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Award-winning documentaries about daring people
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Battle for Brooklyn
BATTLE for BROOKLYN is an intensely intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by owners and residents facing condemnation of their property to make way for the controversial Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets in the heart of Brooklyn. Shot over seven years and compiled from almost 500 hours of footage, BAT...
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Big Boys Gone Bananas
This is the story about a small film production company who fought against fruit giant Dole when the film BANANAS!* was to be stopped at any cost. From lawsuits to bullying scare tactics and media control, altogether a dreadful eye-opener about what a big corporation will do in order to protect its brand....
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Desert Runners
A diverse cast of non professional runners attempt to complete the most difficult ultramarathon race series on Earth. Their dramatic journey takes them across the World's most picturesque yet brutal landscapes, pushing their bodies, hearts and spirits through a myriad of external and internal obstacles. DESERT RUNNERS delves into the mindset of ultra-athletes, and the complex ways in which human b...
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Drawing Dead
Drawing Dead is a documentary film about the highs and lows of online poker from two very different perspectives: a professional poker player worth millions, and a gambling addict....
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Haiti Untold
Haiti Untold chronicles the personal journey of a few famous and not-so-famous individuals who have put their heads and hearts to the task of effecting radical change in Haiti, following the devastating earthquake of 2010....
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JFK: A President Betrayed
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this film reveals new evidence how JFK embarked on secret back channel peace efforts with Nikita Khrushchev & Fidel Castro, determined to get out of Vietnam despite intense opposition inside his own government....
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Shored Up
Our beaches and coastline are a national treasure, a shared resource, a beacon of sanity in a world of constant change and they're disappearing in front of us. When Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast, it was a wake up call to a new reality. Shored Up takes us to the heart of this climate change controversy, following communities in New Jersey and North Carolina where politics, economics an...
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Stolen Seas
The filmmakers have spent the past three years traveling to some of the world's most violent locales in order to make this documentary on Somali piracy, Stolen Seas. Utilizing exclusive interviews and unparalleled access to real pirates, hostages, hostages' relatives, ship-owners, pirate negotiators and experts on piracy and international policy, Stolen Seas presents a chilling exploration of the ...
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The Last White Knight
Filmmaker Paul Saltzman returns to Mississippi to encounter a man who once assaulted him - "Byron "Delay" De La Beckwith, a KKK member and the son of the man convicted of murdering Medgar Evers - in this affecting documentary about racism, the South and the possibility of reconciliation....
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The Rolling Stones: Charlie is My Darling
A documentary on the Rolling Stones that was shot in 1965 on a two-stop tour of Ireland, just as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was becoming a worldwide sensation....
