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People searching for answers, healing, or human connection end up joining some of the strangest organizations.
True Believers (2022 )
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As a bill allowing extradition to China sparks anger in Hong Kong, four young protesters take drastic action when they realise how far the authorities will go to silence them.
Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom (2022 )
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Eleven winemakers, eleven grape varieties, one island, Crete. In the Wine Dark Sea explores the history of a Greek island, the beauty of its people and the unique wines they produce. In her new documentary, director Chrisa Giorgi aims to demystify Crete as a winemaking region and offers a rare insider glimpse into the indigenous grape varieties and the people behind them. Through a colorful mosaic of stories, the viewer travels in the vineyards found in the valleys and the mountains of Crete, discovers the secrets of eleven indigenous grape varieties, and learns the winemaking philosophy of eleven passionate producers. Follow a journey through time in the steps of Homer to discover “the island called Crete, in the midst of the wine dark sea.”
In the Wine Dark Sea (2022 )
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This wonderfully entertaining dance documentary tells the extraordinary story of how Irish dance developed over centuries from a traditional peasant dance to a form that has taken the world by storm and is enjoyed by tens of millions. The film shows how Irish dance has both been influenced by and influenced the dance of many cultures and how it developed as an expression of resistance.
Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance (2022 )
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Eight years in the making, Jane Castle's poignant documentary about her filmmaker mother Lilias Fraser is an intimate mother-daughter story and eye-opening chronicle of women's roles in the film industry.
When the Camera Stopped Rolling (2022 )
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just one of those things is part of a new series of work made at the relaunch of High Heel Project in 2022. Katayama layers cut-out legs and high heels on top of her self-portrait, animating them to create a moving collage. She comments, 'The most important thing is not that everyone should wear high heels, but that, first and foremost, we should have the freedom to say what we want and what we don't want. With the goal of freedom of choice open to all, I must continue to walk and speak up wearing symbolic and extreme high heels:
Just One of Those Things (2022 )
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Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland. Despite her agency, depth and perspective, O’Connor’s unflinching refusal to conform means that she has often been patronized and unfairly dismissed as an attention-seeking pop star.
Nothing Compares (2022 )
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Ghyslain Raza, better known as the “Star Wars Kid,” breaks his silence to reflect on our hunger for content and the right to be forgotten in the digital age.
Star Wars Kid: The Rise of the Digital Shadows (2022 )
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Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs of Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.
Jurassic Punk (2022 )
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A hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicultural characters she's known for, explores her own personal relationship to one of the most relevant issues in our current cultural climate: the sex industry, and the surprisingly diverse range of people whose lives it touches. Through interviews and monologues, this film poses the question: how can we as a society have a healthy relationship to sex, power, race and our economy, without exploitation or stigma? The goal is not to prescribe solutions, but to highlight the human faces and voices at the center of this subject.
Sell/Buy/Date (2022 )
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Despite having just 40,000 residents and limited financial resources, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns have been able to compete at the highest level of football in all of Europe. But as more money floods into the sport, coaches and fans must face the question: has this team become a relic of the past or can their remarkable culture propel them beyond the constraints of reality?
Unicorn Town (2022 )
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Four hard-hitting stores, from the deadliest period in U.S. Army Aviation, since Vietnam. Actual footage from the events, and interviews from the Soldiers, who were there - bring these intense and touching stories of courage and sacrifice to life.
The Longest Month (2022 )
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Two bounty hunters meet an old man claiming to be hijacker DB Cooper. Can they help him dig up the cash he hid half a century ago? Documentary footage blends with period reenactments to tell the tangled tale.
I Am DB Cooper (2022 )
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One woman's unshakable connection to the JFK assassination continues to haunt her fifty years later.
The Assassination & Mrs. Paine (2022 )
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Explore the hidden truths behind the fable and philosophy of the Playboy empire through a modern-day lens. The documentary series delves into the complex world Hugh Hefner created and examines its far-reaching consequences on our culture’s view of power and sexuality.
