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Recently, more and more cases of child abuse have been uncovered in elite sport. More and more victims are speaking out worldwide. Young athletes are often promising medal hopes. But at what price? Studies show: Every seventh underage young athlete, regardless of gender, is a victim of sexual assault or abuse.
Sexual Violence in Sport (2020 )
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“I’d never share a rope with him” is about as damning a comment as anyone can make about a fellow mountaineer. Sir Edmund Hillary’s words about Earle Riddiford in his last autobiography set the uneasy tone of this nuanced documentary by Earle’s son Richard Riddiford.
Before Everest (2020 )
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Delves into the history of software development that started as a woman-led industry but has evolved into a majority white-male and Asian-dominated industry. It tackles the tough topic of why women as well as black and Latinx people don’t pursue software careers. The film aims to shine a light on how amazing a career in software can be and how diversification makes better software and can be a generational change for many.
Hello World (2020 )
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Wild Wolverine (2020 )
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How wedge politics on key divisive issues is giving rise to a new kind of populist leaders: disruptors with a new playbook who are loved by some and challenged by others, dividing the electorate. Are they also expressing the will of the people?
Me, the People: A Populist Handbook (2020 )
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Get a glimpse deep inside the Congo River Basin, whose impenetrable jungles remain one of the least explored places on Earth.
Spirits of Congo (2020 )
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"Marionette Land" is an intimate portrait into the wonderful world of Robert Brock, a man who lives above his own magical marionette theatre with his mother, Mary Lou. Brock creates and performs classic marionette shows for families as well as grown-up shows where he straps on his heels to become famous Hollywood divas of the past. But new personal and professional challenges emerge as Robert and Mary Lou struggle to keep the marionette theatre open while preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Marionette Land (2020 )
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Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in the mountainous Turkish countryside of Rough Cilicia.
The Last Apostle: Journies in the Holy Land (2020 )
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Through the lens of photographer and physician Eric Overton, Collodion: The Process of Preservation captures a fearless, and uncommonly vulnerable self-portrait of American wilderness, our relationship to each other, and the possibility that nature itself may be all we need to find common ground.
Collodion: The Process of Preservation (2020 )
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Cuba is well known as a so-called time capsule. The place where the New World was discovered has become both a romantic vision and a warning. With ongoing global cultural and financial upheavals, large parts of the world could face a similar kind of existence.
Epicentro (2020 )
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There are few places on the planet more magical than the forest. To spend a day here is nature’s way of offering a spa, a bathe in nature. There is enchantment at every turn.
The Enchanted Forest (2020 )
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In the wake of the Birmingham protests against LGBTQ+ relationship education in primary schools, a team of queer community reporters of colour challenge homophobia and call out racism in LGBTQ+ spaces.
Pride & Protest (2020 )
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The nightmare dramatized in the movie "Gravity" is now a sad reality: fragments of missiles or satellites that threaten to damage and destroy our space infrastructure. With the amount of debris in space rising over the past two decades, the danger keeps getting worse. To clean up the mess, engineers are now devising innovative schemes using magnetic nets, lasers, and robotic trash collectors.
Space Smash (2020 )
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A disillusioned early adopter and internet evangelist, feels a sense of responsibility to engage with the problems the internet has created and wants to see where we went wrong. 'The Internet of Everything' is a documentary that examines the hype and hubris hurtling towards the next frontier in the Internet's evolution.
The Internet of Everything (2020 )
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These Birds Were Made For Walking Few things are more wondrous than the gift of flight, but some birds have chosen to give it up – the question is, why? Whether it is to save energy, tap into new food resources, or invest in other skills, they all have their reasons.
These Birds Were Made for Walking (2020 )
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Although a portrait of the troubled Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, “The Place That Makes Us” offers a gratifyingly hopeful look at efforts to restore a town ravaged by the prolonged economic distress caused by the closure of its iconic steel mills and related industries.
The Place That Makes Us (2020 )
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AMERICA'S SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT recounts both the victories and failures of a unique brand of socialism in the historically conservative city of Milwaukee, Wisc. Between 1910 and 1960, elected socialists in Milwaukee — including a U.S. Congressman and three mayors — reduced corruption, improved conditions for working people, and cleaned up the environment, leaving a mixed legacy to which both Democrats and Republicans lay claim today.
