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Promised Land
Max
Promised Land
Israel is a country that is loved, hated, and often misunderstood by much of the world. Why is Jerusalem so important? Why do some believe in a messiah who will put things right? Amidst this seemingly endless battle over land and religion, surfing has emerged as an escape from the controversy. Promised Land is a unique look at this ancient place through the lives of two friends from different faiths, brought together by their love of the oceans that separate them. A FilmBuff Presentation.
Promised Land 2013
The School That Tried to End Racism
HULU
The School That Tried to End Racism
Marc Fennell explores a ground-breaking school program designed to provide a class of primary school students with the tools to identify racial bias and make positive change.
The School That Tried to End Racism 2021
21 Below
Prime Video
21 Below
On learning that her infant niece, Maya, is dying of a rare disease, newly pregnant Sharon decides she must return home to Buffalo, N.Y., to help out -- but instead, she steps into a hornet's nest of family turmoil. While Maya deteriorates, another crisis erupts when Karen -- Maya's mother -- becomes pregnant with the child of a former gang member in this cinema verité-style portrait of a family on the brink.
21 Below 2009
Animals Are Amazing: Untamed Africa: Part One
Prime Video
Animals Are Amazing: Untamed Africa: Part One
Emmy Award-winner John Hurt narrates world-renowned wildlife filmmaker Frederic LePage's breathtaking chronicle of one of nature's most awe-inspiring migrations, as hundreds of thousands of wildebeests and zebras embark on their treacherous trek toward the Masai Mara in Kenya.
Animals Are Amazing: Untamed Africa: Part One 2009
Gay Positive
Prime Video
Gay Positive
Gay Positive is the story of one man trying to bring to attention the outdated ban on gay men donating blood in the United States of America. This documentary is meant to inform and educate people on this controversial issue. A woman who recently received her nursing degree presents facts that could suggest that in order to keep our blood supply clean and abundant, we must update our current screening process for potential donors. By taking the camera to the streets, Gay Positive captures the opinions of people from many walks of life regarding how they feel about the ban today. One of the questions posed was, "If you were in need of a blood transfusion and the donor was healthy, would it concern you if this generous individual was a gay male?" Recent history proves that when tragedy strikes, donor centers are often in short supply and struggle to meet demand. The ban forces organizations such as The Red Cross to reject willing, disease-free, healthy individuals.
Gay Positive 2014
Graceland
Freevee
Graceland
In her small flat in Munich, Angelica lives an Elvis Presley-centered life, far away from the world, which she perceives as loud and bad sometimes. She spends from 600 to 700 Euros a month for Elvis fan stuff, but she only needs 20 Euros a week for food. The film is a portrait of a middle-aged woman, who wants to live as she wants to: with Elvis Presley.
Graceland 2013
Kingdom of Shadows
Prime Video
Kingdom of Shadows
KINGDOM OF SHADOWS follows three people grappling with the hard choices and destructive consequences of the U.S.-Mexico “drug war”. Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz weaves together the seemingly disconnected stories of an activist nun in deeply scarred Monterrey, Mexico, a U.S. Federal agent on the border, and a former Texas smuggler to reveal the human side of an often-misunderstood conflict that has resulted in the “disappearance” of more than 23,000 people in Mexico—a growing human rights crisis that only recently has made international headlines.
Kingdom of Shadows 2015
100 Men
Prime Video
100 Men
Over the course of four decades, filmmaker Paul Oremland documented his romantic and sexual encounters with roughly one hundred men. He preserved nearly all of these detailed recollections and threaded them together in a portrait of a gay life.
100 Men 2017
Hunger in America
Prime Video
Hunger in America
Hunger in America is a powerful documentary tackling the hunger epidemic in America. Narrated by James Denton. What does the face of hunger look like? Is it a child in Ethiopia? An aging man in Somalia? Or a family in poverty-stricken India? This eye-opening documentary will change your whole perception on what hunger looks like. In America today, one in six people, including hard-working men and women, suburban families and children are struggling with hunger. Tonight, over 50 million Americans won't have enough food to eat by day's end. The face of hunger in America is not just the homeless, like everyone thinks. As it turns out, the face of hunger in America is the single mom, it's grandparents raising babies, it's the elderly, it's the infirm. This is their story...
Hunger in America 2014
20 Years Of Madness
Freevee
20 Years Of Madness
When the eccentric cast of a mid-90s Public Access show in Detroit reunite after 20 years to make a new episode, they are forced to take a hard look at their lives and reconcile their teenage dreams with the realities of adulthood.
20 Years Of Madness 2016
The Locator
HULU
The Locator
A series documenting reunions of long-lost relatives and friends, with help from a location specialist.
The Locator 2008
Drifter
Prime Video
Drifter
A close-up portrait of a rebellious racecar-driving teen coping with the twists and turns of life in rural Hungary.
