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- The history of traffic safety educational films and their notoriously lurid content.
- 1985– 1h 22mTV-147.2 (286)TV Episode59MetascoreThe life and work of Allen Ginsberg, the greatest of the Beat Generation poets is put in focus in this film
- The events of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and Canada's involvement, especially concerning Ambassador Ken Taylor, are explored.
- A documentary about the impact of the newspaper comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," created by Bill Watterson.
- An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power.
- A documentary that shows how George A. Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers to shoot his seminal film: Night of the Living Dead (1968).
- The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.
- The history of Hollywood's handling of the Nazis and its later depiction of the Holocaust they perpetrated.
- A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
- A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the fans who gather by the thousands each year in San Diego, California to attend Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention.
- A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.
- Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.
- The story of the South Korean actor, Choi Eun-hee, and her ex-husband and film director, Shin Sang-ok, who were individually kidnapped and reunited by dictator and film fan Kim Jong-il to force them to develop North Korea's film industry.
- A look at the obsessive world of competitive Scrabble.
- Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
- A group of journalists of the Knight-Ridder news service covering President George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the President's claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
- When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world.
- A look at the global culture and appeal of the LEGO building-block toys.
- A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics.
- A look at the cinematic art of the film musical score, and the artists who create them.
- The world's greatest pinup model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.
- A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States' 2008 mortgage crisis.
- A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
- The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
- A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
- A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.
- A documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma.
- A documentary about the rise of anti-Semitism in the USA after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
- This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.
- A filmed account of the Zaire 74 soul music festival, originally intended to be in concert with the famous Rumble in the Jungle bout in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974.
- A coming-of-age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.
- The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.
- A film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.
- The history of the American government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.
- Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
- A young Jewish adolescent from an overbearing family likes a Christian girl and is helped by a fun-loving rabbi.
- A normal Friday service at a fast food restaurant becomes interrupted by a police officer who claims an employee stole from a customer, but something more sinister is going on.
- An in-depth look at the life and work of avant-garde musician, Frank Zappa.
- A married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.
- In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
- A documentary about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, a German film director most notorious for making the most effective propaganda films for the Nazis.
- As a documentarian cleans out the flat that belonged to his grandparents--both immigrants from Nazi Germany--he uncovers clues pointing to a complicated, shocking story.
- The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
- An examination of the infamous pornographic film Deep Throat (1972), covering aspects from the film's creation to its cultural impact.
- Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.
- Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
- A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
- A quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way as a result of meeting a new, art-student girlfriend, and his friends are unsettled by the transformation.
- Terry Gilliam's doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.