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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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2017
Falsettos
Falsettos8.30 2017 HD
The 2016 Broadway Revival of William Finn's Tony-winning musical. It tells the story of Marvin, a Jewish family man who leaves his wife and son for a...
Genre: Music
Cast: Christian Borle
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1997
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature1 1997 HD
Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Alfre Woodard
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2005
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan7.71 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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1993
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered7.00 1993 HD
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful...
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: Audrey Hepburn
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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
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2019
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation7.18 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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1985
Memory of the Camps
Memory of the Camps1 1985 HD
In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience....
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Trevor Howard
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2014
National Gallery
National Gallery7.30 2014 HD
A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Leanne Benjamin
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2015
Language Matters with Bob Holman
Language Matters with Bob Holman10.00 2015 HD
There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this...
Genre: History
Cast: Bob Holman
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2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution7.00 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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2002
Zoot Suit Riots
Zoot Suit Riots1 2002 HD
On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that...
Genre: History
Cast: Hector Elizondo
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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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2015
In Jackson Heights
In Jackson Heights6.50 2015 HD
Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley, National Gallery) explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC...
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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2017
David Letterman: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize
David Letterman: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize8.00 2017 HD
Emmy Award-winning comic and talk show host David Letterman accepts the 2017 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. An outstanding lineup of...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: David Letterman
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2008
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman5.00 2008 HD
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: J.K. Simmons
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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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1982
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences1 1982 HD
Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: John Cullum
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2018
Sex, Lies and Butterflies
Sex, Lies and Butterflies8.00 2018 HD
An exploration of the diversity of moths and butterflies from caterpillars to larvae to chrysalis to winged flight. The documentary covers camouflage...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Paul Giamatti
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2015
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center1 2015 HD
James Lapine's tribute to a life in the theater based on Moss Hart's autobiography of the same name, starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. The...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tony Shalhoub