Drifter 2014
Remember Me
Freevee
Remember Me
HUNG Chun-hsiu spent seven years filming three residents of Kinmen island: an owner of a local photography shop, a retired officer and a Chinese woman from Sichuan province who came to Kinmen with the hope for a better future. Using photographs and archival materials, HUNG explores the personal stories of three residents and how they reflect upon the upheavals between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Remember Me 2022
Daddy and the Warlord
Prime Video
Daddy and the Warlord
In postwar Liberia Clarice Gargard searches the truth concerning her father's dubious connection to warlord Charles Taylor.
Daddy and the Warlord 2019
Purdah
Prime Video
Purdah
The inspiring story of a young Indian Muslim woman who trades her burka for dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women's Cricket Team and how the harsh realities for women in her country creates an unexpected outcome for her own family, ultimately shattering and fueling aspirations.
Purdah 2018
Field of Operations: Leningrad
Prime Video
Field of Operations: Leningrad
The siege began on 8 September 1941, when the Wehrmacht severed the last road to the city. Although Soviet forces managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, the Red Army did not lift the siege until 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began. The blockade became one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, and it was possibly the costliest siege in history due to the number of casualties which were suffered during it. In the 21st century some historians have classified it as a genocide due to the systematic starvation and intentional destruction of the city's civilian population.
Field of Operations: Leningrad 2021
Submarine Warfare
Prime Video
Submarine Warfare
In this documentary we get a glimpse into the world of submarines and have access to rare archive footage. From the first attempts during the American Civil War to WW2 and the nuclear subs of today, the history of the submarine has been fraught with difficulties.
Submarine Warfare 1946
Fleetwood Mac - Unbroken Chain
Prime Video
Fleetwood Mac - Unbroken Chain
Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll, it's all just part of the story… In 1978 Fleetwood Mac released an album that would go on to sell over 27 million records. Rumours was the high water mark in a career that has seen ups and downs that would have destroyed most bands. Yet somehow, Fleetwood Mac endures. FLEETWOOD MAC: UNBROKEN CHAIN looks at over thirty years of rock n' roll history, from the perspective of one of the world's most enduring bands.
Fleetwood Mac - Unbroken Chain 2004
Balentes
Prime Video
Balentes
When Sardinian-Australian Lisa Camillo, an anthropologist and film director, returns to Sardinia, an island of Italy, after a 18 year absence in Australia, to her horror she finds her large chunks of her homeland decimated by mysterious bombs. On her journey she uncovers secret NATO bombing ranges that have been having devastating consequences on the local human and animal population, setting her on a journey to expose the truth, join the islanders’ fight to reclaim their land and livelihoods and, in doing so, learning about herself and her roots.
Balentes 2018
Being Me
Prime Video
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
In Search of Chopin
Prime Video
In Search of Chopin
The latest in British documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky's In Search Of series, looking at the life of Polish pianist and composer: Frédéric François Chopin, whose grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and whose music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide.
In Search of Chopin 2014
Sister
Prime Video
Sister
Documentary about maternal health care workers in Ethiopia, Cambodia and Haiti.
Sister 2012
Behind the Blue Veil
Prime Video
Behind the Blue Veil
Beyond the mystical city of Timbuktu, Mamatal, the son of a Tuareg chief sets out on a journey across the Sahara to save his culture known as the blue people of the Sahara before they disappear. But when the North African government of Mali collapses, he finds himself and his people caught up in an international crisis,a battle between the Tuareg fighting for independence and Al Qaeda bent on taking over the Sahara to plot future terrorist attacks against the United States and Europe. documentary looks behind the international headlines of the crisis in the Sahara and exposes the government corruption and neglect of an indigenous people who might be the only hope for defeating Islamic radicals in the region.
Behind the Blue Veil 2013
Sunshine Hotel
Prime Video
Sunshine Hotel
Just decades ago, flophouses in New York housed nearly 25,000 men living on the margins of society. Today few remain. Filmmaker Michael Dominic takes his camera behind the doors of the Sunshine Hotel, one of the few remaining affordable refuges for the destitute and out of luck, a world that has seemingly stood still for more than eight decades. Here the hotel residents live in tiny four-by-six-foot cubicles crowned by a ceiling of chicken wire. Focusing on several of the Sunshine’s denizens – including a transgender woman saving all her money for additional surgeries and a hotel manager who doubles as its resident philosopher – Dominic presents a non-judgmental snapshot of a diverse group of characters as memorable as the characters at Harry Hope’s bar in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.”
Sunshine Hotel 2001
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin
Max
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin
Narrated by George Stevens Jr., this documentary by Oscar-winning director George Stevens trains its lens on World War II in a way that's rarely been seen before: in full color. The effect is nothing less than astounding, as viewers bear witness to the carnage of all-out battle in the European theater, which was home to some of the bloodiest skirmishes ever, from the Norman invasion to the fall of Berlin.
