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Viewer Direction Advised

2018

Viewer Direction Advised

2018
Twenty-one year old Ben is on a journey - to follow his TV-obsessed dad and explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next.
The Burnt Half

2023

The Burnt Half

2023
The Burnt Half is a powerful, complex, engaging and gripping, character-led, observational documentary. It’s a film that goes to the heart of a shattered community in the wake of the 2020 bushfires that destroyed two-thirds of this idyllic island, which was the jewel in the crown of South Australia and a global tourism icon.
Bigfoot Still Tracking a Legend

2015

Bigfoot Still Tracking a Legend

2015
The legend continues! The explosive sequel to the 2014 Paranormal Film Award winner, Bigfoot: Tracking A Legend, featuring 2014 investigator of the year, Thomas Marcum. Follow along as Thomas uncovers more amazing evidence of the elusive creature known as bigfoot near his rural Kentucky home. Watch in awe as incredible details are discovered about the game camera bigfoot photograph. Even though it's been over 2 years since the original sightings, the reports are still coming in. The creature is still out there, and it's still being tracked!
Kissinger: Statesman or War Criminal?

2011

Kissinger: Statesman or War Criminal?

2011
BBC Select gets political as this incisive documentary offers a sobering portrait of Henry Kissinger, quite possibly the most powerful US diplomat during the latter half of the 20th Century. Revealing the true character of this complex man, this eye-opening film presents Kissinger's responses to criticisms of his controversial foreign policy decisions. Should Kissinger be celebrated or castigated?
Shutout! The Battle American Women Wage to Play Baseball

2019

Shutout! The Battle American Women Wage to Play Baseball

2019
An exploration into the struggle American girls and women have faced trying to play their country's national pastime from 1931 to the present day. The story is told by players, coaches, umpires, and parents from age 9 to 90, celebrates those who've succeeded in spite of crippling gender bias, and considers the path forward to make the game accessible to all women across the USA.
Take the Ice

2022

Take the Ice

2022
Goes behind the scenes of the first professional women’s hockey league. As the league’s founder struggles to keep the business afloat, the players must come together in the wake of an on-ice accident that leaves their teammate paralyzed.
Dreama Team

2023

Dreama Team

2023
Dreama Team is a film about a mom and amateur runner named Dreama Walton, as she competes in America's biggest ultra-marathon: The Western States 100. As she pushes to finish the historic race in under 24 hours, she draws inspiration from painful experiences in her youth, and the positive influence of others in the present. Dreama is determined to prove to her daughter the value of doing hard things.
Hot Water on Long Island

0000

Hot Water on Long Island

0000
About the toxins that exist within the groundwater and aquifer that supplies the drinking water for all of Long Island.
Angels of the Sky

2023

Angels of the Sky

2023
These are true stories told by men who were shot down behind enemy lines and taken prisoner during WWII, their attempts to escape, and their harrowing experiences, perseverance, and determination to survive in the POW camps during the deadliest conflict in human history.
Garden City, Kansas

2023

Garden City, Kansas

2023
On the High Plains of Southwest Kansas, a thriving community sustained for decades by waves of immigrants becomes the target of white nationalists intent on killing the latest arrivals: Muslims. When they attempt to recruit a local man with a conscience, he infiltrates them. Partnering with the FBI, he risks his life to prevent the attack and bring the domestic terrorists to justice. Animated courtroom testimony of the plot is interwoven with the inspiring story of immigration and the determination of a community to welcome the world.
Anxious in Beirut

2023

Anxious in Beirut

2023
In the ever-present desire to capture, record, and understand Beirut, and by extension himself, Zakaria has been trying to give a coherent story to his city. It is through the intersectionality between the general and the personal, the public and private, the old and young, that we are able to answer: why are we anxious in Beirut?
The Five Demands

