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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
The story of legendary performer Carol Channing's life is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile. In CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE, director Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness, Gotta Dance), with co-writer Adam Zucker, captures the magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon – both onstage and off...past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era. It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend.
Breaking a Monster
Three 7th graders play heavy metal/speed punk as the band "Unlocking the Truth." When the band's internet fame explodes they go from playing music they love, to the very adult world of touring, managers and a $1.8 million record contract.
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorfs
A documentary on the Manhattan department store with interviews from an array of fashion designers, style icons, and celebrities.
Trumbo
Legendary Hollywood writer Dalton Trumbo’s extraordinary story is brought to life through emotionally stirring and downright hilarious performances of his letters by an all-star cast, including Michael Douglas, Liam Neeson and Donald Sutherland.
Madonna: Goddess of Pop
A singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and entrepreneur, Madonna has truly become the queen of the music industry. Follow from Madonna from her early acclaim to global stardom with plenty of controversy along the way. With her albums topping the charts and her tours selling out worldwide, for decades, Madonna has rightfully earned the title of Goddess of Pop.
New Homeland
Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple, in collaboration with NowThis, NEW HOMELAND offers a unique and intimate perspective into the experience of building a new home after fleeing the traumas of war.
Accidents Happen
When her teenage son Billy uncharacteristically lets off some steam in a series of scandalous pranks, the tragic results are something no one could have predicted.
An American Ascent
Nine mountaineers attempt to become the first all-African-American team to climb Mount Denali, North America's highest peak, on the 100th anniversary of its first summit.
Friends with Money
Three well-heeled married women and their single, financially challenged friend negotiate the waters of friendship, relationships, careers and money.
Surviving Sandy Hook
On the morning of the 14th December 2012, a lone gunman with a semi-automatic rifle shot his mother at home, then entered Sandy Hook Primary school massacring six adults and 20 children before taking his own life. With the gun debate raging across America, both sides set to use this atrocity for political gain, with multiple conspiracy theories being born from the chaos.
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested in July 2010 after a 25 year killing spree in which it is thought he could have killed over 100 victims, potentially making him the most prolific serial killer in history. Significantly, his arrest was not the product of painstaking detective work but completely accidental, the result of a computer DNA match that linked him to a possible 20 victims.
Another Country
In the 1930s, Tommy Judd and Guy Bennett are nearing the end of their careers at their public school. When the faculty stumbles upon a homosexual act by two students, one boy commits suicide and scandal erupts.
Paradise
Academy Award-winning writer, Diablo Cody writes and directs this hilarious tale of innocence lost and paradise found. After a nearly fatal accident, Lamb Mannerheim realizes that the world is much bigger than her small, God-fearing Montana town and heads to Las Vegas!
Terribly Happy
This taught, noirish psychological thriller finds a Copenhagen cop moving to a small - David Lynch by way of the Coen Bros - town after suffering a nervous breakdown. This film is directed by Henrik Ruben Genz and stars Jakob Cedergren.
Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
Vidal Sassoon is more than just a hairdresser - he's a rock star, an artist, a craftsman who "changed the world with a pair of scissors." With the geometric, Bauhaus-inspired hairdos he pioneered in the 1960s and his "wash and wear" philosophy that liberated generations of women from the tyranny of the salon, Sassoon revolutionized the art of hairstyling and left an indelible mark on popular culture. This documentary traces with visual gusto the life of a self-made man whose passion and perseverance took him from an orphanage in London to the absolute pinnacle of his craft.
Death of A Salesman
During the post-war boom of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain.
Los Angeles Plays Itself
This landmark documentary explores the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown – as seen entirely through the films themselves.
The Pool
A hotel worker in India sees a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool from his perch in a mango tree. The hotel worker is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants and his curiosity changes the shape of his future. Directed by Chris Smith.
Every Day
Every Day is about one family’s struggle to survive the unexpected curve-balls that are simply part of real life. It’s an uncompromising look at an ordinary family making an extraordinary journey towards themselves and towards each other.
7 Chinese Brothers
Larry, an honest-to-a-fault, constantly inebriated slacker, takes a job at the local Quick-Lube to support himself and his faithful dog Arrow, and maybe hit on his new boss in the meantime.
X500
Thousands of kilometers apart, three young migrants undergo mental, emotional, and physical transformations in order to survive the violence of their new worlds.
The Search For One-Eye Jimmy
The entire neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn helps go in search of the missing Jimmy. Featuring Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro and more, ONE-EYE JIMMY is a secret gem from the indie boom.
Celine
Keeping her private life out of the public eye for years, Céline Dion’s personal life is finally revealed! Plastic surgery, torrid love affairs and internal struggles - this unauthorized biography tells the romantic and troubled rags-toriches story of the pop diva.
Boys of Buchenwald
A "gentle rekindling of the human spirit" brought child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp out of despair and moved them to create remarkable lives for themselves.
Three Days in June: The Story of the D-Day Forecast
On the 75th anniversary of the epic D-Day landings, this documentary uncovers the incredible story of Ireland’s unknown but critical role in WWII and how – in the summer of 1944 - the timing of the D-Day landings came to hinge on readings taken by a 21-year-old girl in a tiny remote weather station on Europe’s most westerly headland.
One Vote
This election year, as we exercise our fundamental right to vote, and questions about our democracy begin to emerge as we face uncertainty. It's important to remember just how precious and valuable our democracy—as imperfect as it may be— really is.
The Case of Sally Challen
Jailed for life in 2011 for killing her husband, Sally Challen was convicted on the unanimous decision of the jury. The result provoked little surprise among her friends and family, yet evidence later revealed that Challen was the victim of coercive control from her husband, who would manage her social life and spending. With fewer than 10% of appeals ever quashing a conviction, this documentary is a compelling case for the need for greater nuance in the law and its reporting.
Twin Life: Sharing Mind and Body
Tatiana and Krista Hogan are conjoined twins, who are joined at the head. They share parts of their brains. The twins are happy together most of the time; they are the best of friends. The film observes them as they play together and with other members of the family and other children. Looking after them all is a full-time job for both parents who are assisted by a set of grandparents, who are living in a house trailer parked in the driveway and, financially, by the government.
Biggie And Tupac
In this gripping crime doc, Nick Broomfield uncovers the true story of who really murdered hip-hop icons Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. in the late 1990's.
Management
Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn star in this smart romantic comedy about a motel night manager who won't take no for an answer when he falls for an uptight sales rep.