beyond law and order.
So Foul a Sky (2021 )
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Snowy, a 4-inch-long pet turtle, has lived an isolated life in the family basement. With help from a team of experts and his caretaker, Uncle Larry, we ask: Can Snowy be happy and what would it take?
Snowy (2021 )
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The rivers of Croatia are unique within Europe, as their ecosystems provide a stability to the processes of nature. However, the wildlife diversity is threatened as human activity encroaches on their fragile wilderness. This film follows the meandering lowland rivers which drain into the vast floodplains, photographs the mighty cascading waterfalls and frames the picturesque warm, limestone springs and fertile landscape of the Karlovac region. Our camera flies across the interior valleys or 'Karst Polje' which form shallow basins for the annual rainfall that swell the underground waterways to resurface as gentle rivers and streams many kilometres away.We also see majestic Adriatic rivers flow to meet the sea, through the fast moving estuaries of the great Zrmanja canyon or through the mighty Neretva delta.
Rivers of Croatia (2021 )
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Armed with skulls, black makeup, wild outfits and high mohawks, this gothic trinity fights to gain control of and thus free themselves from their loneliness and inner demons as well as pressure from authorities, which they feel disturbed and controlled by. But one day, Josephine meets the beautiful guy, Jan, on Instagram and falls head over heels in love with him and the precious trio friendship is put to the test.
Dark Blossom (2021 )
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When the horrific murder of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 sparks a national reckoning around the meaning of the Confederate flag, battle lines are drawn in Mississippi to determine the fate of the last state flag to include the most powerful, and divisive, symbol of our fractured history. In Look Away, Look Away, director Patrick O'Connor introduces us to an array of activists, and captures the fierce five-year battle over the Mississippi state flag, revealing how race, heritage and long-simmering grievances over the Civil War shapes our sense of who we are as Americans.
Look Away, Look Away (2021 )
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Based on a true story, the journey of one woman's investigation into the beauty industry's illicit use of chemicals.
Pretty Toxic (2021 )
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With many Covid-19 patients battling for their lives, a hospital faces its toughest challenge ever. Exclusive frontline access reveals the staff and patients' resilience in the face of this new enemy.
Zero to Zero (2021 )
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Filmed in the late 90's to early 2000's of home footage following around a young group of alpha male lads trying to figure out who they are, going through fazes and where they fit in into society.
Monkey Culture (2021 )
