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TV Show: Cosmos ( 1980 )
Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos will explore how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. It will bring to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge and transport viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale. Cosmos will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the legendary original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.
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TV Show: Being Beethoven ( 2020 )
Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, a documentary series that focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer.
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TV Show: My Feet Are Killing Me ( 2020 )
Medical docu-format following Dr. Ebonie Vincent & Dr. Brad Schaefer as they tackle foot problems. Everything from grave ailments and cosmetic procedures to foot reconstruction. Each episode sees endearing patients undergo treatment to fix embarrassing foot problems with unbelievable results.
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TV Show: Building Off the Grid ( 2014 )
What do you do if you don't trust the world around you? You build a new one. That's the motto of Michael Reynolds, Architect and visionary that created the Earthship. Earthships are houses that are completely self-sufficient and totally off the grid with no electricity or water bills - ever. Michael Reynolds and his team of builders along with 50 interns, who have given up their lives to be part of this project, have just four weeks to build a house in Big Sky, Montana for Earthship enthusiast Jeff Saad. Michael and his crew battle nature and time to try and complete this amazing house on Building Off the Grid.
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Movie: Shorebreak: The Clark Little Story ( 2016 )
Dive into the life of renowned water photographer, Clark Little, as he takes on the world's most dangerous shorebreak around the island of Oahu. When he's not in the water, Clark shares the insider tips and techniques that have taken his photos from his living room wall to inside the Smithsonian.
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Movie: Chariots of the Gods ( 1970 )
Documentary based on the book by Erich Von Daniken concerning the ancient mysteries of the world, such as the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico, ancient cave drawings, the monuments of Easter Island, etc. and the fact that these things and modern civilization could have been influenced by extra-terrestrial visitations hundreds(or perhaps thousands) of years ago.
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Movie: Hey, Hey We're the Monkees ( 1997 )
Documentary focusing The Monkees, the 1960s pop group originally created for a TV sitcom. Interviews with the band members, the show's creators, and musical collaborators and peers are featured.
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TV Show: The Story of the Jews ( 2013 )
Simon Schama presents an epic five-part series exploring the extraordinary story of the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day. Drawing on original scholarship and Schama's own family history, this is a story that is at once deeply historical and utterly contemporary, taking viewers on a journey from the Biblical past to tomorrow's front pages. Traveling the globe from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, from New York and Berlin to Cairo and Jerusalem, the story unfolds with the help of a dazzling cast of historical characters, vivid storytelling, stunning location photography, and encounters with people who live with the passions and perplexities of the Jewish story today. At the Heart of The Story of the Jews is a compelling argument about distinctiveness and difference, separation ad isolation, tolerance and prejudice, but it is also a celebration of the ways in which Jewish thought, Jewish imagination, and Jewish achievement have transformed the world for us all.
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TV Show: Light and Dark ( 2013 )
In this mind-bending series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how by uncovering its secrets, scientists have used light to reveal the universe.
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Movie: Eating You Alive ( 2018 )
How and why what we eat is the cause of the chronic diseases that are killing us, and changing what we eat can save our lives one bite at a time.
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TV Show: Anatomy for Beginners ( 2005 )
This four-part series profiles Professor Gunther von Hagens' work that is considered by many to be shocking and controversial. However, anatomist Gunther von Hagens believes that the dissections he performs on real human bodies, lay bare the intricacy of human design. During each episode, von Hagens carries out a human dissection and focuses on a different set of anatomical systems: movement, circulation, digestion and reproduction.
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Movie: Aretha Franklin: Respect ( 2018 )
A BBC tribute to the undisputed Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who died this week.
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Movie: The Fabulous Dorseys ( 1947 )
The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From being raised by their father who insists on them learning music, to the split that just saw their careers rise even further.
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Movie: The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Live in Japan ( 2002 )
Rock and Roll's ultimate revivalist, Brian Setzer takes his swinging big band to Japan for this hot, hot, hot concert in the Land of the Rising Sun. Having led the resurgence of rockabilly in the '80s with his band the Stray Cats, Setzer has turned his muse to swing music and helped to restore this great music to the mainstream of popular music during the '90s and continues into the new millennium. Recorded live at Akasaka Blitz, Tokyo, Japan.
