2015

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Transfixed
Transfixed
Transfixed tells the story of highly unconventional romance: Martine Stonehouse and John Gelmone are middle-aged underdogs, living with Asperger Syndrome - an autism spectrum disorder that makes communication with others extremely difficult. Despite their social limitations, both dream of getting married, but straight identifying John refuses to tie the knot until transsexual Martine gets a real vagina. The only problem: no doctor in Canada will perform operation because Martine's obesity makes her too great of a surgical risk. Will Martine and John find the happiness together that they deserve? Transfixed is a deeply human story about love, freedom, and self-actualization.
Transfixed 2015
City Slickers Can't Stay with Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story
City Slickers Can't Stay with Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story
The story of legendary Hall of Fame Coach Bob Larsen, his career, success and influence at every coaching level.
City Slickers Can't Stay with Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story 2015
Between the Devil and the Deep
Between the Devil and the Deep
An abalone poacher, a dead son, and a broken love story are all bound together by a single theme: the curse of the abalone - an endangered marine snail prized as an aphrodisiac in China, but illegal harvesting has disastrous effects on the traditional fishing community near Cape Town, South Africa.
Between the Devil and the Deep 2015
Ninth Floor
Ninth Floor
In her first feature-length documentary, director Mina Shum (Double Happiness) takes a penetrating look at the Sir George Williams University riot of February 1969, when a protest against institutional racism snowballed into a 14-day student occupation at the Montreal university.
Ninth Floor 2015
Gays in Prison
Gays in Prison
Gays in Prison is a documentary that puts Latrice Royale, popular star of RuPaul's Drag Race, front and center, as host, narrator and interviewer as she reveals her own experiences in jail and explores the stories of gay men in and out of prison. The film develops themes of redemption, lessons learned and, yes, even humor and love. The documentary also reveals gay prison pen pals and those on the outside finding love behind bars.
Gays in Prison 2015
Over My Dead Body
Over My Dead Body
Over My Dead Body 2015
Airshow
Airshow
Airshow 2015
Stink!
Stink!
"Stink!" opens with a foul smell and a pair of kids pajamas. And a single father trying to find out what that smell could possibly be. But instead of getting a straight answer, director Jon Whelan stumbles on an even bigger issue in America, which is that some products on our store shelves are not safe -- by design. Entertaining, enlightening, and at times almost absurd, "Stink!" takes you on a madcap journey from the retailer to the laboratory, through corporate boardrooms, down back alleys, and into the halls of Congress. Follow Whelan as he clashes with political and corporate operatives all trying to protect the darkest secrets of the chemical industry. You won't like what you smell.
Stink! 2015
Madina's Dream
Madina's Dream
An unflinching and poetic glimpse into a forgotten war, Madina’s Dream tells the story of rebels and refugees fighting to survive in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. After decades of civil war, South Sudan achieved its independence from Sudan in 2011. But inside Sudan, the conflict continues. Sudan’s government employs aerial bombings and starvation warfare against the inhabitants of the Nuba Mountains. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled to refugee camps in South Sudan or remain trapped in the war zone. Eleven- year -old Madina and countless others dream of a brighter future for the Nuban people.
Madina's Dream 2015
Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play
Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play
From Brazilian favelas to dusty Congolese villages, from a neolithic Scottish island and Mayan royal courts to modern English soccer pitches, “Bounce” explores the little-known origins of our favorite sports across the centuries, and traces how a simple invention like the ball has come to stake an unrivaled claim on our passions, our gaming consoles, our money, and our lives. Equal parts science, history and visual essay, “Bounce” removes us from the scandals and commercialism of today's sports world to uncover the true reasons we play ball, helping us reclaim our universal connection to the ball games we love.
Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play 2015
Cold Nights Hot Salsa
Cold Nights Hot Salsa
The passionate story of two young salsa dancers from Montreal, in love with dancing and each other, who, over three ambitious years, set their sights on winning a World Salsa Championship
Cold Nights Hot Salsa 2015
Monster Madness: The Gothic Revival of Horror
Monster Madness: The Gothic Revival of Horror
With sex, gore, and the Dracula/Frankenstein combo, Hammer's House of Horror changed the genre forever in the 1950s. With marquee actors like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, Hammer ruled the horror world for a decade. See the legendary tale of blood, babes, and vampire bats here.
Monster Madness: The Gothic Revival of Horror 2015
Barge
Barge
A towboat drifts down the Mississippi River, due for the port of New Orleans. The water, the banks, the bright lights of a port ahead; the lure of a coming paycheck and a home-cooked meal. This is the world of BARGE. A green deckhand following his father into the family business. A former convict working his way upward job by job, in the hopes of being First Mate. A thirty-eight year veteran engineer in no hurry to retire. An ancient waterway pulling a double shift as the backbone of a national economy; a tangle of thick steel cables, tied together just right. As long as the boat’s moving, they’re making money. An intimate portrait of the machinery of American ambitions.
