Passion River Films.
61) Inhabitants
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English
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Follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate.
62) Midnight family
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Español
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In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
63) Selfless
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English
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Everywhere they go heads are down with faces not engaged in one another which brings forth the question, "Where are they leading the next generation?" Anxiety and narcissism are at the height of their existence, while Gen Z has never known life without the iPhone in hand, internet, and social networks. The experiment with technology is happening right now and most, especially teens, do not even know they are in it.
64) Thunder road
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English
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It tells the story of flawed police officer Jim Arnaud, who lives a shambolic life that's somehow made even worse by his mother's passing. His only stability comes in the shape of his daughter, Crystal, who he tries to father, amidst messy divorce proceedings with his estranged wife, Roz, as best as he can.
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English
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It is a documentary that reveals the inner and bizarre world of Albert 'Leslie' Cochran, a rebellious, cross-dressing homeless man who became the most unlikely civic symbol of Austin, Texas. Told with unapologetic humor, the film chronicles the steady career of a nomadic misfit turned a cultural icon while he searches for love and a true sense of home. Through Leslie, one man's efforts to preserve his own identity are paralleled with the collective...
67) I am Michael
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English
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Based on the true-life story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist who becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor. Michael is a high profile gay youth activist who created a national controversy when he claimed to no longer be gay and became a straight Christian pastor. The film follows Michael from his life in San Francisco with his boyfriend Bennett--where he pursues political activism, a journalist career at XY Magazine, social awareness, and sexual exploration--to...
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English
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Tells the little-known story of a group of teenagers who revolutionized hip-hop by innovating the very rhyme patterns, melodic concepts, and lyrical styles used by many of today's biggest rap stars. Chronicles the rise and fall of an unusual family of artists, while examining their obstacles to commercial success.
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English
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Tech innovators strike a raw nerve as banks and network pundits rush to condemn volatile cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain technology. Why are banks terrified while UNICEF Ventures embraces it to help refugee children? Award-winning filmmaker Alex Winter reveals that proponents of blockchain are already using the technology to change the world, fighting income inequality, the refugee crisis, and world hunger.
71) The Chicago 8
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English
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Inspired by the story of the explosive trial that resulted, when seven leaders of the Vietnam antiwar movement, along with the Chairman of the Black Panthers, were charged with conspiracy to incite the devastating riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It is one of the highest profile criminal court cases in US history.
72) When I walk
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English
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Seven years and 3,600 hours of footage after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Jason DaSilva brings an intimate portrait of his own physical transformation to the big screen with When I Walk. In a culture where disability is often reduced to a character trait- he is disabled, she is disabled- When I Walk asks about disability as a process. When do you become disabled in your path from able-bodied? What are the pivotal moments indicating your...
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English
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For the past year, our operative Patrik Hermansson has been living undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right. He infiltrated some of the most notorious far-right networks in the US and the UK, culminating in the violent clashes in Charlottesville in 2017. He extracted damning information that runs to the White House. And he caught it all on hidden camera.
74) The long shadow
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English
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From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, Frances Causey and Sally Holst travel the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveal the connections of slavery and strong arm Southern politics to the current racial strife in America.
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English
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Steeped in authenticity, this is an opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. Meet the men and women working on these ₁big outfit₂ ranches, some of which are over one million acres, and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend large herds of cattle. Explore the rewards and hardships of a celebrated but misunderstood way of life, including the challenges...
77) The disrupted
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English
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It dives deep inside the lives of three Americans working harder than ever, as their place in the middle class slips away. For a farmer, a factory worker, and an Uber driver, rising income inequality betrays the American Dream.
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English
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A small town wrestles with the responsibility of taking down America's oldest white oak tree, the 619-year old Great Oak of Basking Ridge, located in the center of a graveyard with headstones dating back to 1736. In response to the death of their oldest resident, locals host an art celebration, arborists plant a sapling grown from the Great Oak's acorn, and town leaders emphasize the value of history to unify a community growing in diversity.
79) Hillbilly
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English
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Filmed in Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, the movie uncovers an unexpected set of artists, poets, activists, queer musicians, 'Affrilachian' poets, and intersectional feminists, all unexpected voices emerging form this historically misunderstood region.
80) No small matter
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English
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The first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for good in America today: early childhood education. Through poignant stories and surprising humor, the film lays out the overwhelming evidence for the importance of the first five years and reveals how the failure to act on that evidence has resulted in an everyday crisis for American families, and a slow-motion catastrophe for the country.