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Mifune: The Last Samurai

2016

Mifune: The Last Samurai

2016
7.1
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder – A Special Edition of 20/20

2024

Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder – A Special Edition of 20/20

2024
Investigating the secret life of the young man prosecutors allege gunned down United Healthcare's Brian Thompson.
Enzo

2017

Enzo

2017
1
Serena is drawing the portrait of Enzo. In a cozy and intimate atmosphere, he tells us his story. This life is extraordinary, because it is a life of a Female-To-Man (FTM) transgender.
A.K.A. Doc Pomus

2012

A.K.A. Doc Pomus

2012
5.1
Doc Pomus’ dramatic life is one of American music’s great untold stories. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then emerged as one of the most brilliant songwriters of the early rock and roll era, writing “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” “A Teenager in Love,” “Viva Las Vegas,” and dozens of other hits. Spearheaded and co-produced by his daughter, Sharyn Felder, and packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery, this documentary features interviews with collaborators and friends including Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, Leiber and Stoller, and B.B. King, as well as passages from Doc’s private journals read by his close friend Lou Reed.
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

2003

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

2003
8
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
41

2012

41

2012
6.1
An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

2017

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

2017
6.8
An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.
Confessions of a Good Samaritan

2023

Confessions of a Good Samaritan

2023
Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism. “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” is a provocative inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: Who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them?
Show-Business at War

1943

Show-Business at War

1943
7
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
The Fading Village

2019

The Fading Village

2019
In the process of social transformation in China, urbanization has deeply affected and changed the countryside. Heishuigetuo is a remote village with over 300 years of history which is gradually withered. Currently, there're only 15 villagers living in it. The mountain village retains the traditional features of northwestern Shanxi Province. Hou Junli is the only young man in the village. He raises more than 500 goats with his father. Liu Sanlong, 82 years old, is a farmer of the older generation living on farming. Liu Guoping is a young man among the first group of people leaving the village to work in the cities.
Thor

2024

Thor

2024
2
The Story of Ne Kuko

2023

The Story of Ne Kuko

2023
When the Pan-African activist Mwazulu Diyabanza walks into the Afrika Museum in the Dutch village of Berg en Dal and leaves with an exhibition object under his arm, the police arrest him for theft. But according to Diyabanza, he is merely retrieving what was stolen from Congo during colonial rule and returning it to where it came from.
The Russian Five

2018

The Russian Five

2018
7.8
The story of the five Russian hockey stars who helped the Detroit Red Wings win back-to-back Stanley Cup championships and created one of the most memorable chapters in Motor City sports history.
The Making of 'To Catch a Thief'

2002

The Making of 'To Catch a Thief'

2002
7
Documentary of the making of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1955 tale.
Working with a Master: John Landis

2006

Working with a Master: John Landis

2006
Short documentary about John Landis and his horror works.
Inside Pandora's Box

2023

Inside Pandora's Box

2023
5.6
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema
Schindler

1983

Schindler

1983
8.1
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.
Halloween: The Inside Story

2010

Halloween: The Inside Story

2010
7.4
This feature-length documentary takes a look at one of the most successful film franchises of all time as it goes behind the scenes of John Carpenter’s Halloween, the frightfest that redefined the horror genre in the late 1970s.
BookWars

2000

BookWars

2000
4.5
An insider's look at the gritty streets of New York City, seen through the eyes of street booksellers.
Freeway: Crack in the System

2014

Freeway: Crack in the System

2014
7.3
FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity—more compelling than fiction, it’s the real story behind America’s longest war. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. Untouchable, Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. At the center of it all is the rise, fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, a street hustler who became the King of Crack, and journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA’s complicity in the drug war. Featuring exclusive interviews with Freeway Rick Ross, not to be confused with the rapper who took his name Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, his source Coral Baca, and wife Susan Webb former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Roberto Juarez drug trafficker Julio Zavala and many more.