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Gary and Mary, hikers, embark on the 2,600-mile Pacific Crest Trail. As a Black man, Gary confronts societal perceptions about Black people in nature while bonding with fellow hikers and navigating the wilderness challenges.
Black Outside (2024 )
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Freediving champion Jessea Lu nearly died during a world-record attempt. She revisits the site of her near-death in this documentary, facing past traumas and struggling back to life.
7 Beats Per Minute (2024 )
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Halima Elkhatabi’s disarming documentary eavesdrops on dozens of Montrealers as they interview one another in the hopes of finding a roommate they won’t want to change the locks on after a week.
Living Together (2024 )
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Every year, thousands of people in Canada and the U.S. take part in drug trials, to ensure a medication's functionality and safety. Many of those volunteers receive financial compensation for doing so. Bodies for Rent highlights how some volunteers are attempting to earn a living by putting their bodies on the line. It follows two men who spend their days searching for eligible clinical studies, and shows the lengths they’ll go to in order to complete a trial and get paid.
Bodies for Rent (2024 )
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Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker Nicolas Paquet explores the glaring contrast between the town’s decline and the wealth of the mining company, along with the mechanisms of an opaque decision-making system in which ordinary people have little say. Part anthropological study, part investigation into the corridors of power, Malartic addresses the fundamental issue of sustainable and fair land management.
Malartic (2024 )
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Derek Hayes and David Flora explore unique areas and stories of weird phenomena of the "Borrego Triangle," an area full of anomalous phenomena including cryptids, ghosts, disappearances, and UFOs.
Shadows in the Desert: High Strangeness in the Borrego Triangle (2024 )
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Inside a shelter, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic, Après-coups creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.
Afterwards (2024 )
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In the midst of violence and war, Ukrainian citizens are coming together to rescue animals that have been left behind by those forced to flee. Witness a moving view into the effects of war on animals, and the humans who help them. Directed by travel YouTube vlogger turned war correspondent Anton Ptushkin, the documentary chronicles stories of survival, love and resilience from the heart of war-torn Ukraine. See those rescuing cats and dogs in abandoned buildings as well as lions and tigers in the nation’s zoos, and the extraordinary efforts to bring them to safety. Hear from volunteers of the nation’s animal shelters, who are risking their own lives to care for their charges during bombardment. Meet Patron, the bomb-detecting Jack Russell Terrier who has saved countless lives, as well as Shafa, a cat in Borodyanka who becomes a symbol of hope.
Saving the Animals of Ukraine (2024 )
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Documentary on the legendary talk-radio comic legend Phil Hendrie, who influenced a legion of great comedic minds through his innovative and relatively short-lived, off-the-wall radio show.
Hendrie (2024 )
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At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Over an intimate, nearly decade-long journey, all must decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves.
Brief Tender Light (2024 )
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In the wake of O.J. Simpson's passing, revisit one of the most famous murders and trials in U.S. history that split America across racial lines.
Most Famous Murder: The O.J. Simpson Trial (2024 )
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A captivating feature-length documentary that chronicles the remarkable journey of the Sutton family as they trek the entire Appalachian Trail, covering 2,193 miles of wilderness terrain with their 4-year-old son, Harvey Sutton, before he starts kindergarten.
Beyond the Tree Line (2024 )
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TMZ’s Harvey Levin reveals his truth about reporting on the O.J. Simpson trial for 2 years, with never-before-heard stories and shocking revelations.
TMZ Presents: O.J. How He Really Did It (2024 )
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When a young Army sergeant is unexplainably murdered, the police are stumped - until they receive a tip about an enemy lurking in his own backyard.
Behind the Crime: Deadly Military Love Triangle (2024 )
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A 32-year-old man leaves his stable life to revive a past dream, embarking on a 10,000-mile journey with a friend to capture diverse stories of everyday Americans, showcasing their shared humanity.
American Highway (2024 )
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Documentary containing interviews of athletic trailblazers that were the first to break through racial barriers to participate in professional sports.
Because They Believed (2024 )
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An inspirational story focusing on the success and triumph of the Oglala Lakota people of Pine Ridge. This documentary takes an in-depth look at the amazing programs, customs, and people that are making positive change on the Reservation.
On the Ridge (2024 )
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Take a journey through the ever-changing landscape of artificial intelligence with this doc exploring the challenges and opportunities ahead.
