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California High

1 hr 20 mins

California has been arguing over whether or not marijuana should be legal for over 100 years. Now there's a new judge in this trial - you.

California High
  • 2015

To Live & Ride in L.A.

0 hrs 55 mins

For fixed-gear cyclists, Los Angeles is a city that has it all. From the neon glow of Hollywood to the sun-drenched boardwalk of Venice Beach, fixed-gear has evolved into a vibrant street culture that is uniquely L.A. From director David Rowe ("Fast Friday") comes a new documentary feature that explores a side of L.A. few outsiders have seen. From races through rush-hour traffic to midnight loft parties, TO LIVE & RIDE IN L.A. is a fast paced-trip through the busy streets and back-alleys of one of the world's largest cities. TO LIVE & RIDE IN L.A. features talented local riders tearing up the streets with first-time visitor Keo Curry ("Fast Friday", "Macaframa") - one of the living legends of the sport. Bike to hidden spots off the map, race a midnight alley-cat, keep pace with the riders from Wolfpack, and hang with the local crews, graffiti artists and other L.A. personalities burning up the fixed-gear scene.

  • 2010

The Hill Chris Climbed: The Gridiron Heroes Story

1 hr 30 mins

The compelling, heart-wrenching story of high school football star Chris Carnales, who's life was dramatically altered when he broke his neck in a football game leaving him paralyzed. Chris soon learned of others who suffered similar injuries and, with the help of his father, he overcame tremendous physical and emotional pain to start an organization with one goal in mind: get immediate help to other victims and their families. He called it Gridiron heroes.

The Hill Chris Climbed: The Gridiron Heroes Story
  • 2012

American Dreamers

1 hr 28 mins

Five undocumented youth, risk their freedom and go on the road and walk across America to organize immigration rights.

American Dreamers
  • 2015

Presenting Princess Shaw

1 hr 23 mins

In every corner of the world, at any given moment, random people post personal video clips online. They are their virtual messages in a bottle, tossed into the boundless sea that is the Internet. Most of these posts flounder in a sad limbo of indifference and anonymity-unless your YouTube handle happens to be Princess Shaw. Samantha Montgomery, 38, lives alone in one of New Orleans' toughest neighborhoods. By day she works as a caregiver for the elderly; at night she transforms into Princess Shaw, belting out soulful originals at sparsely attended open mic nights and posting homemade a cappella clips on YouTube, usually reaching just a handful of viewers. One of her followers happens to be Kutiman, a.k.a. Ophir Kutiel, an Israeli musician living on a kibbutz outside Tel Aviv, who mashes up YouTube videos from all over the world to create new musical pieces. Princess Shaw has no idea that he has found hers. A rousing documentary crowd-pleaser about a star-crossed singer-songwriter and her crafty secret admirer, Thru You Princess examines loneliness, anonymity and connectivity in the Internet age, where showbiz dreams remain but a mouse-click away for even the most hardscrabble striver.

Presenting Princess Shaw

Operation Enduring Freedom

1 hr 6 mins

On September 11, 2001, the united States was attacked by terrorists at the World Trade Center Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

  • 2002

Nothing Is Truer Than Truth

1 hr 15 mins

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about commedia dell'arte and collecting the experiences that would become the Shakespeare plays. Shot in Venice, Verona, Mantua, Padua, and Brenta, the film ventures to actual sites De Vere visited in 1575-76, including the settings for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, OTHELLO, ROMEO & JULIET, and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. The film features renowned Shakespeare scholars, actors, and directors, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, Tina Packer, and Diane Paulus, and argues that De Vere's bisexuality is the reason for the pseudonym Shake-speare.

Nothing Is Truer Than Truth
  • 2018

Alien Watchers: Ancient Gods

1 hr 10 mins

Upstanding people from all walks of life around the world have witnessed UFOs. Millions in fact have not only seen a UFO, but have undergone bizarre, other worldly UFO experiences ranging from alien abduction, to visions of unearthly apparitions, and out of body experiences. Millions more remain silent through fear of being ridiculed. The fact is, what modern man is experiencing is not new because it has been going on for millennia. We have vivid accounts of such phenomena passed down from the most ancient of times stating clearly that not only were there visitors from another world, but that they gave humanity a vast knowledge of art, culture, architecture, agriculture and science. We are just now rediscovering the unearthly influence that eons later would appear to have risen out of nowhere in what is now known as Iraq. The Watchers became masters over mankind and a hybrid race was born. But all was not well in the new Eden and a great battle ensued. The ancients knew them as the Watchers, we know them as Aliens. Prepare to learn the incredible story of mankind's ancient past and how it links to the ever increasing wave of UFO experiences in our world today. "Staggering evidence that we are clearly NOT alone." - OH Krill, author of Montauk Babies. "Exposé that bores deep into the biggest story in history." - Overdrive DVD.

  • 2015

Embrace of the Serpent

2 hrs 5 mins

The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

Embrace of the Serpent

Kill Me, Deadly

1 hr 40 mins

It's 1947, and hard-boiled private investigator Charlie Nickels' client is murdered and her priceless diamond stolen. The investigation forces him to do the one thing he vowed never to do again: trust a dame. Kill Me, Deadly is a film noir comedy with the look and feel of the classic noir of the 1940s. A love story with deceit, murder and double crosses, all told in glorious black and white.