Barge 2015
Wide Open Sky
Wide Open Sky
Wide Open Sky follows the heart-warming story of an outback Australian children's choir. Chronicling their journey from auditions to end-of-year concert, the trials of trying to run a children's choir in a remote and disadvantaged region are revealed. Here, sport is king and music education is non-existent. Despite this, choir mistress Michelle has high expectations. She wants to teach the children contemporary, original, demanding music. It becomes clear for the children to believe in themselves, they all need someone who believes in them. Set against a landscape of devastating beauty, Wide Open Sky is a moving portrait of the fragile world of possibility that is childhood and reminds us why no child, anywhere, should grow up without music.
Wide Open Sky 2015
Addicted to Sheep
Addicted to Sheep
Set in the North Pennines, an intimate portrait of a year in the life of tenant hill farmers Tom and Kay Hutchinson as they try to breed the perfect sheep.
Addicted to Sheep 2015
Battlezone WWII: The Nazis Strike
Battlezone WWII: The Nazis Strike
A German Corporal and a Polish Artilleryman remember the Nazi's Blitzkrieg strike on Poland in 1939.
Battlezone WWII: The Nazis Strike 2015
Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
On New York's rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side sits the Streit's Matzo factory. When its doors opened in 1925, it sat at the heart of the nation's largest Jewish immigrant community.
Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream 2015
I'm With Phil
I'm With Phil
I'm with Phil is a feature length documentary concerning a series of events that transpire in a small Alabama town with a very unique name, Phil Campbell.
I'm With Phil 2015
Peanut Gallery
Peanut Gallery
Filmmaker Molly Gandour, in her mid-20s, returns to her childhood home in Indiana to speak with her parents in depth for the first time about her sister's death from cancer sixteen years earlier. The filmmaker comes of age as she weaves a deeply observed portrait of a family unearthing a long ago loss. Unflinching and poignant, Peanut Gallery shows us how we can transform when we begin to fill the silences between those closest to us.
Peanut Gallery 2015
A Tale of Love, Madness and Death
A Tale of Love, Madness and Death
"My uncle is schizophrenic and my grandmother suffers from a terminal illness. My grandfather, who is unable to take care of them both, must decide between his wife and his son." So begins Mijael Bustos Gutiérrez's remarkable documentary about a family caught between love and duty.
A Tale of Love, Madness and Death 2015
Down, But Not Out!
Down, But Not Out!
The twenty four hours of four amateur women boxers as they step for the first time into the ring.
Down, But Not Out! 2015
A Sinner in Mecca
A Sinner in Mecca
For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden in the country and homosexuality is punishable by death. For filmmaker Parvez Sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he embarked on his Hajj pilgrimage, a journey considered the greatest accomplishment and aspiration within Islam, his religion. On his journey Parvez aims to look beyond 21st-century Islam’s crises of religious extremism, commercialism and sectarian battles. He brings back the story of the religion like it has never been told before, having endured the biggest jihad there is: the struggle with the self.
A Sinner in Mecca 2015
Left On Purpose
Left On Purpose
Left on Purpose is a documentary film about the friendship between an aging anti-war activist who has decided that his last political act will be to take his own life and the filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story.
Left On Purpose 2015
Being Me
Being Me
Through candid interviews with transgender youths like Isabelle Langley, 10, BEING ME takes us into the world of young people who feel like their true gender is not their biological one. Like Isabelle, they are coming out to their families and friends and demanding to be accepted for who they are.
Being Me 2015
Amazon Presents Paul Weller LIVE, at The Great Escape
Amazon Presents Paul Weller LIVE, at The Great Escape
Live from Brighton, UK, Amazon Front Row presents Paul Weller at Great Escape. The award-winning and Multi-Platinum singer-songwriter performs songs from his new album Saturn's Patter, as well as classics songs.
Amazon Presents Paul Weller LIVE, at The Great Escape 2015
The Age of Hubble
The Age of Hubble
A force of high-tech telescopes, led by Hubble in space, has delivered an unprecedented chain of discoveries about how galaxies took shape, how stars live and die, and how life began. What are we learning about the universe and ourselves in this Age of Hubble?
The Age of Hubble 2015
The Hunt
The Hunt
The contests between predators and prey are the most critical events in nature. The outcome of these interactions is seldom a foregone conclusion. For both sides, it is a matter of life and death. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this series takes an intimate look at the remarkable strategies of hunters and, in some cases, the hunted, exploring the challenges animals face and the tactics they employ. It is how animals respond to a particular challenge that determines whether they are successful. The strategies of both predators and prey are shaped by where they live, so each episode focuses on one principal habitat, whether savannah, jungle or ocean.
The Hunt 2015