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Live performances and candid behind-the-scenes interviews with masters of improvisation. The majestic Rocky Mountains tower over a bustling metropolis filled with steamy and romantic nightclubs where jazz flourishes on stage. Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity in the music business while warning the young lions to whom they pass the torch to stay relevant in a marketplace both treacherous and brutal. JazzTown is the most important music documentary to come out of Colorado in the last 50 years. Tragically, more than a few of the world class musicians featured in JazzTown have died during the making of this movie. Their stories, their passion and their wisdom live on to entertain and inspire future generations.
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Fresco paintings are unlike any other style of artwork in the world. Mention the word fresco, and images of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling might come to mind or Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. Adorning some of the world’s most cherished cathedrals and chapels, frescos are a type of artwork that is painted into the walls rather than onto them, thereby becoming a permanent fixture. But fresco paintings are rarely attempted these days, except in Asheville, North Carolina, nearly 5,000 miles from Rome.Theirs Is The Kingdom is a feature-length documentary that follows the creation of a contemporary fresco mural inside the sanctuary of small church named Haywood Street Congregation. This is a mural not of the rich or powerful – at least in society’s eyes – but of people battling poverty, addiction, and mental illness. Haywood Street sits on the northwest corner of downtown Asheville in an area dubbed the “homeless corridor.” Many know Asheville as one of the most popular tourist destinations in the South due to its award-winning restaurants and breweries, but for individuals on the margins, it’s a different story. With rising costs of living and an escalating opioid crisis, the stories of struggle in this town are universal to other municipalities around the country trying to balance tourism and commercial interests with basic human rights. But this film is not an essay on gentrification, rather, this film serves as a meditation on dignity and human worth.This film also reveals the highs and lows of the creative process with the fresco's principal artist, Christopher Holt. Due to the time, cost, and required wall space, contemporary fresco paintings are very rare. As such, this is also a story about carrying on an ancient tradition. Unlike historical fresco paintings that depict traditional religious figures or powerful political icons, this painting features individuals on the fringes of society whose stories are often marginalized and forgotten. Their stories are historically absent from large-scale paintings and portraits, art forms reserved for those who have the means to afford such a luxury. Folks like Charlie Burns, a former roofer from Mississippi, who - after a long history of homelessness - now battles stage 4 lung cancer. Or individuals like Blue, who was born and raised in Asheville and now worries about the rising costs of living. Featuring an ensemble cast of rich and complex characters, Theirs Is The Kingdom will examine the intersection of poverty and portraiture and who our society deems worthy enough to immortalize in art.As Haywood Street founder Rev. Brian Combs says, “Poverty, in so many ways, makes people feel invisible. One of the beautiful things about this fresco is that it’s going to make folks who have felt unseen and unheard their whole lives immortal.” The beauty of art is that it’s visual, accessible, and captivating. Blending that beauty with the stories of those whom society has cast aside creates a powerful film that urges viewers to examine their own judgements and beliefs.
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Explore the preservation of ancient cultural performing arts forms via three immigrant performing artists in Colorado.
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Join your host Alana Nichols as she hikes through Switzerland's breathtaking countryside and alpine scapes while learning about its history.
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Dan McKernan relocated from Austin, Texas, to take over his family's 140-year-old farm in Michigan and transform it into the "Barn Sanctuary," a place for farm animals that have experienced abuse, neglect and more; the show follows Dan and his family as they learn the ropes of their new life on the farm and give the barnyard animals a second chance at life; it also documents his travels across the country to rescue barn animals.
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In April of 1994, 600 men and women of the Rwandan Patriotic Army were stationed behind Government lines in Kigali, as a security force for politicians negotiating a coalition government. Instead, after extremists assassinated their own president, a full scale, pre-meditated slaughter began of moderate Hutus and all Tutsi civilians, and The 600 were their only hope. In Kigali, the Government forces numbered around 10, 000, and were assisted by civilian militia of an even greater number. Nevertheless, the 600 received orders to hold out, launch counter attacks, and rescue as many civilians as they could. After 4 days of intense fighting, RPA reinforcements arrived, and the battle to end the Genocide continued. During 100 days of combat, the 600 saw their own families killed, the ruthless slaughter of innocents, and came up with innovative ways to rescue masses of people under the nose of the Government's army and militia. Yet, they managed to rescue thousands of civilians.
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This series follows the stories of the orangutans and the staff at the world’s biggest orangutan rehabilitation center.
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A feature documentary about child sex trafficking. The film recounts true stories of girls and boys who were commercially sexually exploited in California and are now survivors and courageous leaders fighting for the rights of victims worldwide.
