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2013

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When Jews Were Funny
Prime Video
When Jews Were Funny
From the 1930's to the 1970's, pretty well every comedian or comic you might see on TV or the movies was Jewish. Jews came to dominate the world of western‐society comedy on radio, stage and screen alike.Why did Jews dominate comedy in this period? And why did that domination end? Were Jews just funnier back then? And if so, did that extend to your average Jew on the street? In this 90 minute documentary acclaimed director Alan Zweig will examine these questions and many others in this exploration of 20th century humour, cultural decay, and a search for a missing heritage.
When Jews Were Funny 2013
Secretariat's Jockey, Ron Turcotte
Prime Video
Secretariat's Jockey, Ron Turcotte
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, this heartfelt documentary follows Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte as he returns to the people and places that mark his life, providing a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of this resilient and legendary jockey. Few jockeys have won America's Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Only three have won in the last 65 years. Ron Turcotte is one of them. In 1973, this legendary rider from New Brunswick, Canada piloted Secretariat, the greatest racehorse of all time, to victory and acclaim in the sport's three most prestigious races. But a fall in 1978 left Turcotte a paraplegic and put an end to an illustrious 16-year career.
Secretariat's Jockey, Ron Turcotte 2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Prime Video
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Professor Gates describes the history of the African American people by talking to historians, authors, and the people who made history.
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2013
A Year in Burgundy
Prime Video
A Year in Burgundy
This documentary follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France, delving into the cultural and creative process of making wine. You'll never look at wine the same way again.
A Year in Burgundy 2013
Lord Montagu
Prime Video
Lord Montagu
As the youngest member in parliament and sole heir to his family's estate, Lord Montagu's life was rich and privileged. However, in 1954 he become the focus of a national scandal that changed his life forever and set him on course to be one of England's most controversial and iconic aristocrats.
Lord Montagu 2013
Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News
Prime Video
Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News
Murder is the leading cause of work related deaths for journalists as censorship increases worldwide. In addition to those who have been killed, dozens have been attacked, kidnapped, or forced into exile in connection with their coverage of crime and corruption. Journalists reporting from Mexico, Russia and the conflict zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria tell their personal stories of kidnapping, intimidation, and beatings. They've experienced the loss of colleagues in the field and have been close to death themselves. Their stories are heartfelt, captivating, engaging and at moments - unbelievable.
Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News 2013
Beyond Bollywood
Prime Video
Beyond Bollywood
Documentary following four artists working behind the scenes as a part of the world's fastest growing film industry.
Beyond Bollywood 2013
The Image Revolution
Prime Video
The Image Revolution
Twenty years ago, seven superstar artists left Marvel Comics to create their own company, Image Comics, a company that continues to influence mainstream comics and pop culture to this day. Image began as more than just a publisher - it was a response to years of creator mistreatment, and changed comics forever. The Image Revolution tells the story of Image Comics, from its founders' work at Marvel, through Image's early success, company difficulties during the comics market implosion, and ultimately the publisher's new generation of properties like The Walking Dead. Filled with colorful characters, the film is a clarion call to artists to take control of their destiny.
The Image Revolution 2013
Miss You Can Do It
Max
Miss You Can Do It
Miss You Can Do It chronicles Abbey Curran, Miss Iowa USA 2008 and the first woman with a disability to compete at the Miss USA Pageant, and eight girls with various physical and intellectual disabilities as the girls participate in the Miss You Can Do It Pageant. Abbey founded the annual Miss You Can Do It Pageant in 2004 and girls and their families travel from all around the country to participate in this one night where their inner beauty and abilities reign.
Miss You Can Do It 2013
The Whole Gritty City
Prime Video
The Whole Gritty City
Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get them ready to perform in the Mardi Gras parades, and teach them to succeed and to survive.
The Whole Gritty City 2013
My Name Is Salt
Prime Video
My Name Is Salt
Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives.
My Name Is Salt 2013
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
Prime Video
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
An uncensored look into the lives of the female stand-up comedian. Featuring interviews and live performance footage from some of today's most prominent female voices in stand-up comedy and entertainment, this revealing documentary sheds light on the legacy of the female comedian and the dedication, courage and passion that is required to be successful in the male dominated stand-up comedy business.
