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My Secret Female Body: Part 1

Underneath his clothes Danny hides a secret that he’s desperate to get rid of

My Secret Female Body: Part 2

Underneath his clothes Danny hides a secret that he’s desperate to get rid of

Raw Iron: The Making of ‘Pumping Iron’

The making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

One of history’s greatest business scandals

Objectified

Our complex relationship with objects and the people who design them

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25 Million Pounds

The collapse of Barings Bank

Aging in America

The sometimes devastating effects of aging in America

All The Eights, 88

88 year old Betty Van Acker, champion bingo player, shares her secrets to finding luck in life

The Art of Balance

Gary Synder struggles to balance two lives and thrive as both an art dealer and an Aikido instructor

Behind the Rent Strike

Human struggle behind a national scandal

Belarus: On the Farm

Belarus farms still waits for electrical power from government

Birth

The story of an unwanted baby, the story of a baby whose future is in jeopardy, and the story of an absent baby

Black, White and Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

The relationship between Sam Wagstaff, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Patti Smith

Breathing Lessons

Academy Award winning portrait of Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio as a child and spent much of his life in an iron lung

Britains Youngest Grannies

The struggles of being Britain's Youngest Grannies

Caring at the End of Life

Improving patient-clinician communication in end-of-life care

Carissa

Carissa Phelps graduated with a law degree and an MBA from UCLA. When she was 12, she was homeless and forced into prostitution.

A Certain Kind of Beauty

When you can't muscle through life, what can you do?

Close Encounters: Proof Of Alien Contact

Proof of alien existence

Confessions of a Superhero

Four mortals who make their living working as superheros

Czech Dream

Students from the Czech Film Academy commission a huge ad campaign for a store that doesn't exist

Darkon

Everybody wants to be a hero

Deeper Than Y

DEEPER THAN Y is a feature length, humorous and touching documentary questioning 8 elderly New Yorkers

Divorce Coach

A woman's divorce leads her into a crusading new career

Dream in Doubt

A Sikh American faces and confronts hate crimes, xenophobia, fear and deep loss in the wake of 9/11

Eleven Candles

Eleven candles follows 10-year-old Natalie as she battles leukemia and hopes to turn 11

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

One of history’s greatest business scandals

Fast and Reliable

Nothing can stop Dexter the bike messenger

Forty Foot

Forty Foot is about the older groups of mostly Irish locals who swim in Sandycove every day

George

Understanding how we define normalcy--the life of a twelve-year-old autistic boy

Going Back to New Orleans

The story of New Orleans' place in the origin of the rock lovingly told through the eyes of Big Easy icon, Deacon John Moore

High Score

One quarter. Two days. No pause button.

I’m Not A Boy

11 short films written, shot and edited by teenagers to tell personal stories on fear and insecurity

In Search Of The Great Beast 666

"The Great Beast" was perhaps the most controversial and notorious individual in British History

Jim, An East Village Story

The Mosaic Man

Johnny Berlin Part 2: Notes From the Dumpster

JOHNNY BERLIN PART 2: NOTES FROM THE DUMPSTER, picks up right where the original JOHNNY BERLIN left off

Kiran Centre

At the Kiran Centre in Varanasi, India, children do not have disabilities, but different abilities

The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg

A documentary tracing the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets.

Living With Lew

"Surf life" is one man's response to being diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) at the age of 33

I Love Brixton

A vignette of London's Brixton with its vibrant urban life, and the faces that give it life

MacHeads

Apple fanatics and their obsession

Maine Buggin’: Episode 1

A year in the life of a Maine lobsterman

Maine Buggin’: Episode 2

A year in the life of a Maine lobsterman

Maine Buggin’: Episode 3

A year in the life of a Maine lobsterman

Messenger

Take a ride with Kamikaze, New York City's most legendary bike messenger and world class character

Michael Moore Hates America

Michael Moore under the microscope

Millions - A Lottery Story

MILLIONS (A LOTTERY STORY) follows the lives of six different big money lottery winners.

