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Call Me Kuchu (2012) In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the fi

My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn 2014 Liv Corfixen documents her husband, filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, during the production and release of his movie Only God Forgives 2013

Waiting for the Carnival 2019 A small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nations capital of jeans Its also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions

Rondo and Bob 2020 Robert A Burns, art director on the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, was obsessed with actor Rondo Hatton aka the Creeper Burns was average looking but brimming with odd creativity Hatton, who suffered from acromegaly, had a strangely unique appearance, but was a regular guy In

We Need to Talk About A I 2020 Acclaimed filmmaker Leanne Pooley directs this insightful documentary examining the future of artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on our world As computers continue to evolve at an ever greater speed, soon they will have the capacity to design and progr

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.

I Am Evidence (2017) An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.

Our Defeats 2019 By going back into the cinema of the 1968 era and going forward with present day interviews of young people who replay excerpts of films jumping out from the past, Our Defeats draw the portrait of our current relations with politics Our Defeats, or do we keep enough forces to confro

We Like It Like That 2015 Latin boogaloo is New York City It is a product of the melting pot, a colorful expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of El Barrio, the South Bronx and Brooklyn Starring Latin boogaloo legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon and Pete Rodriguez, We Like It

Dare to Be Different (2017) U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure: Over half a billion records sold but you may never have heard of them if not for a small ...

Never Stop A Music That Resists (2017) Featuring the pioneers of techno music Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Carl Craig, and Jeff Mills, Never Stop takes us into the fascinating universe of techno labels in Detroit. This film ...

Creating Woodstock (2019) For three days in August 1969, nearly a half-million young people descended upon Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for the rock 'n' roll event that defined a generation. Mythologized ...

Condemned to Remember (2017) Documentary about the life of Tomi Reichental, a Holocause survivor living in Ireland.

Bigorexia 2020 Bigorexia explores the physical and psychological depths of Muscle Dysmorphia through the eyes of five subjects in the bodybuilding industry Featuring Zac Aynsley, Janae Kroc, Craig Golias, Kirill Tereshin, and Amazonka among others Bigorexia uncovers the inner most details of how thi

La flor de la vida 2017 Aldo and Gabriella have been married for almost 50 years They have three children and several grandchildren, and they are getting ready to live their golden years in happiness But something is not quite right

The Peoples Fighters: Teofilo Stevenson and the Legend of Cuban Boxing (2018) Over the past 50 years, and despite its relatively small population of only 11 million, Cuba has produced more Olympic boxing medalists than any other country, winning 73 medals in the ...

Little Palestine Diary of a Siege 2021 After the Syrian Revolution, Al Assads regime besieges the district of Yarmouk, largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world Yarmouk is cut off The director records the daily deprivations while celebrating the peoples courage

The Secret Peacemaker 2008 Brendan Duddy is an ordinary man from Derry who, for more than 20 years, was at the centre of extraordinary events that eventually led to the historic IRA ceasefire of 1994 and the Belfast Agreement During that time his identity was kept a closely guarded secret by those w

Love Has Won 2023 Tells the story of Amy Carlson and the obscure religious group Love Has Won led by her

Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings (2012) This intimate documentary gives viewers a singular glimpse into Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele virtuoso, but also Jake, the young boy who grew up in a modest apartment to a single mother and unsuspectingly rose to international stardom.

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

A Space Program (2015) The artist Tom Sachs and his team of bricoleurs build a handmade space program and send two female astronauts to Mars.

Village of the Missing 2019 NA

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

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

The Mayberry Effect 2021 Throughout the United States, The Andy Griffith Show TAGS and characters like Andy and Opie Taylor, Aunt Bee, Floyd the Barber, Otis Campbell, Ernest T Bass, Thelma Lou, and of course Barney Fife, continue to set off a certain nostalgic feeling of when life was simpler Andy

Ralph Barbosa Cowabunga 2023 NA

Eastern Memories (2018) A journey through Mongolia, Japan, China and South Korea, narrated by the journals of Finnish linguist, diplomat and journeyman G.J. Ramstedt (1873-1950).

Wanda Sykes Im an Entertainer 2023 The comic shares details about her life, from the challenges of raising Gen Z teens to the dilemmas of being a liberal in a charged political climate

Return to the Holy Land 2018 Journey with Franklin Graham and his family, to the land of the Bible Many passages from Gods Word come alive in this devotional series, filmed on location in the Holy Land Enjoy this special tour of Gods Word traveling throug

Rita Rudner and 3 Potential ExHusbands (2012) Rita Rudner And 3 Potential Ex Husbands, sounds like a therapy session in the making and may prove once and for all that opposites do in-fact attract. In this untraditional one hour standup...

Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business (2020) Following five years in the life and career of an independent filmmaker, supported by dozens of interviews, posing one question: how does an indie filmmaker survive in the current film business?

A profile of the African American actress Beah Richards, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner

Its a Girl! (2012) In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called "gendercide." Girls who surv

Escapes (2017) Director Michael Almereyda showcases the storytelling talents of Hampton Fancher - flamenco dancer, film and TV actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner, as well as screenwriter on the upcoming sequel. Fancher's running commentary -

Blowin Up (2018) Working within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted. With intimate camerawork that lingers on details and brings the Queens criminal courtroom to life, BLOWIN' UP celebrates acts of stead

The Venom Interviews 2016 A crash course in the professional and scientific work related to the field of venomous herpetology The film covers diverse topics, including biochemistry, biology, law and public policy, conservation, venom collection, animal husbandry, antivenom production, emergency medi

Pandoras Promise 2013 A feature length documentary about the history and future of nuclear power The film explores how and why mankinds most feared and controversial technological discovery is now passionately embraced by many of those who once led the charge against it Operating as history, cultura

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

Time for Ilhan (2018) This documentary follows the 2016 Minnesota House of Representatives campaign of Ilhan Omar, a Somalian immigrant who attempts to unseat a 43-year incumbent and other challengers.

Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit (2019) "Beauty and decay" is a documentary about three rebels, who shine even brighter than the rest of the vibrating East Berlin boheme of the 80ies: Sven Marquardt, Dominique Hollenstein (Dome) ...

Believe The Eddie Izzard Story 2009 Believe chronicles comedian Eddie Izzards rise to fame from his early influences losing his mother to cancer at a young age before being sent with his brother to boarding school to his close present day relationship with his supportive father

Cat Wars Lion Vs Cheetah 2011 NA

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

Capturing the Killer Nurse 2022 This documentary reveals how investigators proved ICU nurse Charles Cullen was killing patients and how close he came to getting away with murder

Great White Serial Killer Fatal Christmas 2022 After a surfer dies off Morro Bay, California on Christmas Eve, shark attack investigators Ralph Collier and Brandon McMillan use forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts to identify the suspected killer an 18 foot great white s

Behind the Bullet (2019) An in-depth look at four individuals who have pulled the trigger and the profound impact it's had on their lives.

Please Subscribe (2012) YouTube is not just an amateur video site. The third most trafficked site on the Internet is among of a handful of mediums building the careers of independent artists who are making over six figures a year by just uploading videos to the internet. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE is a featur