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A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
Museum Town (2019 )
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The #3 leading cause of death in the United States is its own health care system. 1.7 million Americans experience a preventable mistake during medical care, and these mistakes lead to many as 440,000 deaths annually. Directed by the son of late patient safety pioneer, Dr. John M. Eisenberg, To Err Is Human is an in-depth documentary about this silent epidemic and those working quietly behind the scenes to create a new age of patient safety. Through interviews with leaders in healthcare, footage of real-world efforts leading to safer care, and one family's compelling journey from victim to empowerment, the film provides a unique look at the future of our healthcare system's ongoing fight against preventable harm.
To Err Is Human: A Patient Safety Documentary (2019 )
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A documentary about the efforts to ban the global khat trade in Great Britain that routes its way from from war-torn Somalia to the streets of London.
The Green Gold of Africa (2019 )
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A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the tragic cost of getting it wrong; and the huge payoff - for our kids, our families and our country - of getting it right.
No Small Matter (2019 )
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Are Mammograms the biggest scam ever perpetrated in medical history? You decide. In this film, surgeons, oncologists, radiologists, scientists, and advocates...warn women of the truth that is kept from them, causing grave harm and death.
The Breast Kept Secret (2019 )
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Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the street. She accepts and pushes in with her camera. Sabine’s stories and the customers’ joys, worries, problems and fears bring depth and life into the premises. At times, it feels like the entire African quarter of Brussels had squeezed in. Laughter abounds, anecdotes and life stories elicit emotions, and a male visitor brings a touch of flirt into the salon.
Chez Jolie Coiffure (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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An investigative documentary that examines the systemic abuse of elderly people in Las Vegas, Nevada revealing a cautionary tale where some of our society's most vulnerable citizens are robbed of their life savings, healthcare and freedom.
The Guardians (2019 )
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Traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying highly toxic tar sands oil through Native lands and essential waterways in North America.
Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance (2019 )
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The Bruce McArthur serial killer case shocked Canada’s largest city, and the whole country, when he was convicted of eight grisly murders. How did McArthur avoid arrest for nearly a decade? This film explores the untold story of Toronto’s Gay Village, and the victims of these horrific crimes.
Village of the Missing (2019 )
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Told in the cinematic tradition of classic westerns, “COWBOYS - A Documentary Portrait” is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these "big outfit" ranches - some of which are over one million acres - and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend large herds of cattle. Narrated through first-hand accounts from the cowboys themselves, the story is steeped in authenticity and explores the rewards and hardships of a celebrated but misunderstood way of life, including the challenges that lie ahead for the cowboys critical to providing the world's supply of beef. “COWBOYS” was filmed on eight of the nation’s largest cattle ranches across ten states in the American West.
Cowboys: A Documentary Portrait (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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Composer Adrian Ellis attempts to score the strangest film with the strangest possible instruments-including power saws, hammer drills, fishing wire and crowbars. A creative documentary about the power of experimentation.
The Music of Madness (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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Watt the Fish (2019 )
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Aliens are real and the greatest conspiracy ever is the cover-up to this shocking truth. Nick Pope, who ran the UFO program at the UK Ministry of Defense now reveals how the world will change forever the day the Aliens arrive.
Indistinguishable from Magic (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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When I got to Rignano, the Ghetto residents told me: "You mustn't keep any trace of our lives here in these precarious houses. This despair is not yours to display." The misery in the Ghetto is the first thing that struck me, the first thing I wanted to show.
Our Territory (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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The amazing untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM set against the profound social, political and cultural changes of the late-1960s and early-70s, using the actual sights, sounds and stories of those who connected through the station, exploding music and countercultural scenes, militant anti-war and civil rights protests and emerging women’s and LGBTQ-liberation movements.
WBCN and the American Revolution (2019 )
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The United States is home to a highway that has captured imaginations for nearly a century. This mythical route is part of American folklore, even of the great American dream. Its name is Route 66!
Passport To The World Route 66 (2019 )
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Humanity on Trial follows humanitarian Salam Aldeen as he is accused of human smuggling by the Hellenic Coast Guard.
Humanity on Trial (2019 )
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The deep northern forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are home to small villages of Finnish Americans—communities carved out from the forest where Finnish language, cultural worldview, and traditional arts remain crucial to social life more than a century after immigration. In this beautiful and rugged north country, the extraordinary, ordinary descendants of Finnish immigrants still eke out modest lives to this day on old farmsteads, working with the resources they have available to them, showing their creativity and ingenuity in simply getting by and making do, and living in ways not dissimilar from their ancestors who migrated three or four generations ago.
Finnish American Chip Woodcarvers (2019 )
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Today consumers Yelp everything from restaurants to dentists; plumbers to surgeons. The small business community sees Yelp's sales tactic as extortion. Does Yelp genuinely have an interest in helping people support the best local businesses, or are they a pay-to-play advertising platform?
Billion Dollar Bully (2019 )
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Albert Kahn, reflets d'un monde disparu (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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Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story chronicles the life and times of the legendary filmmaker who, through his annual ski films and national tours which began in the early 1950's, was a driving force in the development and promotion of the ski industry in America and throughout the world. Miller, who died last year at 93, sat months before his passing for his final interview. He reminisced about living off rabbit stew and sleeping in a teardrop trailer in his endless pursuit of the perfect ski run and he explained in great detail the challenges - both personal and professional - he faced over the course of his career.
Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story (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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Los Angeles has had the most Alien and U.F.O. sightings in the entire world since the 1950's. This unique documentary takes an unparalleled look at several of those encounters over the years with shocking, previously unseen eyewitness interviews, evidence and re-enactments.
Aliens in LA (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 )
