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Follows the band on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars When Take On Me reached number 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985 the dream came true Or did it

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The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands

In 1997 Ronaldo Nazario was 21 years old, the best footballer on the planet and destined to become an all time great However just a year later everything was bleak First he was blamed for Brazils World Cup final defeat to Franc

Usama Alshaibi, an Iraqi American filmmaker, confronts the issues on identity and perception toward Arab Americans in todays society Alshaibi conveys to the audience that Arab Americans should not be put into one, big, identical

The story of Eero Ettala, a professional snowboarder from Finland The documentary tells about his career and includes his friends and colleagues comments

Drawn this Way wt is a one hour television documentary which dives into the pages of gay comic book characters and their creators In the studio, in the comic book shops, at the fan crazed conventions, and at home with the artis

Based on the real life of Dr Marcel Petiot During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France for Spain Instead, he drugged them and bur

Documentary on Marian Anderson an African American woman, an international singing star in the twentieth century, who succeeded over racial prejudice and became an inspiration for Americas civil rights movement

Lesbian photographer Alice Austen is profiled in this documentary

Documentary about the life of Harry Chapin

Three people had to live together for one night

Follows the journey of enigmatic Australian musician Jeremy Oxley, lead singer of Sunnyboys as he emerges from a 30 year battle with schizophrenia An inspiring story of hope, survival amp the healing power of unconditional love

Follows the life of Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee by telling her story through her own work and words

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A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s

A war photographer embeds in a community of tree planters who overcome grueling conditions and emotional difficulties to bring back the forest

The film reveals the path taken by a young man from a small town in Poland to become one of the best footballers of his time

Crumps mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking while Black victims, Crump challenges America to come to terms with what it owes his

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio Light and shadow, contrasts and contradictions, genius and intemperance distinguish his existence and his art A narrative and visual

The history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip hop

An honest story of an amazing women and athlete Following her through the highs and lows of climbing, love and life Nothings impossible

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

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for a better life How did they hold onto their identity How did they adapt to their n

Against his countrys orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II

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

Documentary portrait of pioneering filmmaker and mother Merata Mita, detailing how her filmmaking intersected with the lives of her children and indigenous filmmakers globally, and featuring rare archival footage dating back to 1977

Alma Mahlers affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud

The story of the most wanted man online

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415

GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road

The story of Bruce McLaren, the New Zealander who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team A man who showed the world that a man of humble beginnings could take on the elite of motor racing and win

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

The story of multi instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk who went from blind infant, to child prodigy, to adult visionary, to political activist, and finally to paralyzed showman A seemingly superhuman musical force who played litera

Professor Irwin Corey is now 101 years old and he is a well known comedian, entertainer and political satirist Fran is 95 and his wife of 71 years Dick Gregory shares Irwins contribution and family friend Susan Sarandon narrates