Why We Laugh: Funny Women 2013
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Prime Video
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Based on the best-selling book by Ambassador Yehuda Avner, The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers takes the audience inside the offices of Israel's Prime Ministers through the eyes of an insider, Yehuda Avner, who served as a chief aide, English language note-taker and speechwriter to Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. The first of two parts, The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers focuses on Ambassador Avner's years working with Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir and then US Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin and reveals new details about the Six-Day War, the development of Israel's close strategic relationship with the United States, the fight against terrorism, the Yom Kippur War and its aftermath.
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers 2013
Deadly Wives
HULU
Deadly Wives
Deadly Wives 2013
American Haunting
HULU
American Haunting
A unique look inside the terrifying lives of families encountering paranormal phenomena within their own homes, witnessing first-hand the frightening incidents they experience daily. Surveillance cameras set up throughout the houses capture every moment of the eerie activity that transpires and document the damaging toll it takes on the families' lives.
American Haunting 2013
Flex Is Kings
Prime Video
Flex Is Kings
Journey to the edge of Brooklyn and of street performance itself in this sparkling portrait of the freeing power of art. Reem is the savvy promoter, Flizzo the undefeated local legend, Jay Donn the innovator with the talent to carry him far away from home. Uniting them is a competitive dance form of dramatic contortions, simulated violence, flowing footsteps and the occasional humorous touch. Welcome to the world of Flex.
Flex Is Kings 2013
State of Play
Prime Video
State of Play
A feature documentary about the world of South-Korean professional gamers. Every year thousands of South-Koreans flock to the game stadiums in Seoul to watch the Pro League, a live sports event where professional gamers compete to be the best at one single video game: Starcraft. It’s a title many young South Koreans dream of. The game itself is more than a decade old, almost ancient in the fast developing world of video games, but in South Korea it has become a national past-time. Like most specator sports, this world of eSports rapidly evolved in a multi-million dollar business. In this story, we follow 3 boys in different stages of their career as a Pro-Gamer in South Korea. For some it will be a struggle to stay on top of their game, for others it might be the turning point of their lives
State of Play 2013
Drawing Dead: The Highs and Lows of Online Poker
Prime Video
Drawing Dead: The Highs and Lows of Online Poker
Drawing Dead is a documentary film about the highs and lows of online poker from two very different perspectives: a professional poker player worth millions, and a gambling addict.
Drawing Dead: The Highs and Lows of Online Poker 2013
Call Me Kuchu
Prime Video
Call Me Kuchu
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world. (from imdb)
Call Me Kuchu 2013
John Ford & Monument Valley
Prime Video
John Ford & Monument Valley
John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart discuss working with John Ford
John Ford & Monument Valley 2013
Playing with Fire
Netflix
Playing with Fire
Get an exclusive look inside the lives of Manhattan's movers and shakers in the world-renowned culinary scene. In a city known for its cut-throat competitiveness, watch as these food masters strive to balance their busy professional lives with their personal social lives. The fascinating bunch is a cross section of players who reside atop New York's glamorous food scene. See Anna Boiardi, Julie Elkind, Candice Kumai and brothers Daniel and Derek Koch illustrate New York's hippest foodie hangouts with big helpings of high energy and a side of drama! Playing with Fire is an American reality documentary television series on E! and premiered on March 17, 2013.
Playing with Fire 2013
My Five Wives
Prime Video
My Five Wives
A reality series about Utah polygamist Brady Williams, his five wives and 24 children, who believe their family is more about mutual love and commitment than religion.
My Five Wives 2013
Tales from the Organ Trade
Prime Video
Tales from the Organ Trade
A look into the underground world of trafficking human body parts.
Tales from the Organ Trade 2013
JFK: The Smoking Gun
Freevee
JFK: The Smoking Gun
Seventy-five percent of the American people still refuse to believe the official story of President John F. Kennedy's death. They do not think he was killed by a lone gunman but by a mysterious cabal that somehow conspired to have him killed. How can this be? How can a crime this famous, witnessed and investigated by so many, remain a mystery? This is what veteran Australian police detective Colin McLaren is determined to find out. JFK: The Smoking Gun follows the forensic cold-case investigation McLaren conducted over four painstaking years, taking us back to that tragic day in Dallas at Dealey Plaza where the shooting took place, to Parkland Hospital where the president was pronounced dead, to the Bethesda Naval Hospital where the autopsy was conducted and to the conclusions of the Warren Commission that have remained controversial to this day.
