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  • 1970
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    Alive and Kicking: la historia de Chamaco Ramírez

    Alive and Kicking: la historia de Chamaco Ramírez

    1 1970 HD

    Documentary about the life of one of the most acclaimed soneros of the salsa genre. Chamaco Ramírez became well known for his unparalleled skills in the art of improvisation, leaving his mark and influence over multiple generations of singers. The film presents a balanced account of his life through the investigation of the circumstances that surrounded his life, as well as his enigmatic death in the streets of the Bronx on March 26, 1983.

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  • 2010
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    The Evil Faces of Víctor Israel

    The Evil Faces of Víctor Israel

    1 2010 HD

    Hour-long documentary about distinctive-looking Spanish character actor Víctor Israel.

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  • 2014
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    The Making of The Battery

    The Making of The Battery

    1 2014 HD

    A feature-length documentary about the making of the The Battery, an independent zombie film that has received worldwide acclaim, featuring filmmaker interviews, behind the scenes footage, and deleted scenes. Learn how the film came together from the filmmakers' early beginnings to the writing, casting, production, post-production, and release.

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  • 2026
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    One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5

    One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5

    7.41 2026 HD

    An inside look at the years of effort and craft that went into the final installment of the Duffer Brothers' generation-defining series.

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  • 2008
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    Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

    Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

    3.80 2008 HD

    Kind Of Blue: Celebrating A Masterpiece incorporates material from the 2004 mini-documentary, Made In Heaven, including black-and-white still photography of the recording sessions and the voices of Miles (at the sessions), as well as excerpts of radio interviews with the late Bill Evans.

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  • 2017
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    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

    Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

    1 2017 HD

    The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put land art in a tribal context. The group bring together a community to construct the Repellent Fence, a two-mile long ephemeral monument “stitching” together the US and Mexico.

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  • 1942
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    The Price of Victory

    The Price of Victory

    6.00 1942 HD

    U.S. Vice-President Henry Wallace narrates a patriotic, propaganda short designed to boost morale in the the early days of World War II.

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  • 2021
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    Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11

    Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11

    5.00 2021 HD

    From the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to today stand-up comedians, talk-show hosts, sketch performers, television animators and other entertainers have used often-controversial jokes to unite and heal in the face of tragedy.

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  • 2019
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    Anger, Also Known As Sheol

    Anger, Also Known As Sheol

    1 2019 HD

    A woman who escapes an overwhelming reality into a world of nightmares, by eating the forbidden fruit of Paradise's Tree of Eternal Life; a very frustrated man, both in his professional and love life, whose serial killer dreams may become a reality; and an autobiographical documentary on the director's healing process of a terminal cancer. A film divided in three chapters: heaven, hell and the world.

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  • 2019
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    Style and Substance: Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby

    Style and Substance: Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby

    1 2019 HD

    Documentary about The Landlord.

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  • 2024
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    A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians

    A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians

    6.07 2024 HD

    Alongside a passionate cast and crew, follow Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri as they step into worlds fit for gods, battle unforgettable creatures, and perform legendary stunts.

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  • 2017
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    Get Up and Go

    Get Up and Go

    1 2017 HD

    Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie camera caught a woman rising from a bench. That’s all (the obvious influence is James Joyce's Ulysses). Malcolm Goldstein’s violin takes us to the edge.

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  • 1990
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    Jan Švankmajer: The Animator of Prague

    Jan Švankmajer: The Animator of Prague

    7.00 1990 HD

    This half-hour BBC documentary offers a revealing look at Svankmajer at work on "Death of Stalinism in Bohemia," and uses excerpts from his earlier films to trace the development of his unique sensibility.

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  • 2016
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    Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (a conversation)

    Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (a conversation)

    1 2016 HD

    The life and work of Arthur Penn, whose films like "Bonnie and Clyde" helped shape the conversation around violence in America and its movies.

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  • 2018
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    Beauty Lives in Freedom

    Beauty Lives in Freedom

    1 2018 HD

    Gao Ertai (1931) is an artist, teacher, philosopher who, in the 1950s, was imprisoned in the Jiabiangou Labour Camp. The film works as a diptych with Fengming, the confessional story of another victim of reprisals, and closes a vast film series on those who disappeared.

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  • 1964
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    The Price of Victory

    The Price of Victory

    1 1964 HD

    Nobuko Shibuya's Japanese volleyball documentary

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  • 1982
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    A New Approach to Hong Kong

    A New Approach to Hong Kong

    1 1982 HD

    A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.

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  • 1964
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    What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA

    What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA

    7.30 1964 HD

    New York, USA, February 1964. Five grueling days in the life of George, John, Paul and Ringo, the Fab Four, The Beatles: the hysterical fan reception at JFK airport; several press conferences; in their rooms at the Plaza Hotel; in the backstage at the Ed Sullivan Show; hanging out with the legendary DJ Murray the K; and the frantic return home.

