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About Queens and Other Colours

2021

About Queens and Other Colours

2021
5
Faced with the need to express themselves, five young people meet in an abandoned house and share their experiences, frustrations, dreams and opinions regarding what it feel a beging a Drag Queen in Guatemala.
Passing

2015

Passing

2015
7
A short documentary profiling the lives of three transgender Black men, exploring what life is like living as a Black man when no one knows you are transgender, and their journeys with gender in the years since they transitioned.
Light from the East

2005

Light from the East

2005
A troupe of American actors travels to the former Soviet Ukraine to participate in the first cultural exchange theatre project in history and find themselves trapped at the epicenter of a political revolution.
Susan Feniger. Forked

2023

Susan Feniger. Forked

2023
Experience the restaurant misadventures of award-winning chef Susan Feniger, as she cooks up an ambitious plan to bring global street food under one roof in the form of a new LA restaurant.
Becoming: Bradley Theodore

2016

Becoming: Bradley Theodore

2016
Two years ago, artist Bradley Theodore didn't know how to paint. He was also suffering through some of the darkest moments of his life. This story is a testament to how one's life can be turned around through sheer dedication to self-teaching and self-promotion.
Evil Beneath

2019

Evil Beneath

2019
6.7
An Original Documentary that takes you in and under the Oldest City in America, St. Augustine, Florida with a Team of Residents, Ghost Hunters and Historians. Investigations include the Oldest Lighthouse in America, a Curiosity Shop on the oldest Street in the USA, more.
Running For The Revolution

2020

Running For The Revolution

2020
Cuba’s greatest ever track athlete Alberto Juantorena shares his remarkable personal journey through a cauldron of sport and politics.
Project XX: The Real West

1961

Project XX: The Real West

1961
Silver-screen legend Gary Cooper narrates this insightful documentary, which aims to subvert the idealized notions of the Western frontier posited by Hollywood and unveil what life was really like in the rough-and-tumble Old West. Originally aired as an installment of the NBC News series "Project Twenty," the program uses vintage photographs, archival accounts and historical reenactments to paint a vivid portrait of the Wild West of the 19th century. Note: This film was also distributed separately on 16mm for schools and libraries, qualifying it as a standalone documentary.
Tiger Run: The Untold Story

2024

Tiger Run: The Untold Story

2024
Utilizing heartful interviews, game tape, and behind-the-scenes footage of the Jackson State University and the Jackson State University HBU Pro Day event, TIGER RUN: The Untold Story aims to pull back the curtain on Deion Sander’s mission to change the paradigm for all HBCU football players and bring equity back into the NFL draft system.
Megalithic Underworld

2023

Megalithic Underworld

2023
Be enchanted by a world of mystery and adventure! “Megalithic Underworld” is a brand new documentary that takes you into the depths of hidden and unexplored places. Experience firsthand how explorers search for the greatest mysteries of the underworld.
Raising Renee

2011

Raising Renee

2011
RAISING RENEE is the story of a family's remarkable response to being broken apart and rearranged after nearly 50 years. The film explores deep themes of family, race, class and disability through the interplay of painting, cinema and everyday life. Produced and directed by Oscar nominees Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, RAISING RENEE is the third part of a trilogy about resilient families that includes their acclaimed feature documentaries So Much So Fast and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Troublesome Creek. RAISING RENEE is about a unique group of women, the tenacity of family bonds and the power of art to transform experience into something beyond words.
Six O'Clock News

1997

Six O'Clock News

1997
6
Filmmaker Ross McElwee trails characters whose stories have been fodder for television news and takes their tales of loss and longing further than the requisite sound bite. In the process, he examines how the medium works and exposes its limitations.
Buffalo Soldiers Fighting On Two Fronts

2022

Buffalo Soldiers Fighting On Two Fronts

2022
6
Interviews, reenactments, animations, and more tell the story of the Black army regiments, formed after the Civil War, who played vital roles (from railroad builders to park rangers) in the American settling of the West.
Zombie Girl: The Movie

2009

Zombie Girl: The Movie

2009
6.4
Emily Hagins is making a zombie movie. It's feature-length, it's bloody, and the zombies don't run. Just like it should be. But there's just one difference between her film and every other zombie movie you've ever seen. Emily is twelve.
Sealab

2019

Sealab

2019
The Sealab project, launched in 1969 off the shore of northern California, was the brainchild of a country doctor turned naval pioneer who dreamed of pushing the limits of ocean exploration like NASA did space exploration. The massive, 300-ton tubular structure was a pressurized underwater habitat, complete with science labs and living quarters for divers who would live and work there on the ocean floor for days or even months at a time. During the height of the Space Race, this daring program also tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized the way humans explore the ocean.
The Invisible Front

2014

The Invisible Front

2014
5.8
Between 1944–1953, courageous resistance movement took place in the Baltic region of Europe, uniting the partisan troops for struggle against the Soviet Union. “The Invisible Front” was a coded name used by the Soviet Interior forces to describe the resistance movement in Lithuania. Film depicts the story of the fighters through the words and experience of the partisan leader, Juozas Luksa, and interviews with eyewitnesses of those events - both the partisans and the Soviet fighters. Tales of horror, torture and courage are told in the rare archival footage that has never been screened before, and interviews with the surviving members of the resistance movement.
Money Bots

2020

Money Bots

2020
7.1
A documentary about the race for the fastest connection and the most powerful algorithm in the high speed world of automated trading.
I'll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours of Lynyrd Skynyrd

2019

I'll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours of Lynyrd Skynyrd

2019
Survivors firsthand accounts of the wild times, the 72 hours leading to the crash, the crash itself & its aftermath.
Robert Scheer: Above the Fold

2019

Robert Scheer: Above the Fold

2019
7
A documentary on the six-decades long career of a muckraking journalist, who was involved with the radical 196os magazine Ramparts, with the Los Angeles Times newspaper, and later with the Internet website Truthdig.
Kapyong

2011

Kapyong

2011
On April 24, 1951, following a rout of the South Korean army, the Chinese People Volunteer Army pursued their enemy to the lines of Australian and Canadian troops still digging fall-back defences, 39 kilometres to the rear. Here, sometimes at the length of a bayonet, often in total darkness, individual was pitted against individual in a struggle between a superpower and a cluster of other nations from across the world. They fought for a valley, the ancient and traditional invasion route to Seoul. If it fell the southern capital and the war, was lost. The United Nations troops had the military advantage of the high ground and artillery support: the Chinese relied entirely on vastly superior numbers. As a result, young men from both sides found a battle which was very close and very personal. The Battle of Kapyong became the turning point of China's Fifth Offensive in that Korea spring... Written by John Lewis