Monster Camp

MONSTER CAMP is a rare and fascinating glimpse into the world of live-action role playing, known as LARPing.

My Secret Female Body: Part 1

Underneath his clothes Danny hides a secret that he’s desperate to get rid of

My Secret Female Body: Part 2

Underneath his clothes Danny hides a secret that he’s desperate to get rid of

Needle Through Brick

The lost art of Kung Fu

New Swirled Order

Crop cirles - fact or fiction?

Objectified

Our complex relationship with objects and the people who design them

Off the Grid: Life On The Mesa

Living the American dream

Olga’s Journey

Olga Kern has to make a choice between a life with her son and her future as a concert pianist.

On Wheels Brasil

Follows the lives of people that roll their way to a living on Brazil's streets

Onus

A young man copes with a decision he's made by telling his story

Out Of Siberia

A bright teenager leaves behind her secure and isolated home in an enclosed nuclear city in Siberia

Overbooked

Cultures clash and integrate as an Italian travel agent and a Moroccan immigrant manage a tour

Pied Piper of Hutzovina

New York's notorious Eugene Hutz journeys back to native Ukraine

Protagonist

What do a terrorist, kung-fu master, gay evangelical minister, and a bank robber have in common?

Pull Out

15 years, 5 wrecked relationships, go back and find out why

Pumping Iron

The world of bodybuilding

The R.O.M.E.O.s - Episode 1

"Retired Old Men Eating Out" argue the world

The R.O.M.E.O.s - Episode 2

The "Retired Old Men Eating Out" argue the world

Ramana’s Garden

India is a land of startling contrasts and inequality.

Raw Iron: The Making of ‘Pumping Iron’

The making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Refrigerator Mothers

Mothers of Autistic children in the 50s and 60s are blamed for their child's illness

I Remain The Same

Using a prosthetic limb, a young Chechen runner, participates in New York's 5-kilometer race of Hope and Possibility

The Ruling Classroom

Teacher George Muldoon's experiment with his seventh grade class as they create a simulation of of American society

Searching for Angela Shelton

Angela Shelton journeys across the United States meeting other Angela Sheltons

Skid Row

Pras from The Fugees goes undercover to experience first-hand what life is like on Skid Row

Splitting Hairs

The American invasion of the World Beard and Moustache Championships

State Of Mind

Talking to God, walking towards oncoming traffic and asking Scotty to beam him up!

Steal a Pencil for Me

The troubled marriage of Jaap and Manja Polak, who lived in German occupied Amsterdam

Street Children

The harrowing story of homeless children living on the streets of Congo-Brazzaville

The Street Crusade

Gangs and life after gangs

Summercamp!

Kids let loose at camp

Superstar

A young man's quest to become a superstar

Taking Back The Block: Stories Of Community Renaissance

Ordinary people as they recall their experiences living in vibrant New York

The Checker King

After the death of his wife, 81-year-old Harold O'Brien enters the National Checker Championship

The Open Road: America Looks at Aging

The Open Road – What will happen in America when 77 million Baby Boomers begin to retire?

The Personals

Academy-Award winning video about senior citizens as they put on a play about dating through the personal ads

Tree of Dreams

A group of young street girls gives us a look into their past, present and hopes for the future

20 Cans of Chunky Beef Soup

The story of Maxim Vakhmin, an alleycat of a man, as New York put his nine lives to the test

The Watershed

The way tragedy can shape us

We Are Wizards

The magically energetic documentary which profiles some of the power players in the underground Harry Potter community.

Who Cares?

Nick Broomfield: The first film I ever made.

Why Do White People Have Black Spots?

Youth in Ghana pose questions to people outside of their borders and spark an ongoing dialogue through film

Workingman’s Death

A rare glimpse into the harsh treatment faced by manual laborers in the Ukraine

World on Fire

$5,000 could cover the cost of hair and make-up for one day on set in LA or one year's schooling for 145 girls in Afghanistan

Yesterday’s News

A story of healing and abundance

Young at Heart

Fairy tales come true

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