Richard Nixon
Also Known As: Richard Milhous Nixon , President Nixon, President Richard Nixon
Biography: Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Nixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yorba Linda, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 09, 1913
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 22, 1994
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The Most Dangerous Man in America
Overview: "The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an "imperial" presidency – answerable to neither Congress, the press, nor the people – in order to help end the Vietnam War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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The Cockettes
Overview: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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The Movie Orgy
Overview: Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Dark Side of the Moon
Overview: A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-16
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Jackie Gleason: The Great One
Overview: Documentary about the life and times of Jackie Gleason.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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The Society of the Spectacle
Overview: Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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From Tehran to Cairo
Overview: A documentary about the latest days of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last king of Iran.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Attica
Overview: Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Overview: A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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A Place in History
Overview: A documentary on Dwight Eisenhower shown at the Eisenhower library.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Millhouse
Overview: Emile de Antonio's film decimates Richard Nixon and exposes him as a paranoid, power mad lunatic... de Antonio compiles (via video and film) what amounts to the "best of" one of the worst political figures of the 20th century. Nixon was a shameless self-promoter while trying desperately to convince everyone that he wasn't. Through Alger Hiss and the "Checkers" speech to the character assassination of Helen Gahagan Douglas (among others), there are few stones left unturned.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-28
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Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews
Overview: This program, culled from the over 28 hours of interview footage between Sir David Frost and U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, was originally broadcast in May of 1977. Never before, nor since, has a U.S. President been so candid on camera. Even more intriguing is the fact that Nixon agreed to appear on camera with no pre-interview preparation or screening of questions.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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The Untold History Of The United States
Overview: Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-12
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Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
Overview: An exploration of the life and career of the Beatles superstar, with a look at the strange parallels between him and his killer Mark David Chapman.
Genres: Documentary Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-21
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Nixon: A Presidency Revealed
Overview: More than three decades after the notorious political scandal that ended his career, this revealing documentary explores the legacy of President Richard Nixon. Newly released audio and never-before-seen footage shed light on Nixon's administration, from the heights -- his historic trip to China and the end of conflict in Vietnam -- to the shocking lows that made his name synonymous with political deception.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-26
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Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Overview: Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and other Black NFL players took a knee.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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The House I Live In
Overview: In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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Laissez-faire
Overview: A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-30
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Overview: Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-26
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The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Overview: May Pang lovingly recounts her life in rock & roll and the whirlwind 18 months spent as friend, lover, and confidante to one of the towering figures of popular culture, John Lennon, in this funny, touching, and vibrant portrait of first love.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-13
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Led Zeppelin Played Here
Overview: 1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the gym of the Wheaton Youth Center in front of 50 confused teenagers. Or did they? Filmmaker Jeff Krulik chronicles an enduring Maryland legend, of the very night this concert was alleged to have taken place, January 20, 1969, during the first Presidential Inauguration of Richard Nixon. Led Zeppelin Played Here presents a mid-Atlantic version of what was happening nationwide as the rock concert industry took shape. Featuring interviews with rock writers, musicians, and fans, and several who claim they were witnessing history that night.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-11
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
Overview: A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-13
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Overview: During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-02
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...So Goes the Nation
Overview: A look at the role of the Buckeye State in the 2004 Presidential Election.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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A Kentucky Treasure: The Osborne Brothers Story
Overview: The story of Bobby and Sonny Osborne, better known as The Osborne Brothers, one of the most successful bluegrass groups of all time. Born in Hyden, Kentucky, they achieved world wide recognition with their 1967 single, “Rocky Top.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-05
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The American Nightmare
Overview: An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-11
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Say Hey, Willie Mays!
Overview: Follow Willie Mays’ life both on and off the field over five decades as he navigated the American sports landscape and the country’s ever-evolving cultural backdrop, all while helping to define what it means to be one of America’s first Black sports superstars. He left an indelible mark in New York City and San Francisco, building a love affair with both cities’ fans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Forza Italia!
Overview: Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of — occasionally dubbed — archival footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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I Am Jackie O
Overview: Jackie Kennedy Onassis was the most famous woman in the world, impossibly glamourous and universally admired. She was also complex, layered, and extremely guarded, making her endlessly fascinating and enigmatic. This incredibly compelling film provides a definitive exploration of her life, from iconic first lady to widow, unofficial royalty and fashion icon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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The Sordid Affair
Overview: At the height of the Watergate scandal on April 30, 1973, President Richard Nixon delivered his first major speech broadcast live from the White House, addressing the charges being made against his Presidency. Produced by Dimitri Devyatkin, with Walter Wright on synthesizer, the video is an overlay of mesmerizing computerized animations that reflect upon the speech.