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Movie: Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There ( 2003 )
Interviews and archival footage are used to tell the story of post-war Broadway through the 1960s.
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Movie: Journey to the Edge of the Universe ( 2008 )
A journey through space and time.
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Movie: Barbra: The Music... The Mem'ries... The Magic! ( 2017 )
Barbra Streisand's film concert event finds the legend joined by a roster of special guests, as she takes audiences on a journey of her life's work, like a stroll down mem'ry lane with a good friend.
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Movie: Looking for Richard ( 1996 )
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
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Movie: Who Put the Klan Into Ku Klux Klan ( 2018 )
In this documentary, archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver examines racism in the Deep South and the Scots who first occupied it who influenced where we are today. Oliver travels to the south and speaks with many people and researchers to discuss the Klans history in Southern United States.
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TV Show: Genius ( 2017 )
Genius dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world's most brilliant innovators, exploring their extraordinary achievements along with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships.
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Movie: Madonna and the Breakfast Club ( 2019 )
The documentary story of Madonna 's struggling days in New York with her first band "Breakfast Club," leading up to her first solo record deal.
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TV Show: The Blues ( 2003 )
The Blues anchors a multi-media celebration that raises awareness of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music worldwide.Under the guiding vision of Executive Producer Martin Scorsese, seven directors will explore the blues through their own personal styles and perspectives. The episodes in the series are motivated by a central theme: how the blues evolved from parochial folk tunes to a universal language.
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TV Show: 10 Years Younger in 10 Days ( 2020 )
10 Years Younger in 10 Days sees contributors undergo 10 days' worth of non-invasive cosmetic procedures, along with hair, make-up and fashion overhauls – as they dramatically strip back the years.
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Movie: The Fabulous Ice Age ( 2013 )
From Berlin's Charlotte, to the great American touring ice shows, go from ponds to sold-out arenas dominating live entertainment for decades, while also depicting one skaters' life and quest to share this history.
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Movie: The Hippie Temptation ( 1967 )
Explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park.
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Movie: The Emperor's New Clothes ( 2015 )
A look at the growing disparity between different economic classes.
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Movie: Gender Revolution ( 2017 )
Katie Couric sets out to explore the rapidly evolving complexities of gender identity.
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Movie: Tina ( 2021 )
Exclusive access to the Grammy Award-winning artist to celebrate her career.
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Movie: Winter at Westbeth ( 2016 )
Filmed across one extraordinary year in New York City's Westbeth Artists Housing, video artist Edith Stephen (95) hopes to complete an experimental film for her birthday; revered contemporary dancer Dudley Williams (75) rehearses for an electrifying return to the stage; and published poet Ilsa Gilbert (82) faces her impending mortality with revealingly candid poetry. An inspirational story about community, ageing and the need to keep creating.
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Movie: Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind ( 2020 )
In Canada's history, there are few people who signified the nation's modern confidence in its arts more than Gordon Lightfoot. This singer-songwriter's singular talent in music changed the world's opinion of Canada's culture with his tremendous variety of songs that both celebrated the nation and touched its soul. Sparing nothing about Lightfoot's personal weaknesses and failures as well as his triumphs, this film covers Lightfoot's career from his own words and his closest associates with recordings of his greatest hits.
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TV Show: Prophets of Science Fiction ( 2011 )
An auteur of science fiction himself, Scott goes from behind the camera to on-air guide to explore the relationship between genre and the constantly-evolving worlds of science and technology. From Isaac Asimov, to Jules Verne, to Robert Heinlein, to George Lucas, the dreams of storytellers often become the inspiration for researchers seeking mankind's next transformative discovery.
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TV Show: Living with a Serial Killer ( 2021 )
In a series of three powerful 90 minute episodes, Living with a Serial Killer asks: what is it like to discover that the person you shared your life with is really a vicious murderer?
