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Part music documentary, part unflinching character study, part a punk version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - I Get Knocked Down is the funny, surreal, and deeply human untold story of Chumbawamba and its ex-front man Dunstan Bruce.
I Get Knocked Down (2023 )
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They met by chance but, alas, it was bad timing. He proposed in a trailer dressing room. She responded with lipstick kisses on a mirror. A blending of music and marriage that defies time. Soul 2 Soul. The best goes on.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill: Country Lovin' (2023 )
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It's hard to believe that Beyonce Knowles only came in second place on TV's Star Search show. The precocious child from Houston has broken records including #1 solo artist for four decades along with a powerful female image.
Beyonce: Limited Edition (2023 )
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Bold, daring, and impossible to ignore, UTE is a singer-songwriter bringing her uplifting anthems to the global stage. She has amassed a following worldwide for her inspiring story and irresistibly infectious positive outlook on life.
UTE: Keeping the Spirit (2023 )
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At Heavy Metal’s dawn, the sun rose to the beat of Lee Kerslake’s powerhouse drumming. Through a career of 50 years and 60 million albums sold, he became a legend. Now he must face the end of his days. He reconnects with lifelong pals from Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard, Deep Purple and Iron Maiden, and performs one last time with the band he created, Uriah Heep.
Not On the Heep: The Heavy Metal Saga of Lee Kerslake (2023 )
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Shout. Factory program that streamed as a prelude to an NBC special.
Celebrating Carol: The Gift of Laughter (2023 )
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Hit after hit, pop-icon Harry Styles, once the centerpiece of the world's biggest boy bands has grown into someone who isn't afraid of self-expression, continuing to reject the traditional confines of masculinity.
Harry Styles: The Finishing Touch (2023 )
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Shotgun Suge (played by himself) is an ex-drug dealer who turns his life around to pursue his promising career as an entertainer. But he had a past before his success. He grew up with Pop (Ali Rawls), who recently came home from prison. He wants revenge for the death of his brother Zay (played by 280 Zay). Pop is eager for revenge and stops at nothing for the answer to who murdered his brother. Pop learns the killer is a childhood friend from the neighborhood, Suge. This creates a war; a violent business that will test loyalty and respect as it gets dangerous beyond control.
What Ya Life Like? (2023 )
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Zeal & Ardor catapults Swiss musician Manuel Gagneux from the underground to the world stage. Religion, racism, segregation and appropriation: Gagneux makes music against taboos. But being a leader against his will scares the introverted artist. Can he remix the game?
Play with the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor (2023 )
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Rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor, Eminem has a wide range of talents. Despite his struggles, this rap artiste has won the hearts of critics and fans alike, earning more than a dozen Grammy awards.
Eminem: Count Me In (2023 )
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Throughout modern history, there have been many singers with a myriad of different talents. But only one individual had it all. The looks, the charm, the magnetism, and a disruptive style of his own. Although many imitators exist, only one transcends time and culture to live forever. From his birth in Tupelo Mississippi through his meteoric rise, join us as we highlight some of the milestones that formed Elvis into one of the greatest entertainers of all times. Through this documentary, relive Elvis' controversial rise to stardom, his military service, acting career and his reclaim to fame before his unexpected and tragic death in Graceland. Learn more about the pivotal relationships he developed with Colonel Tom Parker, Priscilla Ann, Ann Margaret, among others. Viva Elvis. —Miguel Somoza
Viva Elvis (2023 )
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3 women. 3 modern hip-hop legends. Each of them has brought something new to the game. All have fierce individuality and ferocious ambition. In a genre previously only dominated by men, these badass women have flexed their skills and come out on top.
Women in Hip-Hop (2023 )
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In the years following the collapse the 80s Glam Metal era of the Sunset Strip, a songwriter chronicles the unexpected events of his life and the transformation of his band and craft.
Falling Higher: The Story Of Ampage (2023 )
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Call him a creative genius or just plain wacky. Either way Alfred Yankovic has carved his own brand of comedic parodies, polka medleys, and original songs for the outcast who never fit in.
Weird Al: Never Off Beat (2023 )
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The "Queen of Bubblegum Rap" was never a fairytale princess. Despite her early years of struggles, Nicki Minaj would prevail with 100 million records sold, 7 songs on the Billboard Charts at the same time and 10 Grammy nominations.
