What Documentary Shows and Movies to watch on Plex

Will hip hop music become more vital in a post-9/11 world? This and other questions are grappled with in this look deep into the heart of rap music. AMERICAN RAP STARS goes into the streets and the palatial mansions of many of the most vital voices in the industry in 2002. Performances are included by The Roots, Onyx, and Outkast and appearances include Ludacris, Rick Rubin, Jay Z, and Goodie Mob. From the streets and clubs of London to the boroughs of New York, down to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles, gain exclusive access to some of the industry's most influential artists, producers and executives that have shaped and formed the current world of Hip-Hop. This DVD attempts to explore in-depth, the state of Hip-Hop post 911.

A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial. Several months elapse before the interview, so the crew searches for anyone who'll talk about the young woman. Two people have a lot to say to the camera: a retired madam named Alex for whom Fleiss once worked and Fleiss's one-time boyfriend, Ivan Nagy, who introduced her to Alex. Alex and Nagy don't like each other, so the crew shuttles between them with "she said" and "he said." When they finally interview Fleiss, they spend their time reciting what Alex and Nagy have had to say and asking her reaction.

Blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore tells all in a retrospective of his illustrious career as the original "Godfather of Rap".

American Meth is more than a movie, it's a movement. Narrated by Val Kilmer this documentary explores the devastation this drug is unleashing on America, and it looks at how it dismatles an American family.

About the problems and questions that arise when a young person becomes an adult, what occupies his thoughts, what is important in meetings with other people, how he searches for his own place in life, how he handles the meeting with love and the person who becomes the most important there. When the film is shot, the rock singer Hasse is 24 years old; he lives in Stockholm. The camera follows him through his days, to the rock club, to the stage, to meetings with friends, parents and girls. He meets Johanna, who is 16, and what is called infatuation, eventually love, arises. How does Hasse now create a place for himself in life, how do they build up their community? Both are big-city children, raised in welfare Sweden, which perhaps no longer provides welfare but has created an emptiness, a meaninglessness.

The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA. AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just dope fiends but an entire government. More importantly, it shows what can be done about it. This is not some 'pro-drug' stoner film, but a collection of expert testimonials from the ground troops on the front lines of the drug war, the ones who are fighting it and the ones who are living it.

Vincent P. Falk is Fashion Man. Clad in brightly colored suits; Vincent twirls on Chicago's many bridges, performing fashion shows for passing tour boats. As he spins his way through the city, tourists and locals alike are left to wonder just who is this strange man. Over the course of one boat season, we follow Vincent and begin to unravel the mystery that surrounds him. We discover that the man behind the fashion, having come through the travails of life, has decided to do what makes him happy. And so, he spins on.

Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln, before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl, suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann, courts his future wife Mary Todd, and agrees to go into politics.

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews and caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent to a concentration camp, where their Christian faith keeps them from despair and bitterness. Betsie eventually dies, but Corrie survives, and after the war she must learn to love and forgive her former captors.

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?

A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. In the end, the greatest victory for the workers and their families is the realization that prejudice and poor treatment are conditions that are not always imposed by outside forces.

During World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940.

At the threshold of the 20th Century, a melting pot of adventurous immigrants, creative mavericks, and freedom-seeking African Americans shaped consumerism as we now know it. The new documentary THE CITY THAT SOLD AMERICA reveals, with intriguing insights and wistful nostalgia, the confluence of Chicago's creative talent, business savvy, grit and determination that changed the country and our relationship with popular culture.

An explosive, global story with immediate and ongoing consequences that strikes at the heart of the biggest themes of our times; income inequality, whistleblowers, and corrupt power-brokers manipulating world governments and big business.

