Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut
2023-10-15At the turn of the 20th century, a deadly blight accidentally imported into the U.S. from Asia devastated the American Chestnut. Within a span of only...
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Mark Twain
2002-01-14Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.
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Incident at Oglala
1992-05-08On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a grou...
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The Catch of the Season
1938-05-12The lifecycle of a freshwater trout; looking in detail at the development of a trout embryo and hatchling. Also shows the techniques involved in dry-f...
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La Fascination des femmes pour Hitler
2011-09-08For decades, Eva Braun was seen as Adolph Hitler's "dumb blonde" - just a pretty distraction for the Nazi dictator. But more recently, historians have...
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Am Kölnberg
2014-09-28The tower block area "Am Kölnberg" has a bad reputation. People who - for any number of reasons - ended up on the edge of society, live here alongside...
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The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
2005-03-22Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural infl...
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For All Mankind
1989-11-01A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary ...
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Dogtown and Z-Boys
2002-05-10This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern ...
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2023 IRONMAN World Championship Documentary
Since its inception in 1978, the IRONMAN World Championship has demonstrated not only the unrivaled physical ability and enduring drive of the top end...
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Death By China
2012-08-17In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization with the strong support of a Democratic President and Republican Congress. Before the ink was dry o...
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TDS, derrière l'écran des Travailleuses Du Sexe
2024-11-20"TDS, derrière l'écran des travailleuses du sexe" is a deep dive into the lives of Betty, Anaïs, Noochka, Manon, and Barty. They have all ventured int...
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The Shark Is Still Working
2009-05-02After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways in which Jaws has helped to sh...
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Tongues Untied
1990-03-16Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. ...
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005-07-17How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to wa...
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The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas
2026-05-14Sandra Oh, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Kumail Nanjiani, Amanda Nguyen, Connie Chung, and beyond: their worlds may be disparate, but they’ve all, in their un...
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The Mysteries of the Giants
2018-10-04When a huge meteorite crashed into the earth 66 million years ago and caused the disappearance of the dinosaurs, some of the planet’s tiniest species ...
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Operation Orangutan
2015-04-22A rehabilitation centre in western Kalimantan in Borneo aims to rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned orangutans for release back into the wild...
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