20+ Best News Movies or Tv Shows to watch online (December 2024)
Dec 18, 2024 | FlixCatalog Staff
So what are some of the best movies or tvshows you can watch online? We compiled a list of all the movies or tvshows you can watch on some of your favourite OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar. There are a total of 131 movies or tvshows in this list and to make your life easier we have a filter and sort option for you to navigate through the list.
Pradhanmantri is an Indian television politics-based reality series/documentary series, hosted by actor-director Shekhar Kapur on Hindi news channel ABP News, which premiered on July 13, ...
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A biography on Egypt's first, and still to this day, only skateboard shop. Two brothers started the shop which resulted in a never before scene skateboard scene in their country. The ...
9/1056 min
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Former Daily Show host and correspondent John Oliver brings his persona to this weekly news satire program.
8.9/1030 min
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Dan Rather interviews celebrities for an hour
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Do You Dream in Color? is the coming-of-age story of four courageous blind high school students as they strive to prove that their disability will not hold them back from achieving their dreams.
8.6/1074 min
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The story of the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-08 that pitted Hollywood's writers against the major studios.
8.6/1086 min
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Investigative journalist documentaries.
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All odds were stacked against the pit-bulls rescued from quarterback Michael Vick's dogfighting ring. Forced to fight for their lives, they were considered so dangerous many wanted them ...
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From the makers of tvf pitchers, a super funny debate show which reflects a funny and crazier version of indian politics, bollywood and the society.
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This Time Next Year tracks the resilience of the Long Beach Island, NJ community for one year as they rebuild after 2012's Hurricane Sandy. Using a mixture of verité, first-person accounts,...
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Providing comedy/news in the tradition of TV Nation and SNL's Weekend Update, Comedy Central's Daily Show reports on the foibles and of the real world with a satirical edge. In addition to ...
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In this weekly show, the former Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj brings his unique comedic voice and storytelling skill to explore the larger grim trends shaping our fragmented world.
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A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems and native communities across the planet.
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A fragile and depressed university student disappears from his apartment in the middle of a cold winter's night. Four weeks later his name and photo explode across social media and into the...
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Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, fights against a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music's ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it.
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Scours the deep-seated roots of this morally induced Marijuana campaign and reveal the fascinating path it has taken to get to where it is today.
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This is a David and Goliath story of one veterinarian's battle to protect her patients (tigers, lions and even house cats) from big corporations, with their big corporate money, that will ...
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Meet the Jewish great grandmothers from Brooklyn who launched the marriage equality movement.
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Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
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Host Mo Rocca shares the dramatic stories of extraordinary investors in hopes of inspiring viewers to open their imaginations and bring their visions to life.
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How the death and life of James Chasse changed a city.
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Two Somali soccer stars chase impossible dreams in this human rights story born out of civil war and terror.
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Filmed in a Massachusetts prison, DOGS ON THE INSIDE follows the birth of a relationship between abandoned rescue dogs and prison inmates as they work together toward a second chance at a ...
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An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.
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Featuring beautiful hand-drawn animations and interviews with leading stem cell scientists, STEM CELL REVOLUTIONS charts the history and scientific evolution of stem cell research - from ...
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In 1994, Holly Collins became an international fugitive, hunted by the FBI, for kidnapping her own children. She had been ordered to turn her two children over to live with the father who ...
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Unusual news program that featured both serious and frivolous stories.
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NBC News meteorologist and co-anchor of the Saturday edition of Weekend Today (1987), Dylan Dreyer, helms this celebration of nature, which utilizes beautiful cinematography to create an ...
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Take a front row seat as Cy and Tiger, two die-hard fans of 'America's Team' and leaders of the legendary 'Gate 6' tailgate party, spend their last season with the Dallas Cowboys at ...
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Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
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From the heart of the planet's slums and squats, individuals have taken over these marginalized worlds and erected cities in their own image.
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Several Muslim women activists discuss their stories and the state of women's rights in Muslim-majority nations.
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Chai Sutta Chronicles is TVF's Jim Jarmusch-inspired series about conversations between friends. Each episode of deals with a theme and conversation over a cigarette and a cup of tea.