Most civil, clergy sex abuse cases are settled quietly, out-of-court and far from public view. But PREY follows one survivor and his lawyer as they pursue justice through a public trial in the hopes of forcing the dark and hidden story of clergy sexual abuse to light. A local story with global resonance. Rod MacLeod, the plaintiff in the case, was abused for years as a boy 50 years ago at the hands of a Catholic priest. Rod is represented by Rob Talach, a civil lawyer who has filed 395 suits against the church, earning him the nickname "The Priest Hunter". The defendants are The Basilians of Toronto. Attending trial as their representative was Father David Katulski, the public face of the Catholic religious order. The abuser, Father Hod Marshall, makes his presence known at the civil trial in the form of a haunting video deposition taken before his death. The video had been sealed from public view until now. This trial was not about guilt or innocence, but about how much money the church should pay in compensation for the devastating fallout from the abuse. More importantly for Rod, it was about exposing the truth of how and why the sexual abuse of children could go on for so long without the church stopping it. PREY documents the courtroom drama and delves into the personal stories of many of those present. The documentary's world premiere at Hot Docs on April 26 falls, to the day, on the one-year anniversary of the gripping conclusion of Rod's trial.

An investigative documentary that examines the systemic abuse of elderly people in Las Vegas, Nevada revealing a cautionary tale where some of our society's most vulnerable citizens are robbed of their life savings, healthcare and freedom.

Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with village teacher Maruja and young local boy Tomiche.

Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.

The mighty Mississippi River bleeds muddy water into an alluvial plain. Thousands of slaves were brought in from West Africa to the Mississippi Delta. Music helped them endure and the dust rose from their feet as they danced. In fact, their pain became the source of a new sound, The Blues.

Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple called Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer board the 'Achille Lauro'. The mood is cheerful and relaxed, everyone is looking forward to twelve days of sun, sea and peace. No one suspects that there are four Palestinian terrorists among the passengers: Al Assadi, Fatayer, Al Ashker and Molqi, their leader. The ship puts to sea in perfect weather. Three marvellous days follow. Everyone appears to be happy and contented. But in the case of some of the passengers appearances are deceiving. Marilyn Klinghoffer, for example, only pretends to her crippled husband that she is well and happy; in reality she is seriously ill with cancer and knows that this will be her last voyage. She does not want to upset her husband, however. A crisis is brewing between the Bergerons: Pierre is a cold-hearted cynic who finds fault with everything and everybody, particularly his wife. Divorce is in the air. Only Gitta and Helmut Holzer, the two young Germans, who have won the trip in a competition, are really enjoying themselves; it is their first voyage and they are as happy as larks. Gitta is in an advanced stage of pregnancy. While the passengers are enjoying themselves on board, the four terrorists have locked themselves into their cabin. Only Molqi knows of the plan to seize the ship, the other three believe they are on their way to take part in a suicide mission in Israel. On 7th October about l00 passengers leave the ship in Port Said to take part in an expedition to the pyramids. Among them is Margot Bergeron, who has left her husband on board in a rage, and Luciano and Carla Serafini, who have left their two children on board in the care of their grandmother. The Klinghoffers and the Holzers have changed their minds and decided to stay on board after all. Meanwhile Molqi has received his last orders concerning the seizure of the ship by means of a telephone message from Khaled, who, as it later turns out, is in reality Abu Abbas, the Palestinian leader and confidant of Arafat. In the cabin Molqi makes his three friends believe the cabin steward has discovered their weapons. He pretends that they can therefore not continue their voyage to Israel but must seize the ship. The three are horrified - this was not what they had planned - but finally they allow Molqi to convince them that they have no alternative. The kidnapping begins. With a volley of shots the terrorists storm the bridge and the restaurant where all the passengers have assembled for lunch. All, that is, except Anne Higgins, the Englishwoman, who spends the days of the kidnapping hidden in the bathroom of her cabin. The passengers are filled with fear and horror, only Leon Klinghoffer, the cripple, does not allow himself to be intimidated and comments on the nightmarish situation with black humour. Meanwhile, the ship' s captain transmits radio messages to inform the world about the seizure of his ship and the pirates' demands. Fifty Palestinians must be freed from Israeli prisons before the terrorists are prepared to surrender the ship. There is hectic activity in Rome, Washington, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Bonn, London and Paris. Aeroplanes are deployed over the Mediterranean to search for the vanished ship, the ambassadors of the countries involved meet in Cairo, radio messages with orders are transmitted back and forth. While the ship is approaching the Syrian coast, American, Israeli and British passengers are separated from the others. Fear continues to grow. When finally the Syrian port of Tartous appears on the horizon, the end of the kidnapping seems to be in sight. The terrorists assure the passengers that everything will soon be over. Hopes for a happy end grow stronger. But suddenly Molqi appears. He forces the American, Israeli and British hostages to leave the hall and go onto the top deck of the ship. The passengers from the USA, Israel and England are huddled together on the top deck, the sides of which slope down without a railing. One false move and they will land in the water... Only Leon Klinghoffer remains on a lower deck, alone in his wheelchair. The terrorists do not suspect that the radio messages Molqi has been exchanging with the Syrian government have been overheard from a plane: the Syrian government will not let the terrorists land and refuses to conduct negotiations on their behalf. The plan seems to have failed. Molqi threatens to kill one of the passengers if his conditions are not fulfilled. Shortly after this Molqi approaches Leon Klinghoffer by himself. He pushes the American round the deck in his wheelchair - and finally kills him. The other terrorists are horrified at the murder. When the hostages are allowed to leave the top deck Klinghoffer's wife goes to look for her husband, but she is told that although he is in the ship' s hospital and well, she is not allowed to see him. The ship sets course for Libya, but here, too, she is sent away again. All the Arab countries have meanwhile dissociated themselves from the kidnapping, the pirates are alone with their terrible crime. Even Arafat, the leader of the Palestinians, wants nothing to do with the kidnappers. He does, however, send his second-in-command to Cairo to negotiate with the terrorists and persuade them to surrender peacefully. This second-in-command is Abu Abbas, the man with whom Molqi is in constant radio contact. Meanwhile it is rumoured among the passengers that Leon Klinghoffer has been murdered. But Molqi still compells the ship's captain to deny that Klinghoffer is dead. Even Abu Abbas, who has ordered Molqi to return to Port Said and is now the official mediator, is told by the captain (acting on Molqi's orders ) that no lives have been lost on the ship. For only if all the passengers remain unharmed are the ambassadors of the countries involved prepared to comply with Abbas's demand that the terrorists be surrendered to the Palestinians, who will then bring charges against them themselves. Besides this, the ambassadors must agree not to extradite the terrorists to any of the countries concerned. Molqi and the other terrorists meanwhile realize that the seizure of the ship has failed and that there is no chance that they will be able to force the Israelis to let the imprisoned Palestinians go free. When Abu Abbas orders them to apologize to the passengers, they obey him. The passengers, too, have now heard that the kidnapping is over. They are relieved and happy, and so far no one knows for sure that Leon Klinghoffer is dead. When a ship belonging to the Egyptian Secret Service comes to pick up the terrorists, they leave the 'Achille Lauro'. The nightmare is over. Only now does Marilyn Klinghoffer learn that her husband has been murdered. In spite of the agreement stipulating that the pirates are not to be extradited, the American ambassador, feeling that he has been misled by Abu Abbas, promises Mrs. Klinghoffer to do everything in his power to have the terrorists tried by an American court. While the passengers are recovering from the strain they have gone through and are being taken home, the American Secret Service listens in on a radio message saying when the pirates are to be flown out of Egypt. A plan is concocted. On 12th Octoberr the Boeing with the pirates and Abu Abbas on board is forced by two American military machines to land on the NATO base in Sicily. In spite of the Americans ' demand that the kidnappers be handed over to them, they are - after lengthy political disputes - surrendered to the Italian authorities, where they are identified by Marilyn Klinghoffer. Abu Abbas remains at large. The kidnappers are tried in Italy and sentenced to between l5 and 30 years imprisonment.

In Saskatchewan in 2016, students are competing in the first ever province-wide First Nations Spelling Bee. The winners will travel with their families to Toronto, Ontario for the 29th Annual national championships of the Spelling Bee of Canada.

Far from home and cut off from family and friends, Montreal's Indigenous homeless population is the focus of No Address. Dreams of a better life in the big city can be met with harsh realities, as the individuals in this documentary recount. Often trying to flee circumstances created by colonialism and the effects of assimilation, the First Nations and Inuit people in this work share frank stories about their lives and the paths that took them to the streets of Montreal. Alanis Obomsawin presents an honest, stark portrayal of endemic homelessness while giving voice to those so often overlooked or made invisible on the streets of every city in Canada.

GENERATION ZAPPED is an eye-opening documentary, which reveals that wireless technology poses serious health risks, from infertility to cancer. Through interviews with experts in science and public health, along with people who suffer from high sensitivity to wireless radiation, the film suggests ways to reduce your exposure and protect your family.