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We Gotta Get Out of Here
We Gotta Get Out Of Here is a feature length documentary that chronicles the journeys of five youth struggling to beat the odds as they navigate their way out of the foster care system in Los Angeles. The movie focuses individually on Mike, Ty, Tiffany, TeeJay, and Benson. All products of extremely abusive, violent, and drug infested childhoods, the film offers a sensitive and intimate look into their experience with the imploding California foster care system, their drive and inspiration to separate themselves from the status quo, and their desire to finally find a place they can call home.

- 2019
- 2017
Justin Timberlake: Suited Up
He is one of the most successful recording artists of the 21st century. From the Mickey Mouse Club to NSYNC, Justin Timberlake is a truly remarkable iconic superstar….This is the story of Justin Timberlake.

- 2014
Genocide
A chilling, heartbreaking testament to the strength and suffering of the Jewish people and the courage and heroism of those who came to their aid. With beautiful narration by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor the film begins by providing a look at the flourishing Jewish community in pre-war Europe and then traces their grim trajectory through the ghettos, camps, and prisons of the Nazi regime, introducing the lost victims and brave heroes along the way.

- 1982
Gospel
A documentary concert film featuring James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir, Walkter Hawkins and the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Shirley Caesar, Twinkie Clark and the Clark Sisters.

- 1983
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Traces the music and sounds from its Appalachian roots to the present. The rise, fall, and consistent revival of bluegrass chronicled through oral history and visual record.

- 1992
Stealing Charlie Chaplin
In 1978, three months after Comedy Icon, Charlie Chaplin's death, his body disappeared from it's grave in Corsier-Sur-Vevey, Switzerland. After being left initially with no clues, only outrageous and often ridiculous rumors, the robbers finally made contact with the family. What ensued was a tense, but often comedic game of cat and mouse.

- 2017
Motivation 3: The Next Generation
Four teenagers compete in skateboarding's biggest amateur contest, chase the title and risk everything for their dream.

- 2017
Above Ground Level: Dubfire
As one-half of the Grammy award-winning duo "Deep Dish", Iranian-American Ali Shirazinia (aka 'Dubfire') has established himself as one of the world's most successful DJs and producers. But the road to success was not an easy one. With candid interviews from family, childhood friends, industry peers, and fellow artists, this film takes an intimate and honest look inside the nuanced world of dance music. This is an aspirational story about pursuing your passion, daring to dream big, and the challenges that come with success. It is an insider's look at what its like to be an electronic music artist from Above Ground Level.

- 2017
Faustina: Love and Mercy
Docudrama tracing the life of Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose visions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Apostle of Divine Mercy".

- 2019
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
The film traces the origins of our beliefs about healthful and unhealthful food. Experts from all over the world talk about the problems as well as short and long term solutions. Among the many experts in the film are authors like Gary Taubes, Mark Sisson, and Melanie Warner. Medical doctors such as David Perlmutter M.D., David L. Katz, and Timothy Noakes share insights that are certain to challenge the status quo. Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat is a chronicle of the things it's writer and director Lathe Poland learned after he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. He sought to find out why he got sick, because he didn't fit the classic picture of an adult onset diabetes sufferer. He quickly learned that much of what he knew about healthy eating was based on myths or fifty year old science. In the film he searches out why Americas modern food culture is killing us. The upside? There is a lot that can be done!

- 2014
There Is Many Like Us
In 1943, Max Fronenberg spent one year digging a secret underground tunnel to escape out of a prison camp in Warsaw, Poland during the Holocaust while saving fifteen other prisoners in the process and forced to leave behind the love of his life, Rena, in the prison.

- 2015
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
A look at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker.

- Metascore67
- 2014
The Sound of a Flower
During the Joseon Dynasty, singing teacher Shin Jae-hyo clashes with his school's best singer over the lead role in a new opera. At the same time, lowborn and brothel-raised Chae-sun aspires to take up the male-only professional of singing. Shin shuns Chae-sun's pleas for audition. but when she disguises herself as a man and performs, Shin is convinced of her talent and accepts his school's first female student. However, Shin's attempt to find her a place in a royal ceremony leads him to be incarcerated by Daewongun, the king's father, and a desperate Chae-sun finds herself striking a deal with him in an effort to save her teacher.

- 2015
Unorthodox
At 16, Anna broke away from Orthodox Judaism. Years later, she confronts difficult truths about faith and reckons with her past.

- 2013
Nowhere Boy
Liverpool, 1955: a smart and troubled fifteen-year-old John Lennon is hungry for experience. In a family full of secrets and tragedy, two incredible women clash over John, who escapes into the new and exciting world of rock 'n' roll, where he finds his voice - and an icon explodes into the world.

- Metascore67
- 2009
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
In the basement of a Tokyo office building, 85 year old sushi master Jiro Ono works tirelessly in his world renowned restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. As his son Yoshikazu faces the pressures of stepping into his father's shoes and taking over the legendary restaurant, Jiro relentlessly pursues his lifelong quest to create the perfect piece of sushi.

- Metascore77
- 2011
KILLING BEEF 'Gun Violence In The Black Community'
After recovering from a near fatal shooting, former drug dealer and award-winning journalist Samson Styles searches to find meaning in his life and reconciliation with his shooter, in this meaningful journey that takes the form of a life-lesson told to a young boy.

- 2018
Fleetwood Mac: Their Own Way
Come with us as we explore the captivating story of one of the most successful and unique bands in history. With an iconic sound and a roster of songs including ‘Go Your Own Way’ and ‘The Chain’- This is the journey of Fleetwood Mac.

- 2018
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Tells the story of the brilliant, often outrageous women who founded the feminist movement of the 1960s. They said 'the personal is political' and made a revolution: in the bedroom, in the workplace, in all spheres of life. Called threatening by the FBI, yet ignored in many histories, these women changed the world.

- Metascore80
- 2014
Scared of Revolution
Scared of Revolution concentrates on Hassan's personal life, in which he still fights his demons. As a member of The Last Poets he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists.

- 2018
The Lovers & the Despot
In 1970s South Korea, actor Choi Eun-hee and her ex-husband, film director Shin Sang-ok, were divorced, estranged and both struggling with stalled careers. Unfortunately, both their lives seemed changed forever when they were individually kidnapped in 1978 by their biggest fan, Kim Jong-il, despot of North Korea. With persuasion and brute force, the movie obsessed Kim planned to use them to develop the Hermit Kingdom's film industry and get it out of its mindless propaganda mentality. Through the words of Choi, their family, associates and US intelligence personnel, you will follow the story of the bizarre slavery of this couple even as they rediscovered their love and secretly gathered evidence of the dictator's crimes. All the while, they struggled to play along with the world's most dangerous film geek as they desperately planned their escape.

- Metascore65
- 2016
Where Was God?
May 20, 2013--an EF5 tornado ripped through Moore, OK. The magnitude of devastation measured over eight times greater than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. As the world watched, one question continued to surface-Where Was God?

- 2014