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FIGHT TO LIVE follows the pursuit of emerging cures for terminal diseases as told through the stories of patients, patient advocates and the companies who stake their future on the discovery of new treatments.
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An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
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A panoptic film on water, energy and climate, SunGanges (SuryaGanga) is a wild and intense ride three filmmakers take across the vast Indian landscape in an attempt to connect the dots ...
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Dirty Gold War is a fable about gold and the reality that lies beneath a sacred metal associated with love and celebrations. Through protagonists such as Raoni Metuktire or Marco Arana, the...
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The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
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The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 ...
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Explores how our culture's narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men and society at large and unveils what we can do about it.
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'I know we just met, but will you hold me?' Cuddle parties, snuggle houses, cuddle therapy... from Alabama to Colorado to San Francisco to Wisconsin and to New York, the cuddling movement ...
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The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of the development narrative. But the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and developing world leaders have become ...
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E-Motion is a factual documentary that explores how human emotions affect the physiology of the human body and how once negative emotions are replaced with positive emotions bona fide ...
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SlingShot focuses on noted Segway inventor Dean Kamen and his work to solve the world's water crisis. An eccentric genius with a provocative world view, Kamen is an inspiration for future ...
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A stylish, in depth look at the renaissance in psychedelic drug research in light of current scientific, medical and cultural knowledge.
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Seen through the eyes of activist, farmers and journalists, Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project on the Upper Yangtze river in southwestern ...
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California has been arguing over whether or not marijuana should be legal for over 100 years. Now there's a new judge in this trial - you.
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Over six years, BURIED ABOVE GROUND tells the stories of three Americans battling the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - an Iraq War veteran; a Hurricane Katrina evacuee; and a child abuse and domestic violence survivor.
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The film traces the origins of our beliefs about healthful and unhealthful food. Experts from all over the world talk about the problems as well as short and long term solutions. Among the ...
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The end of freedom of speech in the West.
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'The Price of Sand' is a documentary film about the frac sand mining boom in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. A year ago, an oil company bought land next to my mother's house in rural ...
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What would a world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed, and how do we bring that world into being? Who cares what it is called. ...
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An investigative documentary that uncovers the U.S. healthcare system's true design.
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An intimate look at incredible-and increasingly threatened-creatures that a third of the world's food supply depends upon.
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Peaceful rise or potential threat: What does China's 21st century re-emergence as a great world power mean for the rest of us?
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This film chronicles the quest of Mikael Rioux to find concrete solutions to the problems faced by our planet. The innovative projects developed by the planetary visionaries he meets are a ...
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There are still efficient ways to produce healthy fresh organic food in a time where most food is being mass produced by corporations in less than hygienic ways. Country farmers and urban farmers explain.
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Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
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Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher discusses topical events with guests from various backgrounds.
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In this delicious new documentary, Filipino-American filmmaker Alexandra Cuerdo follows the rise of Filipino food via the award-winning chefs crossing over to the center of the American ...
7.3/1090 min
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Interweaving the stories of U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, his adopted Chinese daughter Gracie Mei, and blind legal advocate Chen Guangcheng, the documentary is a timely exploration...
7.3/1090 min
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Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed ...
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Is "The Man" controlling the vertical, the horizontal and the channel you'll be on? In a privatized American Internet, is big business "Big Brother" or does the free market protect and ...
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The controversial truth about shark conservation will be revealed.
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No-holds-barred Aussie comedian Jim Jefferies hosts his satirical weekly U.S. talk show, covering the news, U.S. politics, pop culture, global issues and whatever else happens to be bothering him at the moment.
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'Blood on the Mountain' focuses on the environmental and economic injustice and corporate control in West Virginia and its rippling effect on all American workers. This film will tell the ...
7.2/1093 min
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Elephant's Dream is a portrait about three State-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo, providing insight into their daily lives and survival in the third largest city of Africa, Kinshasa.
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When Shakespeare Must Die, a Thai film adaptation of Macbeth is banned by the Thai government as a threat to national security, the film's producer treks through the corridors of power to ...
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Eight years in the making, The Joe Show is a shocking and wildly entertaining documentary on America's most controversial Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, and his ring-master's approach to modern media...
