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Casey Anthony: Her Friends Speak

2018

Casey Anthony: Her Friends Speak

2018
More than seven years after her acquittal, Casey Anthony’s friends are speaking out. They recall their tense interviews with police, and the media circus surrounding her high-profile trial in which Casey Anthony faced the death penalty. This quartet includes a childhood friend who was rumored to be Caylee’s father.
The Chainsmokers: Memories

2018

The Chainsmokers: Memories

2018
Follow the personal lives of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, better known as The Chainsmokers, on a raw, emotional, and sometimes ridiculous adventure spanning an astounding 60 shows in 60 days.
Live The Stream: The Story of Joe Humphreys

2018

Live The Stream: The Story of Joe Humphreys

2018
Trout streams are fountains of youth for 86-year-old fly fishing legend, Joe Humphreys: a man who was born to fly fish, lives to teach, and strives to pass on a respect for our local waters.
Words from a Bear

2019

Words from a Bear

2019
A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history.
Sky and Ground

2017

Sky and Ground

2017
Three generations of the Nabi family flee their home in Aleppo and try to make it to safety in Germany where some members of the family have already settled. Along the way they suffer countless setbacks and heartache.
Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student's Journey

2018

Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student's Journey

2018
Feature documentary on the life, struggle, and teaching of world-renowned yogi BKS Iyengar.
Love Talk

2018

Love Talk

2018
Seven years. Eight married couples. They are open and honest, reflecting on why they married each other in the first place, why they have lost the passion, and why they are tired of the other person's problems with the mother-in-law; they talk about sex, having children, and the fact that they can't stand each other any longer...
Colossus

2018

Colossus

2018
Told through the eyes of 15-year-old Jamil Sunsin, Colossus is a modern-day immigrant tale of one family's desperate struggle after deportation leads to family separation, and the elusive search for the American dream.
Woodsrider

2016

Woodsrider

2016
Tucked in the trees of Oregon’s Mount Hood, an introspective young snowboarder camps alone, anticipating a winter of adventure and self-renewal in this experimental, moody documentary.
Stalin Thought of You

2009

Stalin Thought of You

2009
Over the course of his long career, Boris Efimov drew political cartoons about pretty much every important world event. He spent his entire career at periodicals and newspapers such as Pravda, meaning that for many years he drew under the most exacting, watchful eye of Stalin. In this film made just before his death in 2008 at the age of 108, Efimov explains in one of the many conversations with the director Kevin McNeer that his feelings about the dictator are ambivalent.
The Library Music Film

2018

The Library Music Film

2018
The Library Music Film follows record producer, composer and library music enthusiast Shawn Lee as he travels from his recording studio in London, through Europe, and California, USA to search out and interview the great pioneers of library music.
To Kid or Not to Kid

2018

To Kid or Not to Kid

2018
Filmmaker Maxine Trump turns the camera on herself and her close circle of family and friends as she confronts the idea of not having kids. While exploring the cultural pressures and harsh criticism child-free women regularly experience, as well as the personal impact this decision may have on her own relationship, Maxine meets other women reckoning with their choice: Megan, who struggles to get medical permission to undergo elective sterilization, and Victoria, who lives with the backlash of publicly acknowledging that she made a mistake when she had a child.
Father K

2018

Father K

2018
When Palestinian Lutheran Pastor Khader El-Yateem decides to run to become NYC's first Arab American elected official in his conservative Brooklyn neighborhood, he does what no one thinks possible, igniting his marginalized community's hopes and dreams. In the election's aftermath, an unforeseeable blow threatens the foundation of the movement they started, and the community finds their newfound optimism tested to its limit. Father K must face the realities of what it takes to build lasting power in a divided America, but through it all, his voice emerges as funny, bold, and defiantly hopeful - a bridge-builder in a polarized time.
Unknown Distance

2018

Unknown Distance

2018
After five tours and serving ten years as a Marine Sniper, Sgt. Douglas Brown, takes us on an emotional eight month journey across America, engaging with fellow servicemen who were once a part of a highly trained military team with a specific skill set now rendered useless. The story unfolds when Douglas and an Afghan Interpreter, who served with him in Afghanistan, reveal the story that bonded them for life. Recalling those horrific memories trigger Doug's existing PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) that continues to corrode his personal relationships, and has led to his erratic, inappropriate and self damaging behavior.
That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

2018

That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations

2018
The documentary tells the little known story of thousands of Ukrainian and Eastern Europeans that were interned in Canadian camps during the First World War.
1948

2018

1948

2018
All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic

2018

All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic

2018
In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was the first wholly synthetic plastic and ushered in an explosion of new man-made materials that marked the beginnings of our modern industrial age.
Alaotra: Endangered Treasures of Madagascar

2017

Alaotra: Endangered Treasures of Madagascar

2017
This is a film about the people living in the Alaotra region in Madagascar, and about the changes in their social and natural environments. This is also a film about the Bandro, the Alaotra gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis), that can survive only in the marshes surrounding the lake, and that is facing extinction due to these changes. This is also a film about research; on how to tackle complexity and grasp change. The AlaReLa (Alaotra Resilience Landscape) project aims to understand the various livelihood strategies of people like farmers or fishers, who use the lake, the marshes, and the land surrounding the lake to produce food and charcoal and other sources of energy. Follow us to some of Madagascar's hidden places - far away from the touristic centers - to find out what can happen when modern times seep slowly into traditional ways of living. What can be done to strike a balance between yesterday and tomorrow; between conservation and development?
Travel Ban

2018

Travel Ban

2018
A political comedy about being brown and immigrant in Trump's America seen through the eyes of comedians of Middle Eastern origin.
Making The Five Heartbeats

2018

Making The Five Heartbeats

2018
In 1990, actor, comedian, writer and director, Robert Townsend, went against every obstacle in Hollywood, relying on his faith, street smarts, and tenacity to bring his passion project, 1991’s The Five Heartbeats, to big screens. The Motown-flavored story of the rise and fall of an African-American vocal group in the 1960s, the musical drama is the subject of Townsend’s documentary, Making The Five Heartbeats. The documentary chronicles the inspiring journey of a young black writer/director (Townsend) determined to present a new image of black people in cinema while endeavoring to create a classic.