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Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share penetrating insights and hilarious anecdotes in Peter Hanson’s Tales from the Script, the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants...
2) Room 237
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A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they'll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways...
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Directed by James Franco & Travis Mathews, this docufiction film is inspired by the mythology surrounding the highly controversial 1980 film, *Cruising*, starring Al Pacino – in which, 40 minutes of sexually explicit material was forced to be cut out. The filmmakers set out to re-imagine the lost footage. Assembling a mix of gay and straight men in the lead role, the result is a provocative exploration of the importance of the radical and transgressive...
4) Cow
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"Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold returns with an intimate portrait of one dairy cow's life. The film chronicles the daily life of dairy cow Luna in an attempt for humans to understand her reality. Sharing both the beauty and the challenge of dairy cow life, the film highlights [their] great service to us all"--Container.
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"Ken Burns meets Spinal Tap in a subversive tour de force relaying the outrageous life stories of four forgotten Civil War heroes: an opium-addicted gay Colonel, an aging Chinese launderer, a nerdy escaped slave, and a one-armed teenage prostitute. Both wickedly satirical and deeply affectionate, The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek tells the "100% true" story of how these oddball outsiders saved the Union from a nefarious foreign plot, how the forces...
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After quitting his job and getting dumped, filmmaker and nature enthusiast Fraser Jones decides to spend all his money on a camera and campervan to follow the miraculous 3,000-mile migration of the Monarch Butterfly across North America with high hopes of hosting the next great children's nature show.
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Focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called "Riotsvilles," where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder, director Sierra Pettengill reconstructs the formation of a national consciousness obsessed with maintaining law and order by any means necessary. Drawing insight from a time similar to our own, the film pulls focus on American institutional control; how it's constructed and how it manages...
9) Hockeyland
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Minnesota is the heartland of US hockey, creating more skaters on the local rinks and in the NHL than any other state. Here, the senior boys of rival towns -- one an emerging dynasty, the other with a fabled past -- face down uncertain futures as they skate for the last chance to etch their names into local lore. Where Texas football has Friday Night Lights, Minnesota high school hockey has Hockeyland.
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After a much-publicized departure from hosting NBC's Tonight Show, O'Brien hit the road with a 32-city music and comedy show to exercise his performing chops and exorcise a few demons. An intimate portrait of an artist trained in improvisation, captured at the most improvisational time of his career. It offers a window into the private writers' room and rehearsal halls.
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For the first time, child eyewitness Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975. This is a gripping documentary that details the struggle behind growing up as part of a world famous haunting and shows that while Daniel's facts may be other's fiction, the psychological scars he carries are all too real.
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"Could a killer earthquake strike America's heartland? If history proves true, the answer is yes. The 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes (centered in southeast Missouri) rank as some of North America's most catastrophic natural disasters ... The New Madrid Fault remains a seismically active area and experts expect a repeat. The only question is when..."--Publisher's website.
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The story of the poker boom that started in the underground clubs of New York City and went on to be played online, in casinos and at home games all around the world. Poker became so big it appeared on TV every day of the year until the United States government shut down the three largest poker websites in the world. The story of the rise, fall, and rebirth of poker.
14) India
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Journey to incredible India, the seventh-largest country by area and the second most populous country in the world. With a cultural history spanning more than 4,500 years, India is one of the most engaging destinations for travelers, photographers, and spiritual seekers. Notable for its religious diversity, India's lifestyle is a combination of both ancient and modern. Presented by Wiki.
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A five-part docu-series following a veteran group of former GOP operatives and strategists known publicly as the Lincoln Project. The fastest-growing super PAC in America takes on the task of "saving democracy" and defeating their own party's sitting president, Donald Trump. While working to accomplish their stated goal of "defeating Trumpism," the group is shaken by internal upheaval, a sexual harassment scandal, and a tidal wave of negative press....
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Haunting stories of witches, vampires, ghosts, zombies, and demons have been re-told throughout the ages and endure to this day. Is there more to these legends than fiction? In this 2-disc collection, National Geographic unearths strange and startling truths behind centuries of lore and legends of the supernatural.
18) Mount Rushmore
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Using home movies owned by the sculptor's family, long-forgotten archival footage and still photographs, and beautiful original photography, Mount Rushmore tells a story that is as bizarre and wonderful as the monument itself.
19) The stoned ages
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"From the early cave dwellers who first stumbled upon psychedelic mushrooms to the over 6000-year old tradition of opium cultivation in the East to a modern pharmaceutical industry with over 24,000 drugs on the market, drugs have played a role in our lives since well before recorded human history ... [This program] will journey through the millennia and look in on the greatest civilizations in human history to discover if drugs helped these societies...
20) Shadowman
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Official documentary about '80s street art pioneer Richard Hambleton, known as the godfather of street art. This plunges viewers into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movement in the world.
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