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LIFE ITSELF explores Roger Ebert’s legacy, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times and his eruptive relationship with Gene Siskel, all culminating in his ascension as one of the most influential cultural voices in America.
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of editors set out to create the most important issue of the year. THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE is a highly entertaining documentary that takes you into the lives of those who rule the fashion world.
BROOKLYN CASTLE tells the stories of five members of the chess team from an inner city junior high school that has won more national championships than any other in the country, and follows the challenges these kids face in their personal lives as well as on the chessboard.
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, degenerative diseases can be controlled, or even reversed, by switching to a diet that is free of animal-based and processed foods.
Through haunting images, intimate scenes, and first-person narratives, THE HOMESTRETCH follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future, offering a powerful, original perspective on what it means to be young, homeless, and building a feasible future in 21st century America.
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS documents how a middle-class American family is turned upside down when the father and youngest son are charged with sexually abusing neighborhood children. Through a strange criminal case, we learn about the elusive nature of truth.
When paleontologists made the world’s greatest dinosaur discovery, the largest, most complete T. rex ever found, it was the beginning of a ten-year battle with the U.S. government, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists, not only to keep their dinosaur but their own freedom.
In the style of a psychological thriller THE GREEN PRINCE retraces the details of a partnership that developed between sworn enemies by recounting the true story of the son of a Hamas leader who emerged as one of Israel’s prized informants, and the Shin Bet agent who risked his career to protect him.
QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US? is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis, this honeybee documentary takes us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, including the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers.
GATES OF HEAVEN is an eccentric portrait of the American dream, shown through the story of two California pet cemeteries, the people who run them, and the men and women who bury their pets there.
THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY follows the story of prodigy Aaron Swartz, whose groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with an aggressive approach to information access ensnared him in a legal nightmare, which ended in the taking of his own life.
RESTREPO chronicles the deployment of a U.S. soldier platoon in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, revealing extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of hard labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie.