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Who Made You?

2019

Who Made You?

2019
7
Artificial intelligence and new technologies are reaching our mental and physical existence like never before in the history of human kind. The film is a journey that leads us to the world of cyborgs, sex robots and Androids. It challenges us to face our values, ethics and rethink our position. The main character of the film is young researcher Dr. Michael Laakasuo whose work Moralities of Intelligent Machines has gained international recognition.
Escape from Park City

2017

Escape from Park City

2017
6
Vimeo hires a struggling documentarian to document a festival he can't get into.
Cold Waves

2007

Cold Waves

2007
"While Ceausescu was alive, we knew who was good (the West and the United States) and who was evil. Since then, things have become more complicated." Filmmaker Alexandru Solomon believes the story of this propaganda war can help us discern the shades of grey in contemporary conflicts. "Look at our Radio Free Europe editors: you could be fighting on the right side and still be part of a dirty game."
Game Show Dynamos

2015

Game Show Dynamos

2015
7.8
A couple gets their family out of debt by winning on TV game shows, again and again.
A Decent Factory

2005

A Decent Factory

2005
This documentary follows an Ethical and Environmental expert from Nokia as she travels to China to inspect the facilities under contract to her company.
The Devil Operation

2010

The Devil Operation

2010
The charismatic Father Marco Arana, named a Hero of the Environment in 2009 by Time Magazine, has been so effective in advocating against the US-owned Yanacocha mine that he's code-named "the Devil" and targeted in a campaign of harassment and terror.When one colleague is threatened with rape and another is killed, the activists fight back, capture a spy, and uncover a military-scale operation of surveillance and violence that shocks even them. When billions of dollars are at stake, just how far are corporations willing to go to protect their bottom line?
Grace, Milly, Lucy…Child Soldiers

2010

Grace, Milly, Lucy…Child Soldiers

2010
This documentary by filmmaker Raymonde Provencher talk about childhoods in Uganda, where they were forced to kill against their will as soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army. Now as adults, they're working as activists to help others through a support group for survivors of childhood slavery, never forgetting their own haunting experiences.
Drawing Dead: The Highs and Lows of Online Poker

2013

Drawing Dead: The Highs and Lows of Online Poker

2013
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.
Bible Quiz

2013

Bible Quiz

2013
6.8
Mikayla hopes to win the National Bible Quiz championship and the heart of her team captain.
Choosing Children

1984

Choosing Children

1984
1
CHOOSING CHILDREN is a pioneering film about parenting in non-traditional families and helped to open dialogue about the meaning and reality of the "modern family." This film takes an intimate look at the issues faced by lesbians and gay men who decide to become parents after coming out.
Sex Slaves Frontline

2006

Sex Slaves Frontline

2006
8.5
A documentary exposé inside the global sex trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc. The film takes viewers into the shadowy, multi-billion dollar world of sex trafficking. Part cinema verité, part investigation, Sex Slaves puts a human face on this most inhuman of contemporary issues. From the villages of Moldova and Ukraine to underground brothels and discotheques in Turkey where many women are trafficked and forced into prostitution, we witness first-hand the brutal world of white sex slavery.
Passage

2020

Passage

2020
Gabrielle and Yoan are 18 years old. Even though they both grew up in Temiscamingue, their aspirations are opposite. While Yoan wants to leave the area to break away from his loneliness and explore his homosexuality, Gabrielle is torn at the thought of going over a hundred kilometers away from home to carry on with her studies.
Whirlybird

2021

Whirlybird

2021
6.8
Soaring above the chaotic spectacle of ‘80s and ‘90s Los Angeles, a young couple revolutionized breaking news with their brazen helicopter reporting. Culled from this news duo’s sprawling video archive is a poignant L.A. story of a family in turbulence hovering over a city unhinged.
Sisters of Ukraine

2023

Sisters of Ukraine

2023
10
Volunteers from Barcelona travel to a convent in Ukraine where nuns are aiding refugees following the Russian invasion. As missile attacks surge to unprecedented levels, they take a group of three dozen refugees and families of soldiers fighting in the war on a three-day journey across Europe to housing in Spain.
Cromwell's Head

2017

Cromwell's Head

2017
6
The story of Oliver Cromwell's head is perhaps the most bizarre, yet least well known, of all tales from English history. From regal burial to exhumation and decapitation, this relic of our only non-royal ruler has travelled a most peculiar path. It has been a gruesome warning to traitors, a secret prize for a soldier, an attraction at an 18th-century peep show, and an object of veneration and derision until it was finally laid to rest in a secret ceremony. CROMWELL'S HEAD, is a one-hour documentary, telling the full story of this extraordinary artifact. CROMWELL'S HEAD unravels a mystery and brings to light a variety of strange tales. By looking at the passions, public and private, aroused by Cromwell and his head, it illuminates how British attitudes to monarchy, democracy and radicalism were formed - and how they have changed, since our civil war over 350 years ago
Before the Plate

2018

Before the Plate

2018
Before the Plate follows each ingredient from a single plate of food backwards to the farms they came from, revealing modern farming practices and the challenges the industry faces as it does so.
Wonderland: Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love

2008

Wonderland: Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love

2008
Carolyn is a 37 year-old mother of four in the midst of a passionate affair. She's spending up to 18 hours a day with her lover online on Second Life, the website. She has never met him, but, to her husband of nine year's dismay, she is abandoning her family and flying 5,000 miles to London to start a new life with her lover, Elliot. What makes this website, which has three million members, so compelling?
Mamachas of the Ring

2010

Mamachas of the Ring

2010
9.3
Set in the heights of the Bolivian Andes, Mamachas del Ring is the story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, an indigenous woman who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling.
Nice Chinese Girls Don't!

2019

Nice Chinese Girls Don't!

2019
Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the anti-Vietnam war protests, finding her way to San Francisco State, which influenced her on her path as an activist and poet. In this first ever documentary about a Chinese American Lesbian, Tsui brings to life her coming of age in San Francisco in the 1970s, her challenges, and her continued rise to celebrity by being re-discovered by a whole new generation of Feminists.
Mr. Connolly Has ALS

2017

Mr. Connolly Has ALS

2017
A high school principal is embraced by his community as he continues to lead the school, despite rapidly losing his ability to walk and speak due to the debilitating effects of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).