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A feature-length documentary about priests and nuns who protested the Vietnam War by breaking into draft boards, destroying draft records, and then waiting around to be arrested. Their ...
7.2/1099 min
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Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
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With the rapid emergence of digital devices, an unstoppable, invisible force is changing human lives in ways from the microscopic to the gargantuan: Big Data, a word that was barely used a ...
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A computer programmer becomes fascinated with the digital currency Bitcoin, and through his involvement in the Bitcoin community, we learn about the impending global impact of this amazing new technology.
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This film explores the controversy surrounding autism advocacy from the perspectives of members of the autism communities.
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Today we are facing not one but two global crises: the financial crisis but also the more insidious one relating to our misuse of natural resources. The two are so tightly linked that we ...
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It is a gripping tale that will make you think twice before you eat your next catch-of-the-day or plan your next visit to the dentist's office.
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'Too Sane For This World' explores the challenges, gifts and unique perspectives of 12 adults on the autism spectrum. The film features an introduction by Dr. Temple Grandin. Many adults on...
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Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast of Louisiana. Five years later the Deepwater Horizon exploded and spilled more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, ...
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A young evangelical filmmaker is granted unprecedented access inside a controversial Christian behavior modification program for teens, where she discovers shocking secrets and young ...
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The theory of evolution and a re-write of American history are caught in the crosshairs when an unabashed Creationist seeks re-election as chairman of America's most influential Board of Education.
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Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physicians and psychologists in detainee torture. The stories of four detainees and the doctors ...
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Farmageddon is the story of a mom whose son healed from all allergies and asthma after consuming raw milk, and real food from farms. It depicts people all over the country who formed food ...
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A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
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British students Brian and Ethan protest against a dramatic increase in tuition fees. And as demonstrators clash with police, and media loyally follows the authorities' efforts to outlaw ...
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For anyone who has not fully understood the controversial Bitcoin yet, this is a concise and informative crash course about Money and Crypto Currencies.
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Radicalized is a revolutionary film about political resistance in Los Angeles, California told through the eyes of a new generation of radicals in the social justice movement, where ...
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A poor runaway boy and a reluctant ambulance driver in Karachi. Their two lives come together through a dying humanitarian upon whom so much of their daily lives depend.
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On the oldest Roman road in the capital, Filmmaker Marc Isaacs weaves together numerous poignant stories of loss and the search for belonging into a tapestry of the human experience. Keelta...
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The story of a Nazi-looted painting, Egon Schiele's 'Portrait of Wally,' that was discovered on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art in 1997, triggering a historic court case that pitted ...
6.9/1090 min
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The 'Hurt Locker' meets 'An Inconvenient Truth', THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES is the Emmy® nominated investigation on how climate change impacts increased resource scarcity, migration and ...
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A documentary about juveniles who are serving life in prison without parole and their victims' families.
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This is a story about a mother's love for her child and an activist's love for his country - and the stakes are life and death. Spanning five countries, THE ABOMINABLE CRIME explores the ...
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Is the 'Doomsday Vault', built in the Norwegian permafrost, and containing seeds from around the world, a practical way of safeguarding the world's biodiversity or a Utopian idea?
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What price conscience? Abigail Disney's directorial debut, THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of ...
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Caffeinated tells the story of coffee through the perspectives of people who have dedicated their lives to it. At every step of the process, it's the hands that planted the seed, that roasted the beans, that crafted the drink that makes every cup of coffee a story worth telling.
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Bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the Internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism. The film shows the players who are defining how this technology will shape our lives.
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The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which have become a powerful status symbol in booming China.
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In a world of one-way traffic, where the northern countries are exporting their economic and political model worldwide, one country in Latin America has undertaken a profound reform of ...
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Moving from country to country in South America, reporting from across the drugs frontline and interviewing top-level international politicians this film exposes the human cost of one of ...
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A documentary that tackles the ideological conflicts surrounding the December 21 election in the country, to the push for sovereignty and subsequent parliamentary declaration of independence and the aftermath.
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Off-grid is not a state of mind. It is not about being out of touch, living in a remote place, or turning off your mobile phone. Off-grid simply means living without a connection to the ...
