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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

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

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

Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical portrait of artist Derek Jarmans childhood awakening in 1950s England Acquired for preservation by the British Film Institutes National Archive, Matthew Mishorys film includes an original scor

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

Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life

A group of seven year old British children from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects The original intention was that they would be interviewed again in the

Using footage from three separate interviews, Werner Herzog converses with Mikhail Gorbachev, former General Secretary of the U S S R, about three of his key achievements negotiations with the U S to reduce nuclear weapons cessation of Soviet control

Bottled Up The Battle Over Dublin Dr Pepper is a new documentary 120 years in the making Our story details the small town of Dublin, Texas, which was the first place to ever bottle the soft drink Dr Pepper back in 1891 Garnering

A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s

This fanciful film playfully documents Wymans celebrated life From his impoverished childhood of England through the early years of the Stones, to his relationship with longtime

Diversity in video games is extraordinarily important especially to the people who play them Explore the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games

In 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia And he did just that Or so it seems