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Docudrama
see all genres ›Whether based on fact or toying with the line between truth and fiction, these tales keep one foot planted in reality's terra firma.
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Among Brothers
Based on real events, AMONG BROTHERS retells the story of the mysterious death of a college girl. While the police determined her death was an accident, the autopsy and other evidence, compiled by her family, tell a different story. On November 9th 1994, Jennifer Matthews, a senior at Bergan State University, was found dead...Start your free trial to watch
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Bad Blood
BAD BLOOD is one of the most hauntingly dramatic depictions of a real-life human tragedy ever made. Set in New Zealand in 1938, BAD BLOOD tells the story of Stanley Graham and his wife Dorothy. They're outcasts in the small village community because of their rude, antisocial behavior and their accumulation of financial...Start your free trial to watch
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Battleship Potemkin
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained one of the most influential silent films of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious...Start your free trial to watch
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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
Over the course of a little more than thirty-three-and-a-half minutes (or essentially a minute for each year of what is conventionally assumed to be the entirety of his life), the full story of Jesus Christ is conveyed by French director Alice Guy. The nativity, the parables, the disciples, the miracles,...Start your free trial to watch
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Carlos the Terrorist
CARLOS THE TERRORIST is the story of a desperate man on the run. After killing his underworld boss, a man turns to the CIA for help but finds the opposite extreme of terrorism as he must answer to the CIA’s double-cross demands for the return of his kidnapped family. Loosely based on the same fellow as the...Start your free trial to watch
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Carmel
From Israel's most important filmmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques, Gitai links his family history to ancient history. Through exquisitely composed long takes, he re-enacts the Jewish-Roman wars that began in 66...Start your free trial to watch
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City of Life and Death
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH, a stunning depiction of the Rape of Nanking, is "a film strong enough to change your life" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). Director Lu Chuan based the film on the recorded witness testimony from the real-life survivors of the massacre, meticulously recreating the infamous reign...Start your free trial to watch
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The Crown Witness
Based on an actual event, THE CROWN WITNESS tells the story of an investigative reporter and a gangster who meet for an interview. The reporter carries a deep dark secret while the gangster (who has turned over a new leaf for a woman) is the star witness in a trial against his former mob associates. Both...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cry of Jazz
Filmed in Chicago and finished in 1959, THE CRY OF JAZZ is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race: a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known...Start your free trial to watch
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December 7th
John Ford and Gregg Toland's DECEMBER 7TH was banned by the U.S. government for nearly fifty years. This restored version runs 82 minutes (with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese language sequences) whereas a censored 34 minute version of the film was released in the 1940s and earned John Ford his fourth Academy...Start your free trial to watch
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The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
As the kinetoscope business declined in the second half of 1895, the Edison group hired Alfred Clark to make some films of original subject matter. He produced a number of historical tableaux, including BURNING OF JOAN OF ARC. Several of these, including THE EXECUTION OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, used the...Start your free trial to watch
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Fire Rescue
Staging a fire rescue inside the Black Maria was no easy feat and this short may have used members of a local fire department. Films of fire departments in action were among the most popular subjects in the 1890s. The R that appears in the frame indicates that the picture was made under the auspices of Raff & Gammon,...Start your free trial to watch
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Firemen Rescuing Men and Women
A devastating fire swept the Windsor Hotel in New York City on March 17, 1899, causing numerous deaths. Various New York-based motion picture companies filmed the ruins. J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith also shot reproductions of the Windsor Hotel fire using miniatures (and they may have made this...Start your free trial to watch
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Greek Pete
GREEK PETE gives us a glimpse into the world of Pete, a very popular escort who was voted "Best Escort" at the "World Escort Awards" in Los Angeles in 2008. We meet Pete prior to his fame when he arrives in London with the hope of increasing his business as an escort, always up for it and always horny, a fantasy for those...Start your free trial to watch
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Headin' Home
The legendary Babe Ruth stars, essentially, as himself in this baseball drama about a small town boy that makes it big in the major leagues. Despite an initial rough patch with the game, he soon produces remarkable results at the plate. Home runs lead to fame and fortune, of course, but will success change him?Start your free trial to watch
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Implied Harmonies
Hal Hartley's conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to create the staging for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen's opera, "La Commedia." Featuring Louis Andriessen, Christina Zavalloni, Claron McFadden, Jeroen...Start your free trial to watch