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A documentary following a group of London based Mexicans, campaigning for democracy and an end to the forced disappearances of 43 farming students in September 2014 and the routine killings of Mexicans, including all too often students, journalists, and the systemic political and economic issues surrounding these circumstances. —Judson Vaughan
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This Business Of Autism is an expository documentary film about the economic and societal benefits of employing young adults with autism. The film addresses the positive impacts of developing profitable businesses while leveraging the unique capabilities of adults with autism, at the crossroads of government programs, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, and family.
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Black and White Night 30 is a re-imagined, re-edited, remastered and expanded version of the original television special. Re-edited by Roy's youngest son Alex Orbison, the program has been restored to reflect the correct set order as the audience who attended the show saw it.
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This electrifying and rousing Canadian musical documentary connects the Indian Nationalism of the 1930s to the First Nations activism of today.
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A lyrical documentary following two young sisters through four seasons in New England, offering a child’s perspective on the beauty of the natural world. The film presents a series of childhood vignettes with a focus the herculean obstacles of childhood. This big film about small things, reveals children to be little warriors, fighting for growth, experience, and the discovery of life’s mysteries. For the course of the film, we are allowed to join them and get lost in the world of the senses.
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This major landmark series looks in detail at the fascinating relationship between predators and their prey. Rather than concentrating on ‘the blood and guts’ of predation, the series looks in unprecedented detail at the strategies predators use to catch their food and prey use to escape death. Sir David Attenborough narrates.
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An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
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From the filmmaker behind MURPH: THE PROTECTOR, this stirring tale of bravery and tribute spotlights Chief Petty Officer Lance Vaccaro, a highly decorated United States Navy SEAL who gave his life for his country in 2008. To honor his sacrifice, four Navy SEAL bikers launched the Lance Vaccaro Memorial Ride. Traveling from Virginia Beach to Alaska and back on motorcycles, they covered 12,000 miles in 31 days. RIDE FOR LANCE captures the excitement of the open road as well as the emotion of four riders touching thousands of lives along the way, including active duty troops, veterans, and the families of deployed and fallen troops who also share their stories of pride and heartbreak. RIDE FOR LANCE is an inspiring story about friends, family, and a brother warrior who will never be forgotten.
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Chris, Maggie and Travis, a special team trained in military tactics, fly into Kenya to help fight against the crime of elephant poaching. They will track and chase their enemy after coming face-to-face with the grizzly result of poaching. Will it be worth it in the end?
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This is a story of a band who never set out to change the world... and still hasn't. Take a journey with All Time Low as they travel America with one mission... to tell as many dick jokes as possible, with lots of laughs, a little bit of crying, and nude scene after nude scene after nude scene. Alex Gaskarth, Jack Barakat, Rian Dawson, and Zack Merrick star in a film so massive that no theater can contain it. It's a documentary, it's a live performance, it's more than you have ever wanted to know... and it's going... Straight to DVD.
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The Black Parade Is Dead! is MCR's final performance as their onstage characters, the Black Parade. The Black Parade centres around a dying character called The Patient, who reflects on events in his life while he is confronted by Death in the form of his fondest memory, that of his father bringing him to see a marching band. This is based on frontman Gerard Way's belief that death comes to a person in the form of their fondest memory. The band is seen in their Black Parade uniforms throughout the performance, and during the first song "The End", Gerard Way is seen taking the role of The Patient, before tearing off his hospital gown to reveal his uniform.
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Meet the dedicated men and women who bring the Middle Ages to the present day, training for years to perfect their skills. They become expert horseback riders, learn to joust in full armor, and perfect intricate swordplay to thrill their audiences day after day. They endure bruises, broken bones, and heartbreaking losses all in pursuit of being crowned the champion of the Knight Life.
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The remarkable and often perilous story of the journey through life. It is a story that unites each of us with every animal on the planet, because we all set out on this journey from the moment we are born. For animals there is just one goal in life – to continue their bloodline in the form of offspring. This series follows that journey through its six crucial stages: first steps, growing up, finding a home, gaining power, winning a mate and succeeding as a parent.
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In 1990, actor, comedian, writer and director, Robert Townsend, went against every obstacle in Hollywood, relying on his faith, street smarts, and tenacity to bring his passion project, 1991’s The Five Heartbeats, to big screens. The Motown-flavored story of the rise and fall of an African-American vocal group in the 1960s, the musical drama is the subject of Townsend’s documentary, Making The Five Heartbeats. The documentary chronicles the inspiring journey of a young black writer/director (Townsend) determined to present a new image of black people in cinema while endeavoring to create a classic.
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A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Frozen Planet will provide the ultimate portrait of our earth’s polar regions, where the scale and beauty of the scenery and sheer power of the natural elements are unlike anywhere else on the planet. To capture nature’s majestic power – as well as its ultimate fragility
