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Over the decades, unanswered questions, tampered evidence, ulterior motives, and witness testimony surrounding the assassination has perpetuated conspiracy theories and alternative explanations that challenge the official narrative. Most of the figures involved--or knew who was involved--have mostly passed away, leaving avenues of investigation dead in their tracks. Over time, efforts to determine what happened have left more questions than answers. We take a look back on the moment that changed the course of world history, questioning the official record. Was the assassination a conspiracy?
Who Killed JFK: The Conspiracies (2020 )
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The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food manufacturers and their allies.
The Poison Squad (2020 )
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During the nuclear-charged 1960s, the KGB was active in sleepy Australian suburbia. For two years, the country’s security service, ASIO, secretly filmed meetings between a senior KGB officer, Ivan Skripov, and his British-born agent. Unknown to Skripov, she was a double agent - code name "Sylvia". Sylvia’s final rendezvous with an unknown "KGB illegal" operative held the promise of exposing a network of Soviet spies that had infiltrated the British atomic and rocketry facilities in South Australia.
Final Rendezvous (2020 )
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A deep dive into the 1980's war on drugs that led directly to the three-strikes laws that locked up even petty offenders for lifetime sentences.
The Third Strike (2020 )
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Justice is SERVED. Disgraced media mogul, Harvey Weinstein, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual criminal acts. Witness the rise and fall of one of Hollywood's most powerful men.
Served: Harvey Weinstein (2020 )
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Through different legal cases and the complexity of the State of Florida’s legal processes involving minors, the film shows how delicate legal resolutions can be for children, who are ultimately the ones most affected by these judicial decisions.
Courtroom 3H (2020 )
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In 1988, two ex-convicts kidnapped, beat, raped, tortured and murdered Gordon Church, a gay college student from a rural Mormon community in southern Utah. Dog Valley explores the horrific events of his death, the lives and minds of his killers, and how it has helped shape modern hate crimes legislation in Utah.
Dog Valley (2020 )
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Reynhard Sinaga is the UK's most prolific rapist. Posing as a good Samaritan outside Manchester nightclubs, he drugged, sexually assaulted and filmed his depraved acts with at least 200 young men for the past 12 years.
Surviving Sinaga (2020 )
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Two friends, Don and Dave were diving in the cave of Boesmansgat: 283 meters. Right before surfacing up, Dave - who'd just broken a world record - finds a body. They decide to dive back and retrieve it.
Dave Not Coming Back (2020 )
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With seven Winter X-Games gold medals and a career spanning twenty years, Tanner Hall has cemented himself as an icon and legend in the sport of skiing. Now, at age 35, he’s decided to enter the Freeride World Tour; a five-stop competition circuit in which skiers are judged on their ability to descend through rugged, un-groomed terrain. Having never competed in a freeride competition, Tanner embarks on the latest chapter of his career, struggling against the limits of an aging body while confronting the darkest memories of his past.
Tanner Hall Forever (2020 )
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Documentary film on the #1 instrumental rock group in the world, The Ventures. The story of their rise to fame in the 1960s right up to now, as they celebrate their 60th anniversary of playing the best guitar-rock of all time.
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars (2020 )
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Experience 5 days of rocking, crowd pumping Blues competition packed with passion, music, and suspense. Discover the people who keep The Blues alive and the powerful international impact of America’s musical gift to the world.
Blues on Beale (2020 )
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Dealing with cultural censorship in Iran, women singers started using also digital media more. Invited by Negar, a magical entity, female voices from all over this vast country come out of isolation, gather in a garden in the very middle of Iran to make their dream come true.
The Female Voice of Iran (2020 )
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This previously unreleased, 35-minute documentary film that takes you deep into the bowels of Winnipeg's punk and hardcore underground circa the mid-2000s. "The Manitoba Connection" provides a rare, lightning-in-a-bottle snapshot of DIY subculture as it is on the Canadian Prairie, marked by geographical isolation, brutal winters, and a history of working-class politics.
The Manitoba Connection (2020 )
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Since the inception of punk rock in New York, Ivan Julian has enjoyed a long and storied career as one of rock's most innovative guitarists. "You Don't Know Ivan Julian" invites us to an intimate exploration of his creative process, his noteworthy collaborations and his life's many highs and lows.
You Don't Know Ivan Julian (2020 )
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In the shadow of the pyramids, an elite team of archaeologists embark on an extraordinary excavation. Could this secret site reveal startling new evidence about the great pharaohs who built these majestic monuments?