 
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TV Show: Leonardo ( 2021 )
Leonardo Da Vinci is a twenty-year-old illegitimate son of a notary and a painter, who works in Florence in the workshop of Andrea Del Verrocchio. Always curious about science and nature, the artist expresses in all his works the complex and enigmatic personality that leads him, over the years, to create the masterpieces we all know but also to experience great inner conflicts.
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Movie: Legends of the Canyon: The Origins of West Coast Rock ( 2010 )
LEGENDS OF THE CANYON delivers the story of the advent of rock music spawned in the garden of the Hollywood Hills, Laurel Canyon. Many of rock music's legendary artists of the late 1960's brought to life the anthems of a generation in these hills, in a commune-like setting. CROSBY STILLS and NASH, The Mamas and the Papas, Joni Mitchell, America, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds and many others... Adding depth, color and certainly authenticity to the film, famed rock photographer Henry Diltz, (CSNY official photographer) contributes as narrator and with a variety of original photographs, some never before exhibited, and rare footage shot amongst the musicians' tribe of Laurel Canyon. Visually stunning, intensely captivating and musically inspiring, this CLASSIC ARTISTS' film brings us to a time and place where some refused to let go of a dream of a life where harmony ruled the Earth, their music still echoes through the hills of Laurel Canyon to this day.
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Movie: It All Begins with a Song ( 2018 )
Visit the world of Nashville songwriters, whose melodies and lyrics reach millions of fans. With over 50 masters: Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley, Luke Bryan, Rodney Crowell, Kacey Musgraves, John Hiatt, Keb Mo, Liz Rose, Claude Kelly and more!
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TV Show: Human: The World Within ( 2021 )
Diverse personal stories from around the world reveal how lives, passions and goals are facilitated by the human body's various complex systems; narrator Jad Abumrad.
 
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Movie: Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 ( 2009 )
Forty summers ago on a windswept island just off England's southern coastline, a young Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist named Leonard Cohen delivered the performance of a lifetime.
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Movie: Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Opry (TV Special 2019) ( 2019 )
Country music legend Dolly Parton is returning to NBC and will perform at one of the most iconic stages in the world when Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Opry airs Tuesday, Nov. 26 from 9-11pm ET. The special is a celebration of Parton's 50 years as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. It will feature new interviews as well as a performance from Parton on the Opry stage where she'll deliver some of her biggest hits in front of a live audience. In addition, her superstar friends Dierks Bentley, Emmylou Harris, Chris Janson, Toby Keith, Lady Antebellum, Margo Price, Hank Williams Jr., and others will also be on board to celebrate Parton's career and perform. Justin Gorman, Matthew Hickling and Hannah Dodson will executive produce. Man Alive Entertainment is producing.
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Movie: Kate Bush at the BBC ( 2014 )
Kate Bush performs songs such as Wuthering Heights, Babooshka and Running up That Hill on BBC TV shows, alongside other intriguing and lesser-known material in the BBC studios.
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Movie: Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy ( 1992 )
This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by JFK and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a"second conspiracy" to cover up the truth.
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Movie: Living on Soul ( 2017 )
Filmed during their three-night, sold-out residency at the historic Apollo Theater, this hybrid docu-concert film features the late great Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley and the rest of the Grammy-nominated Daptone Records family.
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Movie: Sexology ( 2016 )
A taboo-breaking quest to discover the secrets of the female orgasm.
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Movie: Poetry in Motion ( 1982 )
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Several also comment. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are energetic performers, and their poems are meant to be heard. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and oratorical, radical, sometimes incorporating contemporary political imagery. Black Mountain poets, the Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen, Tom Waits, and others capture aspects of poets as troubadours.
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Movie: Walk Against Fear: James Meredith ( 2020 )
In 1962 James H. Meredith became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. This film documents the life and times of one of America's greatest and most controversial civil rights icons.
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Movie: Searching for Debra Winger ( 2002 )
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
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Movie: Autism in Love ( 2015 )
Autism in Love follows the story of four adults with autism spectrum disorders as they search for and manage romantic relationships.
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Movie: The Accidental President ( 2020 )
In 2016, almost anyone you asked, or any poll you consulted, pointed you to a Hillary Clinton landslide. The Accidental President is a balanced feature documentary that is seeking to answer one question - How the hell did Donald Trump win?
