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Cultural Films
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Films on what people do and how they live. Patterns, film, music, writing, comedy, sports, and comedy.
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown
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In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era. By the end of...
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Step Into Liquid
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Thanks to Dana Brown's delightful Step Into Liquid, the surfing scene in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, should get a healthy boost. That's because Brown, in the tradition of his father, filmmaker Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer), has captured dazzling images of...
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Super Size Me
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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, rejected five times by the USC film school, won the best director award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for this alarmingly personal investigation into the health hazards wreaked by our fast food nation. Under extensive...
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One
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In William Greaves’s spontaneous, one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, Greaves presides over a beleaguered troupe of camera and sound men in New York’s Central Park in 1967, leaving them to try and decipher exactly...
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That's Black Entertainment
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Originally aired on Black Starz, this 3-part series presents an intriguing and entertaining view of the underground Black film industry of the 20's, 30's and 40's. The three part series, focusing on "Actors," "Comedians" and "Westerns" takes viewers on a...
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The Doctor, the Tornado, and the Kentucky Kid
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The Doctor, the Tornado, and the Kentucky Kid: The Sequel to "Faster" (Ultimate Collector's Edition) (2006)the electrifying follow-up to Mark Neale’s 2004 MotoGP smash hit FASTER. Narrated by Ewan McGregor, the movie tells the story of the biggest...
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Thin
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Lauren Greenfield’s debut as a documentary filmmaker is not for the faint of heart. In the United States, we have come to believe that the food we are eating is making us fat, which it is. The majority of American adults are clinically overweight or...
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
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As it turns out, Kirby Dick's eye-opening documentary isn't rated. When he submitted it to the Motion Picture Association of America, they slapped it with an NC-17 (though he had always intended to release it unrated). This is fitting since he sheds...
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Tokyo Olympiad
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The 1964 Olympics in Tokyo were a milestone as much for the intense athletic competition as the joyous commemoration of Japan's recovery following its defeat in World War II. Director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain) created an epic...
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Trekkies
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From a TV series that barely lasted three seasons in the 1960s, "Star Trek" has grown into a multi billion-dollar industry involving several spin-off series, numerous movies, and countless merchandise items. This phenomenon is due to the show's legions...
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