Genres: History Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind
Overview: The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music scene, the celebrities who championed his music, his tragic friendship with The Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson and his descent into violence and chaos once his dreams fell apart.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-13
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American Youth
Overview: An experimental collage of commercials, political advertising, news footage, and found video used to mark the rapid capitalization of young Americans after the collapse of the 60s/70s youth movements.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-27
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Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
Overview: Several important historical events occurred on the planes with call sign Air Force One. These events are described within the backdrop of the evolution of the presidents' airplanes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Our Nixon
Overview: Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-23
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O.J.: Made in America
Overview: A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
Genres: Documentary Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-20
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400 Days
Overview: 4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth has changed. Is this real or is the simulation on a higher level than they could have ever imagined?
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-29
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Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
Overview: A special that takes a look inside the White House.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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All the President's Men Revisited
Overview: The Watergate case was the original game changer of America politics. How has Watergate changed the Presidency? What effect has the scandal had on our political leaders? And has hope and optimism forever been replaced in our national dialogue by doubt and cynicism? In 1973, Watergate's most pivotal year, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein doggedly investigated the scandal exposing the long, twisted trail of cover-ups and lies.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-21
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Bad Times at the El Royale
Overview: Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-04
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The Doors
Overview: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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Sicko
Overview: A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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Deus Pátria Autoridade
Overview: The history of Portugal since the Republican revolution of 1910 to the revolutionary period following the military coup of April 24, 1974, recounted with a marxist perspective, using historic sound and film documents. The title refers to a trilogy of values proclaimed by Salazar, prime minister of Portugal in 1936.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-02-21
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The Kennedy Dynasty
Overview: The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America throughout the 20th century; of nine brothers who had truly extraordinary lives, marked by both greatness and tragedy: the story of the Kennedy family.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-07-02
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How to Cure Inflation
Overview: Inflation results when the amount of money printed or coined increases faster than the creation of new goods and services. Money is a "token" of the wealth of a nation. If more tokens are created than new wealth, it takes more tokens to buy the same goods. Friedman explains why politicians like inflation, and why wage and price controls are not solutions to the problem. Friedman visits Japan, U.S. and Britain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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Nixon in China
Overview: Documentary following Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972. Produced by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library from archive materials.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-22
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How to Win the TV Debate
Overview: With Britain's first-ever political leaders' television debate imminent, award-winning reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers what it's like to take part in these contests and how leaders try to win them. He tells the inside story of why it has taken so long for such debates to arrive in the UK. The programme features candid interviews with US Presidents and their advisers on the tricks of the debate trade. Blending new film and behind-the-scenes footage, some never seen before, it's a tragicomic tale of high politics and low cunning. From John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon through to Barack Obama, candidates are seen being prepared for their debates, then in the sometimes funny, sometimes disastrous results on live television. Cockerell shows why for our would-be next Prime Ministers - Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg - the three debate stages across Britain will be what one former US President calls 'Tension City'.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-12
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Sports on the Silver Screen
Overview: HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-16
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The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Overview: An intimate portrait of Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, tracing his remarkable ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to the one of the most pioneering and consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-04
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The Martha Mitchell Effect
Overview: She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.
Genres: Documentary Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-20
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Birthgap - Childless World
Overview: "Birthgap - Childless World" sets out to understand why birthrates have been falling across the industrialized world and beyond for decades through a journey of discovery across 24 countries. Combining deeply personal interviews with demographic trend data, a common picture emerges of what has been happening to communities across the globe. The documentary then explores the consequences for young and old alike and how our future world will be very different to the one we have become used to
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-02
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Picturing the Presidents
Overview: We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-10
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Kamikaze 1989
Overview: In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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The Road to Mass Incarceration
Overview: This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy decisions dating back to the 1960s. Although the effects often took decades to manifest, each of these policy shifts increased the rate of incarceration in the U.S. The video ends with many of the architects of these changes, Democrats and Republicans alike, admitting the failure of these policies and suggesting that it is time for real change.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-13
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Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Overview: From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, which include Nixon's conversations on the war in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appointments, and more--while also exposing shocking statements he made about women, people of color, Jews, and the media.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-04
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Hearts and Minds
Overview: Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Overview: Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-24
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Watergate: High Crimes in the White House
Overview: Follows the crime and scandal that took down President Richard Nixon the day of the break-in at the Watergate Hotel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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Vietnam: Secret Negotiations that Ended the War
Overview: While the war raged on, Henry Kissinger, national security advisor to President Nixon, and Lê Duc Tho, member of Vietnam's Politburo, held secret meetings in France.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-14
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Holiday Time at Disneyland
Overview: We see numerous Disneyland attractions over the early years of Disneyland that were opened on, or around, official holidays.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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Mondo Hollywoodland
Overview: Homage to the cult classic “Mondo Hollywood”, a groovy mushrooms dealer and a man from the 5th dimension journey through Hollywood to find the meaning of “Mondo.”
