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The story of a girl who was never meant to be Queen, but who has led a monarchy through some of the greatest changes in modern history. Having celebrated 70 years on the throne before her passing, Queen Elizabeth II was England's longest reigning monarch. This is the story of a woman like no other, featuring unparalleled access to the largest archive resource in the world and sharing Elizabeth's life through the lens of intimate family relationships...
2) Barely legal
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A plant, a medicine, a drug? Illegal for decades for many confusing reasons, the most glaring being systematic racism, with cannabis, we are undoubtedly still stuck in a rut today in most of the United States.
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"A 7-foot-tall fundamentalist Baptist minister, Markie Wenzel made the decision at age 46 to come out as a transgender woman and start living as female. It was a decision that ended her 20-year marriage and estranged her from her three children. It also saw her dismissed from her church and exiled to the margins of her community. We meet Markie in 2008 as she is putting the pieces of her life back together, employed as a TSA agent and working toward...
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A backstage tour of rock history, Immediate Family explores the iconic work of four session musicians who helped created the sounds - and the hits - of the singer-songwriter era. Including legendary needle drops and commentary from superstars like Carole King, James Taylor, and Keith Richards, "Immediate Family" is the new film from the director of The Wrecking Crew.
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An engaging, high-impact program addresses a crucial need for honest, open financial advice in a pivotal stage of life. Through the compelling real-life stories of young people dealing with various financial and lifestyle scenarios, the program raises fiscal consciousness and knowledge on everything from banking and credit to investments, budgeting, insurance and self-employment. It features personal financial advice from respected national financial...
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January 18, 2019: it was the smirk heard round the world. Surrounded by cheering classmates on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., seventeen-year old Nick Sandmann, a student at northern Kentucky's private, affluent Covington Catholic High School, instantly became a global headline, villainized on social media and in the news as he appeared to confront Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder attempting to keep the peace at that...
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"An exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases in both human perception and the lens." - container
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Sight is arguably the most important sense. It translates light using photons into electrical pulses and travels into the visual cortex of the brains. This one-hour documentary looks at the science, medicine, and technology of vision and the individuals who are battling blindness disorders.
9) Festival
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Parker an office manager, propositions his staff to throw their first annual film festival. The office employees embrace the idea and help coerce Margaret, a web designer who works in the building, to go make a documentary about the top five winning submissions and their directors. Margaret hits the road and interviews the filmmakers in real-time while the interviews of the festival office employees in-between help us understand what it really means...
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Kobe Bryant spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers. Earning his nickname, the "Black Mamba" was a predator on the court, shredding his opponents' defenses, and scoring up to 81 points in a single game. He will forever be remembered as one of the greatest on and off the court.
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The dashing, dazzling and debonair Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who ₃swash buckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently in The Thief of Bagdad. He was the "First King of Hollywood." His life story unfolds with American history and the emergence of the film industry as a backdrop. His films crossed all borders. His physique and style made him the perfect American icon. At a time when the country did not have...
12) Style wars
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A documentary exploration of the subculture of New York's young graffiti writers and break dancers, showing their activities and aspirations and the social and aesthetic controversies surrounding New York graffiti. Dramatizes conflicts between graffiti artists and the city, as well as among the graffiti artists themselves.
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Do you remember sharing your feelings with someone through a 'mix tape?' Robert V. Galluzzo presents a joyful look at why this ritual of communication through music still continues to be so meaningful. With the insights of Henry Rollins, Money Mark, Kim Shattuck, Jennifer Finch, Jimmy Urine, Chantal Claret, Mona Lisa Murray, and many more, we'll get to the bottom of the long-lost art of the mix tape.
14) Crude impact
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"It took hundreds of millions of years for petroleum to form on Earth. It took just 150 years for human beings to bleed the planet of roughly half of this oil. ... Examines the catastrophic prospect of 'world peak oil', or the point in time when the quantity of petroleum extracted from the earth begins to irreversibly decline."--Container.
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Lifts the veil on the shocking reality that thousands of untested chemicals are in our everyday products, our homes and inside of us. Tells the personal stories of people who believe their lives have been affected by chemicals and takes viewers to the front lines as activists go head-to-head with the powerful and well-funded chemical industry.
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