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Jimmy Murakami: Non Alien (2010)

IMDb: 7.3
2010

A documentary film about acclaimed filmmaker Jimmy T Murakami and his emotional return to Tule Lake concentration camp in America

Decline of an Empire (2014)

IMDb: 3.5
2014

Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend Once alerted to his friends whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West

Starfish (2016)

IMDb: 6.6
2016

Starfish tells the story of a couple whose love is tested to its limit after their perfect life falls apart in a single moment

Shut Up and Play the Piano (2018)

IMDb: 7.3
2018

Chilly Gonzales is a Grammy winning composer, virtuoso pianist and entertainer Criss crossing between rap, electro and solo piano music, he became the outrageous pop performer who invited himself to the ivory tower of classical musi

Love Records: Gimme Some Love (2016)

IMDb: 5.7
2016

The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland

Motown Mafia: The Story of Eddie Jackson

IMDb: 6.7
2011

Eddie The Fat Man Jackson and Courtney The Field Marshal Brown were labeled Kingpins in an era where their names reigned supreme in Detroit Accumulating more than a million dollars a month in heroin sales, these childhood frie

Vessel (2014)

IMDb: 7.6
2014

A fearless sea captain sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms

Rob the Mob (2014)

IMDb: 6.3
2014

A Queens couple who specialize in robbing mafia social clubs stumble upon a score bigger than they could ever imagine, becoming targets of both the mob and the FBI in the process

Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story

IMDb: 6.5
2014

The history of Larry Flynt and the iconoclastic adult magazine he created

Tashi and the Monk (2014)

IMDb: 8.0
2014

The hit HBO doc A Buddhist monk who spent years as a spiritual teacher in America returns to the Himalayan foothills of his infancy There, he has set up Jhamtse Gatsal, a home for abandoned children Tashi, a little girl with a traumatic past, is its

King Georges (2015)

IMDb: 6.8
2015

Documentary about Philadelphia restaurateur Georges Perrier and the closing of his iconic restaurant, Le Bec Fin

Jeremiah (1998)

IMDb: 7.1
1998

Jeremiah tells the story of the prophet who abandons his family and the woman he loves in order to relay Gods message in Jerusalem, starring Patrick Dempsey and Oliver Reed

My Fathers Vietnam (2015)

IMDb: 6.7
2015

A personal documentary about a public subject, My Fathers Vietnam personifies the connections made and unmade by the Vietnam War Featuring never before seen photographs and 8mm footage of the era, My Fathers Vietnam is the story o

Levitated Mass (2013)

IMDb: 6.8
2013

The Story of Michael Heizers Monolithic Sculpture

Back to Berlin (2018)

IMDb: 7.3
2018

Back to Berlin is the first biker flick meets holocaust feature documentary Eleven motor bikers have a mission to take the Maccabiah torch from Israel to the site of the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics, for the first Jewish Olympic Ga

Maiden (2018)

IMDb: 7.7
2018

The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24 year old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989

Halston (2019)

IMDb: 7.0
2019

Prodigiously talented, Halston reigned over fashion in the 1970s and became a household name But everything changed in the Wall Street era With his empire under threat, Halston took the biggest gamble of his life

Bending the Light (2014)

IMDb: 6.8
2014

A Michael Apted documentary that honors the artisans and craft of still and motion photography and in particular the glass that captures it all

CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap (2015)

IMDb: 6.2
2015

Women and girls in computing science discuss the lack of diversity and gender equality in the industry and strategies to change this

Moulin Rouge (1952)

IMDb: 7.1
1952

Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2016)

IMDb: 7.2
2016

In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands 66 day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands emotive, non violent protest to be classified as

Julius Caesar Revealed (2018)

IMDb: 6.1
2018

Classicist Mary Beard asks what do we really know about Julius Caesar She looks at how he became the autocratic ruler of Rome, the tactics of his military campaigns, his use of PR and at the reasons behind his assassination

Frank Serpico (2017)

IMDb: 6.8
2017

In his own words, Frank Serpico tells the story of his one man crusade for police reform in the NYPD during the early 1970s

Grey Gardens (2009)

IMDb: 7.4
2009

The lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith, aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Indias Daughter (2015)

IMDb: 8.2
2015

The life and death of Jyoti Singh, an Indian medical student whose violation and murder by gang rapists exposed the violent misogyny of Indian society

To Be Takei (2014)

IMDb: 6.9
2014

A look at the many roles played by eclectic actoractivist George Takei, whose wit, humor and grace have helped him to become an internationally beloved figure and Internet phenomenon with 7 million Facebook fans and counting

Fathers Kingdom (2017)

IMDb: 6.8
2017

This is the story of Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement

Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen (2015)

IMDb: 7.2
2015

Comedy legend Mel Brooks discusses his childhood, military experience, and stand up, TV and film career, and sings the theme songs from his iconic comedies

Anne Franks Holocaust (2015)

IMDb: 7.0
2015

Anne Franks world famous diary came to an abrupt end shortly before she and her family were discovered hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex at the top of Otto Franks office building,

Queen Elizabeth II The Diamond Celebrat

IMDb: 6.6
2012

This feature length HD documentary of Queen Elizabeth IIs reign is packed with rare archive footage and expert commentary from Robert Lacy, Nicholas Owen, Tim Heald, Ingrid Seward, Gyles Brandreth

84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

IMDb: 7.5
1987

True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship

Los Traficantes (2012)

IMDb: 7.3
2012

While serving a 33 year sentence inside La Mesa Federal Prison, the most corrupt in all of Mexico, former drug cartel chief Esteban Mendoza finds redemption while helping others overcome drug addiction

In the Turn (2014)

IMDb: 7.5
2014

A documentary about a 10 year old transgender girl who finds acceptance and empowerment in the company of a queer roller derby collective

Green Guild (2011)

IMDb: N/A
2011

A Documentary of the everyday life of a medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles, CA

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (20

IMDb: 6.3
2002

This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its President Roberto Calvi Omero Antonutti, notoriously found dead under the Bla

Dillinger (1973)

IMDb: 7.0
1973

John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G Man is determined to bring him down