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Follow Ryan Hall, America's fastest marathon runner, in his search for courage, faith, and overcoming the impossible. Following a disastrous showing at the 2012 Olympic Games, Ryan Hall, then America's fastest marathoner, controversially turns to God to coach him. The next four years mark a cross-continental search for athletic, personal, and spiritual redemption, then redefinition, as the victories that once defined him begin to elude him.
The 41st Day (2019 )
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A spectacular aerial journey following the world’s longest monument, the Great Wall. In slow-TV style, fly 2,500 kilometres along the wall, from the Yellow Sea to the Gobi Desert.
A Slow Odyssey: The Great Wall of China (2019 )
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Documentary about a group of weekend warrior Biker Bros who try to ride-with HA to prison...things gonna get weird. Real footage, real guys, real MC
Riding With Hells Angels: Prison Run (2019 )
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Sir Frank Lowy, the self-made billionaire and founder of Westfield Corporation, faces a dilemma - - whether or not to sell the company he has spent his life building. Standing at a crossroads, Frank reflects for the first time on his war-torn childhood as a way to shape his perspective on this monumental decision.
What Will Become of Us (2019 )
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Pasquale Donatone, aka Tony, is the taxi driver who drives us through America land of dreams and Italy land of broken dreams. Tony is a backward deported immigrant. He left italy 40 years ago when he was child and he became American but he did some mistakes, more than one. The biggest was to sign to be deported, instead of go in jail for ten years because of its second work: loading illegal mexicans immigrant and delivery drugs. Now he was deported in a small town in South of Italy, and he has to wait ten years before he can return legally to US but ten years aren’t easy to live. The waiting time is too long and Italy is a country without hopes. For sure he can’t wait anymore. A story of immigration, drug, love and sense of union in a country that change you inside, the United States of America.
Tony Driver (2019 )
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A portrait of the largest Muslim Punk community in the world, as seen through the eyes of Punk teenagers, in relation to the extreme social, environmental and political environment they live in.
A Punk Daydream (2019 )
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The long creative and romantic relationship between Canadian musicians Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida is explored in this profile filmed on France's Saint Pierre et Miquelon island.
I'm Going to Break Your Heart (2019 )
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In this documentary we follow three girls in Norway living with skin diseases. Tonje's skin is growing 7 times faster than normal. Vilde is covered with vitiligo that makes her almost completely white. Sanna struggles with psoriasis and have been ever since she was young.
Under the Skin (2019 )
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Six children embark on a journey through healing when they become a part of the "You Are Not Alone" mural project; a 6x6 foot turtle-shaped sculpture developed by renowned artist Professor Marietta D'Antonio Fryer of Cheyney University.
You Are Not Alone (2019 )
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A group of young girls and gender-fluid youths discover the empowering strength of music through a GIRLS ROCK! camp in Melbourne.
No Time for Quiet (2019 )
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Mai Hua, French-Vietnamese single mom with two children, brings back her dying grandmother to France. As the old woman miraculously recovers, questions are raised within the family history, in particular a curse on the women of the family, revealing an intimate archeology of female lineage and universal quest for truth.
The Rivers (2019 )
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A refugee marathoner strives to raise his new country's flag at the Olympics.
Runner (2019 )
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Tupamaro: Urban Guerrillas (2019 )
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An anthropology student and her companion, a film student, want to direct a documentary about a community of hunter-gatherers in Argentina. The difference between the well-off young urbanites and the filmed subjects appears in the first shooting moments already: the sound recorder obsessed with the loss of his Swiss Army knife, incongruous yoga sessions in the middle of a miserable village, tedious explanations causing perplexity and quiet irony on the part of the Wichi, whose full collaboration is still required for this project that intends to ‘increase the visibility’ of a traditional way of life threatened by land disputes...
Insula (2019 )
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An intimate documentary portrait of world-class improvisational and traditional pianist Mike Garson as he tours, performs, and teaches.
Mike Garson and His 88 Friends (2019 )
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Latter Day Jew follows H. Alan Scott, a gay former Mormon/converted Jew/cancer survivor/writer-comedian, as he finds his spiritual path and prepares for his Bar Mitzvah at age 34.
