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Only the Strong Survive
May 9, 2003
Documentary filmmakers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus catch up with the great soul singers of the 1960s and early 1970s. The result is a musical celebration of soul, a glimpse into the skewed world of the music industry, and a compelling narrative of these seven talented acts. (Miramax)
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Reno: Rebel Without a Pause
May 2, 2003
Performance artist Reno's rapid-fire witness of the events of September 11th -- of the day itself and of the country?s response, how they affected her personally and in the context of the world at large.
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Spellbound
April 30, 2003
This documentary presents the intense, true-life experience of the National Spelling Bee as seen through the eyes of eight driven, young spellers. (ThinkFilm)
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A Decade Under the Influence
April 25, 2003
For American cinema, the 1970s was an era during which a new generation of filmmakers created work for a new kind of audience. In this documentary, pioneering writers, directors and actors talk about the times, their films and their colleagues. (IFC Films)
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The Real Cancun
April 25, 2003
It's fun and sexy, unscripted and uncensored. It's The Real Cancun, the world's first reality feature film. Produced by the creators of "The Real World" and "Road Rules," this film brings together 16 people for eight days in a beachfront Mexican villa for the ultimate Spring Break vacation. (New Line Cinema)
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Winged Migration
April 18, 2003
This documentary examines the migratory patterns of birds through forty countries and all seven continents.
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Love and Diane
April 16, 2003
Love is the 18-year-old daughter of Diane, a former crack addict who since losing her six children to foster care has managed to reassemble her family, however fragile the arrangement. Filmmaker Jennifer Dworkin spent five years with these women, riding an emotional roller-coaster, as past resentments inform each one's prospects for stability and happiness. (Film Forum)
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Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
April 11, 2003
A historical and a cultural icon is captured in the making in this full-blown portrait -- its footage has been mined for countless other Ali documentaries -- of the out-of-the-ring but never off-stage Ali, pre- and during world fame. (Film Forum)
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Ghosts of the Abyss
April 11, 2003
In this immersive 3-D adventure presented in IMAX format, James Cameron journeys back to the site of his greatest inspiration -- the legendary wreck of the Titanic.
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DysFunktional Family
April 4, 2003
This concert film showcases Eddie Griffin's raucous and frank take on life, family and celebrity. (Miramax)
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
April 2, 2003
Actors Donald Sutherland, Terence Stamp, Roberto Benigni and author Italo Calvino tell fascinating, often hilarious stories about working with Federico Fellini in this irreverent portrait of the Maestro. (Film Forum)
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Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
March 28, 2003
This comedy concert movie features the stage performances of the four headliners in their entirety, as well as behind-the-scenes sequences.
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Stevie
March 28, 2003
This documentary speaks about the complex realities of growing up, family history, and how the system has - despite good intentions - failed to rescue certain kids. (Lions Gate Films)
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Decasia
March 19, 2003
This experimental film depicts man's struggle to transcend his own mortality.
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Journeys with George
March 14, 2003
A documentary account of George W. Bush's presidential campaign.
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Horns and Halos
February 28, 2003
This documentary captures the unlikely connection of three men -- a U.S. president, a discredited author and an underground publisher -- whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in a book.
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From the Other Side
February 20, 2003
A documentary look at the perilous journey of emigrants from Mexico to the United States.
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The Ballad of Bering Strait
February 19, 2003
A cinema-verite film following seven Russian teenagers who have come to America to become country music stars. (Emerging Pictures)
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Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
February 19, 2003
Amandla! tells the story of black South African freedom music and reveals the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid. (Artisan Entertainment)
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Stone Reader
February 12, 2003
In this documentary, a filmmaker discovers a great unknown book and set out on a quest to learn why the book and writer vanished. (JETFilms)
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Lost in La Mancha
January 31, 2003
Lost In La Mancha may be the first 'un-making of' documentary; the story of a film that does not exist. Instead of a sanitized glimpse behind the scenes, this film offers a unique, in-depth look at the harsher realities of filmmaking. With drama that ranges from personal conflicts to epic storms, this is a record of a film disintegrating. (Quixote Films)
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Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
January 24, 2003
In this documentary, Traudl Junge describes on camera for the first time her experience working as one of Adolf Hilter's private secretaries form 1942 until his suicide in 1945. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
January 24, 2003
With this film, Martina Kudlacek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. (Zeitgeist Films)
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Close, Closed, Closure
January 15, 2003
This documentary looks at the Gaza Strip, "a prison with one million inmates," 111 square miles, surrounded by an electronic fence.
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In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq
December 27, 2002
Directed by Scott Ritter, former United Nations Chief Inspector in Iraq, this documentary depicts his untold story and how the U.N. weapons inspectors were undermined and betrayed by Iraq, the United Nations, and the U.S.
