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2017
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I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.70 2017 HD
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson
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2018
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Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Won't You Be My Neighbor?8.01 2018 HD
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Margaret Whitmer
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2020
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Coded Bias
Coded Bias7.11 2020 HD
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Joy Buolamwini
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2016
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Tower
Tower7.60 2016 HD
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of...
Genre: Animation
Cast: Violett Beane
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2020
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Feels Good Man
Feels Good Man7.07 2020 HD
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Matt Furie
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2024
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And So It Begins
And So It Begins1 2024 HD
Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Maria Ressa
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2020
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The People vs. Agent Orange
The People vs. Agent Orange8.80 2020 HD
Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened....
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Tran To Nga
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2017
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Unrest
Unrest7.10 2017 HD
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head."...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jennifer Brea
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2015
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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution7.00 2015 HD
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Kathleen Cleaver
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2013
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The Kill Team
The Kill Team6.80 2013 HD
In 2010, the media branded a platoon of U.S. Army infantry soldiers “The Kill Team” following reports of its killing for sport in...
Genre: War
Cast:
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2020
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Cured
Cured4.20 2020 HD
Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Richard Socarides
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2020
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9to5: The Story of a Movement
9to5: The Story of a Movement7.63 2020 HD
In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jane Fonda
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2014
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1971
19716.70 2014 HD
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Bonnie Raines
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2020
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Belly of the Beast
Belly of the Beast7.50 2020 HD
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Kelly Dillon
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2012
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Detropia
Detropia6.70 2012 HD
Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans...
Genre: Documentary
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2016
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National Bird
National Bird6.70 2016 HD
Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jesselyn Radack
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2021
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Storm Lake
Storm Lake6.50 2021 HD
A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Art Cullen
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2020
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The Donut King
The Donut King6.90 2020 HD
Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Chuong Pek Lee
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2017
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The Force
The Force6.84 2017 HD
The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Juan-Carlos Zapata
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2020
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Bulletproof
Bulletproof8.00 2020 HD
"Bulletproof" observes the age-old rituals that take place daily in American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: