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SUB-GENRES · Physiology · Zoology
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Absolutely Safe
Last year nearly 400,000 women in the United States got breast implants. At a time when more women than ever are making this choice, fewer voices than ever seem to be asking, "Why?" And fewer still are asking, "Are they safe?" ABSOLUTELY SAFE takes an open-minded, personal approach to the controversy over breast implant...Start your free trial to watch
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The Beast Within
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: in living memory, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. THE BEAST WITHIN pursues the reasons for man's drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various...Start your free trial to watch
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Bestiaire
Fascinating and beguiling, BESTIAIRE is filmmaker Denis Côté's mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park. This strikingly gorgeous work about the act of looking slyly blurs the line between observer and observed (the film opens with art students...Start your free trial to watch
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El Caballo
When early Spanish explorers accidentally released wild horses (Equus cabalus) to the continent in the early 1500s, they returned an American original. Although the remnants of the escaped Spanish horse are protected by the 1971 Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act, each year thousands are removed from public lands across...Start your free trial to watch
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The Charcoal People
This deeply human documentary examines the subjects of environmental destruction from two distinct angles. Impoverished migrant workers are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoals for pig iron used pimarily in the automobile industry. The film examines their daily lives and work as they...Start your free trial to watch
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Chow Down
Root for Charles, John and Garnet as they try to buck the system of pills and procedures and outfox their heart disease and diabetes. When their doctors inform them that they can't get better, our intrepid trio tells the doctors to think again. With lighthearted animation, piercing expert interviews and a feisty attitude,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Commoners
In 1890, a wealthy eccentric named Eugene Schieffelin collected every bird ever mentioned by Shakespeare and released them into Central Park. The only one to survive in the New World was the European Starling, now among the commonest and most despised birds in America. THE COMMONERS is an essay film about European Starlings,...Start your free trial to watch
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Ghost Bird
Adrift in an Arkansas swamp in February of 2004, a lone kayaker encountered what he believed could only be a figment of his imagination: an enormous black and white bird that had been declared extinct in North America for over fifty years. Identified as an Ivory-Billed woodpecker, this sighting eventually launched a year-long...Start your free trial to watch
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Killing Coyote
It is estimated that 400,000 coyotes are trapped, shot and poisoned in America every year. Many are killed using your tax dollars. Many more are killed for fun, cash and prizes. Still, they continue to thrive. "A startling documentary that gracefully manages to neither preach about animal rights nor avoid the difficult...Start your free trial to watch
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Misconception
"MISCONCEPTION is composed of six parts that together chronicle the experience of one woman and her husband during the course of her natural childbirth. The film communicates the precision and care with which it has been assembled. [The] structure lends the film a pacing rhythm that has less to do with traditional...Start your free trial to watch
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The Power of Two
Inspired by their 2007 memoir, THE POWER OF TWO offers an intimate portrayal of the bond between half-Japanese twin sisters Anabel Stenzel and Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, their battle with the fatal genetic disease cystic fibrosis and their miraculous survival through double lung transplants. Defying all odds,...Start your free trial to watch
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Saving Flipper
Our love affair with dolphins began with the television series FLIPPER and ended in a multi-million dollar industry of abuse. From the dazzling sea shows where dolphins are driven to suicide to an annual dolphin slaughter in a small cove in Japan, SAVING FLIPPER reveals the nightmare behind the dolphin's indelible smile.Start your free trial to watch
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Seven Ages of an Alligator
Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in California. In early 1913 as Thanhouser staff and crews were setting up a facility in Los Angeles, cameraman Carl Louis Gregory was taking documentary footage, from...Start your free trial to watch
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Varmints
VARMINTS is a powerful, engaging, and surprisingly humorous expose of the strained relations between people and wildlife in the American West. The film artfully unravels the controversy surrounding this unassuming little rodent, leaving viewers to ponder questions about the ethics of hunting for sport and our relentless...Start your free trial to watch
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The Waiting Time
THE WAITING TIME is an experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation. It is a study of a year in the filmmaker's body at age thirty-five, becoming a mother for the first time. As a thinking woman's sex education film, THE WAITING TIME is a feminist...Start your free trial to watch
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Workingman's Death
WORKINGMAN'S DEATH is an unflinching portrait of the state of manual labor in the 21st century. In the Ukraine, a group of men spend long days crawling through cramped shafts of illegal coal mines. Sulfur gatherers in Indonesia brave the smoky heat of an active volcano and the treacherous trip back down....Start your free trial to watch