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The Cancer Documentary
Looking to stem the rampant cancer epidemic, The Cancer Documentary addresses the worldwide cancer epidemic head-on, exploring an aspect of cancer that is often overlooked, its connection with diet and lifestyle. Through the eyes of cancer patients and survivors, doctors and experts in the field, the film seeks to shine a light on the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

- 2020
Mistaken
A Moroccan woman is detained at JFK airport in New York days after 9/11 because her husband has the same name as the lead terrorist. Laila and her husband suffer the effects of having the same name as a terrorist while trying to live a normal life in a tense post 9/11 world.

- 2017
Tiny Tim - The Luna Park Marathon
The legendary Tiny Tim sang for two hours and seventeen minutes non-stop, on a beautiful summer's night, in the 'Floating Palais' at Luna Park on Sydney harbor.

- 1979
Unprescribed
Amid the opioid crisis and the loss of nearly 22 veterans a day to suicide, an increasing number of warfighters are ditching prescription drugs in favor of medical marijuana for PTSD and other trauma. We've been told that pot is bad, it's a gateway drug, only to learn we've been systematically lied to through government controlled propaganda. Despite government push back, experts like Dr. Sue Sisley continue to seek the answer to the age-old question, 'is marijuana safe?'

- 2020
The KFC
Five Kiwis take on a paragliding adventure in Tanzania, with the ultimate aim to fly from the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.

- 2020
The Accidental President
As America began to try and come to terms with the surprising (and for many voters, horrifying) results of the presidential race of 2016, the subsequent rapid-fire speed of events and jam-packed news cycles meant that nobody would ever have the opportunity to truly and properly reflect on what exactly just happened -- and how did it?

- 2020
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
Documentary film on the instrumental rock group The Ventures. The story of their rise to fame in the 1960s right up to now, as they celebrate their 60th anniversary.

- 2020
Born to Be
BORN TO BE follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City-where, for the first time ever, all transgender and gender non-conforming people have access to quality transition-related health and surgical care. With extraordinary access, this feature-length documentary takes an intimate look at how one doctor's work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic surgeon to pioneering gender-affirming surgeon has led to his own transformation.

- 2019
Monkey Mayhem
Monkeys are some of the most evolutionarily successful species on the planet, from Japanese snow monkeys to African baboons. Loveable, aggressive, and full of mischief, our distant cousins have much in common with us. Swinging through our primate family tree quickly reveals the diversity.
- 2020
Wheat City Hardcore
Brandon, Manitoba may not stand out on the nation's musical map. But for independent musicians touring Canada in the 1990s, The Wheat City was a punk rock hotbed.

- 2018
The Last Sermon
Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem, survivors of the April 30, 2003 suicide bombing attack at Mike's Place music bar in Tel Aviv, travel across Europe in a bid to further understand the roots of extremism and how terrorists manipulate religion for their own ends.

- 2020
Chicago at the Crossroad
Where did Chicago go wrong? Chicago at the Crossroad tells the story of a city caught in the aftermath of a policy of mass displacement shaded by a long history of segregation.

- 2019
An American Prophecy
An American Prophecy features health care workers of the COVID-19 pandemic as they explore the human condition through Khalil Gibran's The Prophet.

- 2020
Microbudget Marauders Too
What is a micro budget film? Have you ever come across a super low budget movie on a streaming platform and thought, Wow, how is this here, in the marketplace, right next to the blockbusters? Who is making these movies?

- 2020
Fixing Grandma
Fixing grandma explores patient care and the disparity, between the black community and medicine.

- 2019
The Opium War
Thousands of young people are dying from using drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar. When the government is not doing enough to crack down drugs problem, the civilians formed the anti-drugs organization called "Pat Jasan" which means "Stop and Clean the drugs" in local Kachin Language, to eradicate drugs. A clash between "Pa Jasan" grups and drugs lords occurred.

- 2020
War Raiders
Eastern Europe, 1944. The Allies successfully bomb a dam in France, wiping out a German installation, concealing secret codes valuable for Allied decoding. A rogue band of soldiers is sent to retrieve the codes from a hidden vault in the flooded towns ruins and bring them back to the Allied headquarters. Along the way they must fight off pockets of Nazi resistance and stay alive.

- 2018
Return to Trophy Point
In July, 2007, West Point Glee Club alumni spanning five decades of classes returned to West Point for their first ever glee club reunion. The event culminated in a concert with the USMA Band on Trophy Point. This documentary covers that four-day period.
- 2018
Greatest R&B Legends Cleveland
The Drama, Triumphs, and the Ups and Downs in this once in a lifetime treasure of the music scene from the 50s - 00s. Featuring The O'Jays, Kinsman Dazz Band, Gerald Levert, Rude Boys, CASH and more. Cleveland, Ohio's impact in R&B music.
- 2020
Driven to Abstraction
Driven to Abstraction unravels a mutating tale of self-delusion, greed, and fraud-- the $80 million forgery scandal that rocked the art world and brought down Knoedler, New York City's oldest and most venerable gallery. Was the gallery's esteemed director the victim of a con artist who showed up with an endless treasure trove of previously unseen abstract expressionist masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect they were fakes, yet continue to sell them for many millions of dollars for fifteen years? Whatever the truth, two women from very different worlds were, wittingly or not, caught up in the greatest hoax ever of Modern American Art.

- 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
Thunder Run on Baghdad
In these previously unaired images, we discover US military operations from the inside, but also - and more importantly - scenes of splendor of a dictatorship caught up in lies and unprepared for war.

- 2013
Hero: The Extraordinary Life of Mr. Ulric Cross
Inspired by the life and times of Caribbean war hero, judge and diplomat Ulric Cross whose amazing life spanned key moments of the 20th Century like WW2, African independence movements, Black Power, the rise of a new brand of Black leadership around the world, events that define our present reality.

- 2019
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