America's Socialist Experiment (2020 )
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The movie looks at the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting.
Money Machine (2020 )
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This down-home documentary chronicles the struggles of a sleepy town in Alabama as it's sparked back to life by embracing local lore and learning to love Bigfoot. It covers the town's history, it's many Sasquatch sightings and how it became the Bigfoot Capital of Alabama.
The Town That Loved Bigfoot (2020 )
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When a progressive woman from Casablanca challenges the status quo, female villagers—emboldened to demand more equality—start a cooking strike.
Fadma: Even Ants Have Wings (2020 )
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A Black Briton whose fears and anxiety of not being able to swim and drowning is dramatized as he battles with the stereotypes set by society.
A Film Called Blacks Can't Swim (My Journey My Story) (2020 )
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Affected tells the story of a small business owner that lost over 90% of his revenue after Covid-19 hit America. With frustration, he decided to embark on a journey to document the lives of all the others that have been impacted by Covid.
Affected: The Story of US (2020 )
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Unusually gifted, successful CEO/entrepreneur Sebastien Martin has experienced accurate prophetic visions for years. While ignoring his psychic abilities to build a normal life, Sebastien's shocking memories of his alien past intensified after a strange encounter with an Annunaki ET claiming to be his soul brother - leading to a profound journey of self-discovery and an urgent message to humanity.
ETs Among Us 6: My Cosmic Journey - Revelations of a Psychic CEO (2020 )
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World War II and the plant caused my mother's family to move to Ma-riupol. The war with Russia and the environmental consequences of the plant's operation play a key role in its future life.
Territory of Empty Windows (2020 )
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This seven year journey chronicles the brash once-respected Canadian comedian Richard Lett, whose addiction to drugs and alcohol lead him to become homeless; estranged from his daughter and community.
Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story (2020 )
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After years of performing countless shows, spending days traveling and nights performing, all while attending to the necessary "business" of music, Human Drama's Johnny Indovina feels burnt out and emptied. Johnny fights to fall in love with music again.
Seven Days in Mexico (2020 )
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Meet an eclectic group of people who have dedicated their lives to answering the question: what should books become in the digital age? From the esoteric world of book artists to the digital library of the Internet Archive, the film spins a tale of the enduring vitality of the book.
The Book Makers (2020 )
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SISU follows a ten person cycling team from a small community in Maine on a journey to compete in a 1,358KM race around the perimeter of Iceland. The one hour documentary combines an observational filmmaking style with elements of a travelogue and engagement of action sport. Set just after the summer solstice, the team faces rapidly changing road and weather conditions as they push forward against the 72 hour time limit. The film explores the motivations of amateur athletes pursuing a massive physical challenge and considers the role adventure plays in contemporary life.
Sisu (2020 )
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Iconoclastic historian Andrew Bacevich delivers an anti-colonial critique of US foreign policy in the Middle East, informed by his long career in the Army. While other historians analyze changing presidential administrations, Bacevich sees one long Oil War. There are scant differences between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the sacrifice of soldiers’ lives. His radical analysis has won bipartisan followers and even an invitation to speak with President Obama. Bacevich describes what that meeting reveals about America’s need to break free from its past.
The Oil War (2020 )
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An in-depth profile of the life and career of Willy T. Ribbs - the controversial Black driver who shattered the color barrier of professional auto-racing and became the first Black qualifier in the storied history of the Indy 500.
Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story (2020 )
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Meat the Future ushers the viewer into a world vexed by the impacts of modern day industrial animal agriculture and zeros in on a solution-focused story. Revealing challenges and breakthroughs and posing a myriad of questions about the future, this 90-minute character-driven documentary explores the advent of real meat without the need to raise and slaughter animals. Spanning three years, Meat the Future chronicles the potentially game-changing birth of a new food industry referred to as “cell-based” “clean” and “cultured” meat – a term hotly debated as the industry approaches commercialization
Meat the Future (2020 )
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As the first city hit in the global pandemic, Wuhan, with a population of 11 million, was placed under an unprecedented lockdown. The film showcases the incredible speed and power of China’s state machinery in its fight against the virus. On the other side of the scale is the crushing bureaucracy of that same machine.
Coronation (2020 )
