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1. Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
The fight to expose what really happened during the Three Mile Island meltdown. |
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2. Cat City
What's the right way to care for feral cats? Here's the story of some outdoor cats and the communities who look after them. |
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3. The Professor
This documentary explores Tai Chi as both a martial art and spiritual practice and tells the story of one of its greatest masters, Cheng Man-Ching.
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4. For the Bible Tells Me So
This provocative Sundance doc brilliantly explores and reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture.
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5. Welcome to Leith
Welcome to Leith chronicles the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. |
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6. Scrap
Discover the strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. |
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7. Quest
Epic in scope yet filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, this acclaimed doc is a vivid illumination of race and class in America. |
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8. Without Arrows
Filmed over 13 years, Without Arrows chronicles three generations of a Lakota family. From the director of Quest. |
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9. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
A "deep, rich and moving" portrait of one of America’s greatest poets, author of Howl and other groundbreaking poems. |
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10. 56 UP
In 1964 a group of seven year-olds were interviewed for Seven Up. Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since. Now they are 56. |
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11. The Book Keepers
A husband keeps his late wife's dream alive by embarking on a book tour for her memoir about cancer, friendship, and cultivating an open heart. |
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12. Trinity
The Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test: the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. In an instant, the world forever changed. |
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13. A Towering Task
In 1961 JFK gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps. |
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14. Roots of Fire
Award-winning musical artists deliver electrifying performances while honoring the rich history and cultural legacy of Cajun music. |
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15. Through a Lens Darkly
Explores the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. |
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 The Cinema Within
Why does the uniquely cinematic language of film editing work? Using a wide array of fascinating clips, famed editor Walter Murch and others confront the mystery behind the naturalness of film editing.
 Much Ado About Dying
When filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle – "I think I may be dying!" – he takes it as a summons.
 Final Vows
A deep journey into the life of a cloistered order of nuns at a Cistercian monastery in the high desert of Arizona. Made from small moments of daily life, the film serves as a meditation on aging and caring for others.
 Modernism
A look at Eliot Noyes, one of the leading pioneers of modern design during the mid-century, post-war boom in America.
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 The Quiet Epidemic
After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl and a scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. The film follows their search for answers.
 Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
The movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many find harmful, demeaning, and offensive.
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 Paul Taylor: Creative Domain
Among the most acclaimed choreographers in American history, Paul Taylor reinvented the roles of music and movement in dance. Here is an in-depth look into his creative process.
 Dusty & Stones
Intimately chronicles the remarkable ride of cousins “Dusty” Simelane and “Stones” Msibi, a determined duo of struggling country singers from the tiny African Kingdom of Swaziland who long for their big break.
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Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
The fight to expose what really happened during the Three Mile Island meltdown.
 Touristic Intents
The film investigates a never-completed Nazi resort on Germany's Baltic Sea, a mammoth project started in 1936 by the Nazis to house 20,000 vacationing workers.
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 True New York
In a city with 8 million people, there's bound to be a few good stories. True New York is a feature-length compilation anthology film featuring five award-winning short documentaries.
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 Octav
Coming to VOD & DVD 10/22
When a man returns to his childhood villa following decades of absence, a little girl takes him on a wondrous journey back to the innocence of his early years in pre-war Romania. |
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