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  • 2000
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    Wild Costa Rica

    Wild Costa Rica

    8.00 2000 HD

    Cost Rica is one of the most diverse places on Earth. This exploration features Costa Rica's unique animal inhabitants, including various monkeys,...

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  • 1980
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    The Lathe of Heaven

    The Lathe of Heaven

    6.60 1980 HD

    George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist,...

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  • 2007
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    Alexander Hamilton

    Alexander Hamilton

    6.80 2007 HD

    One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness, extreme...

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  • 2002
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    Zoot Suit Riots

    Zoot Suit Riots

    1 2002 HD

    On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that...

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  • 2022
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    Nazca Desert Mystery

    Nazca Desert Mystery

    7.60 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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  • 2014
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    National Gallery

    National Gallery

    7.42 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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  • 1982
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    Hollywood’s Children

    Hollywood’s Children

    1 1982 HD

    A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).

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  • 1985
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    Noon Wine

    Noon Wine

    1 1985 HD

    The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century...

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  • 2009
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    The Released

    The Released

    1 2009 HD

    Frontline examines the lives of mentally ill repeat offender who are struggling to make a life for themselves outside of prison.

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  • 1982
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    Silent Rebellion

    Silent Rebellion

    7.00 1982 HD

    A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother and re-discover their heritage and each other....

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  • 2025
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    Yellow Face

    Yellow Face

    1 2025 HD

    Tony winner David Henry Hwang’s comedy starring Daniel Dae Kim as an Asian American playwright who protests “yellowface” casting in...

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  • 1996
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    It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

    It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

    5.50 1996 HD

    Depicts what happens when students K-8 discuss LGBT-related topics in age-appropriate ways. Shot in six public and private schools (in San Francisco...

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  • 2024
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    399: Queen of the Tetons

    399: Queen of the Tetons

    1 2024 HD

    World famous Grizzly 399 attempts to raise four cubs, making choices amidst a warming climate, human encroachment and disputes over her Endangered...

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  • 2023
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    The Hummingbird Effect

    The Hummingbird Effect

    1 2023 HD

    Costa Rica's motto is Pura Vida - Pure Life - and this deceptively small country is bursting with some of the most spectacular wildlife and pristine...

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  • 2018
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    Betty White: First Lady of Television

    Betty White: First Lady of Television

    7.50 2018 HD

    The definitive look at Betty White's life and career. As the only authorized documentary on Betty ever made, this film is packed with hilarious clips...

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  • 2024
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    The Incomparable Mr. Buckley

    The Incomparable Mr. Buckley

    1 2024 HD

    See how one of the architects of the modern conservative movement rose to prominence as a public intellectual and influenced generations of...

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  • 1992
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    Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

    Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

    7.00 1992 HD

    Satchmo. There are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied 20th-century...

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  • 2019
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    China: Power and Prosperity

    China: Power and Prosperity

    1 2019 HD

    Covering China's powerful leader, his signature foreign policy, U.S.-China trade and technology wars, how Chinese technology helps stifle dissent,...

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  • 2024
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    Fly With Me

    Fly With Me

    7.50 2024 HD

    Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat...

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  • 1982
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    Seguin

    Seguin

    1 1982 HD

    A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the...

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