AI Evolution (2024 )
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The True Story of the Barrymores is the story of 3 generations of actors who, from the birth of cinema to the advent of social networking, left their mark on the entertainment industry. It is also the story of a cursed generation and a legacy that will be saved in the early 80s by the cry of a 7-year-old girl. Her name is Drew Barrymore.
The True Story of the Barrymores (2024 )
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A moving portrait of filmmaker Pierre Hébert, which retraces his extraordinary career and shares all about his passion for burning onto film.
Scratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert (2024 )
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A rock band with a propensity to create their own adventures attempts to bring a mandolin Guinness World Record from India to their hometown in Greenville, South Carolina. Along the way, they discover it's far more challenging than they had ever imagined, and there's suddenly a lot riding on their ability to succeed in this one-of-a-kind documentary film.
How to Break a World Record (2024 )
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Declassified documents from the Cold War shine light into the hidden communications between the US and the Soviet Union during the heavy tensions. New evidence points to the possibility that the space race may have been the ultimate coverup for exchanging intel on UFO's , the occupants and their origins.
Aliens Uncovered: Declassified (2024 )
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A young man decides to wear a camera on his head and record every second of his life for a year.
P.O.V. (2024 )
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John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Little Richard, The Doors, Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, and other legendary musicians performed at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival music festival. This behind-the-scenes look at “the second most important event in rock and roll history” culminates in John Lennon’s first public performance with The Plastic Ono Band, triggering his decision to leave the Beatles.
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World (2024 )
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This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in 'The Producers', to the enigmatic title role in the original 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory', to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like 'Silver Streak'.
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024 )
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Located at the intersection of disability and queerness, this documentary enriches, implicates, and breaks open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community. This film does not shy away from the complexities and challenges of queer life, but rather embraces them and in doing so, illuminates how they impact one another and bring new dimensionality to the position of the body within them. Resisting a normative lens, this filmmaker uses the observational power of the camera to document the raw sexuality, fantasies, and erotic expressions of a wide array of subjects with rare candor and vulnerability. Embodied sexual explorations are balanced against interviews that in their frankness and insightfulness criticize and deepen the lacking conversation around this intersection in the wider discourse.
Acsexybility (2024 )
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Captain Kirk. T.J. Hooker. Denny Crane. Big Giant Head. Alexander the Great. Henry V. Priceline’s Negotiator. These are but a handful of the innumerable masks worn by William Shatner over seven extraordinary decades onstage and in front of the camera. A peerless maverick thespian, electrifying performer, and international cultural treasure, Bill (as he prefers to be called), now 91 years young, is the living embodiment of his classic line “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” In unprecedented fashion, You Can Call Me Bill strips away all the masks he has worn to embody countless characters, revealing the man behind it all.
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill (2024 )
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Silver Servers tells the story of four ’Super Senior’ tennis players in their 80s and 90s — one of them the oldest living player in the world — as they prepare for the International Tennis Federation Senior World Championships; on their remarkable journey, they show us what drives them to keep on playing and competing, helping us realise what is possible in our own lives, whatever our age... and the joy in keeping on going. Tennis is the sport, but the game is life.
Silver Servers (2024 )
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When it comes to serial killers, there aren't many stories more chilling than the one of Fred and Rosemary West. The murderous duo raped, tortured and murdered at least a dozen young British girls between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, including several of their own daughters. Learn of how two of Britain's most notorious serial killers were able to get away with their crimes for so long, how they hid the victim's remains within the confines of their own home, and how they were eventually taken down.
Fred & Rose West: Love & Murder (2024 )
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Eric thought he was just a super picky eater his whole life. Follow him on his journey as he discovers that he is simply not just a picky eater, but has a little known eating disorder that may affect millions unknowingly.
Not Just a Picky Eater (2024 )
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MamaPan is an artisan bakery where the female employees are social cases who would hardly find a job given that, for example, they cannot read or write. We see the harsh reality of these women, their instability and their inability to adapt, which results from all the problems they bring from home. The film presents their perspective in contact with the economic and entrepreneurial perspective and once again shows the problems in the social system related to the integration of vulnerable people in Romania.
Our Daily Bread (2024 )
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The new documentary from filmmaker SETH BREEDLOVE and SMALL TOWN MONSTERS, examining reports and sightings of Dogmen and other canid creatures in the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, and the surrounding areas of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Dogman Territory: Werewolves in the Land Between the Lakes (2024 )