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Five Friends

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Erik Santiago

Duration: 70 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Alan Frow, Jim Hood, Michael Kimmel

We live in the age of the bromance. Never has pop culture been so fascinated with male friendships. What do they look like? Why are they important? And how do we talk about them without seeming...unmanly? Films like I Love You Man or the recent GQ article entitled Are You Man Enough for the Man-Date? are just a couple of examples of how society is wrestling with what male relationships...

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General Idi Amin Dada

Genres: Documentary, Biography, War

Country: France, Switzerland

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1974

Actors: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir

Ugandas dictator General Idi Amin Dada accepts a foreign crews request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations his goal of eradicating Israel his views on economic policy and his views of Nixon Kissinger and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting two weeks after this meeting the foreign...

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Garbo: The Spy

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Spain

Director: Edmon Roch

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith

A compelling account of Juan Pujol an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of...

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Mummies: Secrets Of The Pharaohs

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama, Family

Country: United States

Director: Keith Melton

Duration:

Year: 2007

Actors: Elana Drago, William Hope, Nasser Memarzia

The grail is not the gold nor the books of ancient wisdom but the 3000 year old DNA of the mummies which may lead to a cure for...

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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach

This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the worlds premiere museums is for any living artist the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina it is far more - it is the chance to finally...

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Man On Wire - Der Drahtseilakt

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: James Marsh

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau

On August 7 1974 Philippe Petit a French wire walker juggler and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday spent 45 minutes walking dancing kneeling and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews archival footage and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney...

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Koch

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Neil Barsky

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg, Calvin O. Butts III

Three-time New York City Mayor 1978-1989 Ed Koch was combative funny and blunt. He was also intensely private. Koch gives us a contemporary history of the worlds greatest city and an intimate portrait of the 86-year old former mayor as he confronts his own mortality and legacy. The film examines issues still relevant today - race homelessness AIDS and gay rights - and gives us a...

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Eames: The Architect & The Painter

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey

Duration: 85 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Charles Eames, Ray Eames, James Franco

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were Americas most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals they have risen to iconic status in American culture. Eames: The Architect & The Painter draws from a treasure trove of archival material as well as new interviews with friends colleague and experts to capture the...

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Dreams With Sharp Teeth

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Erik Nelson

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Harlan Ellison, Robin Williams, Neil Gaiman

A documentary on speculative fiction writer and essayist Harlan...

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Dirty Pictures

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Étienne Sauret (as Etienne Sauret)

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2010

Actors:

Alexander Sasha Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA more commonly known as Esctasy. Considered to be one of the the greatest chemists of the twentieth century Sashas vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research. Dirty Pictures delves into the lifework of Dr. Shulgin and scientists alike explores...

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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

Duration: 86 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, David Bailey

For decades Diana Vreeland was one of the leading authorities in fashion through eccentric self-taught skill and a bold stylistic audacity. This film guides you through this fashion pioneers long career from her youth in Paris until she became a leading magazine fashion columnist and editor. In this medium Vreeland challenged its preconceptions to present a new definition of beauty and...

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Crumb

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Duration: 119 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb

This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin Fritz the Cat and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother two brothers wife and ex-girlfriends as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one mans...

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Crime After Crime

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Crime, News

Country: United States

Director: Yoav Potash

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Deborah Peagler, Joshua Safran, Nadia Costa

The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman despite the injustices she has experienced first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for...

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Chasing Ice

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Jeff Orlowski

Duration: 75 min

Year: 2012

Actors: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos

National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the worlds changing glaciers. Balogs hauntingly beautiful...

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Capturing The Friedmans

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Andrew Jarecki

Duration: 107 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman

In the late 1980s the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman mother and housewife Elaine Friedman and their three grown sons David Friedman Seth Friedman and Jesse Friedman - of Great Neck Long Island are seemingly your typical middle class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious - Arnold and Elaine...

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Bill Cunningham New York

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States, France

Director: Richard Press

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Michael Kors

Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thingthe pictures he takes that document the way people dress. The 80-year-old New York Times photographer has two columns in the papers Style section yet nobody knows who he...

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American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein (2009)

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery, ...

Country: United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon

Director: David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Musa Abu-Hashhash, Nidal Barham, Noam Chomsky

A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...

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Spinning Plates

Genres: Documentary

Country: United States

Director: Joseph Levy

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Grant Achatz, Cindy Breitbach, Mike Breitbach

Spinning Plates is a documentary about three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are. A cutting-edge restaurant named the seventh-best in the world whose chef must battle a life-threatening obstacle to pursue his passion. A 150-year-old family restaurant still standing only because of the unbreakable bond with its community. A fledgling Mexican restaurant...

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Salinger

Genres: Documentary

Country: United States

Director: Shane Salerno

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, Judd Apatow

An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger the reclusive author of The Catcher in the...

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Cutie And The Boxer

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Country: United States

Director: Zachary Heinzerling

Duration: 82 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara, Alex Shinohara

For years Ushio Shinohara has been one of the leading and most underappreciated alternative artists in Japan and New York City with an wildly esoteric style. For many of those years his wife Noriko has been a faithful companion to this idiosyncratic man but grew want to be more. This film covers the relationship of these special couple as Ushio struggles for commercial success on his own...

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Young Margaret: Life, Love & Letters

Genres: Documentary

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Richard Alwyn

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Mark Strong, Margaret Thatcher, Sophie Roberts

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Wild Arabia

Genres: Documentary

Country: United Kingdom

Director:

Duration: 180 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Alexander Siddig, Hadi Al Hikmani, Abdullah Al Shuhi

British biologist and military veteran Steve Backshall visits the Arabian peninsula to film its surprisingly rich and varied wildlife. Contrary to its desert reputation Arabia comprises various distinct regions each with its own...

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Wild Appalachia

Genres: Documentary

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Simon Nash

Duration:

Year: 2013

Actors: Robert Jiminez

An exploration of the Great Smoky Mountains in the southeastern US. Features a look at the flora and fauna of the region and includes profiles of the rangers who patrol its vast...

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Whitey Bulger: The Making Of A Monster

Genres: Documentary

Country: United States

Director: Ben Avishai, Dan Mooney

Duration:

Year: 2014

Actors: Kenn Medeiros, Mary Wright, Robert Glenn

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Twa Flight 800

Genres: Documentary

Country: United States

Director: Kristina Borjesson

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2013

Actors:

A thought-provoking documentary about the ill-fated Trans World Airline Flight 800 to Paris France which exploded on July 17 1996 just 12 minutes after takeoff from JFK International Airport killing all 230 people on board. The special features six former members of the official crash investigation breaking their silence to refute the officially proposed cause of the jetliners demise and...

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