Latter Day Jew (2019 )
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Three men travel to the Philippines to search for the love of their lives. But find that their lives are not important to the woman they find.
Hopelessly Ever After (2019 )
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The Invisible Vegan is a 90-minute independent documentary that explores the problem of unhealthy dietary patterns in the African-American community, foregrounding the health and wellness possibilities enabled by plant-based vegan diets and lifestyle choices.
The Invisible Vegan (2019 )
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Jamie Oliver is the man with the masterplan for a stress-free festive feast - from all the trimmings to the turkey, stuffing and, of course, fantastic gravy.
Jamie's Easy Christmas Countdown (2019 )
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Follow KROW's 3-year transition from teen 'female' model to becoming his true authentic self, not just as a transgender male, but also becoming an androgynous male model.
Krow's TRANSformation (2019 )
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Steve Talt used to bodyguard Farah Pahlavi, the exiled Queen of Iran. So when he discovers that her art was stolen by the Mafia in 1980, he sets out on a quixotic quest to recover it.
The Queen's Man (2019 )
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How intelligent is artificial intelligence? Should we welcome it or fear it? Might it help humanity with its problems? And if so, to what extent? This documentary pursues these questions, while providing informative yet satirical insights into the current developments in the field. Futurist Amy Webb, AI scientist Yann LeCun, and others, share their hopes, fears and predictions.
Superintelligence: Beyond Human (2019 )
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The story of Sweet Tea spans more than a decade. Starting off a scholarly book by E. Patrick, it has since been adapted into a one-man show and is now a feature length documentary. Each iteration highlights different characters and topics in the lives of these black gay men of the south.
Making Sweet Tea (2019 )
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The story of Dujuan, a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy living in Alice Springs, Australia, who is struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state education.
In My Blood It Runs (2019 )
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Travelling by boat from Broome to Darwin, this route in Australia's top end is a breathtaking coastline of open seas, bays, basins, islands and estuaries. This area is dubbed 'Australia's last great wilderness' and surprising stories of multicultural history abound - from Aboriginal cave paintings to Japanese pearlers, a Filipino missionary to a proposed Jewish refuge from the Nazis, Vietnamese boat people, WWII bombings, shipwrecks, and modern-day mining.
The Kimberley Cruise - Australia's Last Great Wilderness (2019 )
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FORCED CHANGE is a feature documentary that uses the path of destruction left behind by Hurricane Katrina as a vehicle to bring to life unique human stories that shed light on what it means to be home. Filmed at critical moments over the last fourteen years, FORCED CHANGE is a heart-breaking retrospective of four unique and relatable, but displaced, characters that left New Orleans after the hurricane and never returned home.
Forced Change (2019 )
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A nurse journeys to discover the truth behind a disease so bizarre, patients who suffer from it are regularly written off as delusional by doctors and loved ones.
Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons (2019 )
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With an anarchic and life-affirming heart, this documentary feature celebrates self-expression, friendship, life and death, and the power of the imagination to ignite, enrage, heal and inspire. With exclusive, intimate access to Michael Leunig - one of Australia’s most renowned artists - we reveal the man behind the household name.
The Leunig Fragments (2019 )
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An intimate look at Collingwood Football Club as it rebuilds itself and aims for glory over the course of the 2018 season.
Collingwood: From The Inside Out (2019 )
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This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019 )
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Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon – with the aid of spears. Then Christian missionaries entered the thick rain forest and paved the way for an oil company. Nowadays many of the tribes are estranged as some want to benefit from the short-term money the company is offering while others fight to preserve their land, culture and independence under all circumstances.
Spears from All Sides (2019 )
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Upon realising her generation won’t have a future unless the world’s politicians act now on climate change, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped school in August 2018 to protest outside the Swedish parliament. What started as a one person strike soon gained global momentum. We follow Greta and the organisers of the school strikes for climate as they are cementing a worldwide movement ahead of their first global protest that took place on March 15th, 2019. It was the biggest climate strike in history with up to 1.6 million students in more than 125 countries.
Make the World Greta Again (2019 )
