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A documentary on speculative fiction writer and essayist Harlan Ellison

A 1950s set comedy in which the glamorous Anne Deveraux Zellweger embarks on a drive down the Eastern Seaboard in a quixotic search for a wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her sons

The Film adaptation of Erik Jensens award winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship

The story of songwriter Howard Ashman who penned the lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast before he died of AIDS at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1991

A look at the life and work of writerfilmmaker Nora Ephron

This documentary movie covers two concerts at the Fox Theatre in St Louis, Missouri, to celebrate Chuck Berrys 60th birthday, and also discusses his life and career

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully rounded portrait of their brash and free sp

Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film making partner Marilyn Levine marriage something that he and his f

The U S Navys SEALAB, a pressurized underwater habitat complete with science labs and living quarters for divers, helps advance deep sea diving and rescue

Move is a compelling behind the scenes look at renowned choreographers Kevin Iega Jeff and Gary Abbott

While Heinrich Bullinger and Leo Jud wait for news from Huldrych Zwingli from the bloody battle of Kappel am Albis, the young Bullinger learns from Jud how things could get this far When Zwingli begins to preach as a priest in Zurich, the plague atta

To satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results

Telling the incredible life story of one of Britains most successful athletes and arguably our countries greatest ever Olympian, Mo Farah opens the doors to his home and gives us a

A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethovens life

The injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15 year old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city s 1992 civil uprising

The life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line and his untimely death

A bio hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donors, a controversial and dangerous technique

The stirring true story of Franklin D Roosevelts battle with polio in 1921

Between appearing in supporting roles in General Hospital and local TV commercials, Ryan Sexton spent the early 90s documenting the life and art of El Duce, lead singer of the notorious shock rock band The Mentors Famous for taking

Documentary that goes behind the stats to reveal Kobe Bryants career, exploring the mentorships, allies and rivalries that have helped shape his stellar 18 year tenure in the NBA, and uncovering his greatest personal challenge yet

Classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk h

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, the dancing outlaw As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane

Man in Camo takes a close look at the life of visual artist, writer and filmmaker Ethan Minsker and his drive to create and crusade the making of art Through the lens of old photographs and films, Minsker leads viewers on a journey

A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up

Technology has quickly turned kids making videos in their bedrooms into huge stars O2L took this path on YouTube, amassing an 8 million plus fan base, and we explore this incredible phenomenon on their first tour Its a look at the

The legendary life story of Cantonese opera playwright Mad Phoenix Kiang Yu kou

A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartoli in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War

One winter, a pastor finds an abandoned infant on his church steps, and builds a drop box to rescue any others

The true story of one young white Southerner in the Summer of 1961, caught in a place and time where he had to choose which side he was on

The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930s to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943

Follow the short but influential life of Bostons own UHF based music video channel of the mid 1980s V66

A documentary that examines the inspirational life of Dayton O Hyde as a modern day renaissance man and one of the last old style cowboys

There are only a few iconic football stars being constantly admired across the globe for their art of handling a ball and controlling a game, winning basically all the relevant titles Toni Kroos is one of them

This is the story of a small Indiana town, a robbery that turned for the worse, the murders of three innocent construction workers, and the trial that followed It is an account of a young woman named Charity Payne who would become t

I cento passi one hundred steps was the distance between the Impastatos house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young

After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D Roosevelt fights to save his political career