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The Advocates

The Advocates

Over half a million people are homeless in the United States - 25% of whom are in California... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 87 min
  • DVD Release: 2018
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Antigone

Antigone

Writer-director Sophie Deraspe’s incisive liberal adaptation of the Greek tragedy by Sophocles is the daring story of one young woman’s commitment to her family, even if it means sacrificing herself... More .

  • Genre: Drama, Crime
  • TRT: 109 min
  • DVD Release: 2018
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At War

At War

Two years ago, Perrin Industries made an agreement with the workers of their Agen (France) car part supply plant to increase working hours for no additional pay, and remove bonus payments. The sacrifice on the part of the workers, Perrin Industries claimed... More .

  • Genre: Drama
  • TRT: 115 min
  • DVD Release: 2018
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bOObs

bOObs

bOObs: The War on Women’s Breasts investigates the controversy swirling around the breast cancer screening test mammography. Over a 30-year period, mammogram’s use led to over-diagnosing 1.3 million U.S. women, resulting in needless treatments for breast cancers that otherwise may not have spread. ... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 97 min
  • DVD Release: 2020
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Cancer; The Integrative Perspective

Cancer; The Integrative Perspective

Cancer; The Integrative Perspective takes a deep dive into the fast-expanding paradigm of holistic and integrative wellness approaches for preventing and reversing cancer that treats the disease with conventional tools, while also supporting patients’ strength, stamina and quality of life with evidence-based natural therapies.... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 104 min
  • DVD Release: 2021
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Creating Woodstock

Creating Woodstock

Two years ago, Perrin Industries made an agreement with the workers of their Agen (France) car part supply plant to increase working hours for no additional pay, and remove bonus payments. The sacrifice on the part of the workers, Perrin Industries claimed... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 111 min
  • DVD Release: 2019
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THE END OF POVERTY?

THE END OF POVERTY?

The End of Poverty? is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an accident. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 104 min
  • DVD Release: 2010
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Enter The Forbidden City

Enter The Forbidden City

Yue Jiu, the most famous opera singer in all of Imperial China, is expelled from the capital city for vulgarity. He heads south, where he encounters Wang Runsheng, a promising young opera singer for the Chuntai Troupe. When the Emperor invites all of China’s opera... More .

  • Genre: Drama, Epic, Romance, Music
  • TRT: 113 min
  • DVD Release: 2019
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FORGET ME NOT: INCLUSION IN THE CLASSROOM – Lifetime DSL

FORGET ME NOT

As 3-year-old Emilio prepares to start school, his family finds itself embroiled in a challenge all too common for children with disabilities – to secure the right to an inclusive education. Cornered in one of the most segregated education systems, New York City public schools, filmmaker Olivier.... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 103 min
  • DVD Release: 2022
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From Iceland To Eden

From Iceland To Eden

While narrowly escaping a police raid on his home, Oliver (Hansel Eagle) bumps into Loa (Telma Huld Jóhannesdóttir). Recognizing his street name from the club scene of Reykjavik, she says destiny has brought them together. As they desperately seek help from Loa’s colorful acquaintances... More .

  • Genre: Documentary, Drama
  • TRT: 90 min
  • DVD Release: 2020
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Giuliani Time

Giuliani Time

More than five years in the making, GIULIANI TIME investigates the stories behind the "new" New York City that Giuliani laid claim to. From "quality of life" policing to welfare reform, and First Amendment related debacles, the feelings about the Giuliani years largely... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 118 min
  • DVD Release: 2006
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Genetically Modified Children

Genetically Modified Children

Can Monsanto chemicals permanently alter your child's genes? Low-income tobacco farmers face skyrocketing cancer rates with more devastating repercussions affecting their children: severe physical deformities and mental disabilities. Choosing between poverty or poison, Latin American growers have no choice but to use harmful chemicals such as glyphosate... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 55 min
  • DVD Release: 2016
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Guantanamo Diary Revisited

Guantanamo Diary Revisited - One year License

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was captured in the aftermath of 9/11, accused of being part of Al-Queda, tortured then imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years, although never proven guilty. His best-selling book, Guantanamo Diary, describes his abuse at the hands of... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 90 min
  • DVD Release: 2021
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Guantanamo Diary Revisited

Guantanamo Diary Revisited - Three year License

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was captured in the aftermath of 9/11, accused of being part of Al-Queda, tortured then imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years, although never proven guilty. His best-selling book, Guantanamo Diary, describes his abuse at the hands of... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 90 min
  • DVD Release: 2021
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The Harvest [la cosecha]