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-03
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The Fog of War
Overview: Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-26
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Moonwalk One
Overview: This documentary by Theo Kamecke from 1970 gives an indepth and profound look at the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. NASA footage is interspersed with reactions to the mission around the world as the film captures the intensity as well of the philosophical significance of the event. Won special award at Cannes. Written by Adam Bernstein .
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Året var 1974
Overview: The year begins with an energy crisis and petrol rationing. And there will be parental insurance so that even fathers can stay at home with their children. Cleaners around Sweden are on strike for better conditions. Worry grows for the Swedish tourists in the holiday paradise of Cyprus. That and much more in this column about the year 1974.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-12-29
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Career
Overview: Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.
Genres: Drama Crime War History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-15
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ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black
Overview: This documentary chronicles Johnny Cash's 1970 visit to the White House, where Cash's emerging liberal ideals clashed with Richard Nixon's policies.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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Gasland
Overview: It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-24
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All the President's Men
Overview: During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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Killing John F. Kennedy
Overview: John F Kennedy was one of America's greatest presidents. He was the voice of the people who was a natural public speaker and a cool calm figure in front of the cameras. His influence helped push America through the most dangerous moments of the cold war, diffusing what could have been world nuclear destruction. But in November 1963, his life would come to a devastating end through the hands of an assassin. But who would kill one of the most popular presidents? Why was he a target? Join us as we investigate the life and career of JFK and ask the question...Who was really behind the killing of JFK?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-24
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Detroit Rock City
Overview: In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Overview: War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Big Lever
Overview: For Nixon's first public appearance since resigning the presidency, Richard Nixon chose the small mountain community of Leslie County, Kentucky. Priceless footage of Nixon's 1978 visit introduces this incisive and sometimes hilarious look at the engines that drive American politics. The film explores the machinations of party politics in this rural and staunchly Republican county: hollow to hollow vote-hunting; family squabbles over candidates; patronage promises; speech-making on the courthouse steps; and the up-and-down career of the incumbent county Judge-Executive who sought re-election while under indictment for vote fraud conspiracy
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-15
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O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
Overview: With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia
Overview: With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.
Genres: Documentary Mystery History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-04
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Television: The First Fifty Years
Overview: Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Propaganda
Overview: An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-14
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Dawn of the Space Age
Overview: From the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik, to the magnificent lunar landings and privately operated space flights. Be immersed and overwhelmed with this most accurate historic reconstruction of Man’s first steps into space. Who were these Men and Women that took part in these death defying endeavours? Witness their drive, their passion, and their perseverance to explore, in Dawn of the Space Age.
Genres: Animation Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-22
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Overview: It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-17
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The Hollywood Ten
Overview: A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With that act of defiance, they were sentenced to one year in prison simply for speaking their minds and exercising their constitutional rights as concerned citizens. This is their story, their version of the facts, and their opinions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-15
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
Overview: A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subversive and electrifying beginnings, to rebirth as an unlikely Hollywood heavyweight, and beyond. A humour empire like no other, the impact of the magazines irreverent, often shocking, sensibility was nothing short of seismic: this is an institution whose (drunk stoned brilliant) alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture. Both insanely great and breathtakingly innovative, The National Lampoon created the foundation of modern comic sensibility by setting the bar in comedy impossibly high.
Genres: History Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-25
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Ted Stevens and Richard Nixon in D.C.
Overview: In a courtyard somewhere in Washington D.C., Senator Stevens walks and talks with President Nixon in this brief silent color film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Killing Fields
Overview: New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-23
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Houston, We Have a Problem!
