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The Endless Summer
They call it THE ENDLESS SUMMER: the ultimate surfing adventure, crossing the globe in search of the perfect wave. From the uncharted waters of West Africa, to the shark-filled seas of Australia, to the tropical paradise of Tahiti and beyond, these California surfers...Watch Movie
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Divine Horsemen
In 1946, Maya Deren was the first filmmaker ever awarded an artistic Guggenheim grant. With the $3,000 prize money, she traveled to Haiti, a country she would visit four times and where she would spend a total of nearly two years. Deren was the first known white woman to became a high priestess...Watch Movie
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The Ambassador
This darkly comic, genre-bending piece of gonzo journalism from international provocateur Mads Brügger (filmmaker of Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner RED CHAPEL) rips the corroded lid off the global scheme of political corruption and exploitation happening in one of the most dangerous places on...Watch Movie
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Vienna's Lost Daughters
A film filled with life and profound optimistic women. As Jewish children they grew up in Vienna and were part of the ‘Children’s Transport’, their parents organised this amazing rescue from the Nazis in 1939. Today these orphaned and transported daughters live in New York,...Watch Movie
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Leviathan
One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries in recent years, LEVIATHAN is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts (at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Herman Melville's...Watch Movie
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Salut les Cubains
The final film in the CINEVARDAPHOTO triptych is the oldest, SALUT LES CUBAINS. In 1963, Varda thoughtfully gave order to 1,800 photos that she had recently taken on a trip to Cuba. In just 30 minutes, the photographer/filmmaker achieves a sprawling depiction of the country,...Watch Movie
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Cassis
CASSIS collapses a full day on the Mediterranean into a dazzling five-minute sketch. Time-lapse photography revels in the endless variations of atmosphere and light, with motorboats and sailboats sweeping across the bay like wind-up toys. The sudden flare of a lighthouse marks the end of the day...Watch Movie
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Horizons
One of the greatest if all-too-often overlooked landscape films in American cinema, Larry Gottheim’s HORIZONS displays a sensitivity to the seasons that seems more in keeping with Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” than the typical nature documentary. HORIZONS was not only Gottheim’s first...Watch Movie
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Up the Yangtze
In China, it is simply known as "the River." But the Yangtze (and all of the life that surrounds it) is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous,...Watch Movie
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Future So Bright
FUTURE SO BRIGHT is a documentation and mapping project that creatively catalogs abandoned spaces in the American West. Perhaps best classified as an experimental-documentary, the film explores ghost towns, abandoned military bases, and boarded up tourist traps to present a...Watch Movie
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Last Train Home
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial...Watch Movie
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Painting the Way to the Moon
In the 1980s, Princeton mathematician Ed Belbruno worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by day and made space-inspired paintings by night. In his free time, Ed became obsessed with figuring out a new way of space travel and over five years he toiled to find a solution....Watch Movie
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
The midwife of American avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas (along with his brother Adolfas) was unloaded in New York City by the United Nation Refugee Agency in 1949. There were surely worse places to end-up and Mekas was "hungry for culture," observing the immigrant community in...Watch Movie
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Remembering the Pentagons
REMEMBERING THE PENTAGONS is a slow, rhythmic journey into filmmaker Azadeh Navai's earliest childhood memories. With an old 16mm Bolex and a hand-made pinhole camera, Navai returns to Tehran and Esfahan, Iran, where the perceptions and recollections of places, emotions and...Watch Movie
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High There
Hunter S. Thompson meets Barry McKenzie in this dark nonfiction comedy about a real-life, legendary but down-and-out tabloid television journalist who heads to Hawaii to film a marijuana travel series, only to become lost as he uncovers a secret government war to control the marijuana trade. The...Watch Movie
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New York of Today
During the nickelodeon era, various film companies made short films showing tourist scenes of New York City. When a French company released SEEING NEW YORK in 1908, Variety found it "rather odd" that such pictures were not made by the "many native manufacturers eager for new...Watch Movie
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Around the World
Orson Welles made his first of many forays into television in 1955 when he signed on to produce, direct and host a series of twenty-six travelogues for British television. Six were ultimately broadcast, taking viewers to Paris, London, Madrid, the Basque Country and Vienna...Watch Movie
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Glastonbury Fayre
In the summer of 1971 the Glastonbury legend was born when the organizers decided to try and create a festival that would be a forerunner for an "alternative and utopian society." The festival encompassed Midsummer's Day, and in true medieval tradition, the area of Worthy...Watch Movie
