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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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Walker takes us on a personal journey into a world of myth and imagination that he learned from his grandmother. He travels from the Moors of Devon and the Highlands of Scotland to the brooding Celtic landscapes of Ireland and the intimate hills of Cape Breton, in his search of this potent “otherworld” of the imagination.
The Fairy Faith (2000 )
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This documentary profiles the tiny Ojibway community of Hollow Water on the shores of Lake Winnipeg as they deal with an epidemic of sexual abuse in their midst.
Hollow Water (2000 )
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A captivating step back in time, Pozieres explores the small village in Northern France which, during the Great War in 1916, was the setting of one of the bloodiest battles in history, a twentieth century tragedy. The village was stormed and captured by Australians and became key to the success of the Battle for the Somme. But in less than seven weeks they suffered 23,000 casualties.
Pozieres (2000 )
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In 1971, Bruce Brown and his son Dana filmed a documentary featuring the rev and roar of the racetrack. The project was a success, earning the men an Academy award nomination. Twenty-eight years later, the two are back with another ode to speed, On Any Sunday Revisited. While the video features some of the same footage, most of it is entirely new. Brown includes memories from David Aldana, Chuck Palmgren, Sammy Tanner, Met Lawwill, Eddie Mulder, Skip Van Leeuwen, and Gary Nixon. The film explores the making of On Any Sunday with special concentration on star racer Steve McQueen.
On Any Sunday: Revisited (2000 )
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The largest black community in the country started as a safe haven for escaped slaves but has more recently been labelled as one of the biggest hubs of pimping and human trafficking in the nation. "This Is North Preston" illustrates how the town of 4,000 has dealt with generations of pimp culture, economic struggle, limited government resources, violence, and constant systemic racism. Artist "Just Chase" paints a picture of his life in crime and the events that made him get out out of the street life to chase his musical dreams. "This is North Preston" gains insight from respected community members, pimps, politicians, police and trafficking victims, all while pushing hope and a brighter future.
This Is North Preston (2019 )
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Delves into the incredible story of the Englishman Archie Belaney who came to Canada and lived the life of an Ojibwa. He went on to become Canada’s best-known personality as an author and conservationist.
The Spirit of Grey Owl (2000 )
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Five New York divas close up. The thing that in addition to their friendship links these gifted, confident and beautiful women; a painter, an actress and three musicians, is their shared homeland, former Yugoslavia.
Yugodivas (2000 )
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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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A mixture of fiction and documentary depicts the life of Iranian musician Ibrahim Monsefi, who died in 1997, with a voice-over carrying the spectator as the camera drifts through the city of Bandar Abbas.
None of Your Business (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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A documentary mostly edited together from unused footage from The Endless Summer and The Endless Summer II, this documentary gives further insight into the making and success of the original classic surf documentary. It is written, produced and directed by Dana Brown, son of the director of the first two films, Bruce Brown (who executive produced this film). This film likely will appeal only to hardcore fans of the Endless Summer films, but it does feature more of the gorgeous cinematography for which the earlier films are famous. Written by Annie Bulloch
The Endless Summer Revisited (2000 )
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Home movies and family photographs mixed with drawings and texts tell the story of a family that has lived with disease.
Sea in the Blood (2000 )
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In 1979, a plane carrying the Marshall University football team crashed, leaving no survivors. This film documents how a young coach and the five remaining players achieved one of the most heroic comebacks of all time. Combining archival footage with interviews of individuals close to the tragedy, Ashes to Glory tells a tale of remarkable courage in the face of adversity, in the process honoring the memory of those who perished.
Marshall University: Ashes to Glory (2000 )
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An in-depth look at ticks, a parasite that pose multiple threats by transmitting viruses and bacteria to humans.
Ticks: The Real Vampires (2000 )
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Profiles Neal Smither, the founder of a company that specializes in the cleanup of homicides, suicides and accidental death.
Crime Scene Cleaners (2000 )
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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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What happens when two North-American couples travel to a remote orphanage in a small Russian town?
From Russia, For Love (2000 )
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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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A riotous, erotic kaleidoscope in which a Vietnamese refugee’s recollections of fleeing his country by boat become enmeshed with nostalgia and big-screen fantasies of shirtless pirates and sailors—including images of Brad Davis in Fassbinder’s Querelle. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)
Pirated! (2000 )
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Flin Flon is located nearly 1000 kilometers north of the US border in Northern Manitoba. The small, Canadian mining community is also the only city in the world to be named after a science fiction character: Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin from 'The Sunless City.' 'Flin Flon: A Hockey Town' explores the town's eccentric obsession with its legendary junior hockey team, The Flin Flon Bombers and how the team and the community support one another.
Flin Flon: A Hockey Town (2017 )
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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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When they discover that something isn’t right in her head, Liliana and her family seek to understand her emotional instability and frequent hospitalizations after suicide attempts. Facing a possible relapse and unable to institutionalize her, since Liliana’s psychiatric hospital has closed, they resort to treatment at home.
Away From Meaning (2019 )
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A documentary exploring Denmark's secret to happiness. Hygge has exploded in popularity amidst growing division and distrust around the world, but the Danish word and its definition are more complicated than it seems. For those who seek happiness, this exploratory documentary travels around the globe to discover the true meaning of hygge and how to find it.
Finding Hygge (2018 )
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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 second coming of Christ is the most climactic event of all the prophecies in the Bible and preparing for this event is the keynote of the scriptures, but "our God is a consuming fire." (Heb 12:29) In the presence of God the prophets fell upon their faces exclaiming "the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein" and "who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth?" (Heb. 12:29, Mal 3:2) The prophet Isaiah asked "Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" (Isa 33:14) And then Isaiah answers the question and says "he that walketh righteously." (Isa. 33:15) Only the righteous may stand in the presence of Christ when He comes as a consuming fire and the message of Noah will prepare a people for that event, because Noah was "a preacher of righteousness." (2 Pe. 2:5)
The Days of Noah Part 4: Ark of Fire (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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A commune of improvisational theatre performers, musicians, light-show artists, film makers, geodesic dome designers and former members of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters takes shape on a mountaintop in southern California, where they have free rent in return for caring for forty hogs. In the summer of 1968 they take off in a caravan of 40 busses to bring the Yippie party presidential candidate, Pigasus the Pig, to Chicago. Along the way they put on free participatory carnivals for thousands in rodeo grounds, indian reservations, and colleges all across the country.
The Hog Farm Movie (2019 )