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Massoud, the Afghan
December 4, 2002
This documentary features first-person interviews with Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance until his assassination in September 2001.
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Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
November 22, 2002
This documentary presents the latest in Chomsky's thinking, through a lengthy interview and a series of public talks that he gave in New York and California during the spring of 2002.
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Hell House
November 15, 2002
This documentary profiles a Pentecostal church in Texas that uses a Halloween haunted house, complete with fire and brimstone, to scare teenagers about issues such as AIDS, abortion and school shootings.
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown
November 15, 2002
This documentary and performance film tells the Funk Brothers' saga through archival footage and still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances of Motown classics with the Funk Brothers backing up Chaka Khan, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Montell Jordan, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joan Osborne, and Gerald Levert. (Artisan Entertainment)
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Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
November 8, 2002
A documentary about the Paris Opera Ballet Company which combines still photographs, footage of ballet performances of "Swan Lake" and Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" with interviews with teachers, management, students and the company's biggest stars.
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Diario di una siciliana ribelle
November 6, 2002
A powerful story of an ultra-violent world and the courage of one young woman against all odds. (Film Forum)
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Strange Fruit
November 6, 2002
The first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. This history of the song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter.
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Justifiable Homicide
November 6, 2002
A feature documentary based on the brutal murder of two Puerto Rican young men, Antonio Rosario and Hilton Vega who were shot by two NYPD detectives in the Bronx in early 1995. (Reality Films)
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Daughter from Danang
November 1, 2002
Through intimate and sometimes excruciating moments, Daughter from Danang profoundly shows how wide the chasms of cultural difference and how deep the wounds of war can run - even within one family. (Quad Cinema)
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Derrida
October 23, 2002
This documentary examines one of the most visionary and influential thinkers of the 20th century, a man who single-handedly altered the way many of us look at history, language, art, and, ultimately, ourselves: the brilliant and iconoclastic French philosopher Jacques Derrida. (Zeitgeist Films)
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Naqoyqatsi
October 18, 2002
This film merges the power of image and music to plunge into the heart of the hyperaccelerated, globally wired 21st century. Mesmerizing images plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, stream across the screen in synch with a hypnotic score by Philip Glass, featuring the passionate cello work of Yo-Yo Ma. (Miramax Films)
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Fidel
October 18, 2002
This documentary examines the political and social impact that Cuban leader Fidel Castro has had upon the world during the more than forty years he has been in power.
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Stealing the Fire
October 16, 2002
This documentary tells a story of international intrigue that reveals how leading black market suppliers of nuclear weapons technology had their roots in the Third Reich.
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Comedian
October 11, 2002
Jerry Seinfeld is once again a working standup comic. Comedian is the unique and engaging look at what it took for him, and by extension every stand-up, to get there. (Miramax)
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Family Fundamentals
October 11, 2002
This documentary takes viewers into the private, and sometimes very public lives, of three conservative Christian families with gay and lesbian children.
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Bowling for Columbine
October 11, 2002
Famed documentarian Michael Moore returns with his first feature film in five years, as he tackles the issue of America's unique obsession with firearms.
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How to Draw a Bunny
October 9, 2002
A "Rashomon"-like portrait of Ray Johnson whose life and death -- and all the art that came in between - made him "New York's most famous unknown artist" (Grace Glueck, NY Times). (Film Forum)
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Biggie and Tupac
September 27, 2002
This documentary investigates the still unsolved murders of rap superstars Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G.) and Tupac Shakur. (Roxie Releasing)
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Shanghai Ghetto
September 27, 2002
In April 2000, filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann sneaked into China with a digital camera to shoot at the site of the Jewish Ghetto in Shanghai, unchanged since WWII, where thousands of German Jews found refuge in the 1930s. (Menemsha Films)
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The Trials of Henry Kissinger
September 25, 2002
Is Henry Kissinger -- Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation -- also a war criminal? Provoked by the Christopher Hitchens's book, filmmakers Jarecki and Gibney have constructed a movie which is both brilliant legal brief and chilling psychodrama. (Film Forum)
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The Pinochet Case
September 11, 2002
This documentary follows the legal cases that ultimately led to former General Augusto Pinochet being arrested and tried for his crimes against humanity committed over the 25 years that he ruled Chile as one of the most notorious tyrants of the 20th century.
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The Execution of Wanda Jean
September 6, 2002
An unflinching investigation of the role that poverty, mental health, race, and sexuality play within the criminal justice system. (Home Box Office)
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Burning Man: The Burning Sensation
September 6, 2002
A documentary look at the annual Burning Man arts festival in Northern Nevada.
