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752 Is Not a Number 2022 Chronicles Canadian Iranian dentist Hamed Esmaelions quest for justice in the aftermath of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, shot down in 2020 by the Iranian military

Left on Purpose (2015) Midway through the filming of a documentary about his life as an anti war activist, Mayer Vishner declares that his time has passed and that his last political act will be to commit suicide - and he wants it all on camera. Now the director must decide whether to turn off his c

Chasing Great 2016 All Black captain Richie McCaw has lived his dream with characteristic precision and calculated determination Hes 34 and perhaps the best rugby player ever But the dream is almost over He is old by professional sport standards and everyone is asking when hes going to retire Before

Niewidzialna wojna 2022 The truth about Patryk Vega, the most controversial Polish movie director

Love Records: Gimme Some Love (2016) The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960's and 1970's Finland.

S Is for Stanley (2015) S Is For Stanley is the story of Emilio D'Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick's personal driver. A Friendship that lasted through 30 years of their lives, helped create four cinema masterpieces, and brought together two apparently opposite people, that found their ideal journey compa

Celtics Smiler: The Neilly Mochan Story (2015) The magical story of Celtic Football Club reads like an elaborate fairytale, which has enraptured their worldwide fanbase for over 127 years. Throughout the club's illustrious history, no other figure has experienced as many triumphs as Neilly 'Smiler'

Jesus of Nazareth 1977 Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels

Slaughter Nick for President (2012) When an out-of-work actor accidentally discovers through Facebook that he's been wildly famous in a faraway land for almost two decades, he sets out to discover the reasons why. SLAUGHTER NICK FOR PRESIDENT is a behind-the-scenes look at the entertainment biz and

Philip Roth Unmasked 2013 Explore the life of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novelist Philip Roth, often referred to as the greatest living American writer

Vaterlandsverrater 2011 Once with the Stasi, always with the Stasi Once you were in the agent controllers grasp you could never escape thats what they say, anyway Writer Paul Gratzik was an unofficial informer for the GDR State Security Service for twenty years, broke with them in the 80s and expose

Pacific Adventure 1946 An Australian biopic about the life of pioneering aviator Charles Smithy Kingsford Smith

Hollywood Banker (2014) How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood, but could not prevent it all from crashing down, when ambition of others turned into greed.

Wallowitch Ross This Moment 1999 Shortlisted for the 1999 Academy Award, this non fiction musical follows John Wallowitch, a star of New York cabaret and partner Bertram Ross, Martha Grahams lead dancer for 20 years Together they formed the unforgettable cabaret duo Wallowitch and Ross A hidden gem

Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958) His wife dead from poisoning and his chief warrior, Kurbsky, defected to the Poles, Ivan is lonely as he pursues a unified Russia with no foreign occupiers. Needing friendship, he brings to court Kolychev, now Philip the monk, and makes him metropolitan bishop of Mo

Based on autobiographical novel The Homeless Junior High School Student by Hiroshi Tamura He was homeless during his high school days after the breakup of his parents

A Man of Action 2022 Which we follow in Lucios footsteps as part of the European anarchist movement, from his humble beginnings as a bricklayer turned bank robber, to taking the lead in one of the most important economic shenanigans of the last century But Lucio will have to choose between the anarc

Johnny Cash The Redemption of an American Icon 2022 At the end of his rope, Johnny Cash stumbled into a cave and laid down in the dark But death didnt come calling God did JOHNNY CASH THE REDEMPTION OF AN AMERICAN ICON is the untold story of how The Man in Black saw the light

Concerto A Beethoven Journey 2015 Filmed over four years, Concerto A Beethoven Journey follows world class pianist Leif Ove Andsnes as he attempts to understand and interpret one of the greatest sets of works for piano ever written Beethovens five piano concertos Considered one of the top pianists o

Burroughs: The Movie (1983) Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs' unique literary style and his wildly unconventional life, includ

The 13th Day 2009 Faiths answer to the DaVinci Code, a true story of a miracle in Fatima In a world torn apart by persecution, war and oppression, three children were chosen to carry a message of hope to the world

Nathan East: For the Record (2014) Nathan East For The Record is a documentary film that takes viewers behind-the-scenes as one of the most influential bass players in modern music recorded his debut solo album last year. His long-awaited solo album (released in March) spent four weeks at #1 on Bill

Riveted The History of Jeans 2022 The history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip hop

Livin for Love: The Natalie Cole Story (2000) The true life story of famed singer Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat 'King' Cole. Gripping drama of her struggle with addiction and living in her father's shadow while still maintaining her own celebrity status.

Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women 2008 Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A M Barnard, an identity that remains until the 1940s

Everybodys Child (2014) Garry Fraser was born into a family of poverty, violence and alcohol addiction on Edinburgh's notorious Muirhouse estate, the same place that inspired the world-acclaimed film, Trainspotting. In this documentary, filmmaker Garry Fraser takes us to the heart of the poor, margi

Standing Up (2017) Three unlikely aspiring stand-up comedians - an ultra-Orthodox Jew, a couchsurfing custodian, and a personal injury lawyer - risk everything to find their voices on the cutthroat New York comedy scene.

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013) In 1985, filmmaker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and experimental films to a budding community of cinephiles and filmmakers. The Austin Film Society raised enough money t

The African Doctor 2016 Seyolo Zantoko is a young doctor graduate who is taking the first steps in his career to a rural village in France with his family In the village, he will be the first black doctor and this will make the adjustment of the whole family very difficult and Seyolo Zantoko will ha

Pnk All I Know So Far 2021 A behind the scenes look at PNK as she balances family and life on the road, leading up to her first Wembley Stadium performance on 2019s Beautiful Trauma world tour

Levitated Mass (2013) LEVITATED MASS is the story of a rock star; the artist behind the sensation; a $10 million, 22-city tour; and the international media storm that ensued--but not in the way you might expect. Prominently displayed outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, renowned and reclusi

If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent (2013) From Atlantic Ave. to Zerega Ave., word on the street is the New York accent is disappearing -- a casualty of a city that's evolved into a vast expanse of banks, H&Ms and glass-blown high-rises. But even though you may not hear "toity-to

The Audrey Hepburn Story 2000 Biographic made for TV movie of the life of one of Hollywoods most famous actreses Audrey Hepburn, spaning from her early childhood to the 1960s which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina, coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard year

Ernesto (2017) The first film in forty years to be co-produced by Cuba and Japan, it recounts the story of Freddy Maymura Hurtado who was a Bolivian man of Japanese descent. He joined the freedom fighters...

Paul Robeson Tribute to an Artist 1979 An examination of the life of actor and singer Paul Robeson, from his first major triumphs on the stage in the 1920s through his gradually increasing social activism in the 1930s and 1940s, leading to his controversial performances in Eastern Europe in the 1940

Le grand Méliès (1952) A biography of the pioneer film director Georges Méliès, featuring his son André playing Georges, and with shots of his second wife, aged 90.

Toast 2010 Wolverhampton,1967 nine year old Nigel Slater loves his mother though she is a hopeless cook, her finest offering being toast whilst he has great culinary aspirations When she dies of asthma Nigel is left with a distant father but worse is to come when the common Mrs Joan Potter arrives a

Coming Out Under Fire 1994 A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans

The Florence Foster Jenkins Story 2016 Florence Foster Jenkins is known as the worst singer of all times and yet she is a cult figure whose recordings still outsell many contemporary singers Opera superstar Joyce DiDonato interprets the flamboyant queen of dissonance The involvement of the celebrate

Alexs War 2022 Who is Alex Jones Looking past caricature to a human character study, Alexs War uses unprecedented access to examine the rollercoaster career of Americas most infamous, charismatic and divisive public figure

Drachenmädchen (2012) The documentary "Drachenmädchen" (Dragon Girls) tells the story of three Chinese girls, training to become Kung Fu fighters, far away from their families at the Shaolin Tagou Kung Fu School, located right next to the Shaolin Monastery in China, place of origin of Ku

Claude Shannon Project (2016) A film about Claude Shannon, the "Father of Information Theory"

Leadbelly 1976 The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and befor

Messenger on a White Horse (2017) In the late 1970s, English journalist Robert Cox risked his life to publish news stories about the shocking human rights crimes of Argentina's military dictators. Decades later, the true ...

The Tin Mine 2005 Set in 1950 and based on the series of autobiographical short stories by Archin Panjabhan, the beginning finds Archin Pijaya Vachajitpan expelled from Bangkoks Chulalongkorn University in his sophomore year He is packed off to southern Thailand, where he has supposedly has a job wa

Anne Clark, an icon of music history and a terrific pioneer of spoken word art, has been on stage for more than 30 years It transforms language into unique music Since the early 1980s, New Wave classics such as OUR DARKNESS and SLEEPER IN METROPOLIS have provided a thrill of excitement that has insp

Afternoon of a Faun Tanaquil Le Clercq 2013 Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike her elongated, race horse physique became the new prototype for the great George Balanch

I Touched All Your Stuff (2014) Christopher Kirk, a bored American geek, moves to Colombia to chase Escobar's hippos. Once there, he falls in love with a beautiful and mysterious woman.