Lost Tombs of the Pyramids (2020 )
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In October 1970, members of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped Minister Pierre Laporte, triggering an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what could have led his father and uncle to commit such acts. Thanks to the confidences of his uncle Jacques, who agrees for the first time to speak on the subject, and to the precious traces left by his father Paul, he revives the rich heritage of a Quebec working family and gives back to the October crisis its social dimension. The fruit of ten years of research, Les Rose allows us to revive moments and characters that we only knew through a few clichés, and gives a glimpse of the social blockage experienced by a rebellious youth and the upheavals that followed.
The Rose Family (2020 )
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In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a different look at being black in America.
Uncle Tom (2020 )
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Tony Robinson’s VE Day: Minute By Minute will take a unique look at a pivotal day in the history of the modern world, delving into the key events that made VE Day such a momentous twenty-four hours. This is the story of what happened on that most celebrated and important day, including original interviews with historians and veterans who tell their stories and share their first-hand experiences. Using unseen archive footage and stills, plus never told accounts from veterans who were there, this one-off special will chart the moment the clock struck midnight, to 24 hours later, when fighting officially stopped across Europe. Up and down the country it was dawning on people that they were waking up not with fear or anxiety, but with relief and excitement. This was a Great Britain no one had experienced for six years. A Britain at peace. At almost no notice street celebrations were being prepared and tens of thousands were flocking to London and other city centres.
Tony Robinson's VE Day Minute by Minute (2020 )
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A young Holocaust survivor who descends into crime; an Italian-Jewish engineer who wants to see a movie; a German Christian who forgives her husband’s murderer because of her Buddhist faith; and a Jewish woman who carries on an affair with a Nazi and exposes members of the resistance so that she and her children may survive: their fates intersect when two bullets are fired into a queue of people waiting to see “A Man Escaped” at Tel Aviv’s Cinema North in 1957.
Murder At Cinema North (2020 )
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Husband and wife team Greg and Felicity take a journey across Romania to try to answer one simple question - where is Dracula's Castle? Along the way they struggle as fiction, history and legend all mix together to confuse the question, but they get to experience some of the incredible beauty and impressive castles of Romania.
Romania: Seeking Dracula's Castle (2020 )
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After 40 years, Tom Cruise continues to push the envelope in film. Exposing one's heart to the world through their work is not only risky business, as far as Cruise is concerned, it is the only way to achieve an end that feels complete.
Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth (2020 )
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An epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
City Hall (2020 )
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In two decades, he has raised his dizzying heels and red soles to the height of fashion. For months, Olivier Garouste followed the daily life of Christian Louboutin. Between trips, drawings, workshops and shops, the designer opens the doors to his world.
In the footsteps of Christian Louboutin (2020 )
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Seven young people tell their personal stories with the Yiddish language while discussing the life and work of avant-garde Yiddish poets.
Yiddish (2020 )
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As ambitious women are forced to maneuver a work-world built for company men, Ashley wastes no time planning her escape and clearing a path for the girls coming up fast behind her.
Pioneers in Skirts (2020 )
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In "My Promise to PJ" Daniel Baldwin takes you on his journey across the world to fulfill a promise. A promise he made to his friend (PJ) Patrick Michael Raynor JR. That promise was should PJ become 2 years sober, that they would run with the bulls together in Pamplona, Spain to celebrate PJ's sobriety. Tragically, that day never came, and after 3 years of sobriety, PJ died of a surprise drug overdose. Haunted from the loss of PJ, Baldwin decides to get in shape and run with the bulls to honor the promise he made to his beloved friend. Along the way you see the emotional aftermath that drug addiction has on a family that tries to cope with the loss of their son, brother, nephew and friend.
My Promise to P.J. (2020 )
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The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash, as well as footage featuring Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, John C. Reilly and many more.
My Darling Vivian (2020 )
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Justice Thomas tells his entire life’s story, looking directly at the camera, speaking frankly to the audience. Unscripted and without narration, the documentary takes the viewer through a complex and often painful life, dealing with race, faith, power, jurisprudence, and personal resilience.
Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words (2020 )
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An assaulted teen gives birth in the deep south and receives conflicting narratives about her infant's fate. 36 years later, her mother gives a deathbed confession that the baby never died. A filmmaker helps her uncover the truth.
Where She Lies (2020 )
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In this moving and informative documentary, the rescue me team goes to the United Kingdom to exam a local home-grown cat rescue and a larger national organization.
Rescue Me: International (2020 )
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As the world races to lead the way in blockchain technology, could Africa have an advantage? This documentary follows the journey of Bitcoin pioneers as the continent seeks to leverage cryptocurrency to leapfrog standing world economic powers.
Banking on Africa: The Bitcoin Revolution (2020 )
