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The dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of director Wim Wenderss favorite blues artists

A documentary on speculative fiction writer and essayist Harlan Ellison

The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman

A killer bandit decides to become a politician in order to avenge deaths in his family

Boy Interrupted looks at the life of Evan Perry a 15 year old boy from New York who committed suicide in 2005 The film made by his parents Dana and Hart examines how Evans bipolar disorder and depression affected his life and the l

How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood, but could not prevent it all from crashing down, when ambition of others turned into greed

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas

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The gold medal for the mens 10,000 metre race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie

William Hoy was one of the first Deaf Major League Baseball players in the 1800s Being deaf, he introduced hand signals for strike and ball to the game and overcame many obstacles to become one of the greatest players of his time

This documentary movie covers two concerts at the Fox Theatre in St Louis, Missouri, to celebrate Chuck Berrys 60th birthday, and also discusses his life and career

The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert

Hes powered his Harley over cars, trucks, lions, infernos and plummeted headlong into a canyon But if the mob has its way, his next incredible leap will land him six feet under

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber

An in depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa

Telling the incredible life story of one of Britains most successful athletes and arguably our countries greatest ever Olympian, Mo Farah opens the doors to his home and gives us a

George Adamson fights to save Kenyas wildlife Together with his young assistant Tony Fitzjohn, he battles to keep the animals on his game reserve, and Kora, from dangerous poachers

The 5th King is a compelling first hand account of the rise and fall of one of boxings legendary fighters from the golden era of boxing He escaped the major pitfalls of his economic depressed area of South Bronx to become 3 time ch

A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethovens life

The story of feminist icon Gloria Steinems itinerant childhood and its influence on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for womens rights worldwide

A chronicle of the wild and brief life of the 1970s most controversial surf star and international playboy from Los Angeles, Bunker Spreckels

In need of a grubstake, a young man convinces a couple of friends to help him kidnap Frank Sinatra Jr Its a true story

This is a story about an 84 year old woman trying to take down the third largest industry in the world Jean Hill, a self proclaimed warrior, leads historic Concord, Massachusetts on Americas first environmental crusade to ban the s

Mr Angel chronicles the extraordinary life of transgender activist and porn pioneer, Buck Angel He survived addiction, prostitution, and suicide and now tells a moving story of a mans search for acceptance from his family amp the wo

Wild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun runners

An Argentine journalist strives to prove that his countryman, Guillermo Villas, was wrongly denied the No 1 world ranking in the 1970s

How real life British American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the rise of Nazism

In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitlers close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their t

Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections

The life story of legendary basketball coach Don Meyer

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane 1941

Technology has quickly turned kids making videos in their bedrooms into huge stars O2L took this path on YouTube, amassing an 8 million plus fan base, and we explore this incredible phenomenon on their first tour Its a look at the

Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution

When an out of work actor accidentally discovers through Facebook that hes been wildly famous in a faraway land for almost two decades, he sets out to discover the reasons why

The legendary life story of Cantonese opera playwright Mad Phoenix Kiang Yu kou

Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found home at a Santa Monica laundromat Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimis passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywoods red carp