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A documentary of a young couple and their two children living in a squatter settlement in the Philippine capital, Manila. Rather than just a report...

Genre: Documentary

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In Charleen, documentarian Ross McElwee looks at the life of a North Carolina poet and teacher who acts as a muse to a motley crew of artists and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ross McElwee

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ross McElwee

The titular troublemakers are the New York–based Land (aka Earth) artists of the 1960s and 70s, who walked away from the reproducible and the...

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Documentary film maker Ross McElwee returns to his family home in Charlotte NC. In filming his family, he captures a microcosm of Southern society.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ross McElwee

Following Germany's transformation as a society from the Holocaust to becoming the moral leader of Europe as the country embraces hundreds of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Abigail Pogrebin

A powerful, 70-minute documentary featuring nine U.S. veterans transitioning from active duty to the unexpected challenges of civilian life

Genre: Documentary

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When Forgotten Silver — the story of pioneer filmmaker Colin McKenzie — unspooled on 29th October 1995, in a Sunday TV slot normally...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Jackson

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Maxine Fisher

Documentary about the influence that master cello player Paul Katz has on four gifted cello players over the space of several years. It explores how...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Katz

One of Mark Rappaport's later narratives (which won the Gold Hugo for Best First Feature at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1979),...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Evans

A late-night cable access show goes to hell!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Bernat

These sexy and surreal shorts from innovative gay filmmakers feature party-loving plastic dolls, domineering moms, mad scientists, stuttering...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Ort

Tens of thousands of dogs are transported every year from areas with high euthanasia rates to parts of the country with fewer unwanted dogs and a...

Genre: Documentary

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INVISIBLE SCARS is a feature documentary that explores hope, healing, and resilience through the eyes of one woman who was sexually abused by her...

Genre: Documentary

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Burk Uzzle's singular vision and dedication to the medium of photography led him from a small, homebuilt darkroom on his father's porch into the...

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Cast: Burk Uzzle

What is life like for a dancer when they can no longer dance? Inspired by Merrill Ashley's departure from the New York City Ballet as an acclaimed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Merrill Ashley

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diamanda Galás

A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Natasha Dudinski

An online TV show which features Jewish people over the age of 60 telling their favourite jokes.

Genre: Comedy

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