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2018
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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Margaret Whitmer
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2020
Feels Good Man
Feels Good Man7.10 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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Matt Furie
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2017
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.72 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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson
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2016
Tower
Tower7.61 2016 HD
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of...
Genre: Animation
Cast: Violett Beane
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2020
Coded Bias
Coded Bias6.95 2020 HD
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Joy Buolamwini
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2020
The People vs. Agent Orange
The People vs. Agent Orange8.80 2020 HD
Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened....
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Tran To Nga
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2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution7.00 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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Kathleen Cleaver
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2016
National Bird
National Bird6.70 2016 HD
Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jesselyn Radack
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2017
Unrest
Unrest7.10 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."...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jennifer Brea
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2013
The Kill Team
The Kill Team6.80 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...
Genre: War
Cast:
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2020
The Donut King
The Donut King7.10 2020 HD
Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Chuong Pek Lee
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2012
Detropia
Detropia6.70 2012 HD
Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans...
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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2017
The Force
The Force6.80 2017 HD
The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Juan-Carlos Zapata
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2017
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities8.10 2017 HD
A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and...
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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2020
9to5: The Story of a Movement
9to5: The Story of a Movement7.60 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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jane Fonda
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2018
Mr. SOUL!
Mr. SOUL!7.00 2018 HD
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ellis Haizlip
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2020
Down a Dark Stairwell
Down a Dark Stairwell8.00 2020 HD
Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ursula Liang
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2020
Belly of the Beast
Belly of the Beast7.50 2020 HD
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Kelly Dillon
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2014
1971
19716.70 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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Bonnie Raines
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2024
And So It Begins
And So It Begins1 2024 HD
Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Maria Ressa