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  • 1971
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    Får de komma igen? Om nyfascistica tendenser i Västtyskland

    Får de komma igen? Om nyfascistica tendenser i Västtyskland

    1 1971 HD

    Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany.

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  • 2020
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    A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. Warren

    A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. Warren

    1 2020 HD

    A documentary on the life and career of the legendary British exploitation film director Norman J. Warren, who gained a name for himself in the sexploitation business in the late 1960s before moving into low budget horror pictures in the 1970s and 1980s. Produced for the American release of "Inseminoid", which debuted on Blu-Ray in the USA on March, 10th 2020, this extensive documentary draws on hours of footage of Warren and also some of his best known collaborators such as the screenwriter David McGillivray.

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  • 1962
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    Fuse

    Fuse

    7.60 1962 HD

    Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

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  • 2014
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    The World Heritage

    The World Heritage

    8.00 2014 HD

    TBS’s ”World Heritage,” is a 30-minute weekly documentary series that is registered by UNESCO under Natural Heritage, Cultural Heritage and Cultural Sciences. The program started in spring, 1996, and over a span of 10 years has covered about 560 topics around the world. To better convey the grandeur of these treasures of the world, TBS has shot the series in High-Definition. High quality images, impeccable narrative, and beautiful music...the elements are simple and straightforward. The producers feel that this style of presentation works best to visually document and preserve the wonders of the world, and continue to do so to this day.

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  • 2003
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    Mayday

    Mayday

    8.20 2003 HD

    Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

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  • 2019
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    跟着书本去旅行

    跟着书本去旅行

    1 2019 HD

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  • 2022
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    The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

    The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

    7.00 2022 HD

    The remarkable rise of one of the world’s most controversial leaders, Jair Bolsonaro, from obscurity to the presidency of Brazil.

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  • 1988
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    Découverte

    Découverte

    6.30 1988 HD

    Charles Tisseyre explores the world of science and technology through real-world stories. Each episode features reports delving into technological breakthroughs and developments in scientific research, environmental issues, space exploration, as well as health and medicine.

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  • 1996
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    Australian Story

    Australian Story

    4.80 1996 HD

    Putting the "real" back into reality television, Australian Story is an award-winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas — just authentic stories told entirely in people's own words.

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  • 1974
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    NOVA

    NOVA

    6.99 1974 HD

    PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.

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  • 2005
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    Scoop

    Scoop

    7.20 2005 HD

    Scoop is a comprehensive information programme of Television Broadcasts Limited. The content of the program is mainly based on entertainment news and personal follow-up of the artists, and will also be interspersed with the latest trends of TVB dramas and artists. Some entertainment news content clips will be rebroadcast on the next day's "Entertainment Live". This program will be broadcast on Jade Channel from 19:30-20:00 (Hong Kong time) from June 6, 2005, and will be broadcast every day from March 3, 2019, and will be broadcast on myTV (later myTV SUPER) to provide "Program Review".

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  • 2003
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    MythBusters

    MythBusters

    7.80 2003 HD

    MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.

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  • 1964
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    Horizon

    Horizon

    7.40 1964 HD

    Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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  • 2010
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    Ancient Aliens

    Ancient Aliens

    7.00 2010 HD

    Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago? From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate.

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  • 2017
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    RE: European Stories

    RE: European Stories

    6.80 2017 HD

    Discover Europe in all its diversity of viewpoints

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  • 2006
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    The investigation was conducted

    The investigation was conducted

    8.10 2006 HD

    The author's cycle of documentary programs of the NTV channel about the most high-profile crimes committed in the USSR. The story is accompanied by stories about the daily life of the inhabitants of the USSR. Presenter - Leonid Kanevskiy. Documentary television films are devoted to criminal cases from 1917 to 1991.

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  • 1992
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    Dateline

    Dateline

    6.40 1992 HD

    Dateline NBC, or simply Dateline, is a weekly American television newsmagazine series. It was previously the network's flagship newsmagazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasional editions that focus on other topics.

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  • 2001
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    Lecture Room

    Lecture Room

    10.00 2001 HD

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.82 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

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  • 1993
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    It's Not Rocket Science!

    It's Not Rocket Science!

    1 1993 HD

    C'est pas sorcier is a French educational television program that originally aired from November 5, 1994 to present.

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  • 2020
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    America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

    America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

    1 2020 HD

    A deep look into the growing divide in America from the Barack Obama era through the presidency of Donald Trump.

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  • 2013
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    Brave Son of India: Maharana Pratap

    Brave Son of India: Maharana Pratap

    6.20 2013 HD

    Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap is an Indian television series produced by Abhimanyu Singh of Contiloe Entertainment, based on the life of 16th century Rajput ruler of Mewar, Maharana Pratap Singh. The series premiered on Sony TV on May 27, 2013. The series is introduced by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan.

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