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7 Days in September
September 6, 2002
Chronicles the life and events of 28 New Yorkers during the week of 9/11.
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Crop Circles: Quest for Truth
August 23, 2002
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of prevailing theories about the origin and nature of crop circles and their possible implications. (OpenEdge Media)
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Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
August 2, 2002
No-holds-barred documentary-style footage -- spiced with rousing rap music, Martin Lawrence's own razor-sharp commentary and a glimpse of both his triumphs and setbacks. (Paramount)
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Gaza Strip
August 1, 2002
This documentary pushes the viewer headlong into the tumult of the Israeli-occupied Gaza, examining the lives and views of ordinary Palestinians.
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
July 26, 2002
Traces the meteoric rise, fall, and rise again of legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans. Adapted from Mr. Evans's tell-all autobiography, the movie takes the audience on an intimate journey into the mind of this Hollywood legend. (USA Films)
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I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
July 26, 2002
Sam Jones documents a turbulent chapter in the history of alt-country turned experimental rock band Wilco. The film shows the conflict that arises when the band creates an artistic and challenging record while signed to a record company in the midst of a giant corporate takeover. (Cowboy Pictures)
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Ayurveda: Art of Being
July 17, 2002
Pan Nalin's Documentary on Ayurveda, revealing how the revitalised holistic discipline, based on the most ancient of techniques, can be applied in this age of nuclear power, the internet and instant everything. (Kino International)
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Last Dance
July 12, 2002
An inside look at one of the most innovative dance companies, the Pilobolus Dance Theatre. This documentary follows the development of the dance from its conception, through the process of improvisation and composition, to the premiere and beyond. (First Run Features)
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
July 10, 2002
Newly restored for its 30th anniversary, this glam-rock classic features David Bowie as his gender-bending alter-ego Ziggy Stardust, in his final performance, given at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1973.
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Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders
July 10, 2002
From the dark side of San Francisco's criminal justice system emerges a riveting documentary revealing a world rarely seen -- through the eyes of the maligned and misunderstood Public Defenders. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)
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The Cockettes
June 28, 2002
This documentary chronicles the rise and fall of the legendary San Francisco theatrical troupe, a group of flamboyant hippies who decked themselves in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter.
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War Photographer
June 19, 2002
A film about the American photographer James Nachtwey -- his motivation, his fears and his daily routine as a war photographer.
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Cuba feliz
June 12, 2002
Billed as "a musical road movie," Cuba Feliz follows the wanderings of charismatic, 76-year-old Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), as he travels throughout Cuba, making music in the homes of friends, in bars and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells. (Film Forum)
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The Back of the World
May 22, 2002
A documentary comprised of three stories about forgotten people around the globe, including an impoverished Peruvian boy, a Kurdish exile living in Sweden, and a death-row inmate in Texas.
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Standing by Yourself
May 15, 2002
A shattering documentary on the lives of two hostile teenagers in an upstate town who react to their dead-end environment and social ostracism with a frenzied, narcotized downward spiral. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)
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Diamonds and Rust
May 10, 2002
This documentary about the multiethnic crew of a South African diamond ship off the African coast presents a revealing microcosm of social disintegration.
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Ultimate X: The Movie
May 10, 2002
All the excitement and explosive drama of action sports is displayed on the exhilarating giant screen in "Ultimate X," a look into ESPN's massively popular Summer X Games. (ESPN)
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Home Movie
May 3, 2002
Chris Smith's loving look at five extraordinary homes and the charming, bizarre people who inhabit them. Smith interweaves their stories in a way that makes the audience think about the meaning of "home" and the place of the individual in society. (Cowboy Pictures)
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ABC Africa
May 3, 2002
A documentary about the tragedy of the children whose parents have died of AIDS and are now stranded in a refugee camp in Kampala, Uganda.
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Grin Without a Cat
May 1, 2002
Originally released in 1978, this is Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. (First Run / Icarus Films)
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Sex with Strangers
April 26, 2002
A documentary portrait of three couples who swing.
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Dogtown and Z-Boys
April 26, 2002
This documentary tells the true story of how kids living in Santa Monica, CA in the 1970's brought their surfing styles into skateboarding and revolutionized the sport.
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Facing the Music
April 24, 2002
Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded University of Sydney. This documentary chronicles a year in the life of an academic department that?s under the financial gun. (Film Forum)
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Space Station 3D
April 19, 2002
In this first-ever IMAX 3D space film, audiences will travel 220 miles above Earth at 17,500 mph to experience the making of the International Space Station -- the greatest engineering feat since landing a man on the Moon. (IMAX Corporation)
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Mule Skinner Blues
April 12, 2002
A documentary about a group of Florida trailer park residents making their own horror movie.
