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16x1
Bully
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The story of the children bullied at school and online. The film questions assumptions about bullying behaviour beyond cliches and stereotypes of the past. It also examines changes in how schools treat the perpetrators and victims.
16x2
Twin Sisters
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Two sisters adopted in China as infants by Californian and Norwegian parents grow up knowing they have a twin living on the other side of the world. Although language is a barrier, their bond grows deeper and they arrange to finally meet.
16x3
Brakeless
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In April, 2005 a Japanese train engineer accelerated beyond permissible speeds in order to make up an 80-second delay. Brakeless examines the aftermath and questions if Japan is cutting back in the wrong places after a decade of economic stagnation.
16x4
Powerless
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Powerless tracks the battle between an Indian electric company and a renegade electrician who illegally connects poor families to the grid.
16x5
Happiness
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A nine-year-old child in Burma is spurred to leave his village for the first time in his life when his village gets electricity. He walks for over three days to in search of a seeing his first television.
16x6
Rich Hill
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Rich Hill, winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, goes inside the homes and lives of small town America, where kids confront heartbreaking .. show full overview
16x7
Evolution of a Criminal
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Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe explores what led him to pull a heist as a teenager in Texas, and returns to the scene of the crime. In this gripping .. show full overview
16x8
The Kill Team; Confusion Through Sand
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Winner of the Best Documentary Feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Kill Team tells the harrowing story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a 21-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan .. show full overview
16x9
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
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For the last 170 years, pioneering African American photographers — men and women, celebrated and anonymous — have recorded the dramas and aspirations of generations. Through a Lens .. show full overview
16x10
American Denial
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In the wake of recent events that have sparked a national dialogue, American Denial explores the power of unconscious biases around race and class. Using Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 .. show full overview
16x11
Little White Lie
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Lacey Schwartz grew up in an upper-middle-class household with two loving Jewish parents. When she discovers that the man she's always assumed was her father is not her biological parent, she unlocks a powerful family secret.
16x12
Little Hope Was Arson; A City in Flames
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The investigation into a spate of church burnings that occured in East Texas during January and February 2010 is chronicled.
16x13
The Homestretch
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Three homeless Chicago teens strive to graduate from high school despite the difficulties inherent in their situations.
16x14
The Great Invisible
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First hand accounts of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and its impact on the Gulf of Mexico.
16x15
Kumu Hina
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A Hawaiian transgender woman finds acceptance, but still is searching for love.
16x16
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
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Examining daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme Action Company. Included: the evolution of her philosophy, which challenges assumptions about art, aging, injury, gender and human possibility.
16x17
1971
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The story of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, which broke into an FBI field office in Media, Pa., on the night of March 8, 1971, and stole hundreds of secret files that .. show full overview
16x18
Limited Partnership
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Married in 1975, Richard and Tony lead a 40-year fight for legal immigration status for same sex spouses.
16x19
In the Shadow of Ebola
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An African family’s tense experience during West African Ebola outbreak. This intimate film brings us on Emmanuel’s journey as he battles to keep his wife and children safe while the .. show full overview

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