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A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note

The true story of lifelong criminal and serial killer, Carl Panzram who wrote his autobiography for a jail guard in 1928

Miles Davis Horn player, bandleader, innovator This documentary feature explores archival photos and home movies shot by Miles and his colleagues, his manuscripts and Miles original paintings, to explore the man behind the music

Drawing Dead is a documentary film about the highs and lows of online poker from two very different perspectives a professional poker player worth millions, and a gambling addict

Bounty hunter Ralph Papa Thorson is receiving death threats from a criminal he helped put away This while his girlfriend is about to give birth, an event he isnt looking forward to

The true story of Don Smiths heroic experience at the Battle of the Bulge while with the 94th Infantry

As the front man of the Clash from 1977, Joe Strummer changed peoples lives forever Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before

Two decades before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty 1981, Dame Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story The setting is Persia in the fourth century B C , as Es

Discover the meteoric rise of Elon Musk, the man who is transforming the way we think about travel technology through electric cars, the Hyperloop, and revolutionary ideas on how we live through artificial intelligence and colonizing

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin

Story of the rise and fall of 1920s Ku Klux Klan leader D C Stephenson

Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks

Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the citys notorious red light district

Biopic of Adolf Hitler focusing on his relationships with various women from 1923 to 1945

Based on the life of Norways greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived The soundtrack is all Edvard Griegs music with added lyrics

Based on a true story, this film by JCFilms follows the path of the Jonah Family in remembrance of the loss of their son, Jack, to a heroin overdose The film brings awareness to the drugopioid crisis in Massachusetts and the world

More fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal Leeds, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out

The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius, Claude Shannon the Father of Information Theory, who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity

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

The true story of Joao Guilherme Estrella Johnny, a young middle class bon vivant who became a big time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s

Playwright Oscar Wildes homosexuality is exposed when he brings a libel action against his lovers father, leading to his own prosecution

A look at the life and work of writerfilmmaker Nora Ephron

The story of 1970s musician and activist Helen Reddy

A film about real life musician Augustin Barrios Mangore, an influential and important composer and classical guitarist from Paraguay

The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials

Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three antological vignettes presented as the chapters of an open diary

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

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other This unique feature documentary is his witness statement

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

Since the 1950s, the legendary skiing filmmaker drove the worldwide ski industry His last interview was months before he passed at age 93 He details his personal and professional challenges of the perfect ski run throughout his car

Documentary about notorious punk rock performer GG Allin

Hal Ashbys obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar winning classics, including Harold and Maude 1971, Shampoo and Being There But as contemporaries Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuste

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

A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia

At the beginning of the twentieth century in Spain, a brothel owner and his partner lure rich men to their property, kill them and steal their money

RB singer Natalie Cole narrates this docudrama about her life, adapted from her autobiography