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1992
Lincoln and the War Within
Lincoln and the War Within1 1992 HD
First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Chris Sarandon
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2018
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Won't You Be My Neighbor?8.01 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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2024
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined1 2024 HD
Explore the story of Dominican-American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez, who burst onto the literary scene and blazed a trail for a generation of...
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution7.01 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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2019
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation7.20 2019 HD
50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground,...
Genre: Music
Cast: Joan Baez
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2009
Love and Valor
Love and Valor1 2009 HD
Narrated by Tony Award winning actor Brian Dennehy, a tremendously moving story of a Union soldier and his wife during the Civil War. Based on the...
Genre: History
Cast: Brian Dennehy
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1972
Another Part of the Forest
Another Part of the Forest1 1972 HD
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: Barry Sullivan
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2021
Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains
Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains8.50 2021 HD
Travel to the ice mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma (aka panther, mountain lion and cougar) the area's largest predator....
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Uma Thurman
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2005
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan7.70 2005 HD
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Bob Dylan
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2023
The Balloonist
The Balloonist1 2023 HD
Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley of Vermont.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Brian Boland
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2017
Out of Gitmo
Out of Gitmo1 2017 HD
The dramatic story of a Gitmo detainee released from the controversial U.S. prison after 14 years. With NPR, a report on the struggle over freeing...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Priyanka Boghani
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2010
Through a Dog's Eyes
Through a Dog's Eyes1 2010 HD
A PBS documentary featuring the service dogs of Canine Assistance and how they are matched to the people who need them.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Neil Patrick Harris
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2015
A Few Good Pie Places
A Few Good Pie Places1 2015 HD
There's something tasty, often sweet, fruity and all-American about a really good piece of pie. In this delicious documentary, travel across the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Rick Sebak
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2023
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space5.00 2023 HD
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Zora Neale Hurston
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2006
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film8.20 2006 HD
Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. [Made for and aired on PBS's...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Andy Warhol
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2003
Prisoner of Paradise
Prisoner of Paradise6.30 2003 HD
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ian Holm
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2020
Santa's Wild Home
Santa's Wild Home6.00 2020 HD
Green lights dance across a star-filled sky, and snowflakes sparkle on the trees. It is little wonder Lapland is famous as a realm of elves and...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Scott Brick
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1983
The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer1 1983 HD
Nathan Zuckerman, a budding 23 year old writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovers the contradictory claims of literature and experience while...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Mark Linn-Baker
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2023
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover9.00 2023 HD
Compulsive Twitterer, Elon Musk bought himself his favorite social network in 2022, and brutally shaped it according to his desires. This punchy...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Elon Musk
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2017
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library6.20 2017 HD
A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Elvis Costello