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Movie: Decoding the Past: Cults - Dangerous Devotion ( 2006 )
A journey behind closed doors into a secret world where faith and devotion give way to desperation and despair. From the bizarre prophecies of Charles Manson to the desperate paranoia of Jim Jones, cult leaders draw followers into worlds of power, obsession, and sometimes death. Hear from parents who have lost their children to cults and travel back in time to examine how cults have been attracting devotees throughout history.
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TV Show: History of the Sitcom ( 2021 )
History of the Sitcom reunites audiences with the television friends, families, and co-workers they grew up with while introducing cutting-edge comedies that are sure to be your next binge-watch. The eight-part docuseries features over 180 original interviews with sitcom icons including Norman Lear, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Alexander, Kelsey Grammer, Kim Fields, Tim Allen, Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, George Lopez, Mel Brooks, Isabella Gomez, Bob Newhart, Ted Danson, Joey Soloway, Jimmie Walker, Judd Apatow, Dan Levy, Zooey Deschanel, Chuck Lorre, Mara Brock Akil, Helen Hunt and many more, breaking down how sitcoms have helped generations of Americans navigate an ever-shifting cultural landscape. 
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TV Show: How Climate Made History ( 2015 )
This two-part series presents some of the most spectacular discoveries of modern climatic research. An international team comprising climatologists, historians and geologists has established that climate has played a crucial role in the development of historical events throughout central Europe. This applies, among other things, to the rise of the Roman Empire, the vast migration of peoples between 400 and 700 A.D., Hannibal's journey across the Alps, the persecution of witches in the Middle Ages, and the 30 Years War. This documentary presents the events in question and explains just how weather literally makes history.
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Movie: Complicated Women ( 2003 )
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1929-1934 - before the Hollywood Production Code was enforced.
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Movie: 50 Shades of Gay ( 2017 )
50 years after decriminalization of homosexuality in Great Britain, actor Rupert Everett explores the way both the gay community and public attitude towards gay people have changed.
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Movie: Stem Cells: The Secret to Immortality ( 2020 )
With major breakthroughs happening constantly, stem cell research continues to be as much of a hot button issue as it is the stuff of miracles. Join us on this documentary exploration to uncover what could be the secrets to immortality.
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Movie: Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends ( 2021 )
Archival interviews, promotional videos and documentary shorts featuring Bob Dylan. The stories of some of the most important moments in the legendary artist's career.
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Movie: Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed ( 2021 )
Bob Ross brought joy to millions as the world's most famous art instructor. But a battle for his business empire cast a shadow over his happy trees.
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Movie: Love in Translation ( 2021 )
Fluent in ten languages including two dead ones, Julie Walters, considered the brightest mind in the Department, is just months away from obtaining a Ph.D. in Ancient Languages, after which she hopes to get a job at the Museum of Natural History, where she's wanted to work since she was a child. Her path hits a roadblock when she is informed that all funding has been pulled from the Department for student services, including employment and financing, her sole sources of education funding. With no museum jobs to be had which would be her first choice as a replacement, Julie decides to offer private language lessons instead. Her first students, seniors couple Rose and Earl Williams, decide to buy French lessons for their son Dan, who is in a long distance relationship with a Parisienne, Cosette, they solely communicating in their common language of English. Upon first sight, Julie discovers her new student is one of the assistant curators at the museum with who she had earlier had a somewhat awkward discussion regarding she potentially working there. Busy Dan, reluctant to enter into the lessons, is more practical than romantic in his relationships, he dealing with Cosette solely in those areas common to the two of them, namely in English and around museums, she who works at one in Paris, which is how they originally met. In believing one learns better if it applies to them, Julie ends up also coaching Dan in how to be more romantic in how it would apply to Cosette, he eventually discovering that she would like him to exhibit that side of himself to her. As Julie starts to fall for Dan, and it seems he for her, their path forward may hit the further roadblocks of Cosette, and of her goal of working at the museum.
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Movie: Being Bridget Jones ( 2020 )
Helen Fielding tells the story of how Bridget Jones's Diary came to be.