The Harvest [la cosecha]

Every year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 80 min
  • DVD Release: 2011
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The Great Postal Heist

The Great Postal Heist

The Great Postal Heist follows director Jay Galione's father, a 30-year US Post Office clerk, who was harassed, threatened, and fired for standing up for his colleagues. A moving indictment of the toxic culture and push to downsize, the documentary chronicles... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 96 min
  • DVD Release: 2022
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HomoSayWhat

HomoSayWhat

In the 1960s, propaganda films warned parents of “predatory characters” at local parks under the guise of public service announcements. Anita Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign in the 70’s galvanized a coalition of conservative religious groups that spread the idea that sexual abnormalities would corrupt the nation and its children... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 76 min
  • DVD Release: 2019
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Imprisoned

Imprisoned

In the thriller, IMPRISONED, Dylan Burke (Juan Pablo Raba), attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal, with his true love, Maria (Juana Acosta). He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin (Laurence Fishburne), has not forgiven him for an old crime... More .

  • Genre: Documentary, Drama
  • TRT: 104 min
  • DVD Release: 2018
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Jihadists

Jihadists

A pair of Western filmmakers were granted unparalleled access to fundamentalist clerics of Sunni Islam who proselytize for a “purer” form of Islam--including jihad of the sword--in Mali, Tunisia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Their theoretical interpretations are juxtaposed against images and footage from recruitment videos to show the hardline application of sharia law... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 75 min
  • DVD Release: 2016
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Land Of Little Rivers

Land Of Little Rivers

The Land of Little Rivers, a network of tributaries in the Catskill Mountains of New York, is the birthplace of fly fishing in America and the mecca for resident and visiting anglers obsessed with the sport... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 92 min
  • DVD Release: 2019
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Lou Andreas-Salome

Lou Andreas-Salome

One of the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century, a published novelist, poet, essayist, and the first female psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salome', recounts her life to a young German scholar. Salome's ideas on personal freedom and the lifestyle she chose against all conventions spurred genius and passion in others, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ree', Sigmund Freud and her lover, the poet Rainer Marie Rilke... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 112 min
  • DVD Release: 2016
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Paying The Price For Peace

Paying The Price For Peace

Vietnam veteran S. Brian Willson paid the price for peace by nearly being killed by a military train during a non-violent protest. Since then, he has not stopped calling attention to the US government's defiance of international law through waging endless illegal wars... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 112 min
  • DVD Release: 2018
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Phosfate

Phosfate

Cancer survivor and filmmaker Erik E. Crown joins local water activists to investigate accelerated cancer rates and other illnesses in central Florida communities, tracing the source to phosphate mining and the pollution of the state’s waterways by a multinational corporation... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 96 min
  • DVD Release: 2021
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Piripkura

Piripkura

Cancer survivor and filmmaker Erik E. Crown joins local water activists to investigate accelerated cancer rates and other illnesses in central Florida communities, tracing the source to phosphate mining and the pollution of the state’s waterways by a multinational corporation... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 82 min
  • DVD Release: 2017
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HomoSayWhat

Quiet Explosions

Quiet Explosions is the story of Special Forces Green Beret, Andrew Marr, who returned home from his third deployment, a quietly broken man. The high-ranking explosives expert suffered a multitude of traumatic brain injuries after being “front and center” to hundreds if not thousands of detonations in Afghanistan... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 99 min
  • DVD Release: 2019
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Rising Tides

Rising Tides

Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Sandy. The increasing frequency of such devastating weather events demonstrates the realities of climate change and rising seas. For many coastal communities the impacts will be devastating. They have been fighting against vanishing coastlines for years... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 89 min
  • DVD Release: 2016
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SMART

SMART

Humans are not the only ones in need of rescuing and in the city of Los Angeles, the members of SMART (Specialized Mobile Animal Rescue Team) have stepped up to save lives. Led by Armando Navarrete, this division of trained and passionate animal lovers risks life and limb to rescue every kind of creature in need, from horses to mountain lions to cats and dogs!... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 74 min
  • DVD Release: 2016
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Tell My Story

Tell My Story

A grieving father seeks answers after his 14-year-old son dies by suicide. He uncovers painful truths about the lives of teens, the impact of unfettered access to internet and social media, and the shocking rise of depression among America’s youth... More .

  • Genre: Documentary
  • TRT: 109 min
  • DVD Release: 2020
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