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SUB-GENRES · Television · Radio
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Sex and Broadcasting
SEX AND BROADCASTING is a human and humorous look at New Jersey's WFMU, a radio station that refuses any programming boundaries. Most of its disc jockeys are unpaid volunteers, working for their love of surprising, spontaneous radio. They play everything from flat-out...Watch Movie
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Korla
KORLA is the amazing story of John Roland Redd, an African-American from Columbia, Missouri who migrated to Hollywood in 1939 and reinvented himself as a musician from India. He played the piano and organ, wore a jeweled turban, had a hypnotic gaze and never spoke a word while performing on his...Watch Movie
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Kate Plays Christine
A gripping nonfiction thriller, Robert Greene's KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed a shocking act on live television in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck's...Watch Movie
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Life on the V
In the early 1980s, Massachusetts radio personality John Garabedian came up with a plan to launch a TV channel to function as music television for the Boston-based college crowd. His goal was to take the Music Video television concept and make it live (real time) and local (catering to Boston's...Watch Movie
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In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko
Were it an episode in a lurid spy thriller, it would be dismissed as too fantastical: a dissident intelligence officer, a thorn in the side of a ruthless and unforgiving regime, dispatched in the most inventively terrifying of ways, by nuclear poisoning. Not only that, hotels,...Watch Movie
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Radicalized
A revolutionary film about the new season of political resistance in Los Angeles. RADICALIZED is the definitive voice of a generation documentary film, crafted from thousands of hours of footage shot over a three year period. Ideology meets reality and collides with the powers that be, as...Watch Movie
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Soap Life
SOAP LIFE chronicles the rise and fall of the American soap opera, attempting to find out why, despite millions of fans and viewers, these icons of American culture are disappearing from the television landscape. This informative doc features interviews with fans, writers, directors, producers,...Watch Movie
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The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
José Antonio Gutierrez was one of the 300,000 soldiers sent to war in Iraq by the US Army, a year ago last March. A few hours after the war began, his picture was broadcast all over the world: he was the first American soldier to be killed in the war. Behind the heroic tale...Watch Movie
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The Cropping of the Spectacle
In this live cinema essay, Ross Lipman investigates the birth of the Television Spectacle. Based loosely on the classic anarchist documentary POINT OF ORDER! (a film which at once deconstructed the hearings and re-invented documentary form), the performance integrates archival...Watch Movie
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Novelas do capeta
When we think of Brazil, we think of beaches, soccer, poverty and crime (the economic boom of the new millennium). What we do not think about is what everybody in Brazil thinks about: soap operas. In Brazil, they are called Telenovelas. Statistics show that eighty-seven...Watch Movie
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The Troubles We've Seen
One of the most important films of Marcel Ophuls' career has also been the least seen until now. Shot primarily in Sarajevo in 1993, during the siege of the former Yugoslavian city, THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN is an exploration of the ethical challenges of war reporting, in which...Watch Movie
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Denying Brazil
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of Black actors in Brazilian television "soaps." Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyzes race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Black...Watch Movie
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Wisconsin Rising
WISCONSIN RISING documents the largest sustained workers' resistance movement in American history. Wisconsin was a testing ground for the nation in 2011 as big money attempted to undo basic workers' rights when newly-elected Republican Governor Scott Walker suddenly stripped...Watch Movie
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This Will Only Hurt For a Minute
Charles E. Cullen has persevered as a television personality through sheer will. While his brand of entertainment may not be considered mainstream, Charles' odd sense of dark humor endeared him to a loyal and growing following. Whether it is his nightly television shows, films...Watch Movie
