Social Issues
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Kurt and Courtney
This controversial documentary, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Nick Broomfield, begins as an observation of the music of Kurt Cobain and his Seattle/Portland contemporaries. KURT AND COURTNEY takes a different turn when Courtney Love intervenes. What emerges is a powerful...Watch Movie
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Uncle Bob
On a fateful night in 1974, millions of Americans tuned in to the Academy Awards® and watched in shock as an anonymous man streaked naked across the stage in the middle of the show. In an instant, the prankster named Robert Opel rocketed to iconic status, but to this day few people know the full...Watch Movie
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Split
SPLIT is a documentary portrait of International Chrysis, a New York "show girl" and drag queen. Surreal herself, Chrysis was one of Salvador Dali's inner circle, a woman from the waist up, a man from the waist down. The movie penetrates Chrysis' hidden world of transsexual and drag queens,...Watch Movie
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Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
Acclaimed filmmaker Nick Broomfield takes on his most controversial subject, Heidi Fleiss, madam to Hollywood superstars. With its parade of pimps, madams, hustlers, call girls, informers and cops, you quickly catch on that no one can be trusted.Everybody lies. It's RASHOMAN...Watch Movie
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Without a Home
Filmmaker Rachel Fleischer spent four years creating this extraordinary documentary that enters the lives of six homeless individuals in her hometown of Los Angeles. The film's subjects include families in temporary housing, a street performer who depends on banjo-playing for income and a...Watch Movie
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Fetishes
Controversial filmmaker Nick Broomfield takes a deep look at the kinks that make people tick. Filmed at Pandora's Box, the luxurious Sadomasochism parlor in New York, FETISHES reveals in both a humorous and informative manner the full range of fetishes, from rubber and infantilism, to...Watch Movie
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American Artifact
AMERICAN ARTIFACT chronicles the rise of American rock poster art since its birth in the '60s. The film explores the history and rise of the current rock poster movement in America, featuring a cast of quirky, interesting and extremely talented rock poster artists talking...Watch Movie
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The Vanishing City
Global trends in major cities around the world have changed rapidly in the last several decades. These trends are perhaps best exemplified in the city of New York. Told through the eyes of city planners, developers, politicians, small business owners, landlords and tenants,...Watch Movie
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Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban Southern California. This award-winning film from...Watch Movie
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Angst
Filmmaker Michiel van Erp follows Amsterdam inhabitants who struggle with various anxiety disorders as they attempt to overcome their fears. One of the inhabitants is a woman who must take extremely long showers to feel clean. Another one is a woman who was kidnapped by a terrorist group years...Watch Movie
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Party Monster
Originally a documentary (before it was made into an identically-named narrative film by the same filmmakers), PARTY MONSTER tells the story of the rise and fall of Michael Alig, a kid from Middle America who aspired to take the place of Andy Warhol. Michael quickly rose to become the biggest...Watch Movie
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That's Sexploitation!
In the era before R-rated movies, pornographic theaters and online prurient material, bawdy movies and erotic films were shuffled into the margins of the movie industry, created by independent producers and sold by hucksters and promoters with promises of salacious thrills and...Watch Movie
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The Arbor
Instead of making a conventional documentary or adapting Andrea Dunbar's play "The Arbor" for the screen, director Clio Barnard has crafted a truly unique work that transcends genre and defies categorization. Following two years conducting audio interviews with Dunbar's family, friends and...Watch Movie
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Elena
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes...Watch Movie
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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin was at once a major twentieth century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, Black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy. JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET captures on film the...Watch Movie