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin 1994
Vodka Factory
Freevee
Vodka Factory
Tatiana and her daughter Valentina live in the boring, provincial town of Zhigulyovsk 1000 kilometres south-east of Moscow. Valentina, 22, works in a vodka factory, while Tatiana, 50, is a bus conductor. Valentina, whose dream is to be a TV star in Moscow, has to overcome her own limitations as well as the irony and malice of her comrades at the vodka factory. Tatiana has to adapt her expectations to reality when her potential life partner turns out to be a part-time drunkard and a deadbeat. And on top of all this, both women have to think about Valentina’s son Danilo’s future. One of them has to give up the dream.
Vodka Factory 2011
The Mystery of the Black Mummy
Prime Video
The Mystery of the Black Mummy
Uan Muhuggiag is a place in the central Sahara located in Libya, and the name of the mummy of a small boy found there in 1958 by Professor Fabrizio Mori. The mummy displays a highly sophisticated mummification technique, and at around 5,500 years old is older than any comparable Ancient Egyptian mummy.
The Mystery of the Black Mummy 2003
It's Getting Dark
Freevee
It's Getting Dark
"Hello Rufus! Today they took my mother..." A little Dwarf writes to his brother from Magnitogorsk to Moscow. Karik is only 10 years old, but he already knows words like “search" well. Only when he goes from the description of the arrest to the description of the birthday dinner, you can guess what the child is writing. This letter will soon be eighty years old, but it could have been written today. After all, each of the numerous child heroes of this film has already experienced the same thing as Karik in Stalin's time.
It's Getting Dark 2016
Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets
Acorn TV
Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets
Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones
Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets 2020
Memory Builds The Monument
BET+
Memory Builds The Monument
Memory Builds the Monument uncovers the music, social challenges, and community of Houston’s historic 5th Ward as told first hand by aging community members who were there to experience one of the South’s most important music venues – Club Matinee.
Memory Builds The Monument 2021
The People of the Kattawapiskak River
Prime Video
The People of the Kattawapiskak River
Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat’s band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help. With the Idle No More movement making front page headlines, this film provides background and context for one aspect of the growing crisis.
The People of the Kattawapiskak River 2012
Everybody Dance
Prime Video
Everybody Dance
Explores the everyday life of five kids with different disabilities and how ballet has changed their lives.
Everybody Dance 2022
Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House
Prime Video
Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House
This documentary tells the story of the history of Ballyfin, how it played an important role in the political, artistic and social life of nineteenth century Ireland, and how it was abandoned by its Anglo-Irish owners at the beginning of the twentieth century. After the civil war, it was bought by the Patrician Brothers and used as a boarding school but eventually the upkeep became too much.
Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House 2017
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall
Prime Video
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall
Adolf Hitler spent the last ten days of his life in a bunker underneath the Chancellery of the Reich. Unwilling to face the consequences of defeat, the dictator ended his own life on April 30, 1945 in this fortified underground complex. Featuring exclusive interviews with the last survivor’s of Hitler’s inner circle and extensive archival footage, Death in the Bunker is an illuminating look at the Führer’s final decisions in preparation for his suicide.
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall 2004
Make Believe
Prime Video
Make Believe
A coming of age journey set in the quirky subculture of magic, this film follows six of the world’s best young magicians as they battle for the title of Teen World Champion.
Make Believe 2011
No Evidence of Disease
Freevee
No Evidence of Disease
Below the belt cancers and a below the radar cause are thrust into the limelight as N.E.D., or No Evidence of Disease, a rock band of GYN Oncology Surgeons, put the plight of their patients center stage in this riveting story of women fighting for their lives.
No Evidence of Disease 2015
Attaques de Requins à La Réunion : L'enquête
Freevee
Attaques de Requins à La Réunion : L'enquête
Attaques de Requins à La Réunion : L'enquête 2014
Welcome to Rap City
BET+
Welcome to Rap City
Through interviews and archival footage, learn how BET’s Rap City became a cultural touchstone and major platform for hip hop, thanks to its charismatic hosts, guests and iconic freestyles.
Welcome to Rap City 2023
Boomtowners
Paramount+
Boomtowners
"Boomtowners" plunges into a modern-day "gold rush" that's attracting thousands of people from all over the country to the Bakken, a region of North Dakota. An oil boom has turned the area into the epicenter of a white-hot industrial revolution, but a rise in jobs has also led to a surge in population and living costs. Experience this phenomenon first-hand through the eyes of newcomers and longtime residents trying to make a living there in this groundbreaking new docu-series about tapping into the American dream.
Boomtowners 2015
Pandora's Box: Lifting the Lid on Menstruation
AMC+
Pandora's Box: Lifting the Lid on Menstruation
Pandora's Box unmasks the global pandemic of menstrual inequity and period poverty. From Maasai villages, to Mumbai and on to London, we meet young women who are forced to stay at home from school, or even drop out, merely because they don't have access to menstrual supplies. We meet formerly incarcerated women in the U.S. prison system who talk about their struggles to menstruate safely while deprived of basic human hygiene. One of them asks: "Isn't the ability to menstruate with dignity a basic human right?"
Pandora's Box: Lifting the Lid on Menstruation 2019