JFK: The Smoking Gun 2013
Extraordinary Women
Prime Video
Extraordinary Women
Extraordinary Women highlights the lives of 13 women, a mix of saints and sinners, who lived their lives to the full. It celebrates their achievements, exposes their flaws, but also poses the unsettling question, does such success also bring happiness?
Extraordinary Women 2013
Kennedy's Suicide Bomber
Paramount+
Kennedy's Suicide Bomber
In 1960, a lone assassin planned a deadly attempt on the life of President-Elect John F Kennedy. With a Buick packed with dynamite, nothing was going to stop Kennedy's Suicide Bomber.
Kennedy's Suicide Bomber 2013
Aliens Inside Us
Paramount+
Aliens Inside Us
Meet the trillions of alien microbes thriving inside our bodies and discover why we can't live without them.
Aliens Inside Us 2013
The Out List
Max
The Out List
Through the voices of Americans from all walks of life, The Out List explores the identities of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in America. In this series of intimate interviews, a diverse group of LGBTQ personalities bring color and depth to their experiences of gender and sexuality. With wit and wisdom, this set of trailblazing individuals weaves universal themes of love, loss, trial, and triumph into the determined struggle for full equality.
The Out List 2013
Faith Connections
Prime Video
Faith Connections
A filmmaker's insight into the biggest gathering on earth -the Kumbh Mela.
Faith Connections 2013
Model Killers
HULU
Model Killers
Models are the epitome of beauty, fame and glamour. They are the lucky few - blessed with faces and bodies worshiped and envied around the world. But what happens when that model high life all little girls dream of turns into a nightmare?
Model Killers 2013
Sriracha
Prime Video
Sriracha
Sriracha has earned a cult following, but the story of this spicy sauce is a mystery to most fans. Dedicated to Sriracha lovers, this fast-paced documentary travels around the globe to reveal its origin and the man behind the iconic 'rooster sauce.'
Sriracha 2013
Muse of Fire
Acorn TV
Muse of Fire
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!
Muse of Fire 2013
A Company of Heroes
Prime Video
A Company of Heroes
Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, fought their way through Europe, liberated concentration camps, and drank a victory toast in April 1945 at Hitler's hideout. Veterans from Easy Company, along with the families of three deceased others, recount their horrors and victories, bonds they made and the friends they lost.
A Company of Heroes 2013
Medora
Prime Video
Medora
In America's basketball heartland, four resilient boys from rural Medora, Indiana, fight to end their high school team's three-year losing streak, as their dwindling town faces the threat of extinction.
Medora 2013
Underexposed: A Women's Skateboarding Documentary
Freevee
Underexposed: A Women's Skateboarding Documentary
Professional skateboarder Amelia Brodka examines the skateboarding industry's approach to how it markets, promotes and supports women in its sport.
Underexposed: A Women's Skateboarding Documentary 2013
Made in America
Prime Video
Made in America
Hip-hop artist Jay-Z organizes the "Budweiser Made In America" music festival.
Made in America 2013
FrackNation
Prime Video
FrackNation
FrackNation is a feature documentary that aims to address what the filmmakers say is misinformation about the process of hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking.
FrackNation 2013
The Gettysburg Story
Prime Video
The Gettysburg Story
A documentary about the Battle of Gettysburg during the US Civil War.
The Gettysburg Story 2013
Femme
Prime Video
Femme
A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.
Femme 2013
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
Prime Video
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH is the first in a three-part documentary series entitled 'Creating Freedom' exploring the relationship between freedom, power and control in Western democracies. The series draws together interviews with some of the world's leading intellectuals, journalists and activists to offer an alternative perspective on today's society and the future we're creating. We do not choose to exist, or the environment we grow up in. Our starting point in life is one of passive reliance on forces over which we have no control. THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH shows that from birth onwards our minds are a battleground of competing forces: familial, educational, cultural, and professional. The outcome of this battle not only determines who we become, but the society that we create.
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth 2013