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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,603 films · Page 170.
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The documentary follows Half a Mill and his Brooklyn crew, The Godfia Criminals, as they record and struggle to launch Milíon, Half a Mill's latest album. Player Hating explores the connections of poverty, alienation, gangs, and violence in the lives of young "thugs".
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The film focuses on the Chinese government's classification of internet addiction as a clinical disorder and focuses on the treatment used in Chinese rehabilitation centres.
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The documentary examines Lempicka’s personal life, including her relationships with male and female models, her bisexuality, and her Jewish heritage. It features interviews with art historians, family members including her granddaughter and great-granddaughters, Broadway performer Eden Espinosa, collectors, and narration by Anjelica Huston. These elements are combined with archival materials to highlight themes of artistic survival, resilience, identity, and creative expression.
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The film starts by tracking the hypothetical savings of a typical depositor as they move around the global system, showing exploitation as various financial agents try to produce high returns. There are several interviews with investment managers, politicians, economists as well as homeless people and workers; the film sets them up as good guys and bad guys. Mark Mobius manages funds with a volume of about 12 billion dollars.
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thumb|left|Lilian and Dorothy Gish from Orphans of the Stormthumb|Monroe Hill: The eclectic, L-Shaped compound includes the James Monroe Law Office, c.1790, the Perry Mansion, and the colonnade wings. Through a number of interviews with experts and academics, Monroe Hill unearths the history of the site that contains the last remaining structures of the late 18th century southern plantation. These surviving structures are silent witnesses to Monroe's struggle as a farmer and a politician from 1789 through 1817.
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The film examines the destruction of two giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley six months before the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and uses the event to explore extremism, tolerance, identity, and the ways people and cultures are both divided and connected.
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The documentary follows Gaiman on his 2013 signing tour of the US and UK and also delves into his creative process and personal background. While dealing with the challenges of his extensive tour, he reflects on his youth, early creative success and the struggles of balancing creativity and life.It includes interviews with friends, artists, editors and other industry professionals.
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thumb|right|150px|In addition to the events surrounding Kehler and Corner, the film outlines a history of tax resistance in the US, citing resistance from American colonists, Henry David Thoreau (pictured), and those who opposed the Vietnam War. An Act of Conscience documents the events that followed the US government's seizure of Kehler and Corner's house in Colrain. In July 1989, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) holds a public auction to sell the home, seeking to recover $27,000 in back taxes and interest.
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The film opens with Otway performing Beware of the Flowers (Cos I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You, Yeah) on stage in front of over 20,000 people at an outdoor gig in his hometown of Aylesbury in 1978 before fast-forwarding to 2012, where Otway gives a talk to students at his old school on how to survive in the music industry. The documentary charts Otway's many—mostly failed—attempts to achieve chart success and the fame and fortune that accompany it, as well as how his dedicated fanbase helped secure him a second hit. Explaining his initial breakthrough, Otway recounts his appearance on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test, where, eager to make…
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In 1951, future Pro Football Hall of Famers Gino Marchetti, Bob St. Clair and Ollie Matson powered the University of San Francisco Dons to a 9–0 record. As one of the nation's top teams, USF seemed assured of their first-ever bowl bid and a payout that would save their cash-strapped program.
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Behind the scenes production footage and interview of cast and crew of 2008 film The Square.
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When the half-naked bodies of brilliant physicist, Dr Gilbert Bogle, and his lover, Mrs Margaret Chandler, were found in bizarre circumstances on a Sydney riverbank in 1963, it set into play an unprecedented forensic investigation. Autopsies offered little clue as to how the couple died, only that there were signs of a rapidly acting poison. Despite assistance from the FBI and Scotland Yard, the poison was never identified.
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Frank Morgan was a jazz saxophonist who got addicted to heroin and resorted to theft and cons in order to feed his addiction. As a result he spent a large portion of his life in prisons such as San Quentin. The film looks at Morgan's life via his archived footage and concert performances and through interviews with Morgan and the people who knew him.
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Documentation, Long Term Documentary
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