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The 5th Quarter is a movie starring Andie MacDowell, Aidan Quinn, and Ryan Merriman. Driven by the tragic and fatal car crash that took the life of his fifteen year old brother Luke, and wearing Luke's number 5 jersey, Jon Abbate...

Something Ventured is a movie starring Bill Bowes, Herbert Boyer, and Po Bronson. The story of how a few individuals built an industry that would go on to finance nearly all of the major advancements in technology in the past 50...

At university, Prince William and Kate Middleton fall in love. However, their relationship becomes strained under intense media scrutiny.

Ozzy Osbourne's four decade track record as a culturally relevant artist is unprecedented, but his personal struggles have been shrouded in secrecy, until now. Featuring never before seen footage uncovered from the archives and inter

The Hollywood Complex is a movie starring Andrew Manley, Rosie Forti, and Toni Casala. We follow several kids with families with a dream of their offspring becoming a TV- or movie star, who for three months live in an apartment...

La conquête is a movie starring Denis Podalydès, Florence Pernel, and Bernard Le Coq. A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front is a movie starring Daniel McGowan, Lisa McGowan, and Tim Lewis. A rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls...

After a lifetime of hiding, Chely Wright becomes the first commercial country music singer to come out as gay, shattering cultural stereotypes within Nashville, her conservative heartland family and, most importantly, within herself.

The Captains is a movie starring William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, and Avery Brooks. The Captains is a feature length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other...

The untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their journeys from the late 1930's to the present day.

Friends, fans, colleagues, and rivals reflect on the talents and achievements of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Includes excerpts from an interview with Bill Gates and Jobs shortly after his cancer diagnosis.

The British Guide to Showing Off is a movie starring Andrew Logan, Brian Eno, and Grayson Perry. British artist and living legend Andrew Logan, loved the world over by celebrities and misfits alike, takes us under his glittering...

Have a Little Faith is a TV movie starring Laurence Fishburne, Bradley Whitford, and Anika Noni Rose. Writer Mitch Alboms reluctantly agrees to pen the eulogy of his childhood rabbi.

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis is a TV movie starring Jerry Lewis, Alec Baldwin, and Richard Belzer. Candid, unfiltered conversations with the iconic comedian.

Documents the lives of a group of bike messengers over a nearly three-year span. This film was made by couriers, about couriers, for a wide general audience.

Challenging all notions of genre, Semi Colin is a living, breathing art installation. Part performance, part art, part social comment, Colin philosophizes on his life's obsessive work as an erotic artist.

Bruce Lee is universally recognized as the pioneer who elevated martial arts in film to an art form, and this documentary will reveal why Bruce Lee's flame burns brighter now than the day he died over three decades ago.

BLUE-EYED BUTCHER is the shocking true story of a wife and mother driven to kill by her abusive husband, starring Justin Bruening (TV’s “Ringer”), Sara Paxton (The Innkeepers) and Lisa Edelstein (TV’s “The Good Wife”).

Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven' the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her l

A Vingança de Uma Mulher is a movie starring Rita Durão, Fernando Rodrigues, and Hugo Tourita. Roberto is a dandy!An unmoved, inscrutable and thus enigmatic man. He enjoys the aristocratic amusement of astonishment.Women, whom he...

En kongelig affære is a movie starring Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that...

The Broken Tower is a movie starring James Franco, Michael Shannon, and Stacey Miller. A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

In 1943, a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany uses new methods to rehabilitate those with spinal injuries in Great Britain. Based on actual events.

Hemingway & Gellhorn is a TV movie starring Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, and David Strathairn. A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For...

Batman versus the Predator? It happened. Raiders of the Lost Ark remade by kids? It happened. For years, people have been making home movies, many times using pop culture properties that they may not own, but love. In recent years, t

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

Beauty Is Embarrassing is a movie starring Wayne White, Mimi Pond, and Paul Reubens. A documentary on the life and current times of artist Wayne White.

Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp is a movie starring Betty Beck, Camille Beck, and Diane Beck. Examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim (1918-1992) and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of 7...

Les saveurs du Palais is a movie starring Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, and Jean d'Ormesson. The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.

A woman's idyllic life is shattered when her husband is killed in a senseless act of violence. As she prepares to take matters into her own hands, two unexpected encounters begin to change everything.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel is a movie starring Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, and David Bailey. A look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.

Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender is an episode of Imagine starring Freddie Mercury, Peter Freestone, and Roger Taylor. Documentary looking at the relationships and solo career of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

Die Vermessung der Welt is a movie starring Albrecht Schuch, Baldanpurev Sambuu, and Agi Ariunsaichan Dawaachu. Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists...

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 1

Get the Picture is a movie starring John G. Morris. Meet John G Morris, 95, a legend of photojournalism, whose unerring eye for the best shot has moved and changed the world. Morris, former Picture Editor of Life Magazine & New York...

Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.

The Startup Kids is a movie starring Trip Adler, Alexa Andrzejewski, and Mike Butcher. The Startup Kids is a documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. It contains interviews with founders of Vimeo, Dropbox,...

A story based on the life of journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who alerted the Swedish public to the threat of Fascism in the 1930s.

A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From h

Nash is a movie starring David Beckham, Kobe Bryant, and Doug Ellin. This coming of age documentary chronicles the life of NBA All Star Steve Nash as he tries to navigate his way through the somewhat toils of professional sports...

The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.

Documentary about deceased photojournalist Tim Hetherington directed by Sebastian Junger. Together with his friend and long-term collaborator Sebastian, Tim had travelled the world documenting conflicts in Afghanistan, Liberia and Li

Our Nixon is a movie starring Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman. Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate...

Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, one man who will change the history of the world forever. It follows his childhood to the death of his mother and his broken ambition to become an artist, then further to his entry into politics. His se

Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary is a movie starring Cornel West, Alice Walker, and Angela Davis. The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of the former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Flores Raras is a movie starring Glória Pires, Miranda Otto, and Tracy Middendorf. A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.