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43 years ago, Jane Pittman, a promising basketball star ran off the court Coming Back to the Hoop is a film about the transformative power of basketball and the healing it brings when you connect with something larger than yourself

Aboriginal elders, Djalu Gurruwiwi, and his sister, Dhanggal, strive to shepherd their clan through countless internal and external pressures, while searching desperately for new custodians to safeguard their musical and cultural

The story of the struggle to create the television series, Star Trek The Next Generation 1987

The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies

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

On April 18th, 2017, Larry Bassett refused to pay federal income taxes on over 1 Million, becoming the top tax resister in US history In his defiance, he wrote letters to U S government agencies and representatives, announcing tha

A portrait of recently retired Congressman Barney Frank, one of Americas most well known and least understood political figures

The real story behind the myth of American icon Robert Evel Knievel and his legacy

The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame

When 35 year old stand up comedian Steve Mazan learned he was dying of cancer, he dedicated the rest of his life to making his dream come true performing comedy on The Late Show with David Letterman This documentary chronicles his

Left on Purpose is a documentary film about the friendship between an aging anti war activist who has decided that his last political act will be to take his own life and the filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story

Jimmie Blacksmith, the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father, falls victim to much racist abuse after marrying a white woman, and goes on a killing spree and finds himself on the run in the aftermath

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruths single season home run record

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully rounded portrait of their brash and free sp

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

An extraordinary look into the political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful leader whose questionable sense of reality divided the Philippines

For the first time on the big screen, the film tells the fascinating story of one on the worlds most famous wines and how it exploded as a world phenomenon

A portrait of the work and life of controversial film critic Pauline Kael, and her battle to achieve success and influence in the 20th century movie business

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom

Rosetta AudioVisual is the story of blue collar, Philadelphia based, post metal band Rosetta and their relationship with record label Translation Loss every album is a creative milestone, each tour a test of faith As the music in

While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin free of Jews in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight

A feature length biographical documentary of Nicola Adams OBE, the double Olympic and WBO female boxing champion, and the first woman to ever represent England in boxing

From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende

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 last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoys Maxim Gorky trilogy Having endured a painful youth in Gorky 1 The Childhood of Maxim Gorky 1938 and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Maxi

Danny Says is a documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture of the late 20th century working for the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed, Nico, Judy Collins and man

A joyride that delves deep into the mind of rock and rolls greatest living photographer Mick Rock

The story of the influential American death metal band Death from Orlando, Florida, founded in 1983 by the late guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner

An original movie about the friendship between country music stars Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn

Charles Slim Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing

The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pre, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pre Finzi

As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar

It is a film about the Swedish cult rap star, will have its world premiere at the festival Written and directed by Henrik Burman, the film tracks Leans rise to fame while blurring the line between reality and his own vivid imagina

The sculptor Elizabeth King mines the spaces in between classical sculpture and automata life and the life like Double Take The Art of Elizabeth King explores the motives and creations of this quiet iconoclast at a pivotal moment

Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa But as his star rises, his mentors declines

Examines Gabbys life through the curated lens she created and immerses the viewer in the world of social media sleuthing that was crucial to the case