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  • 2017
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    Unrest

    Unrest

    6.90 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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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.74 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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  • 2020
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    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    6.93 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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  • 2020
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    Cured

    Cured

    3.60 2020 HD

    Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s,...

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  • 2020
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    Down a Dark Stairwell

    Down a Dark Stairwell

    8.00 2020 HD

    Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and...

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  • 2018
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    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...

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  • 2020
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    Belly of the Beast

    Belly of the Beast

    7.50 2020 HD

    When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s...

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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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  • 2020
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    The Donut King

    The Donut King

    6.90 2020 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Represent

    Represent

    1 2020 HD

    In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.

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  • 2016
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    Tower

    Tower

    7.62 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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  • 2024
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    And So It Begins

    And So It Begins

    1 2024 HD

    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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  • 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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  • 2020
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    Feels Good Man

    Feels Good Man

    7.06 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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  • 2016
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    National Bird

    National Bird

    6.80 2016 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    Women in Blue

    Women in Blue

    8.00 2021 HD

    Following three female police officers in Minneapolis, Women in Blue charts their progress and efforts to remake the department to become more...

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  • 2025
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    Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s

    Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s

    1 2025 HD

    Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s is an intimate portrayal of three families confronting the unique challenges of Alzheimer’s and how this...

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  • 2013
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    The Kill Team

    The Kill Team

    6.90 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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  • 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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  • 2021
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    Apart

    Apart

    10.00 2021 HD

    In the US Midwest, plagued with opioid abuse and rising incarceration rates for women, three unforgettable mothers return home from prison to rebuild...

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