2013 / 102
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This documentary examines how the culture of narcotics trafficking has become a twisted new version of the American Dream. Gangsta rap, with a Latin beat. In the war on drugs, heroes emerge. Only now they're the bad guys.
2013 / 86
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A 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this film explores America's controversial covert operations around the globe. An investigative journalist exposes the casualties of war -- the ones the government doesn't want us to see.
2011 / 90
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Explore how the mainstream media's often disparaging portrayals of women contribute to the under-representation of females in positions of leadership. Stereotypical media images of women are part of our daily landscape. Do they reflect attitudes or create them?
2010 / 3.4 / 90![]()
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While profiling the controversial career of pioneering paparazzo Ron Galella, this film raises questions about our celebrity-obsessed culture.
2007 / 4.1 stars / 116![]()
Peter Joseph's documentary explores controversial links between organized religion, global financial markets and the international power structure. A powerful punch of paradoxical memes about paper trails, banking cabals and 9/11. Propaganda? Perhaps.
2009 / 3.3 / 5067![]()
Two filmmakers explore an urban legend from their own childhoods: a rash of child abductions that struck Staten Island, N.Y., in the 1970s and 80s.
2013 / 3.7 / 85![]()
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In the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision, this film explores the mounting struggle between money and American democracy. Gutted unions, corporate personhood and leaders in their pockets. Meet the moneyed men behind the political machine.
2013 / 89
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Journalist Res Gehriger investigates how Swiss-based corporation Nestlé has plundered the world's water resources in the name of big business. Water, water everywhere ... and they'll figure out how to sell it back to you and make billions.
2011 / 85
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Trace one man's involvement in the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group that the FBI has deemed a top domestic terrorist threat.
2012 / 3.0 / 72![]()
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Curator Siggi Hjartarson works to complete his collection of specimens at the world's only penis museum. Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math direct.
2011 / 3.3 stars / 83![]()
This program looks at a collection of writings that claim to predict the path of human history and the signs of its eventual destruction. Secular facts battle scriptural message: The boldest set of prophecies to ever plead for our salvation.
2011 / 3.9 stars / 88![]()
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This documentary examines the so-called "hot coffee lawsuit" in which a woman sued McDonald's after she spilled her coffee and burned herself. Frivolous law suits and tort reform. A documentary on how one urban myth destroyed consumer rights.
2011 / 77
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This unflinching documentary profiles a conflicted American scout -- herself an ex-model -- who recruits Russian girls to work as models in Japan. Beautiful girls. An ugly business. Modeling's supposed to be a dream come true, but for some teens, it's a nightmare.
2013 / 4.0 / 86![]()
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Former antinuclear activists and groundbreaking scientists speak out in favor of the much-maligned energy source in this provocative documentary. It's feared by many and misunderstood by more ... but it may just be the key to Earth's survival.
2012 / 3.6 / 89![]()
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This provocative portrait explores the contrast between the Western-style beauty pageants that are sweeping Indian society and Hindu fundamentalism. A merciless pursuit of beauty. A violent worldview. How does the modern world account for a modern girl?
2009 / 2.8 / 79![]()
Orgasm Inc. is a funny and sobering look inside "big pharma" and the marketing campaigns associated with a pill for female sexual dysfunction. Drug companies already sell medicine, so they're mixing in a new product: sex. The side effects are to be determined.
2013 / 3.4 / 88![]()
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Armed with intimate access to his subject, filmmaker Yves Montmayeur trains his lens on the life and career of Austrian auteur Michael Haneke (Amour).
2013 / 3.0 / 60![]()
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This inspiring documentary traces the transformation of the education system in New Orleans, which increased charter schools after Hurricane Katrina.
2012 / 81
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This documentary follows the plight of the Sahrawi, refugees living in Western Sahara who have suffered countless human rights abuses.
1967 / 3.2 / 95![]()
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Armed with nothing but a dubious map and a "borrowed" horse, a gambler sets out to unearth a cache of valuables buried somewhere in Arizona.
2011 / 3.9 stars / 81![]()
A look at the financial collapse of 2008, this documentary investigates the causes of ruin by interviewing experts as well as victims of the fallout.
2012 / 149
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One woman experiences the dramatic highs and lows of fame in this voyeuristic glimpse past the glitz and glamour of a Bollywood superstar's life. Desired by millions, she's the sultry national superstar who has everything she wants -- except the freedom to choose.
2013 / 3.1 / 94![]()
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Porn publisher and business visionary Bob Guccione is the focus of this candid documentary that recounts the story of his meteoric rise and fall. Pushing the envelope was never this provocative before. Follow the rise and fall of a porn king.
2012 / 3.9 / 95![]()
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Vice magazine's Andy Capper follows rapper Snoop Dogg on a pilgrimage to Jamaica, where he rechristens himself Snoop Lion, a reggae artist. There's more to rapper Snoop Dogg than just rhyme and ganja. In (many) puffs of Rastafarian smoke, the new Snoop Lion is born.