2023

The Five Demands

2023
In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located right in the heart of Harlem. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon turned into an uprising, leading to the extended occupation of the campus, classes being canceled, students being arrested, and the resignation of the college president. Through archival footage and modern-day interviews, we follow the students’ struggle against the institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from this and other public universities. The Five Demands revisits the untold story of this explosive student takeover, and proves that a handful of ordinary citizens can band together to take action and effect meaningful change.
Milk Men

2016

Milk Men

2016
As the global economics of dairy farming has winnowed out most small and medium-sized dairies, the surviving farmers confront pressures to intensify production, even as they find that getting bigger presents new problems.
Egg Cream

2018

Egg Cream

2018
A short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor cream—it was a product of necessity and hardship, but a source of joy and sweetness. Through a tour of egg cream establishments led by a filmmaker and his young daughter, exhaustively researched archival imagery (and an eponymous song by Lou Reed!), EGG CREAM examines the Jewish experience in America and the mythology of a simpler time.
Finnish American Chip Woodcarvers

2019

Finnish American Chip Woodcarvers

2019
The deep northern forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are home to small villages of Finnish Americans—communities carved out from the forest where Finnish language, cultural worldview, and traditional arts remain crucial to social life more than a century after immigration. In this beautiful and rugged north country, the extraordinary, ordinary descendants of Finnish immigrants still eke out modest lives to this day on old farmsteads, working with the resources they have available to them, showing their creativity and ingenuity in simply getting by and making do, and living in ways not dissimilar from their ancestors who migrated three or four generations ago.
Route 60: The Biblical Highway

2023

Route 60: The Biblical Highway

2023
Carving through the heart of the Promised Land is the Biblical spine of Israel, sometimes referred to as the “Path of the Patriarchs” and officially designated as “Route 60.” This trek is far more than a two-lane highway; it is a historic, sacred link to the roots of Judaism and Christianity and the stories of the Old and New Testaments. Follow world-changing diplomats David Friedman and Mike Pompeo as they venture down this sacred road, treading the very ground Abraham, Moses, Jacob, King David, and Jesus once walked. Discover the history, witness the healing, and realize the hope along Route 60, the Biblical Highway.
For the Animals

2023

For the Animals

2023
Twin sisters Tena and Tama Lundquist take to the streets to combat the stray dog epidemic in Houston, TX, and show that it just takes one person caring to make a difference. With catastrophic numbers of stray dogs roaming the streets of Houston TX, twin sisters Tena and Tama Lundquist take matters into their own hands to save the animals they love.
Exposing Parchman

2023

Exposing Parchman

2023
Explores the efforts to reform the Mississippi correctional system led by a team of attorneys on behalf of the inmates of Parchman Prison.
Tampa Beer: Crafting the Bay

2022

Tampa Beer: Crafting the Bay

2022
Brewing a great-tasting beer requires more than hops and barley. It takes innovation and an artist’s vision to create a brew that stands out from the rest. That’s why the art of beer making has played an integral part in establishing Tampa Bay as one of the top craft beer scenes in the country. Tampa Bay has a long history with beer. It’s home to Florida’s first brewery, Florida Brewing Company, which still stands and survived adversities like Prohibition and the Great Depression. And in the past decade, the region has redefined the craft beer scene with pioneers like Cigar City Brewing redefining the craft and precision that makes Tampa Bay beer internationally renowned. Tampa Beer: Crafting The Bay tells the story of a destination that loves beer and the personalities who dedicate their lives brewing it. From hipster havens to historic districts, meet the people and places who make Tampa Bay the heart of Florida’s craft beer scene.
Common Ground: The Story of Bears Ears

2020

Common Ground: The Story of Bears Ears

2020
President Obama declared Bears Ears a national monument in December 2016. One year later, President Trump reduced the monument by 85 percent. While the political debate continues, this documentary seeks to transcend the rhetoric, following the inhabitants of San Juan County, and revealing the mutual ideals between opposing ideologies: love and awe of a beloved land.