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The Komediant
April 5, 2002
A documentary on the life and career of Yiddish actor Pasach Burstein and his family.
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Jim Brown: All American
March 22, 2002
Spike Lee directs this moving portrait of a complicated, charismatic man, one who has spent his life in the spotlight, first making football history as one of the 20th century's greatest athletes, and later as the star of numerous Hollywood features, where he pioneered a new kind of African-American hero. (Film Forum)
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Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
March 15, 2002
A documentary which traces how crucial mistakes made by the West helped lead to the unnecessary breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, culminating in the devastating NATO bombing campaign in 1999. (Frontier Theatre and Film Inc.)
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Promises
March 15, 2002
A documentary exploring the Middle East conflict and prospects for peace by drawing viewers into the hearts and minds of seven Palestinian and Israeli children from Jerusalem -- those captured by the region's hatreds as well as those able to transcend them. (Promises Project)
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Revolution OS
February 22, 2002
This documentary explores the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against Microsoft to create Linux and the Open Source movement.
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Scratch
February 15, 2002
A feature length film about the hip-hop DJ and today's turntablist movement. From the South Bronx in the 70's to San Francisco today, the world's best scratchers, diggers, party-rockers and producers celebrate beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities of vinyl. (Palm Pictures)
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Much Ado About Something
February 13, 2002
This humorous documentary explores the premise that the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare were actually written by Christopher Marlowe.
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Domestic Violence
January 30, 2002
This documentary by Frederick Wiseman profiles residents of a Tampa shelter for battered women.
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Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe
January 18, 2002
Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground, Czech revolutionaries. A tribute to the band that against all odds used the power of their music to help topple their oppressive government. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)
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E-Dreams
January 11, 2002
A fascinating and troubling document of the rise and fall of e-commerce, this film showcases the incredible story of Kozmo.com. (Seventh Art Releasing)
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Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
January 2, 2002
Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary about Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and his work.
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In Search of Peace
December 14, 2001
Chronicles the first two decades of Israel's existence, offering new insights in the origins of the Middle East conflict. (Moriah Films)
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B-52
December 5, 2001
A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber.
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Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin
November 23, 2001
Jung is a narrative documentary that follows the human and professional adventure of its protagonists, the Afghan people in the midst of civil war.
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Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
November 20, 2001
A fascinating look at America's unlikeliest sex star. (Maelstrom Entertainment)
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Bombay Eunuch
November 16, 2001
An intimate, moving portrait of one eunuch family's struggle to survive in today's changing India.
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I Remember Me
November 9, 2001
The first full-length documentary to explore the controversial and mysterious history of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, this film speaks to the universal themes of loss, human perseverance, and our difficulties in grappling with uncertainty. (Zeitgeist Films)
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History Lessons
October 26, 2001
A documentary exploration of lesbian images from 1896 until 1969.
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Mysteries of Egypt
October 26, 2001
This IMAX film follows a grandfather (Sharif) who takes his visiting granddaughter (Maberly) around the country to introduce her to the wonders of ancient Egypt.
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Trembling Before G-d
October 24, 2001
Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma -- how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. (Simcha Leib Productions)
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My Voyage to Italy
October 19, 2001
A four-hour odyssey through the history of Italian cinema and its influences on Scorsese's work.
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White Hotel
October 19, 2001
When two women with a video camera follow an HIV research team to Eritrea, Africa, they find a strange and magical country which transforms their documentary into an intimate investigation of their own capacities to love, suffer and forgive. (Sub Rosa Studios)
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Cool and Crazy
October 19, 2001
A documentary about the lives and loves of the male voice choir in the small fishing village of Berlevag, Norway.
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Berlin Babylon
October 17, 2001
A city divided for nearly half a century begins to rebuild. Shot over a 5-year period, this film records the myriad controversies at the heart of a massive building campaign by international companies anxious to make their mark in the new European capital. (Film Forum)
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Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop
October 12, 2001
From the mind of Brooklyn actor, performance artist and hip-hop activist Danny Hoch, this film spins out the stories of ten lives shocked by globalization, the prison industry and life in general. (Kicked Down Productions)
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Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures
October 12, 2001
The full title of this film (Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.) refers to the place, month, day, year and hour of the only successful uprising in a Nazi extermination camp.
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The Human Body
October 12, 2001
Co-produced by Discovery Pictures and the BBC, The Human Body incorporates groundbreaking computer graphics with stunning real-life images to create a day in the life of a human body.
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Coming Soon
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The Longest Game
- Runtime: 69 min
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Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
- Runtime: 90 min
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The Dead and the Others
- Runtime: 114 min
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