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2016
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise7.90 2016 HD
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...
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1983
Possibly in Michigan
Possibly in Michigan7.50 1983 HD
A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become...
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1989
Borders
Borders6.00 1989 HD
A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary,...
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1982
Tongues
Tongues5.00 1982 HD
A performance piece written by Sam Shepard, enacted by Joseph Chaikin and directed by Shirley Clarke, a dying man reflects on his life while...
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2017
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart6.20 2017 HD
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the...
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2020
9to5: The Story of a Movement
9to5: The Story of a Movement7.60 2020 HD
In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a...
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1987
Prometheus' Garden
Prometheus' Garden5.80 1987 HD
Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus' Garden immerses...
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1982
Seepage
Seepage7.00 1982 HD
"Marlborough" and "The Arab", lounging on the pool terrace, are alienated characters in some future time, living in a world where art work comes to...
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1991
Queen of Diamonds
Queen of Diamonds5.00 1991 HD
Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a...
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1974
Euphoria
Euphoria5.90 1974 HD
Consistent stylistic-thematic structures link and merge throughout the bewildering event chain. The distinction between organic forms and human...
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1977
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner6.00 1977 HD
Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant...
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1993
The Genius
The Genius5.00 1993 HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
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2024
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round1 2024 HD
When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community...
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1981
Fannie's Film
Fannie's Film6.00 1981 HD
A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals,...
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1987
Lilith
Lilith1 1987 HD
Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris...
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1992
To Write and Keep Kind
To Write and Keep Kind1 1992 HD
A PBS documentary on the life and work of writer Raymond Carver. It features interviews with his family and friends, and provides an insightful look...
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1983
The Commission
The Commission1 1983 HD
This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...
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1980
Minnesota Landscapes
Minnesota Landscapes1 1980 HD
Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent...
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1988
Last Night at the S&S Diner
Last Night at the S&S Diner1 1988 HD
Story about the last original "American Diner" in Miami, Florida. Since 1938 the S & S has been owned and operated by the family of the present...