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- A look at pop artist Bui Quoc Huy with a look at his seven-year career, success and notoriety
- Filmed during Madonna's 1987 "Who's That Girl World Tour."
- A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
- An Earth Day special about pollution's effects on the Earth. Numerous celebrities have guest appearances whether as themselves, or as characters for whom they're best known.
- A look at the life, work, and impact of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), pop icon and artist, from his childhood in Pittsburgh to his death after a botched surgery. Warhol coined the word "superstar," became one, and changed the way the culture looks at and understands celebrity. After studying at Carnegie Tech, he goes to New York to be a commercial artist. By 1960, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rosenquist are inventing pop art. Warhol starts "The Factory," his workshop where he paints and makes movies. His is a cafe society of late nights and parties. His family, friends, an agent, a curator, gallery owners, actors, the co-founder of "Interview," and others tell stories and assess his art.
- Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct.
- British performer, Sade, performed a live concert in San Diego, California in 1993.
- A 1500 year old body of one of the Knights Templar is discovered below New York's subway. Soon, a demonic minion and a modern Templar Knight are drawn to its secrets. So begins a battle for nothing less than the fate of the entire world.
- The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
- A partially fictional account of musician Gram Parsons' death and cremation. After Gram ODs in a desert motel in 1973, his road manager steals Gram's body for a last trip to Joshua Tree.
- Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
- A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
- During their summer between high school and college, three girls blackmail a slightly older hunk into having sex with them.
- Two never-were stand-up comics go to tiny Pine Lake, Wisconsin, where they hope to catch the eye of a Tonight Show talent scout who never misses his hometown Rocktoberfest, an annual weekend beer-blast with music and comedy performances.
- "I don't hate America," comedian Bill Maher declares during I'm Swiss, his seventh HBO stand-up special that was recorded in March 2005 in Portland, OR. "I love America. (But) I'm embarrassed." And there we have not only the source of the title (his discomfiture, he jokes, has led him to pretend he's from another country) but also the crux of Maher's overall presentation on this, his third DVD taken from a program that was first shown on HBO.
- By issuing marriage licenses to same gender couples, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom uproots the status quo and attempts to change the way the nation looks at life, love, and marriage.
- Filmed at The Anti-Imperialist Plaza in Havana in 2005, Audioslave's Live in Cuba features hits from the band's three albums plus hits from Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine.
- Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened.
- A troubled young man's sudden return after a mysterious five-year disappearance reunites him with his wife and his best friend.
- Three twenty-something pals circa 1996 revisit their small-town roots to attend the funeral of their high school friend Bender. The guys spend a wild weekend reminiscing over football, booze and babes while struggling with their problems.
- "I Build the Tower" is the true story of the life and work of Sam Rodia, the Italian immigrant who built the world-famous Watts Towers on a residential lot in South Central Los Angeles. These mosaic-covered spires of reinforced cement rising to almost one hundred feet were once scheduled for demolition by the City Building Department. The towers survived to become a symbol of the community in which they stand and they are now recognized throughout the world as a unique embodiment of the structural principles found in nature.
- Inspired by a real-life condition, "Shade" is the fictional story of Laura, a woman who has lived with a debilitating genetic defect that prevents her from ever seeing the sun. After living under the protection of darkness for thirty years, one sunny afternoon, Laura faces a choice that could cost her her life.
- Phil Vassar takes the stage on GAC in an exclusive television premiere of footage shot during a 2005 concert at the Historic Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Boston, MA.
- The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
- Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
- April, 39, wants a baby but her husband leaves her. When her adoptive mother dies, she's contacted by her biological mother, a TV talk show host. April starts seeing the divorced dad of one of her students at school.
- Two families are brought together by the return of one family's son -- a reunion that conjures up old ghosts and issues that must be addressed.
- Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.
- A mockumentary following an ambitious TV network executive trying to produce a controversial reality show where contestants play Russian Roulette.
- The crew members of NASA's Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.
- Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- A Chinese man travels to America to visit his daughter after her recent divorce. Though his trip starts off as a mission to see his daughter remarry, he sparks to an Iranian woman who, despite their language barrier, captures his heart.
- A look at the work and surprising success of a four-year-old girl whose paintings have been compared to the likes of Picasso and has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- Comedian Jamie Kennedy shows just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark
- Each year, Jazz at Lincoln Center and its artistic director Wynton Marsalis host the Essentially Ellington Festival, a competition of high school jazz bands from across the country. Bruce Broder's documentary focuses on one Florida band's experience at the festival.
- Winnovators Andy and Paul embark on a Windorphin-fueled West Coast tour teaching the seven principles of winning while interacting with other Winnovators.
- A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
- Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.
- Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.
- A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
- It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
- Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.
- A woman leaves an abusive husband to start a new life in Chicago, where she befriends a man undergoing an emotional crisis, who she does not know is a professional killer, and a detective, who is investigating the hit man.
- A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
- In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline.
- A college graduate's defining summer crossing his gangster dad and exploring love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.
- A rebellious socialite defies social conventions for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at true love, only to see her hopes shattered after a priceless diamond vanishes into thin air. Adapted from a long-lost Tennessee Williams screenplay.