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Biographical Films
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Films that focus on one person, couple or family's life.
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The Red Baron
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Baron Manfred von Richthofen downed 80 Allied planes during the First World War, a record unequaled in the annals of military aviation. Rare film footage of his daring exploits and personal interviews with the last surviving pilots who flew with him and...
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Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser
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This exemplary documentary about seminal jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk reaps the benefits of multiple blessings, including the skilled editorial hand of director Charlotte Zwerin and the patronage of executive producer (and erstwhile jazz...
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Touch the Sound: Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie
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While still a student, Evelyn Glennie learned that she was going deaf. Rather than abandon her study of music, in which she had shown such talent, she instead turned her focus toward percussion instruments and developed her ability to feel the sound...
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Townes Van Zandt: Be Here to Love Me
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You might have never heard of Townes Van Zandt. You might not even know his songs. But this Texan's music was profoundly influential on his peers--so much so that some of the folks interviewed for Be Here to Love Me, a documentary about Van Zandt's work...
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U.S. vs. John Lennon
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They were complex times.
Yet, despite the apparent vacuousness of postmodern America, Lennon’s times don’t seem very far removed from our own. The only illustration one needs is footage of Nixon insisting that troop drawdowns are at hand (years before...
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Unknown White Male
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Just imagine waking up tomorrow with no memory of today or any other since the day of your birth. Imagine living without a history, without experience, no relationships, no past troubles. Imagine starting your life over again, making a new set of...
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Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, The
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Simple yet riveting, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till articulates the madness of racism in the South of the 1950s. Combining archival photos and footage with deeply felt interviews, this documentary tells the harrowing story of what happened when a...
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Up Series, The
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"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man."
Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, renowned director Michael Apted has explored this Jesuit maxim. The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over...
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War Photograher
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In this engrossing, Academy Award-nominated documentary, director Christian Frei follows photojournalist James Nachtwey into the world's combat zones as he fights to capture the struggles of those who face harrowing violence in places such as Kosovo,...
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War Photographer
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The great photojournalist Robert Capa said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." James Nachtwey, a committed, shy man, considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time, has been close enough for...
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