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Documentaries
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Home of the Brave
Dir: Paola di FlorioHome of the Brave is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement in America and why we DON’T know who she is. Told through the...

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5 Broken Cameras
Dir: Emad Burnat, Guy DavidiA documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.

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A Doula Story
Dir: Daniel AlpertA Doula Story is a verite documentary that tells the remarkable story of one woman’s fierce commitment to empower young women — pregnant, frightened...

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Advise & Dissent
Dir: David Van TaylorGovernment’s least-understood "Third Branch" has a huge impact on our lives—from abortion to affirmative action, education to the environment,...

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Anderson Monarchs
Dir: Eugene MartinThe Anderson Monarchs is about an African-American girls soccer team competing, living, and thriving in an at-risk urban neighborhood in...

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The Atomic States of America
Dir: Don Argott & Sheena M. JoyceIn 2010, the United States approved the first new nuclear power plant in 32 years, heralding a “Nuclear Renaissance”. But that was before the...

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Baby It’s You
Dir: Anne MakepeaceIn Baby, It's You, filmmaker Anne Makepeace takes us on an intimate journey through the Kafkaesque world of fertility clinics, into the home of...

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Bestiaire
Dir: Denis CôtéFascinating and beguiling, Bestiaire is Denis Côté’s mesmerizing meditation on the relationship between man and beast. This strikingly beautiful film...

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Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives
Dir: Sara Lamm & Mary WigmoreBIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN AND THE FARM MIDWIVES tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began...
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Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Dir: Stacy PeraltaFeaturing Tony Hawk and directed by Stacy Peralta (Dogtown & Z-Boys), Bones Brigade: An Autobiograhy is a very personal story of a group of young,...

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Budrus
Dir: Julia BachaAyed Morrar, an unlikely community organizer, unites Palestinians from all political factions and Israelis to save his village from destruction by...

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Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
Dir: Lincoln RuchtiIn the eighties, video games were synonymous with arcades, and games were bringing in enough quarters to fill the Rose Bowl. This endless possibility...

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Children Underground
Dir: Edet BelzbergEdet Belzberg's Academy Award nominated directorial debut, CHILDREN UNDERGROUND, follows a group of homeless children living in a train station in...

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Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon
Dir: Peter RichardsonIn the rural Oregon logging town of Philomath, every high school graduate has their college tuition paid thanks to the generosity of local lumber...

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Climate Refugees
Dir: Michael P. NashCLIMATE REFUGEES is a documentary film that uncovers the unbelievable plight of people around the world displaced by climatically induced...

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Code of the West
Dir: Rebecca Richman CohenAt a time when the world is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical...

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Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
Dir: Anne MakepeaceComing to Light tells the dramatic story of eminent photographer Edward S. Curtis and the creation of his monumental portfolio of Native American...

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Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Dir: Tiffany ShlainHave you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email? Slept with your laptop? Or become so overwhelmed that you just unplugged from it all? In...

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Delta Boys
Dir: Andrew BerendsAn American filmmaker crosses the lines of Nigeria’s oil conflict to bear witness to the lives of the militants engaged in the struggle, and the...

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Detropia
Dir: Heidi Ewing & Rachel GradyDetroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century— the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow;...

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Dirty Work
Dir: Tim Nackashi and David SamplinerDirty Work follows three men who deal with our unpleasant business -- Darrell, a septic tank pumper, Russ, a bull semen collector, and Bernard, an...

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The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan
Dir: Henry CorraPrivate McKinley Nolan vanished forty years ago in Vietnam on the Cambodian frontier. Some say he was captured, some say he was a traitor, some even...

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Ecological Design: Inventing the Future
Dir: Brian Danitz and Christopher ZelovEcological Design: Inventing the Future is a educational documentary film which illuminates the emergence of ecological design in the 20th Century....

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Enemies of the People
Dir: Rob Lemkin, Thet SambathOne of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE exposes for the first time the truth about the...

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I AM NOT A HIPSTER
Dir: Destin Daniel CrettonA young singer-songwriter with a growing local following wanders through his apathetic life. When his dad and three sisters show up to spread his...

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Indie Game - The Movie
Dir: James Swirsky, Lisanne PajotWitness a portrait of a new breed of artist - the video game designer. At first, the only way to make it as a designer in the video game industry was...

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Miss Navajo
Dir: Billy LutherMISS NAVAJO reveals how as winners of Miss Navajo Nation, women are challenged to take on the great responsibility of becoming community leaders who...

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One Mile Away
Dir: Penny WoolcockThis authored documentary produced by Rare Day and directed by award-winning filmmaker Penny Woolcock charts the attempts by two warring gangs in...

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The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Dir: Daniele Anastasion, Eric StraussJoshua Milton Blahyi – aka General Butt Naked – was a ruthless and feared warlord during Liberia’s 14-year civil war. Today, he has renounced his...

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Semper Fi: Always Faithful
Dir: Tony Hardmon, Rachel LibertWhen Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger lost his 9 year old daughter to a rare type of leukemia, he wondered why. When the first hint of evidence about...

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Space Tourists
Dir: Christian FreiDocumentary filmmaker Christian Frei gets inside the minds of a disparate group of billionaires willing to pay top dollar to be among the first...

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Stingray Sam
Dir: Cory McAbeeA dangerous mission reunites STINGRAY SAM with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space convicts as their earn their freedom...

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Unfinished Spaces
Dir: Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin MurrayIn 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds...

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We’re Not Broke
Dir: Karin Hayes & Victoria BruceAmerica is in the grip of a societal economic panic. Lawmakers cry “We’re Broke!”as they slash budgets, lay off schoolteachers, police, and...










