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The story of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, who became fast friends during their youth in Germany. With Rob coming from a broken home and Fabrice...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fab Morvan

Casa Bonita opened in 1974 in an unassuming strip mall. The massive "Disneyland of Mexican restaurants" is an Old West and Acapulco-inspired fever...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Trey Parker

Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil Patrick Harris

The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes...

Genre: Documentary

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Russian activist Anastasia Shevchenko was kept under house arrest for two years for speaking out against the government. During that time, her young...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anastasia Shevchenko

Mother-of-two Judy Malinowski, then 31, was doused in petrol and set on fire by her crazed ex-boyfriend – and one of the first ever to testify...

Genre: Documentary

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Mixtapes have an out-sized role in the emergence of hip hop around the world. Before radio play, the internet, and social media, there were mixtapes....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: KRS-One

With a narrative running deeper than a catchy tune and cryptic verses, “American Pie” is a musical phenomenon woven deep into the history...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don McLean

In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labeled as banned, restricted, or challenged, and made...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Grace Linn

Exploring the rapidly growing marijuana industry through an irreverent approach to the misconceptions and promises of the marijuana explosion.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William-Christopher Stephens

Immerses us in the devastating reality of Afghanistan after the Taliban occupation: music has been banned. Forced into hiding, a group of young...

Genre: Documentary

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Using two decades of intimate home video, the story of the Sanford family, whose struggles with addiction and gun violence eventually lead to a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cheryl Sanford

Follows the lives of four queer masculine-presenting BIPOC – all assigned female at birth – as they challenge conceptions of gender...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kisha Batista

In the spring of 2016, global music sensation Major Lazer performed a free concert in Havana, Cuba—an unprecedented show that drew an audience...

Genre: Music

Cast: Diplo

Today, nearly two million Americans are being held for ransom. Without insulin, they'll be dead in days. This is the story of three families who are...

Genre: Documentary

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Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney explores the story of forced reproduction in the antebellum South and reveals the agency of Mary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tera Hunter

Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.

Genre: Documentary

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Eli Timoner, a dedicated husband, father, and entrepreneur who founded the airline Air Florida in the 1970s, decides to medically terminate his life....

Genre: Documentary

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Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimilation, and what it means to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kishi Bashi

MOURNING IN LOD, takes a microcosmic look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Musa, Yigal, and Randa — three people whose fates become...

Genre: Documentary

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