Kill Me, Deadly
  • 2015

The Banksy Job

1 hr 20 mins

March 2004. The artist known as Banksy illegally erects a ten-foot statue in a small square off Shaftsbury Avenue in central London. Titled 'The Drinker', this sculpture is a replica of Rodin's 'The Thinker' - with a traffic cone placed on its head. The only clue as to who put it there is a stencil on the plinth that merely says 'Banksy'. Then, one day, in broad daylight, masked thieves pull up with a flatbed truck and cart 'The Drinker' away - a reporter from a national newspaper receives a ransom note from a man calling himself AK47, claiming to represent a group of 'art terrorists' calling themselves 'ART KAIDA' After several years back and forth between the media, Banksy and Art Kaida, it is alleged that the artist called Banksy 'arranged' for the statue to be destroyed by any means necessary... Now, after all this time, it seems that AK47 is about to breathe new life into the saga.

The Banksy Job
  • 2016

Lady Gaga: The Art of Music

1 hr 15 mins

She is known for her outrageous fashion sense and constant reinvention as well as her unique and lavish performances. Gaga is a true pop icon of our time. This is her story.

Lady Gaga: The Art of Music
  • 2014

Krotoa

1 hr 57 mins

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, young 11 year old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle's trading partner. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential interpreter for van Riebeeck who became the first Governor of the Cape Colony. As such Krotoa ends up being rejected by her own Khoi people and destroyed by the Dutch when she tries to find the middle way between the two cultures.

Krotoa
  • 2017

Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking

1 hr 19 mins

A powerful documentary that features heroes of the anti-sex-trafficking movement in order to raise awareness, expand the movement, and present practical solutions to eradicate it. Every soul matters.

Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking
  • 2017

The Music of Silence

1 hr 55 mins

Based on the extraordinary true story of Andrea Bocelli, a blind boy, who against all odds becomes one of the most world renowned opera singers. To date, he has sold over 80 million records worldwide.​

The Music of Silence
  • 2017

Undercover Jihadi

0 hrs 58 mins

Undercover Jihadi follows Mubin Shaikh, a man who went from extremist militant to one of the few people in the world to have survived going undercover to expose a terrorist cell. Speaking with counter-terrorism experts in the United States, Germany, France, and the UK, we meet agents committed to staying one step ahead of home-grown jihadists, as well as the extremists themselves who are at war with western values. Led on by a personal religious duty to Islam, Shaikh takes to the frontlines of the battle against the radicalization and recruiting of the young and at-risk.

Undercover Jihadi
  • 2017

Game Changers

1 hr 36 mins

Alex Trebek takes us on a journey through he decades and tells us all about television game shows featuring interviews with a number of game show hosts and producers.

Game Changers
  • 2018

Gringo Favelado

0 hrs 56 mins

An Artist, a Musician and a Dreamer, all of them British, have moved to Rio's notorious favela communities where they build their lives in perilously-shifting political sands.

Gringo Favelado
  • 2016

Living in Tents

0 hrs 58 mins

In January 2011 Paul Crane(Director) discovered a tent city in downtown St. Louis, along the Mississippi River. He was curious as to who these people were, how they ended up there, and what life was like for them each day. So for a few weeks he spent nearly everyday at the tent city volunteering and getting to know people. He began to think that this place and the people living there could make a great story and he asked them if he could shoot some video, and they said "okay". He initially thought he would simply go down during the day and capture footage when possible, but he quickly realized that if he wanted to truly capture how these people lived and the full reality of their collective and individual existence, he would have to be there full time and become a part of the place, so he moved in with them. He was intrigued at how tent city was populated by so many people of different races and ages and beliefs, but they all had to learn how to live together in order to maintain the existence of their homes. Right away he learned that an overall feeling among every resident was that they preferred living there over a homeless shelter, and he wondered if this could possibly be a good alternative for homeless people. Some of the residents had jobs, had cars, were in relationships, and this was their home. It was just a different type of home.

Living in Tents
  • 2018

An Artificial Reality

1 hr 7 mins

We live in an artificially created dream state that controls every aspect of our lives. As willing participants, we are journeying down a rabbit hole that leads to artificial control of our minds at the hands of the new elite, funded by an ancient regime.

An Artificial Reality
  • 2018

Transformer

1 hr 18 mins

In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt "Kroc" Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender. The reaction was universal: her sponsors abandoned her, she was disowned by her parents, banned from competing, and she changed her name to "Janae". This film follows Janae as she attempts to find her place in society.

Transformer

The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man

1 hr 10 mins

This documentary explores various urban legends around Hollywood's most elusive star.

The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
  • 2018

Jack of All Trades

1 hr 25 mins

In the late 80's/early 90's North America's favorite pastime was collecting baseball cards. People would invest millions, in this game of pirates treasure, by putting their mint condition gold in plastic sleeves, locking it away and hoping its value would continue to rise year after year. Unfortunately, this house of cards would soon collapse, leaving the pieces of cardboard along with the hopes and dreams of fathers and sons worthless. Stu Stone was one of those sons, and his relationship with his father Jack, who was in the card business, would crumble with the industry. 25 years later, Stu is on a mission to discover why his beloved baseball cards are worth nothing more than the memories they hold of a happy childhood. What he didn't plan on finding though, was the most elusive card of them all, his father Jack.

Jack of All Trades
  • 2018
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