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Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

An intimate and powerful encounter with one of today's most politically influential artists and the ...

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Ain't In It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm

Director Jacob Hatley's intimate documentary finds Levon Helm at home in Woodstock, NY, in the midst...

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American Yogi

This delightful autobiographical documentary follows a nice Jewish boy turned hippie who travels to ...

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Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

A Hollywood star at age two, Baby Peggy was a has-been at 11, forced to perform in vaudeville to sup...

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Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton...

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Bluebeard aka Landru

Legendary French New Wave director Claude Chabrol brings the shocking true story of serial killer He...

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Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Pr...

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Brakhage

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of t...

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Camille Claudel 1915

In CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915, Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as Auguste Rodin's prot&ea...

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Chris & Don. A Love Story

CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship bet...

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Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had ...

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Derrida

One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and fat...

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Drew: The Man Behind The Poster

DREW: THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTER is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the career of post...

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Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures,...

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The Executioner's Song (2-Disc Special Edition)

Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette  Christine Lahti and Eli Wallach co-star in this critically a...

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Freud (aka Freud: The Secret Passion)

The film follows renowned Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud’s descent into man’s uncons...

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Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Peter Raymont's documentary humanizes the legend of Glenn Gould, weaving together an unprecedented a...

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A Gesar Bard's Tale

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his l...

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Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil

In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch will be holding a special exhibitio...

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Isadora

This film biography follows pioneering dancer Isadora Duncan through years of triumph and tragedy in...

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Island of the Blue Dolphins

The heartwarming adventure of a 19th-century Native American girl who becomes stranded on a remote i...

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Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang

Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke on a walk do...

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The Keeper

A deft, often chilling look at the unexploded dynamite of guard/prisoner relations, The Keeper is a...

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The Kid Stays in the Picture

Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans.

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Kundun (Special Edition)

The incredible true story of one of the world’s most fascinating leaders—Tibet’s 1...

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The Lion in Winter (50th Anniversary Special Edition)

Three sons struggle to win their father's favor, as well as his crown. King Henry II (Peter O'Toole)...

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Lucky Luciano

Follows the notorious Mafia boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to his fall in...

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Luther

John Osborne's play is a fascinating and powerful psychological study of the Augustinian monk Martin...

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M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

The story of world famous Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher. Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-open...

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Matter Of Heart

The original, compelling and inspiring portrait of Carl Gustav Jung, whose extraordinary genius and ...

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Money Man

Is a dollar worth anything on paper, or is it simply in the eye of the beholder… or the spend...

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Moving from Emptiness: The Life and Art of a Zen Dude

With brush, ink, and rice paper, Zen painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han uses the play of light and dark to e...

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The Mystery of Picasso

Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and painter Pablo Picasso used experimental and innovative technique...

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NOTFILM

After restoring the short Film, Ross Lipman wanted to explore its surprising history. He ended ...

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The Olive Thomas Collection

Beautiful, talented and charismatic, Olive Thomas reigned as a Hollywood star briefly but magically&...

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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, ...

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On Meditation

ON MEDITATION explores the deeply personal practice of meditation through an exploration of extraord...

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Ornette: Made in America

Ground-breaking filmmaker Shirley Clarke combined forces with Ornette Coleman to create this dazzlin...

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Pasolini

The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara...

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The Plainsman

Teaming up with his lover Calamity Jane, as well as Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok helps to pac...

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Portrait of Jason

Shirley Clarke filmed gay actor, hustler, chanteuse Jason Holliday's 12-hour soliloquy, creating a d...

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Prefontaine (Special Edition)

The true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine (Jared Leto), the exciting and sometim...

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The Red Star

The Red Star is a mockumentary following Laila Salama, a mysterious woman who may have contributed t...

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Revealing Mr. Maugham

A new documentary by Michael House tells the story of Somerset Maugham, the novelist, spy, playwrigh...

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SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossi...

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Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

Director Philip Haas follows land artist Richard Long on his walk across Algeria’s Hoggar, a v...

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To Hell and Back

Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier of WWII, plays himself in this gripping, action-pa...

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Tom of Finland

This stirring biopic follows the life of the artist whose proudly erotic drawings of leather-clad st...

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde chronicles the true story of the renowned playwright’s courtroom cla...

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The Valachi Papers

Sentenced to 15 years in prison, former mob “button man” Joe Valachi turns informant whe...

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Violeta Went to Heaven

The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have ...

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Vision - from the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, th...

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Winsor McCay: The Master Edition

Winsor McCay was the first master of animation and one of its greatest and most influential artists....

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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

For over two decades, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful names Hollywood; now, her fascinat...

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The Wonderful, Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl

A spellbinding account of the career of the most renowned woman director, best known as Hitler's mov...

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Yangsi

Jigme Lhundrup is the Yangsi, the reincarnation of a greatly revered Tibetan Buddhist meditation mas...

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Young Dr. Freud

Observes the struggling young medical student as he wrestles with his tremendous ambition, his penni...

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