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The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion

Brendas first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal family Decades later, she feels disconnected from both halves of her life But the trau

A 1930s set story centered on the University of Washingtons rowing team, from their Depression era beginnings to winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Documentary on horrormystery film maker Dario Argento Features an in depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985

Kind of famous and sort of rich, rapper and actor Vince Staples navigates the challenges and surprises of everyday life in his hometown of The Beach

Based on the true story of the Fictitious Dance group their rise to fame, sudden downfall, and their heroic attempt to seek vindication by regaining their lost pride and glory

The film is a biographical account of writer Saadat Hasan Mantos life and is set in 1940s India

George Zimbels work has documented the 20th century with grace, spontaneity and a remarkable eye for telling a story in one 35 mm frame

Winslow Homer leaves his post as Civil War illustrator and seeks solitude He meets two teenagers who, like him, are haunted by the aftermath of the war

An in depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in film

An immigrant Indian mothers battle against the Norwegian foster care system and local legal machinery to win back the custody of her children

A razor witted entertainer who found fame as two people first his drag queen alter ego, Lily Savage, and then as himself This documentary film charts the unique career of a working class Merseysider whose life away from the spo

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi

A biopic about Turkish vocal artist Murat Gogebakan, drama, childhood, his life

Based in the novel Aurora de Sangre Eduardo de Guzman and in the real events happened during the II Spanish Republic Aurora Rodriguez goes to police to assume the death of her daughter Hildegart, that she has had plans to conve

A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth century erotic fantasy Hes on the go from L A , to Paris, to Monte Car

Adam Clayton retraces a trip artist Francis Bacon took to Ireland in 1929, painting a fresh picture of Bacons relationship with the land of his birth

Inspired by true events, The 86 highlights the activities of a band of 86 street thugs that were famous for their strong presence in the Caracass scene during the 1980s

Knowing the Score is a biopic of Australian conductor Simone Young, an inspiring, brilliant woman who made it to the top in a mans world wielding her wit, determination, sense of humour and baton New York, London, Berlin, Vienna

Many parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giants life Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse

Nothing is coincidence, or everything is

On a bicycle trip across the country, a young Neill Kirby McMillan Jr experiences The Mojo Revelation After teaming up with the enigmatic Skid Roper, he unexpectedly finds mainstream success but makes a decision that could jeopa

The first biopic about Lucio Fulci With never seen before footage, photos and interviews

Officer Kannan leads a group of police officers to track down the bandit, Veerappan

The inspirational story of Dr Gordon Briscoes life from his work with legendary eye doctor Fred Hollows, to his days as an activist travelling Australia and telling traditional land

Chronicles the wild life of one of WWEs greatest performers and most enduring villains After drug addiction nearly cost him his life, Shawn Michaels, aka The Heartbreak Kid, made one of the most improbable late career comeback

This made for television film chronicles the illustrious life of French philosopher Rene Descartes 1596 1650

This is a lengthy exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history, told through dramatised conversations between the main participants, particularly Cosimo de Medici and Brunelleschi Among its the

Based on Elsa Jouberts novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena, regarded as one of the best African novels of the 20th century

A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball

Based on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kellys crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monacos Prince Rainier III and Frances Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 196

In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex girlfriend a Greenpeace volunteer on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle

The life and career of the legendary Hollywood insider, Shep Gordon