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  • 2016
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    Tower

    Tower

    7.60 2016 HD

    Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of...

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  • 2020
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    Feels Good Man

    Feels Good Man

    7.10 2020 HD

    When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the...

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  • 2018
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    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    8.00 2018 HD

    For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...

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  • 2020
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    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    6.95 2020 HD

    Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...

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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.70 2017 HD

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

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  • 2015
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    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    7.00 2015 HD

    The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...

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  • 2016
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    National Bird

    National Bird

    6.70 2016 HD

    Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections,...

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  • 2020
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    The Donut King

    The Donut King

    7.10 2020 HD

    Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.

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  • 2014
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    The Homestretch

    The Homestretch

    7.00 2014 HD

    Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future.

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  • 2017
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    Unrest

    Unrest

    7.10 2017 HD

    When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head."...

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  • 2012
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    Detropia

    Detropia

    6.70 2012 HD

    Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans...

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  • 2014
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    1971

    1971

    6.70 2014 HD

    Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...

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  • 2017
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    The Force

    The Force

    6.80 2017 HD

    The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal...

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  • 2013
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    The Kill Team

    The Kill Team

    6.80 2013 HD

    In 2010, the media branded a platoon of U.S. Army infantry soldiers “The Kill Team” following reports of its killing for sport in...

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  • 2020
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    9to5: The Story of a Movement

    9to5: The Story of a Movement

    7.60 2020 HD

    In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a...

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  • 2020
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    Bulletproof

    Bulletproof

    8.00 2020 HD

    "Bulletproof" observes the age-old rituals that take place daily in American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements,...

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  • 2017
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    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

    8.10 2017 HD

    A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and...

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  • 2024
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    And So It Begins

    And So It Begins

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    Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening...

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  • 2020
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    The People vs. Agent Orange

    The People vs. Agent Orange

    8.80 2020 HD

    Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened....

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  • 2021
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    Storm Lake

    Storm Lake

    6.50 2021 HD

    A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.

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