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In 1969, the rock band Sweetwater led by lead singer Nansi Nevins opened Woodstock and subsequently received considerable media attention, appearing on a number of television shows However, just as they appeared to be receiving a

Explores a year in the life of musician Jon Batiste

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard How a horrific incident of racial violence became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in W

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

A look at the life of Irish singersongwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan

She Said Boom The Story Of Fifth Column is the story of a group of young female artists from Toronto in the early eighties They united to use music, film, and self publication to defy conventions of art practice, gender ideas, a

A biopic based on the life and struggles of Mithali Raj, Indian Cricketer, and captain of the Indian National Cricket team

Through rare interviews, images and wiretap audio, this documentary reconstructs the last nine years of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobars life

A documentary on political punk band Anti Flag The film explores the trials and tribulations of playing politically charged music and devoting your life to activism

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

The unbelievable true life story of a crazy argentine engineer who became a cold war spy by delivering semiconductor industry secrets to the Soviet Union through Cuba Pursuing his ideals led him to unthinkable consequences

Margreth Olin has filmed 22 persons i their meeting with the well known voluntary healer Joralf Gjerstad For 65 years more than 50 000 has gone to him to be healed from illnesses and ill doings He has never asked for a penny for

A chronicle of James Browns rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history

A psychological drama about the turn of the century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who was the first to photograph subjects in movement and became the godfather of cinema He later murdered his wifes lover and was the last British

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics

In 1956, Ernesto Che Guevara and a band of Castro led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista

The story of the Soviet Unions famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players

Barry Crimmins is pissed His hellfire brand of comedy has rained verbal lightning bolts on American audiences and politicians for decades, yet youve probably never heard of him But once youve experienced Bobcat Goldthwaits brill

Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singersongwriter Amy Winehouse

A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legends story

Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then President George W Bushs military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers

A documentary on Steven Spielberg, filmmaker Includes interviews with relatives, film critics, peers and people who have worked with him

A re imagining of jazz legend Chet Bakers musical comeback in the late 60s

Chronological look at the life and career of Johnny Carson 1925 2005, with commentary from an ex wife and more than 30 fellow comedians, friends, employees, and biographers The biography defines why Carson was an enduring star hi

A documentary portrait of the late John Wojtowicz, whose attempted robbery of a Brooklyn bank to finance his lovers gender reassignment surgery was the real life inspiration for Dog Day Afternoon 1975

On December 8th, 1980, John Lennon was shot outside of the Dakota apartment building in New York This film follows the untold, actual story of those who were part of his attempted rescue and witnesses to the human cost of tragedy

The legacy of the fastest man in history, Usain Bolt

A romantic drama based on the story of Carley Allison, a promising 18 year old figure skater and singer who made medical history in her fight against a rare 1 in 3 5 billion type of sarcoma

Broadcast journalist Edward R Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage near Marseilles During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl Adapted from the cult classic novel from Marcel Pagnol

A family man battles to prove his innocence after being accused of a heinous crime

Hendrik Goltzius, a late sixteenth century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books

Widower Thomas Jefferson 3rd US president 1801 09 lives in Paris 1785 90 with his daughter He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France He has an alleged affair with her resulting in kids

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970s

A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant