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A Real Vermeer

1 hr 55 mins

Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, he produces a fake Vermeer and tries to pass it off as a real one. It works. Instead of revealing the truth and thereby embarrassing the art world, he continues to make money off of his many forgeries. Soon he is caught in a web of lies and deceit, and his life spins out of control. Then one day, high ranking Nazi Hermann Göring knocks on his door, looking for a Vermeer for his private collection...

A Real Vermeer
  • 2016

Sisters of the Wilderness

1 hr 30 mins

Five young Zulu women go into the iMfolozi wilderness in South Africa, on a journey of self-discovery; and learn about the plight of this primordial wilderness which is now severely threatened by an open-cast coal mine on its border, and an intensifying rhino poaching calamity.

Sisters of the Wilderness
  • 2018

Twelve Pianos

1 hr 4 mins

It began with a single piano he brought out to the bluffs near his house, played every evening at sunset. Schumann, Satie, and Piazola. Through the rapid disintegration of the instrument in the elements, the artist sought to show the impermanence of all things. But it turned out that it's illegal to keep a piano on the beach. The internet caught on, the news cameras came. The piano was burned in a fiery cremation. A dozen pianos were secreted along a twenty-five mile stretch of pristine California coastline, muscled onto mountains and cliffs by a small crew in the misty early morning hours. World class musicians, dilettantes, and dreamers played for their friends, strangers, and passing children. Inspired and brilliant performances were filmed in these idyllic settings, even as park rangers hauled the beautiful instruments away. Then grand pianos on rolling platforms prowled the streets of San Francisco. Mind-blowing underground music performances reverberated through a condemned building, reinvigorating a city under threat of a cultural siege. Twelve Pianos is about the recognition of the silent passing of physical culture, our headlong rush into a tacky, consumerist future, and retaining the things that make us uniquely human. These pianos want to save the world.

Twelve Pianos
  • 2017

The People Who Shaped American Dining

1 hr 28 mins

The people who shaped American dining tells the stories of the Chefs, Foodies and Restauranteurs that have taken their craft to the next level and built the industry as we know it today.These are the people who started the trends and shaped American dining forever. Join us as we feature the best Cake Decorators, Farm to table chefs,TV cooking show Chefs, Restauranteurs, Sommeliers and America's favorite "Greasy Spoon" eateries that took dining to a whole new level.The show is produced by award winning Chef and Film Maker Joe Ciminera as he travels across the USA for 12 months interviewing the best of the best. People who built American Dining documentary shows the exhausting effort of getting to the top, building a brand and staying there.

The People Who Shaped American Dining
  • 2022

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back

1 hr 32 mins

An intimate portrait of a trailblazing entertainer who navigates the highs and lows of his lengthy showbiz career, and a complex relationship with his superstar brother, tap dance legend Gregory Hines.

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
  • 2019

Gamestop: Rise of the Players

1 hr 34 mins

From the makers of Console Wars comes the origin story of the Gamestop stock market phenomenon, featuring exclusive access to the original players who lit the fuse on a historic amateur investor uprising. Spotlighting the human side of a sensational business drama, Gamestop: Rise of the Players is a David vs Goliath tale about ordinary people waking up to the power they have in numbers.

Gamestop: Rise of the Players

Girls Can't Surf

1 hr 48 mins

It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluoro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. GIRLS CAN’T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever.

Girls Can't Surf
  • 2020

Worst to First

WORST TO FIRST is a feature-length documentary that portrays the against-all-odds inspirational story of the launch of the iconic and most successful radio station in history, New York City's Z100.

Worst to First
  • 2022

Surviving Sandy Hook

1 hr 32 mins

This documentary follows three Newtown families as they rebuild their lives after 12/14. Over a year, we follow families of victims, and survivors. Some are taking the lead in community healing, others advocate for a change in gun laws, all are seeking healing. In their journey, some venture out of their 'safe' suburban community with new eyes:- engaging with black urban America; youth from all walks of life coming together to make change; gun proponents; prisoners incarcerated for violent crimes. This film shows the audience how even amidst such a horrific event, people find a way to survive, and brings a unique perspective to the ongoing gun debate. A film about grief, hope, love and guns.

Surviving Sandy Hook
  • 2015

Batman and Me

1 hr 24 mins

An obsessive Batman collector attempts to kick his pop culture addiction.

Batman and Me
  • 2020

Stronger by Stress

1 hr 28 mins

When conventional medicine is struggling to keep up with ever increasing stress levels in populations biohackers show us their holistic approach to life which not only increases their resilience against the stress, but also helps them to perform on higher level.

Stronger by Stress
  • 2022

A Perfect Vintage

1 hr 37 mins

Experience the journey of some of the world's finest winemakers as they dance with mother nature and take advantage of the Napa region's most epic vintage in decades

A Perfect Vintage
  • 2021

IT'S VUCA: The Secret to Living in the 21st Century

1 hr 35 mins

We are living in an age of exponentially, accelerating compounding change that bombards us everyday with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, fear, anxiety and distrust. And there is a name for it: "IT'S VUCA". But, VUCA is not just the problem, it is also the solution. This film is a journey to discover the answers to "what you are going through" and to help you overcome the overwhelm and thrive in VUCA - TODAY and TOMORROW. Featuring some of the world's greatest VUCA experts: Generals, elite Navy SEALs, Delta force commanders, Blue Angels pilots, 10x NY Times best-selling authors, leadership gurus, business professionals, world-renowned futurists, Think Tank wizards, neuroscientists, cognitive therapists, philosophers, high-level thought leaders, and other VUCA masters. You'll learn that you can FLIP THE SCRIPT on VUCA to attain vision, understanding, clarity, adaptability, anti-fragile resilience, and courage to achieve your greatest dreams and untold abundance.

IT'S VUCA: The Secret to Living in the 21st Century
  • 2022

When the Bands Stopped Playing

When the Bands Stopped Playing is a bit of a time capsule that gives viewers a detailed glimpse inside of this shattered and shuttered industry through the eyes of its' hardest workers. Famous artists, indie artists on the rise, plus rock and dance acts working the club circuit have all lent their voices to this special project. We also believed it was crucial to hear from the perspective of the president of one of the most successful venues in the U.S.as his story speaks for every other venue that was shuttered for the better part of a year. Every voice was crucial to the telling of this story and in our eyes, they also share an equal amount of importance. They speak openly about the financial hardship, deep depression of losing something that they love so much (even temporarily), and the things that they are doing to help keep their own positivity and hope alive.

When the Bands Stopped Playing
  • 2021

The Real Taylor Swift: Wild Dreams

1 hr 0 mins

Music was a mission in this case. A family affair it certainly was long before the "Swiftie" fan club took root. So Taylor Alison Swift's saga would unfold with her dream-come-true move from a Christmas tree farm in Reading, Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennessee in 2004. Her parents' careers in stocks, bonds and mutual funds had no interest for this child prodigy. It was her opera singer grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, who inspired Taylor to make music. 200 million albums would eventually follow. There were lessons, auditions and song writing sessions along the way, even a brief stint as a musical model for Abercrombie and Fitch. By age fourteen Taylor left RCA for the independent Big Machine Records where she became the opening act for Rascal Flats. It was 2018 when a 13 year relationship ended bitterly in court. Meanwhile nine albums and five concert tours have been rewarded with 11 Grammy Awards. 12 Country Music, 11 MTV and 25 Billboard Awards. Swift plays four musical instruments including piano, banjo, guitar and ukulele. She is credited with writing 179 songs, 21 that describe old boyfriends. Seven #1 hit singles like "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" reveal secrets from the past. Be it pop, country or rock, the music traces a life story filled with love and loss, all Taylor-made.

The Real Taylor Swift: Wild Dreams
  • 2021

A Southern Fix

1 hr 14 mins

The facts are startling: approximately 3-4 million companion animals are euthanized in the U.S. every year. In this documentary, filmmakers interview advocates on the front line of the battle against this crisis.

  • 2017

Insatiable: The Homaro Cantu Story

1 hr 38 mins

Chef and inventor Homaro Cantu helped put Chicago on the culinary map when he opened his first restaurant "Moto" and became a celebrity chef in his late twenties. A renowned inventor and social entrepreneur, Cantu innovated his restaurants and tackled big problems from Americans' love affair with refined sugar to re-imagining space cuisine. As much as Chef Cantu tried to change the world and make it a better place, a childhood filled with trauma and abuse shaped him more than he could have known. Filmed over a period of three years with remarkable access, INSATIABLE follows Cantu at a pivotal moment in his career and takes you on a dizzying and thrilling ride, in a story that moves from redemption and inspiration to tragedy and back again.

Insatiable: The Homaro Cantu Story
  • 2016

Maizidian

1 hr 20 mins

On New Year's Day 2020 in Beijing, George spoke with his sister in Athens and told her that he had plans to travel back to Greece in August to hold his photographic exhibition. Yet shortly after that, Covid-19 breaks out and George is unable to travel anywhere. Still in Beijing and nine months later, George is looking for his friend Lao Song in Maizidian to ask about his photographic exhibition. On the way he meets Greg from the US, Glenda from Italy, Oda from Japan, Daniel from Brazil, and others from 9 different countries. Sasha, a German bartender, tells George about how many of his fellow countrymen didn't dare return home and how his bar became a temporary respite for people. After George listened to their stories about life in Beijing during the epidemic, he surprisingly realized they all felt the same thing.

Maizidian
  • 2022
  • 2015

Syncopation

1 hr 28 mins

Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. Prior to the making of the film, RKO held a contest for the readers of 'The Saturday Evening Post" to vote on the musicians to make up the All-American Dance Band featured in the film; the magazine's readers chose, in the above-the-title listing: Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Jack Jenney. Gene Krupa, Alvino Rey, Joe Venuti, and singer Connee Boswell.

Syncopation
  • 1942

Brothers

1 hr 45 mins

Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.

Brothers
  • 1977

Frazetta: Painting with Fire

1 hr 33 mins

For over 50 years, Frank Frazetta dominated the art world with his images of fierce warriors, helpless princesses, and fantastical creatures set in the most lavish landscapes. His impact upon the worlds of fantasy art and film was unparalleled, and it can be seen to this day in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Amazingly, he managed to do this while nearly dying because of an undiagnosed thyroid condition. Even more astonishing was his ability to survive six strokes, which forced him to switch from drawing with his right hand to drawing with his left hand. The film documents the life and work of this legendary fantasy artist while exploring the universal theme of inspiration. Visual effects are used in a very unique way to bring his paintings to life. And when you combine this technique with an outstanding original score, it makes for a very original documentary. Bo Derek, Ralph Bakshi, John Milius, Glenn Danzig, and Forrest Ackerman are just a few of the people who appear in this movie.

Frazetta: Painting with Fire
  • 2003

American Empire

1 hr 22 mins

Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.

American Empire
  • 1942

The Song Remains the Same

2 hrs 17 mins

The members of Led Zeppelin are called back from vacation by manager Peter Grant to play Madison Square Garden. The film is enhanced by each of the band member's personal fantasies (hallucinations?), such as the opening scene (which is awfully confusing the first time around) in which Peter Grant, dressed in a 1930s black gangster suit drives a 1930s black Ford to a house and blasts everyone with a machine gun.

The Song Remains the Same
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