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Let the Fire Burn

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 142

Language: English

Director: Jason Osder

Plot: In the astonishingly gripping Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cinematic objects: a found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a great thriller. On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalated—and resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to “…let the fire burn.” Using only archival news coverage and interviews, first-time filmmaker Osder has brought to life one of the most tumultuous and largely forgotten clashes between government and citizens in modern American history.

 

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Inequality For All

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 107

Language: English

Director: Jacob Kornbluth

Plot: A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich – professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member – as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who’s overcome a great deal of personal adversity and whose lifelong goal remains protecting those who are unable to protect themselves. Through his singular perspective, Reich explains how the massive consolidation of wealth by a precious few threatens the viability of the American workforce and the foundation of democracy itself. In this INCONVENIENT TRUTH for the economy, Reich uses humor and a wide array of facts to explain how the issue of economic inequality affects each and every one of us.

 

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Generation Iron

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Vlad Yudin

Plot: Generation Iron – examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders in the sport as they train to compete in the world’s most premiere bodybuilding stage – Mr. Olympia. Each athlete, has a story to tell of their life, journey, aspiration and motivation. They have been through ups and downs, overcoming the toughest judges in the world as they’ve entered the stages around the world and flexed their muscles for eager fans. To their fans, they are more than superstars – they are Olympian Gods.

 

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Men at Lunch

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 148

Language: English (International)

Director: Seán Ó Cualáin

Plot: New York City, 1932. The country is in the throes of the Great Depression, the previous decade’s boom of Italian, Irish, and Jewish immigrants has led to unprecedented urban expansion, and in the midst of an unseasonably warm autumn, steelworkers risk life and limb building skyscrapers high above the streets of Manhattan.

In Men at Lunch, director Seán Ó Cualáin tells the story of “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” the iconic photograph taken during the construction of Rockefeller Center that depicts eleven workmen taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder – boots dangling 850 feet above the sidewalk, Central Park and the misty Manhattan skyline stretching out behind them.

For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men – and the photographer that Immortalized them – remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. But then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets. Part homage, part investigation, Men at Lunch is the sublime tale of an American icon, an unprecedented race to the sky and the immigrant workers that built New York.

 

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Sample This

Friday, September 13th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 94

Language: English

Director: Dan Forrer

Plot: SAMPLE THIS is the true story of how unknown music producer Michael Viner brought together the greatest studio musicians of the 1970’s to create an album that ultimately went nowhere… until the summer of 1973, when DJ Herc took the percussion breaks from that obscure album and extended them by playing them back to back. His beats became an anthem on the streets of the Bronx and ultimately the genre of Hip Hop, becoming one of the most sampled tracks in history and used by artists from Will Smith and Missy Elliot to Amy Winehouse and Jay-Z.

 

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Fire in the Blood

Friday, September 6th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Dylan Mohan Gray

Plot: A shocking exposé of how pharmaceutical companies use patent law to keep profits unconscionably high even at the expense of peoples’ lives, and a plea for universal access to affordable, life-saving generic medicines. An intricate tale of “medicine, monopoly and malice”, FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to affordable AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths. It is also the inspiring story of the improbable group of people who decided to fight back. Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as President Bill Clinton, Bishop Desmond Tutu and economist Joseph Stiglitz, FIRE IN THE BLOOD is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop ‘the Corporate Crime of the Century’ and save millions of lives.

 

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Spark: A Burning Man Story

Friday, August 16th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Steve Brown

Plot: Deep in the dusty expanse of the Nevada desert, over 60,000 people from around the world join together in a weeklong bacchanalia of art, self-expression and music. The once forsaken landscape is transformed into a temporary Shangri-La that doesn’t end until a towering effigy is set alight and burned to the ground in a ritual frenzy. This is Burning Man.

Originally imagined as an experiment in creating a utopia where the restrictions of modern life – the nine-to-five rat race, laws and confining societal norms – vanish, the event’s popularity and scope has now exceeded even the creators’ wildest dreams.

Spark: A Burning Man Story brings audiences behind-the-scenes of the legendary celebration, shining a light on the triumphs and challenges of the artists fighting harsh realities to keep their ideals of unbridled freedom and community alive.

 

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Junior

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 169

Language: English

Director: Jenna Rosher

Plot: Eddie Belasco is a 75-year-old Italian-American who seems to have jumped from the pages of a Scorsese script, except he lives with his 98-year-old “Ma,” Josephine. Luckily, their senses of humor match their levels of irritability. Together they fight and laugh in equal measures as the difficulties of aging and living in a changing neighborhood catch up with them. Eddie was always one to love the limelight, trying his hand at acting and managing topless female rock bands and now is running a non-profit theatre group for young people. In the meantime, the spotlight is squarely on Josephine, with the local press running to her as she finally gets her high school diploma.

In JUNIOR, acclaimed cinematographer Jenna Rosher makes her directorial debut by deftly capturing the bond between this odd couple and crafts a hilarious and touching portrait of growing old while staying young. After spending time with Eddie and Josephine, you will be unable to resist the urge to hug the closest mother you can find.

 

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THE GOOD SON: THE STORY OF RAY BOOM BOOM MANCINI

Friday, August 9th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 71

Language: English

Director: Jesse James Miller

Plot: Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini wasn’t merely the lightweight champ. He fought for his father and for those in small towns across America. The Good Son is an intimate history, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption and finally, forgiveness.

 

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Rising From Ashes

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 139

Language: English

Director: T.C. Johnstone

Plot: Two worlds collide when cycling legend Jock Boyer moves to Rwanda to help the first Rwandan National Cycling Team in their six year journey to compete in the Olympic Games in London. Setting out against impossible odds both Jock and the team find new purpose as they rise from the ashes of their past.

