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Killer Legends (2014)

documentary film

Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills investigate the origins of several urban legends: The Hookman In The Hook, a man with a hook for a hand attempts to murder teenagers who park in a lovers' lane. Zeman and Mills trace this to the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, an unsolved crime that was the basis for the early slasher film The Town That Dreaded Sundown. Zeman and Mills compare and contrast the film to the real-life events, and both to the urban legend.

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Trophy Kids (2013)

documentary film

From the director of the film Bigger, Stronger, Faster* comes an intense look at the overbearing parents in sports. The film asks the question "Do we want what's best for our children? Or do we just want them to be the best?" Parts of this film were used in the premier of Peter Berg's HBO series State of Play.

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Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (2017)

documentary film

Buena Vista Social Club: Adios takes place sixteen years after the 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club. It follows five original band members from the first film as they go on one final tour that ends in their hometown of Havana, Cuba. The musicians recall their ups and downs over the years, including award-winning performances and losing many of their fellow band members.

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Makers: Women Who Make America (2013)

documentary film

The first part of the film begins in the 1950s and 1960s ("Awakening"), and follows the impact of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) on women in the United States. College student Kathrine Switzer runs the Boston Marathon as a registered competitor and challenges the ban on women. Judy Blume is featured, remarking that women "went to college; In case God forbid they had to go to work." During the 1950s and 1960s, it was looked down upon for any woman to have the job of a man.

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The Day of the Roses (1998)

documentary film

Part 1 starts with roses being dropped on the track to commemorate those lost then shifts to the aftermath of the wreck where first responders are arriving at the scene. Five months later, the coroner, Tom Weir, brings in Boris Osman, an engineer to help him investigate the crash and Weir begins to be pressured by the state-owned rail company to conclude his report quickly. After failing to access the damaged train, Osman thinks it's because the investigation will have to disclose why the tracks that caused the wreck, and the train itself, were in such bad shape.

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Happy Valley (2014)

documentary film

The film narrates the event at The Pennsylvania State University, when in November 2011 the former long-time defensive coordinator of school's football team, Jerry Sandusky, was charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse, setting off a firestorm of accusations about who failed to protect the children.

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Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)

Documentation, documentary film

The documentary explores exploitation films made in the Philippines in the 1970s and 1980s with interviews for the documentary include Allan Arkush, Judy Brown, Colleen Camp, Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Pam Grier, Jack Hill, John Landis, Danny Peary, Eddie Romero, Cirio H. Santiago, and Brian Trenchard-Smith.

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Young at Heart (2008)

Arranged Documentary, Documentation, Musical, documentary film

Young@Heart, a chorus of twenty-four senior citizens with an average age of eighty, is directed by the genial, but demanding, Bob Cilman. In preparation for a concert in their hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts, and their next European tour, they spend seven weeks learning new songs by the likes of Sonic Youth, James Brown, Allen Toussaint, Coldplay, Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads, and Prince, a task that is daunting for the members and frequently frustrating for Cilman. At one point, the chorus takes a break from rehearsals to perform at a nearby low-security prison, where they are figuratively, and then literally, embraced by the inmates.

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