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With over 300 million firearms, the U.S. holds the highest rate of gun ownership per capita in the world. Meanwhile, with each gun-related tragedy, the question remains whether to regulate ...
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Food Stamped is an informative and humorous documentary film following a couple as they attempt to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. Nutrition educator Shira Potash ...
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Artists and journalists love to invoke that holy word of American evil ' Detroit ' whenever they can. After all, what could be cooler than cars, Motown, and murder? And in the aftermath of ...
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Hunter S. Thompson meets Barry McKenzie in this dark nonfiction comedy about a real-life, legendary but down-and-out tabloid television journalist who heads to Hawaii to film a marijuana ...
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Crafting A Nation is a feature length documentary and new media project about how the American craft brewers are rebuilding the economy one craft beer at a time.
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Good People Go to Hell, Saved People Go to Heaven explores evangelical Christian belief and culture against the backdrop of hurricanes, coastal devastation and apocalyptic fear. The film ...
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Two filmmakers interview journalists, press victims, activists and top UK academics to find out about the corruption that led to the notorious phone hacking scandal, and the public inquiry that followed.
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The relationship between an old single-floor house and her neighbor residence. There is the pink house and her ex-residents on one side, and the new neighbors on the other side. We witness ...
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At ground zero of the green rush, The Denver Post became the first major media outlet to appoint a marijuana editor. Policy news, strain reviews, parenting advice and edible recipes are the new norm in the unprecedented world of pot journalism.
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A documentary that chronicles the hunt for the notorious Mexican drug lord El Chapo.
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Nestled high on a mountainside in the Middle East, a Syrian Druze village has survived under Israeli occupation, while 136 others like it were wiped out. Using a multi-character narrative, ...
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Ukraine's topless feminist sensation Femen has created a media frenzy across Europe, but before they take the world by storm, these bold and beautiful women must confront the dark and perverse forces that power their organisation.
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We the Parents, a feature documentary film, follows the people and events surrounding the first ever school transformation under California's 'Parent Trigger' law. Parents, with the help of...
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TOONING OUT THE NEWS features a cast of cartoon characters lampooning top news stories and interviewing real-world guests. New five- to seven-minute segments are available Tuesday through Friday, culminating in a weekly full episode.
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A few famous and not-so-famous individuals have put their heads and hearts to the task of effecting radical change in Haiti, following the devastating earthquake of 2010.
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As most of the world moves forward toward gay equality, Russia is seemingly heading backward. Antigay sentiment and legislation are spreading rapidly throughout the country. In 2013, the ...
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'The man of Bunga Bunga' used to be an influential entertainment industry's agent, worldwide. His name is Lele Mora. He organized big events and speeches for Gorbachev and Clinton; he met ...
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Fantasizes an 'Old' Middle East, wherein communities were not divided along ethnic and religious lines; a Middle East in which even metaphorical borders had no place.
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Two high school suicide clusters in six years rocks the affluent town of Palo Alto, California. Emotions run high and while no one has a silver bullet solution to this crisis, students rise up to make sure their voices are heard.
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The untold story of how legal pioneer Mary Bonauto partnered with small town Vermont lawyers Beth Robinson and Susan Murray in a 2-decade long struggle that built the foundation for the ...
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Everything you've always wanted to know about the penis, but were afraid to find out.
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A news show featuring stories about comicly stupid criminals.
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The Hidden Hand is a controversial Award-winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. The film takes a keen look at a spectrum of topics ...
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A documentary that blends the unique backdrop of the Burning Man festival with the burning question - 'What is the meaning of life?'
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Iranium is a timely documentary presenting the dangerous scenarios posed to the free world by a nuclear Iran. The film exposes the dangerous ideology guiding the Iranian regime, and the ...
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A guide to the all the key incidents and people involved with the events surrounding Donald Trump's impeachment proceedings.
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"Entertainment Tonight" is the #1 syndicated entertainment newsmagazine in the world.
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How can we mindfully move through a crisis while holding on to ourselves and our humanity? In this series, Oprah has remote conversations with experts and everyday people to provide insight...
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