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Biography, documentary film
ReMastered: Tricky Dick & the Man in Black is about the relationship between Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon and Cash's historic performance at the White House on April 17, 1970. During the visit, it becomes apparent that Cash's emerging ideals clashed with Richard Nixon's policies.
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documentary film, Documentation, transgender film
Told through the narration of Sandy Stone, who acts as a sort of tour guide, the film documents the lives of a group of transgender individuals, and one intersex individual, living in San Francisco, California. The narration provided by Stone is cut with interviews that develop and illustrate the ideas and themes she discusses in her vignettes. The film is shot on location in San Francisco, with the interviews of the subjects taking place in their natural settings and surroundings including their homes, offices, and the streets of San Francisco.
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A Most Beautiful Thing follows the story of the first African American public high school rowing team in the United States. Formed in the 1990s at Manley High School and based in Chicago's West Side, the team was made up of young men, many of whom were members of rival gangs. Reuniting after 20 years, the team gets back on the water to prepare to race in the 2019 Chicago Sprints, the largest rowing regatta in the Midwest.
documentary film, Documentation
Biography, documentary film, Documentation
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The documentary comes out of Helfand's desire to have a safer environment for her parents to live in, after she discovers that they covered their house in vinyl siding. Throughout the documentary, Helfand intends on revealing that vinyl siding creates a dangerous living environment for people living in the house covered with vinyl siding, and for the environment around them. To explore her theories, Helfand and her team visit three different locations.
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documentary film, Documentation, Horror
The documentary mainly focuses on the evolution of the horror film genre in the United States, how horror films have adapted over time in accordance with the changing fears of the American public, and the connections between major events in the U.S. and the attraction that horror films have to moviegoing audiences. The film features interviews with a number of filmmakers, producers, and historians: Darren Lynn Bousman, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Joe Dante, Dennis Fischer, Mick Garris, Tom McLoughlin, John Kenneth Muir, George A.
documentary film, Documentation
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documentary film, Documentation, silent film
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documentary film, sport film
Greg LeMond in 1986 became the first non-European professional cyclist to win the Tour de France. He then recovered from a near-fatal shooting accident during an off-season hunting trip to win the 1989 Tour de France in Paris, on the Champs-Élysées, in dramatic style. A winning margin after three weeks of racing of only eight seconds, over his former teammate Laurent Fignon, made it the closest finish in the history of the race.
documentary film, Documentation, Science fiction
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Biography, documentary film
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This documentary follows Philip Seymour Hoffman as a concerned citizen on an uncensored journey of the state of American democracy. The film examines how the American political process addresses, and often fails to address, the country's most pressing issues. The film answers the question, is there a difference between Republicans and Democrats?
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The opening scene of the play shows a table inside the Omar Khayyám tandoori restaurant in Bradford, a converted Presbyterian church, where Harrison is holding a banquet with invited guests such as Omar Khayyám, Salman Rushdie, Voltaire, Molière and Lord Byron. Harrison appears sitting at the table drinking wine, expecting his guests and making a toast, in the name of Omar Khayyám, to Rushdie and all those who had experienced persecution on religious grounds. From the initial scene the audience is led to anticipate a feast.
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The documentary follows how the seven children of Paul and Vikie Shanks, four of whom are autistic, are coping with life and handling the traumatic event of their father's 2007 suicide.