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Micky Flanagan: Peeping Behind the Curtain (2020) A backstage pass to Micky Flanagan's career, from early raw material in the East End to staging the world's biggest comedy tour in 2017.

Ghostheads (2016) Ghostheads is a documentary that explores the extreme side of the Ghostbusters fandom, and looks back at the impact the franchise has had on the world over the past three decades. Through interviews with key cast and crew, including Dan Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman, Ernie Hudson and many

Neil Gaiman author of American Gods, Coraline, Stardust, and many more discusses how he became one of the worlds most popular fantasy writers

Undermined Tales from the Kimberley (2018) Australia's vast and unspoiled Kimberley region is under threat, with mining, pastoralism and irrigated agriculture driving an unprecedented land grab. What will be left of over 200 remote ...

Titanics Tragic Twin: The Britannic Disaster (2016) The Titanic's twin sister, the Britannic, was bigger and better built, but she sank to the bottom three times faster. Why she sunk has remained a mystery until now.

My Year of Living Mindfully 2020 Overwhelmed with insomnia and an incurable autoimmune disease, Shannon Harvey needed to make a change But while the award winning health journalist found plenty of recommendations on diet, sleep and exercise, when she looked for the equivalent of a 30 minute workout

Featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subversive and electrifying beginnings, to rebirth as an unlikely Hollywood heavyweight, and beyond. A humour empire like no other, the impact of the magazines irreverent, often shocking, s

Faces of Death IV (1990) Follows the same pattern of the other Faces of Death movies. In this one we see many staged and not so staged looking deaths ranging from bungee jumping accidents and magic tricks gone bad.

A Good American (2015) A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as de

Anita (2013) ANITA tells the story about a young, brilliant African American Anita Hill who accuses the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwanted sexual advances during explosive Senate Hearings in 1991 and ignites a political firestorm about sexual harassment, race, power and politics that

The 90s Greatest 2018 When the 90s kicked off, the Berlin Wall has just fallen down, and soon other walls were coming downtown between public and private, news and entertainment, reality and fantasy The winds of change brought new voices speaking hard truth and thrust sex and celebrity into the lime

The Unknown Known (2013) Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Tea with the Dames (2018) Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.

Frank Gehry: The Formative Years (1988) The American architect most responsible for the new image of the architect as artist is documented in this film at a point in his career when he advances from experimental, private houses to complex institutions and large-scale collaborative urban projects. Th

The Wanted 18 (2014) A small Palestinian village bought 18 cows and stopped buying Israeli milk.

Visualist Those Who See Beyond 2019 From live Chemical Brothers concerts to video installations by Richie Hawtin, through eccentric projections by Gmunk, to experimental audio visual live performances by Moderat or Daito Manabe From the underground and alternative new media art scene to mainstream g

"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records

Risk (2016) Filmed over six years, RISK is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organization he lead

Papa Machete (2014) Papa Machete is an intimate account of 'Professor' Alfred Avril, one of the world's only known masters of the esoteric martial art of Haitian machete fencing, known in Creole as 'Tire ...

LA 92 (2017) Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014) Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of cons

100%: Julian Edelman (2019) Narrated by Michael Rapaport and featuring original conversations with Mark Wahlberg, Tom Brady, Snoop Dogg, Michael Strahan and Deion Sanders, the film is a look inside Julian Edelman's journey from major injury to Super Bowl MVP in 2019.

Beginning in 1997 with a few thousand revelers in Los Angeles, the Electric Daisy Carnival has become the largest dance music event in North America. Known for its over the top displays of ...

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2009) An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre.

The Dawn Wall (2017) In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

Britney Spears: Workin It (2014) With the release of her eighth studio album, Britney is back and she's workin' it! This documentary chronicles the career of international superstar from her more innocent years with the release of "Baby One more Time" to being the highest paid judge on US

The Last Gladiators (2011) In ice hockey, no one is tougher than the "goon". Those players have one mission: to protect the star players at any price.

Bunch of Kunst (2017) British punk duo Sleaford Mods have been called "the voice of Britain" by their fans, "Britain's angriest band" by the Guardian and "The world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" by Iggy Pop. "Bunch of Kunst" follows them on their two-year journey from Nottingham bedroom recording s

Accidental Anarchist (2017) Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He felt at first hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq war Carne beca

Wrestle 2018 Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in WRESTLE, an intimate coming of age documentary about four members of a high school wrestling team at Huntsvilles J O Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabamas list of failing schools Coached by teacher Chris Scribner, teammates Jailen, Jamario,

Girl Unbound (2016) In Waziristan, "one of the most dangerous places on earth", Maria Toorpakai defies the Taliban - disguising herself as a boy, so she can play sports freely. But when she becomes a rising ...

Three candidates running for sheriff during the 2018 midterm elections in two very different counties

In this visual essay style documentary, intimate audio of journalist Michael Azerrad's interviews with Kurt Cobain is played over more recently photographed footage of Cobain's Washington state homes and haunts.

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014) On the opening night of its annual 31 Days of Oscar festival, TCM presents the world premiere of "And the Oscar Goes To...", a documentary tracing the history of the Academy Awards. The documentary is one of a series of programming events leading up to the T

From Seed to Seed 2018 When Terry and Monique left the opera to pursue their true passion ecological farming their story of community and resilience took center stage We follow their young family and a

Payback (2012) An adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book examining the metaphor of indebtedness.

Words from the City 2007 Words from the City is a feature length documentary that explores contemporary Australian hip hop through intimate and candid observations of some of the nations most potent and compelling artists Featuring the Hilltop Hoods, Koolism, MC Trey, Downsyde, TZU, Layla, Wire MC,

Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019) Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a...

Secrets of the Mona Lisa 2015 Behind the enigmatic smile, the Mona Lisa remains a mystery, fuelling endless speculation

The Gilligan Manifesto (2018) At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan's Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show's creator and so

Patterns of Evidence The Red Sea Miracle 2020 One of the greatest miracles in the Bible is Moses and the Israelites trapped at the sea by Pharaohs army, when God miraculously parts the waters, but is there any evidence that it really happened, and if so, where

Lost Book of Nostradamus (2007) In 1994, journalist Enza Massa visited the Italian National Library in Rome. While she was researching old texts, Enza discovered a book titled "NOSTRADAMUS VATICANICA CODE", dating back to 1629. And the author of the book, as written inside, was "Michel de Notredame"

Packing for Mars (2015) Inspired by a 1970's science fiction novel entitled ALTERNATIVE 3, one man, armed with nothing but a camera and an open mind, sets forth on a journey to reveal the truth behind what may well be one of the most startling secrets: An elite group is said to be secretly building

Neanderthals Meet Your Ancestors 2018 Archaeologist Ella Al Shamahi and actor Andy Serkis bring the prehistoric hominids back to life through animation, uncovering some surprising similarities to modern humans

Loud Krazy Love (2017) At the downbeat of the new millennium there was no bigger, darker, or more deeply influential hard rock band in the world than KoRn. But for lead guitarist Brian Head Welch, a dream come ...

Dream Team 2020 The story of the legendary Dream Team, the trendsetting 1992 U S Olympic basketball team

The Hunt for Planet B 2021 Taking us behind the scenes with NASAs high stakes Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists, many of them women, on their quest to find another Earth among the stars What begins as a real time scientific adventure turns into a de

The Day Hitler Died (2016) Filmed interviews with the survivors of the Berlin Bunker in which Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels family killed themselves in the final days of World War II. The interviews were made in 1948 by Captain Michael Musmanno, a US Navy Lawyer and Nuremberg Judge, and t