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Das letzte Tabu (2024)

documentary film, Documentation

The Last Taboo deals with the topic of homosexuality in professional football. The film tells the personal stories of less than ten openly homosexual professional footballers out of 500,000 active male players worldwide. Among others, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Amal Fashanu, Peter Tatchell, Collin Martin, Matt Morton, Per Mertesacker, Babak Rafati, Rolf Töpperwien, Marcus Urban, Dario Minden, Tatjana Eggeling and Tanja Walther-Ahrens are featured.

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Shadow Boxers (1999)

boxing film, documentary film

Bankowsky began working on a film about women's boxing in the early 1990s, when she was training to fight at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn. Filming commenced at the 1995 Golden Gloves competition, the first year the tournament was open to female participants, a group which included Bankowsky herself. After filming the Golden Gloves, Bankowsky began searching for the woman she thought would be the first truly great female champion.

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Crisis (1939)

documentary film

The film opens with the title page of Mein Kampf, which is then replaced by a map of Central Europe as Germany annexes Austria. Germany is then transformed into a wolf with its jaws surrounding Czechoslovakia. Despite assurances from Hitler and Goring that Czechoslovakia will not be threatened, the people of Czechoslovakia know that Hitler mentioned taking over their country in Mein Kampf.

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At All Costs (2016)

documentary film

The main subjects of the documentary are Etop "Tope" Udo-Ema, founder and CEO of the successful Compton Magic AAU program, and Parker Jackson-Cartwright, a high school basketball player who is hoping for a Division I basketball scholarship. Through these subjects, different aspects of the AAU basketball world are explored. Interviews with experts on high school and college basketball are interspersed throughout the film to better explain the importance of AAU basketball and its change over time.

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I'm a Stripper (2013)

documentary film

The series features a group of friend strippers in Niagara Falls region, a young Asian man stripping in Montreal, and the performers in a Las Vegas show called Thunder from Down Under. The strippers talk about money, sexual attraction, rivalry on stage, creativity, differences between male and female spectators, personal lives, a typical day on the club floor and away from it, reactions of families and friends. A number of entertainment experts and psychologists offer their opinions about the profession including Morris Chapdelaine, Scott Bolton and Laurie Betito.

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Death & Taxes (1993)

documentary film

The documentary focuses on Kahl, a tax protester that was killed as part of a shootout in Arkansas in 1983. It utilized interviews and archive material, as well as footage from Kahl's exhumation and the 1991 made-for-TV movie In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas starring Rod Steiger.

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