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Posted on September 15, 2016 |
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Crocodile Gennadiy / Almost Holy (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Drama | News
Gennadiy Mokhnenko has made a name for himself by forcibly abducting homeless drug-addicted kids from the streets of Mariupol, Ukraine. As his country leans towards a European Union inclusion, hopes of continued post-Soviet revitalization seem possible. In the meantime, Gennadiy's center has evolved into a more nebulous institution.
Starring: Gennadiy Mokhnenko
Director: Steve Hoover
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Posted on February 4, 2015 |
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Rise (2014)
Crime | Drama | News
Rise is a true story about a young nurse falsely accused of rape. Stripped of his career and his freedom, Will is forced to survive maximum security jail. The film centers on an unlikely friendship formed with Jimmy, a hardened armed robber and the legal battle by a prominent lawyer who must compromise status and wage to prove his innocence.
Starring: Nathan Wilson, Martin Sacks, Marty Rhone, Erin Connor, David Cuthbertson
Director: Mack Lindon
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Posted on December 6, 2014 |
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Alive Inside (2014)
Documentary | News
Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, fights against a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music's ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it.
Starring: Dan Cohen, Louise Dueno, Nell Hardie, Norman Hardie, Michael Rossato-Bennett
Director: Michael Rossato-Bennett
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Posted on September 26, 2014 |
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Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2013)
Adventure | Documentary | Family | News
Angela Sun's journey of discovery to one of the most remote places on Earth, Midway Atoll, to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, industry, legislators and activists who shed light on what our society's vast consumption of disposable plastic is doing to our oceans, and what it may be doing to our health.
Starring: Angela Sun
Director: Angela Sun
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Posted on August 4, 2014 |
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Documented (2013)
Biography | Documentary | Family | News
In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times Magazine. 'Documented' chronicles his journey to America from the Philippines as a child; his journey through America as an immigration reform activist/provocateur; and his journey inward as he re-connects with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in 20 years.
Starring: Emelie Salinas, Leonila Salinas, Jose Antonio Vargas
Director: Jose Antonio Vargas, Ann Raffaela Lupo
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Posted on July 23, 2014 |
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Lost for Life / Teen Killers: Life Without Parole (2013)
Crime | Documentary | News
In the United States today, more than 2,500 individuals are serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes they committed when they were 17 years old or younger. Children as young as 13 are among the thousands serving these sentences. Lost for Life, tells the stories of these individuals, of their families' and of the families of victims of juvenile murder.
Starring: Brian Draper, Torey Adamcik
Director: Joshua Rofé
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Posted on July 4, 2014 |
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
Biography | Crime | Documentary | News
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.
Starring: Aaron Swartz
Director: Brian Knappenberger
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Posted on September 20, 2013 |
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Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)
Documentary | News
Terms And Conditions May Apply examines the cost of so-called 'free' services and the continuing disappearance of online privacy. People may think they know what they give up when they click 'I Agree' on companies like Facebook and Google. They're wrong.
Starring: Max Schrem, Moby, Mark Zuckerberg, Moby, Max Schrem, Christopher Shin, Mark Zuckerberg
Director: Cullen Hoback
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Posted on September 12, 2013 |
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Red Obsession (2013)
Documentary | History | News
For centuries, Bordeaux has assumed a mythical status in the world of fine wine as a leitmotif of wealth, power and influence, but its prosperity has always been linked to the capricious nature of markets and the shifting fortunes of global economies. Now change is coming to Bordeaux, with traditional customers like the US and the UK falling away, as China's new rich push prices to stratospheric levels. The demand is unprecedented, but the product is finite and this new client wants it all. Will the China market be the bubble that never bursts or the biggest threat yet to Bordeaux's centuries old reputation?
Director: David Roach, Warwick Ross
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Posted on September 2, 2013 |
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Oxyana (2013)
Documentary | News
Tucked in the Appalachian mountains of Southern West Virginia, Oceana, is a small, once thriving coal-mining town that has fallen victim to the fast spreading scourge of prescription painkiller Oxycontin. As the coal industry slowly declined and times got tough, a black market for the drug sprung up and along with it a rash of prostitution, theft and murder. Soon its own residents had nicknamed the town Oxyana and it began to live up to its reputation as abuse, addiction and overdoses became commonplace. Oxyana is a harrowing front line account of a community in the grips of an epidemic, told through the voices of the addicts, the dealers and all those affected. It is a haunting glimpse into an American nightmare unfolding before our eyes, a cautionary tale told with raw and unflinching honesty.
Director: Sean Dunne
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Posted on August 17, 2013 |
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American Autumn: An Occudoc (2012)
Crime | Documentary | News | War
What would a world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed, and how do we bring that world into being? Who cares what it is called. Call it Socialism, Call it Real Democracy Now, and Call it Chunky-Monkey-Cherry Garcia. The world needs to change radically, it needs to change dramatically, and it needs to change fast. This documentary is an invitation for you to participate in that positive change. Frankly, because, we need you. Yes, you.
Director: Dennis Trainor Jr.
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Posted on July 28, 2013 |
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Sushi: The Global Catch (2012)
Documentary | History | News
From humble beginnings as a simple food sold by Japanese street vendors, sushi has exploded into an international phenomenon in the past 30 years. SUSHI: THE GLOBAL CATCH is a feature-length documentary shot in five countries exploring the history, problems and future of this popular cuisine. Much of sushi's rich cultural tradition that began in Tokyo is changing as raw fish now appear from cities like Warsaw and New York to small towns worldwide. But what is the cost? Will the worldwide hunger for sushi continue to grow until wild fish vanish, or will new technology like aquaculture keep plates full? Can sustainable sushi restaurants satisfy consumers or will competition for declining resources drive prices so high that only a few can afford raw fish?
Director: Mark Hall
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