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The Battle Above: True Stories from WWII Pilots
Join us as we hear the incredible real accounts from military officers on both sides of the war as they recount harrowing true stories from their time in aerial combat.

- 2020
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own
Into Her Own is the story of a woman's struggle to overcome the hardship of her upbringing and to follow her calling to become an artist.

- 2019
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
In the heart of the Northern Rockies, one 500-mile stretch of highway connects the West's most renowned blue-ribbon trout streams. It also passes through some of America's most spectacular scenery-jagged peaks, bewitching deserts, shimmering waters in pristine forests - a region that draws anglers from all over the world to settings that restore the soul. "The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway" is a one-hour documentary narrated by Tom Skerritt, written by Tim Woodward, directed by Tom Hadzor and produced by Wide Eye Productions. The program follows U.S. Highway 20 as it passes through some of the best fly fishing waters in the world. Shot on location in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Oregon, it is a visual feast of scenic beauty. You don't have to fly fish to love "The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway."

- 2014
Stand!
1919. Stefan Sokolowski and his father, Mike, leave family behind in Ukraine, escaping Russia's war on their homeland. In Winnipeg, Canada, they struggle to earn enough to re-unite the family, falling prey to the slave wages and discrimination foist upon immigrants. Stefan is instantly smitten by his Jewish suffragette neighbor, Rebecca Almazoff, but Rebecca's brother, Moishe, and Mike oppose the would-be Romeo and Juliet. Returned soldiers, angry at the lack of post-war jobs, violently threaten the city's immigrants, including Emma, a refugee from racist violence in Oklahoma, and Gabriel, an Indigenous Métis war veteran. When a movement develops for workers to leave their jobs in protest, a wealthy lawyer, A.J. Anderson, pits all against each other in this dramatic and inspirational movie musical.

- 2019
Understanding Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A parents guide to understanding children with high-functioning Autism or (ASD) Autism Spectrum Disorder.

- 2020
Rescuing Rex
They have been abandoned, abused and put on death row. Now animal lovers are coming to their rescue. Rescuing Rex follows the remarkable journey of the world's stray dogs on a freedom ride to Canada.

- 2020
492: A Man Called Death
Based of the true story of Júlio Santana, a gunman responsible for 492 murders throughout the country. A Christian, charitable man and a good son, Júlio is always tormented by his conscience every time he pulls the trigger.

- 2017
All Day and All Night: Memories from Beale Street Musicians
Blues legends B. B. King, Rufus Thomas, and many friends play jam sessions and tell stories about Beale Street's heyday; revealing the love and respect musicians had, and still have for each other. This 1990 documentary has been remastered in HD.

- 1990
Cannabis: Through the Ages
From its diverse uses in war and exploration, to medicine and intoxication, Cannabis has been instrumental to the evolution of civilisations around the globe.

- 2020
The Diana Conspiracy: What Happened in Paris?
At the back door of the Ritz Hotel in Paris four people get into a black Mercedes sedan. One of those people is the most famous woman in the world…Princess Diana. Something is about to happen that will change the world… forever

- 2020

- 2019
Humboldt: The New Season
A look at how families, survivors and a community are pulling together to heal after the devastating Humboldt Broncos bus crash.

- 2019
Literary Ink
Tattoo artists from across the world came to Chattanooga to celebrate literary fantasy and artistic magic. "Literary Ink: A Wizard's Journey" explores the lives, dreams, techniques and artistic inspiration of four of these Tattoo Wizards.

- 2020
Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story
The Brooklyn-native street basketball legend Jackie Ryan.

- 2020
Turn Off Your Mind
A stunning visual essay celebrating the resilience and vibrancy of New York City and its people. Featuring carefully crafted imagery set to the original music of David Dillehunt, prepare to turn off your mind and transport yourself to the city that never sleeps.
- 2015
JLO: From the Block
Jennifer Lopez is one of Hollywood’s leading ladies. Throughout her illustrious career, she has starred in major blockbusters, released multi platinum albums and raised thousands for charities.

- 2020
The Dolly Parton Story: From Rags to Rhinestones
From the bright lights of recording contracts in Nashville to topping the music charts, to acting in movies to global appearances in sold-out arena tours, Dolly has certainly come a long way and it hasn’t always been an easy ride.

- 2020
K-19: The Widowmaker
The story of USSR's first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarine's crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers.

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- 2002
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Presents a profile of the Z Channel, one of the US's first and at the time most successful pay cable stations launched in 1974, this one serving much of Los Angeles, and of its programming director in the 1980s, Jerry Harvey, who is credited with much of its success. A highly knowledgeable cinephile, Harvey programmed an eclectic mix of movies in an era where access to films in general was limited to cinemas or traditional television just as home video was emerging. His programming was much like film festivals, thus opening up such to larger audiences than could access movies at traditional festivals. He provided viewers access to hard to find movies, many unknown to the general public until he programmed them. He also championed certain, often previously panned movies and filmmakers, many who became his friends. Many of those movies were what was then emerging of director's cuts in he wanting to show a film as a director had envisioned as opposed to what a movie studio had dictated. The most famous in that category is Michael Cimino's highly derided Heaven's Gate (1980), that derision until it was shown on Z in its extended cut as Cimino had intended. Much of what Harvey was able to achieve at Z is overshadowed by his personal life, in he, having mental health issues which ran in his family - his largely associated with obsessive behavior - committing a murder (of who was his second and then current wife, Deri Rudulph)/suicide just before the demise of Z itself for other reasons.

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- 2004
Jivin' in Be-Bop
A musical film in the style of a documentary, featuring 19 musical and dance numbers, by many notable musicians.

- 1946
Jungle Cavalcade
"Frank Buck's Jungle Cavalcade" is a compilation film that consists of footage from three previous Frank Buck expedition films: "Bring 'em Back Alive," "Wild Cargo" and "Fang and Claw." Unlike most compilation films from major studios (and there aren't a whole lot of them to start with), RKO made no attempt to keep the viewing audience from being aware of that they were watching nearly 100% archive footage. They sniped every ad and poster with "From - "BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE" - "WILD CARGO" and "FANG AND CLAW", in addition to crediting Clyde Elliott as the director of the "Bring 'em Back Alive" sequences and Armand Denis as the director of the "Wild Cargo" sequences...on all of the advertising and the film. They also used such tag lines as "3 in 1 THRILLER. Streamlining the Mightiest Scenes from ALL His Greatest Pictures..."

- 1941
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the "Memphis Belle". The "Memphis Belle" took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On their way they encounterd heavy AA fire and interceptors.

- 1944
The World According to Allee Willis
Songwriter/artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling to fit established gender and sexual norms - until she found a path to love.

- 2024
Between the Beats
San Francisco was the epicenter of the American rave scene and witnessed some legendary events that began in the early ‘90s. These all-night electronic-music dance parties are culturally iconic and socially important.

- 2024