Secrets of Playboy (2022 )
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The Footballer, His Wife and the Crash (2022 )
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Four larger-than-life best friends battle morbid obesity using hard work, heart and a wicked sense of humor. This girl gang has had each other's backs since high school, and they share the secrets of their crazy yo-yo diet sisterhood.
1000-lb Best Friends (2022 )
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An elite team is investigating the Bermuda Triangle with the aid of a secret weapon—a map, decades in the making, marking the location of unidentified undersea wrecks and anomalies. Each week they will attempt to identify one mystery wreck, along the way evaluating the evidence behind legends and scientific theories like rogue waves, giant methane bubbles, ship-sucking whirlpools, and dead zones that bewilder equipment and planes. In the Bermuda Triangle, one never knows what one will find. On the ocean floor, the team makes historic and important discoveries that go beyond myth and conjecture.
The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters (2022 )
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Follow three families determined to break the 500-year-old curse of Emperor Montezuma and find the lost treasure estimated to be worth over $3 billion dollars. The series intercuts each family’s epic adventure as they search for the 7 Cities of Gold on three different properties in three different states – the Dillmans in Utah, the Hoaglands in Nevada, and the Villescases in New Mexico.
Lost Gold of the Aztecs (2022 )
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Set deep in the heart of Central Queensland, this new factual series follows the highs and lows of a community of passionate sapphire hunters working in extreme conditions.
Gem Hunters Down Under (2022 )
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It follows the resistance to modernization in rural Mexico. It is a reminder that it is still possible to live in tune with our essence as human beings.
Gods of Mexico (2022 )
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Having just turned 60, Tom Cruise is still one of the leading names in Hollywood. A prolific actor with a career spanning over 40 years, he is continually building a giant legacy within the film industry. His ability seems to know no limits.
Tom Cruise: Lights, Camera, Action (2022 )
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At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory. Blending the intellectual with the poetic, she embarks on a personal quest with universal resonance, navigating the continuum between paper and digital—and reminding us that human knowledge is above all an affair of the soul and the spirit.
Beyond Paper (2022 )
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Average Americans from several states and one South African immigrant weigh in on the political climax in 2020.
America Sounds: A Red and Blue Amber Alert (2022 )
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Renowned paranormal investigator Chad Calek shares over an hour of the most intense paranormal activity he's ever captured during his 25-year investigative career.
74 Minutes (2022 )
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The extinction of healthy bacteria in our bodies could escalate a new global health crisis. The good news: the field’s top two scientists are on the case, examining the impact microbiomes have on our wellbeing.
The Invisible Extinction (2022 )
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At 14, she was one of SD’s best basketball players. By 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the Great Plains. 30 years after her death, SuAnne Big Crow continues to galvanize the Lakota in their fight to reclaim their culture.
Big Crow (2022 )
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Dave Evans was a renowned prosthetist, humanitarian and peace activist. A double amputee himself, he dedicated his post-military career to transforming lives shattered by these seemingly never-ending, interchangeable wars. From Syrian refugees in a prosthetics clinic in Amman, Jordan, to the fallout of war in places like Iraq, Dave chose a life of service to others.
The Wake Up Call (2022 )
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Follow five teens and their families as they anticipate their biggest performance at Dragutante, a drag show designed for LGBTQ teens to express themselves.
Generation Drag (2022 )
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Follows Ben and Cristi as they build, design and renovate properties in Colorado.
Building Roots (2022 )
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Undercover work is the most exciting, but risky part of law enforcement. However, when everyday citizens with no formal training go undercover, anything can happen. Doing the right thing has never been more dangerous.
I Went Undercover (2022 )
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Hunting Bigfoot (2021) A film that skillfully melds the worlds of narrative feature and documentary to capture this portrait of a broken man obsessively pursuing personal and professional redemption in a world where many of those close to him think he's crazy.
Hunting Bigfoot (2022 )
