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  • 2018
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    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    8.01 2018 HD

    For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...

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  • 2005
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    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    7.70 2005 HD

    A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

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  • 2017
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    Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

    Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

    6.30 2017 HD

    A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...

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  • 2015
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    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    7.01 2015 HD

    The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...

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  • 2023
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    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    5.00 2023 HD

    Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She...

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  • 1992
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    Lincoln and the War Within

    Lincoln and the War Within

    1 1992 HD

    First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North...

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  • 2004
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    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert

    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live in Concert

    6.40 2004 HD

    Taped for a two-part PBS Soundstage, Petty employs the Chicago locale as an entry into the blues and R&B that are at the foundation of rock & roll,...

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  • 2014
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    National Gallery

    National Gallery

    7.30 2014 HD

    A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the...

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  • 2019
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    Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

    Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

    7.30 2019 HD

    50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground,...

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  • 2022
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    Nazca Desert Mystery

    Nazca Desert Mystery

    7.30 2022 HD

    One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures...

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  • 2006
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    Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

    Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

    8.20 2006 HD

    Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. [Made for and aired on PBS's...

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  • 2003
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    Prisoner of Paradise

    Prisoner of Paradise

    6.30 2003 HD

    The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt...

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  • 1978
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    The Good Doctor

    The Good Doctor

    0.50 1978 HD

    A writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, all of which are written in the style of Chekhov.

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  • 2007
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    Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

    Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

    6.00 2007 HD

    Over a thousand years ago, the sun-washed lands of Southern Spain were home to Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together and flourishing. Their...

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  • 2024
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    American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    1 2024 HD

    In November 1898, self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to overthrow the biracial Wilmington government, killing dozens of...

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  • 2017
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    Falsettos

    Falsettos

    8.30 2017 HD

    The 2016 Broadway Revival of William Finn's Tony-winning musical. It tells the story of Marvin, a Jewish family man who leaves his wife and son for a...

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  • 2002
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    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess

    1 2002 HD

    In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...

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  • 2023
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    Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song

    Joni Mitchell - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song

    9.00 2023 HD

    After getting her start in coffee shops Joni Mitchell went on to set a new standard, marrying music and lyrics with such songs as “Both Sides,...

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  • 1985
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    Memory of the Camps

    Memory of the Camps

    1 1985 HD

    In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience....

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  • 1979
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    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

    A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

    1 1979 HD

    Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of...

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