Nicki Minaj: My Turn (2023 )
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From Super Bowl LVI recognition to ushering in the rap group N.W.A, Eve After Dark explores the legacy of the first hip-hop club on the West Coast.
Eve After Dark (2023 )
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Fame Kills - Tupac (2023 )
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Despite holding its world championships each August on a massive outdoor stage in Finland to 10K in-person fans and being broadcast and covered in the news around the world, competitive air guitar is still widely mocked. It’s seen as a frivolous pursuit by people with no talent who can’t play real instruments.
Catching Air (2023 )
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In the autumn of 1888, a string of bloody murders rocked East London. Week after terrible week, the tabloids report the death of yet another Whitechapel resident. The police are left baffled, and investigations grow cold with no lead to who the killer may be. Known to history as Jack the Ripper, there are many theories as to who was guilty of the brutal Whitechapel killings. Through reenactment and interviews, this documentary film investigates the haunting story of Jack the Ripper, and the man thought to be behind the murders.
The Unsolved Killings of Jack the Ripper (2023 )
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This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2023 )
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In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.
Close to Vermeer (2023 )
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In March 2002, a state TV signal in China gets hacked by members of the banned spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal is to counter the government narrative about their practice. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening an already violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea.
Eternal Spring (2023 )
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Gotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city with over 2200 murders, 93,000 violent robberies and 147,000 car thefts in 1990 become the capitol of the world a mere handful of years later? This feature documentary explores what happened during these decades, told by the people who did the hard work, some at great personal and professional cost.
Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York (2023 )
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The Nazi regime lasted from 1933 to 1945 and was undoubtedly one of the most horrific periods of history. The Nazi Party and its immoral leader instilled one of the most corrupt regimes on the people of Germany and its invisible enemies. However...Adolf Hitler was not working alone. He had a circle of some of the most barbaric and evil men alongside him, who helped make the atrocities possible. These are...the Nazi Fugitives.
Nazi Fugitives (2023 )
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28 lost adventurers must fight for their lives after their only lifeline is destroyed in the most uninhabitable place on Earth – Antarctica. SHACKLETON - THE GREATEST STORY OF SURVIVAL reveals the true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, told by the only man ever to have repeated their incredible feat - explorer and adventurer Tim Jarvis. Following in the beset crew’s footsteps, Tim reveals the enduring legacy of Shackleton's crisis leadership in the face of impossible odds - a lesson more relevant to us now than ever before.
Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival (2023 )
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The Real Oppenheimer (2023 )
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When governments use Covid emergency act edicts to restrict the gathering and worship of the Church, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fines, and their own Churches splitting apart take a courageous stand and re-open in the face of a world that has chosen to comply.
The Essential Church (2023 )
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The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely imaginable to most people on earth. And yet, with war comes new inventions. New ways of destroying the enemy. New machines to wipe out human life. The advent of nuclear weapons not only brought an end to the largest conflict in history, but also ushered in an atomic age and a defining era of "big science". However, with the world now gripped by nuclear weapons, we exist constantly on the edge of mankind's total destruction.
Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb (2023 )
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The documentary follows Yeshi Kassa, great-granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, as she embarks on a personal quest to discover what happened to her closest relatives during the coup of 1974. While Yeshi and her older sister were thousands of miles away in a British boarding school, her great-grandfather was deposed by a revolution, setting off a harrowing chain of events that would put her parents and siblings in grave danger. For the very first time, the royal family examines the events that led to the collapse of a 3,000-year-old dynasty and reflects on how, against all odds, they were able to survive this turbulent time in Ethiopian history.
Grandpa Was An Emperor (2023 )
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Nazi Germany has fallen. After allied forces defeated Nazi Germany in World War II, Europe became a dangerous place to be associated with the Nazi regime as officers, party members, and supporters of Hitler began to flee Germany.
The Great Nazi Escape (2023 )
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A handful of prisoners in WWII camps risked their lives to take clandestine photographs and document the hell the Nazis were hiding from the world. In the vestiges of the camps, director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs, composing as such an archeology of images as acts of defiance.
From Where They Stood (2023 )
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A visually stunning and thought-provoking biopic documenting the life and career of renowned photographer Linda Troeller. Her work explores the spiritual properties of water and the intricate aspects of female sexuality. The film presents a mesmerizing narrative that gracefully blends elements of personal discovery, artistry, and feminism.
Healing Waters (2023 )