 

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SMASH & GRAB: THE STORY OF THE PINK PANTHERS

Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 110

Language: English (International)

Director: Havana Marking

Plot: Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car, and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with $30 million in diamonds. They are captured – not in person, but on surveillance tapes that record their astonishing lightning strikes with hypnotic accuracy.

Playing out like a noir thriller spiced with cutting-edge animation and shocking real surveillance footage, Havana Marking’s Smash & Grab is an exclusive all-access pass into the mysterious world of international jewel thieves. Dubbed ‘The Pink Panthers,’ the formidable Balkan gang has stolen nearly a billion dollars worth of jewels from boutiques in the world’s most opulent cities, including Paris, London, Geneva, Dubai and Tokyo. Through never-before-seen interviews with key gang members, this provocative documentary delves into the gang’s incredible history and introduces the viewer to the global police forces who work furiously to stop them. Beyond the glitz of the Panthers’ incredible heists, Smash & Grab exposes dark truths about the illicit diamond trade and the world’s most ruthless mafia networks.

 

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A Girl and A Gun

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 135

Language: English

Director: Catherine Czubek

Plot: A Girl And A Gun movie trailer – Directed by Catherine Czubek. Theatrical Release Date: 7/12/2013
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated

 

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Terms And Conditions May Apply

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 140

Language: English

Director: Cullen Hoback

Plot: Admit it: you don’t really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or
app you download. But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family,
your finances, and your secrets… and are not only selling the information to the highest bidder, but freely sharing it with the
government.

And you agreed to all of it.

With fascinating examples and so-unbelievable-they’re-almost-funny facts, filmmaker Cullen Hoback exposes what
governments and corporations are legally taking from you every day – turning the future of both privacy and civil liberties
uncertain. From whistle blowers and investigative journalists to zombie fan clubs and Egyptian dissidents, this disquieting
exposé demonstrates how every one of us has incrementally opted-in to a real-time surveillance state, click by click- and what,
if anything, can be done about it.

 

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Somm

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 144

Language: English

Director: Jason Wise

Plot: Somm movie trailer – Directed by Jason Wise. Theatrical Release Date: 6/21/2013
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated

 

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Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 140

Language: English

Director: Kris Koenig

Plot: Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, is a documentary that brings audiences to the center of the controversy over the issue that is dividing our nation – gun control. Narrated by Ice-T, critically acclaimed rapper and actor, the film takes a critical look at current gun laws and the rising movement to restrict the rights guaranteed by our Second Amendment.

Informative and emotionally charged, Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire is an eye-opening look at the genesis and history of the Second Amendment, leading the audience to rethink the issues surrounding gun control, and the effect on civil rights and liberty.

 

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the Arrested Development Documentary Project

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Jeff Smith

Plot: The Arrested Development Documentary Project movie trailer – starring Will Arnett, Scott Baio, Jason Bateman, Jay Chandrasekhar, Portia De Rossi, David Cross. Directed by Jeff Smith. Theatrical Release Date: 5/3/2013
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Pending

 

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Portrait of Jason

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 90

Language: English

Director: Shirley Clarke

Plot: PORTRAIT OF JASON is a film in which Jason Holliday is given the entire screen for an hour and 45 minutes, during which time he makes probably as candid a self-revelation as has been known in the history of motion pictures or literature. And yet, how much is true and how much is a performance? Shirley Clarke’s films were always exploring the border between cinema verité and fiction — and PORTRAIT OF JASON may well be her masterpiece.

 

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Mindless Behavior: All Around The World

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 145

Language:

Director:

Plot: Teen r&b/hip-hop boy band “Mindless Behavior” has been stirring up a frenzy wherever they go, singing and dancing their way into the hearts of millions as they travel across the US on their first major headlining tour. Coming from humble roots and rising to super stardom, Roc Royal, Ray Ray, Princeton and Prodigy hit the road for the biggest tour of their lives. From their early aspirations of becoming stars to fulfilling their wildest dreams, this concert documentary captures the movement that is “Mindless Behavior,” which reminds us all that with hard work, confidence and the ability to embrace and celebrate your own individuality, we can all be “Mindless” 24/7.

 

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A Place at the Table

Friday, March 1st, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Kristi Jacobson

Plot: A PLACE AT THE TABLE takes on the food issue from a new angle, shining a light on the 30% of American families – more than 49 million people – that don’t know where their next meal is coming from.

Jeff Bridges asks in the film: “Do you envision America as a country where one in four of the kids are hungry?” A PLACE AT THE TABLE asks tough questions about the hunger crisis, and provides answers of how we can affect real change, putting human faces on the issue with colorful and engaging portraits of real American families that are struggling to put food on the table.

 

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Birders: The Central Park Effect

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 87

Language:

Director: Jeffrey Kimball

Plot: BIRDERS: THE CENTRAL PARK EFFECT reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace New York City’s celebrated patch of green and the equally colorful, full-of-attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of the birds’ migration. Among the Central Park 200-plus “birders” are bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, an idiosyncratic trombone technician, a charming fashion-averse teenager, and a bird-tour leader who’s recorded every sighting she’s made since the 1940s. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Jeffrey Kimball, BIRDERS: THE CENTRAL PARK EFFECT features spectacular high-definition footage that highlights the amazingly diverse patterns, colors and personalities of the birds, just as it captures equally colorful personalities of the devoted birders who have found a thriving paradise within the urban chaos of Manhattan.

 

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