Overview: The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Houston, We Have a Problem! filmmaker Žiga Virc adds new material to the discussion on both fronts. This intriguing docu-fiction explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Overview: Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power behind the president.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Faye
Overview: Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her struggles with mental health while confronting the double standards she was subjected to as a woman in Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-15
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Overview: The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate
Overview: This remarkable look into one of America’s most intriguing mysteries is an edge-of-your-seat thriller. Tom Brokaw and NBC News brings you the compelling story of the Watergate scandal that rocked a nation and brought down a presidency. This remarkable documentary report features interviews with key figures from the events, delivering a definitive look at a crucial moment in American history.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Nixon: Checkers to Watergate
Overview: A documentary film which traces the political life of Richard M. Nixon, using footage from his campaigns, family home movies, and excerpts from his speeches
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-01
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Backstage at the White House
Overview: This unique glimpse into the private lives of our Presidents and their families showcases some of the most significant personal moments they have experienced. These instances have not only resonated with our emotions but have also elicited joy, creating lasting memories that highlight the humanity of these influential leaders.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-19
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Tovarășu': facerea, gloria și desfacerea unui dictator
Overview: Here is the story of the entire life of Nicolae Ceaușescu, a peasant's son who managed to become the most powerful man in Romania. Including original archival footage and historical re-enactments, the story is told by those who lived it, those who knew him intimately, followed him, served him and carried out his orders: fellow prisoners, " his 'double', personal assistants, his personal security men, those who accompanied him on foreign trips, his translator, advisers, diplomats and family members.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2023-12-06
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Rockin' Ronnie
Overview: ROCKIN' RONNIE 80's Political Satire Comedy of Ronald Reagan Bloopers.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-21
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Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood
Overview: Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a documentary film produced by BBC in 1978 on the subject of Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Nigel Finch. The road trip/film pairs Thompson with Finch's fellow Briton the illustrator Ralph Steadman. The party travel to Hollywood via Death Valley and Barstow from Las Vegas, scene of the pair's 1971 collaboration. It contains interviews with Thompson and Steadman, as well as some short excerpts from some of his work.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-02
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Comandante
Overview: Oliver Stone spends three days filming with Fidel Castro in Cuba, discussing an array of subjects with the president such as his rise to power, fellow revolutionary Che Guevara, the Cuban Missile crisis, and the present state of the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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ESPN Films: Nixon's National Champs
Overview: NIXON'S NATIONAL CHAMPS is the story of how the 1969 college football national champion was crowned and the drama that surrounded it. Using rare footage of Nixon and his unexpected antagonist, Joe Paterno of Penn State, this film captures the folly of the President as he waded through the hornet's nest of polls and regional rivalries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-28
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RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Overview: A new investigative documentary exploring the controversies surrounding the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 as he looked set to challenge Nixon for the White House. Munir Sirhan tells how his brother Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting. Sandra Serrano speaks for the first time in forty years about the girl in the polka-dot dress fleeing the scene, yelling "We shot him! We shot him!" And Dr. Herbert Spiegel of Columbia University describes how Sirhan was hypnotically programmed to kill Robert Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-20
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It Felt Like a Kiss
Overview: The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.
Genres: History Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-02
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Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon on Camera
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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All the Presidents' Wives
Overview: A look at the women who has served as First Ladies of the United States.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-24
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Inside the White House
Overview: Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and unprecedented access to its hallowed halls, this program from National Geographic takes viewers on an in-depth tour of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- the White House. Interviews with presidents and first ladies offer a revealing look at what goes into running that famous household, and White House employees give viewers a taste of the preparations involved in hosting a state dinner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Overview: Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-06
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The Presidents' Gatekeepers
Overview: An analysis of what the role of the Chief of Staff is in his position at the service of the President of the United States of America and how it has been in the past: a in-depth look, through the corridors of White House, at the internal affairs of nine presidential administrations.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-12
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Elvis by the Presleys
Overview: Priscilla Presley, her daughter, their family and their friends open their hearts in the backdrop of Graceland's memories with much modesty and emotion.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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This Is Bob Hope...
Overview: During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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Presidential Bloopers
Overview: A look back at some of the funniest presidential moments in history.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-18
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It Came from Kuchar
Overview: It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no budget" films and with their uniquely enchanting spirits.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-22
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Inside Deep Throat
Overview: In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one of the most successful independent films of all time. It caught the public imagination which met the spirit of the times, even as the self-appointed guardians of public morality struggled to suppress it, and created, for a brief moment, a possible future where sexuality in film had a bold artistic potential. This film covers the story of the making of this controversial film, its stunning success, its hysterical opposition along with its dark side of mob influence and allegations of the on set mistreatment of the film's star.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1998-11-23
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The Great Debates (Kennedy-Nixon)
Overview: Discover the famous debates that propelled JFK to the White House and marked the beginning of a new era in presidential politics.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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A Home Far Away
Overview: The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway theatre, television and Hollywood films. Her husband, Edgar Snow, is world famous. A pioneer fascinated by China, he is the first journalist to film and interview Mao Tse-tung. Suspected by the American authorities of Communist sympathies, Ed and Lois are blacklisted. Together with their two small children, they go to Switzerland, mid-way between China and America, where they find a new home. A story of revolution, utopia, disillusionment, and hope.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-01
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The President's Book of Secrets
Overview: Journey inside White House history to unveil fascinating truths behind secrets known only to the President.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-01
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
Overview: PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
Overview: The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, the Prague Spring, the Chicago riots, the Mexico Summer Olympics, the presidential election of Richard Nixon, the Apollo 8 space mission, the hippies and the Yippies, Bullitt and the living dead. Once upon a time the year 1968.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-20
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Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner
Overview: Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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Gala Day at Disneyland
Overview: The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage, and the new Monorail—include a parade down Main Street with appearances by Walt and Roy Disney and members of their families, along with Vice President Richard Nixon and family, and numerous film stars. The celebrations end at night with a fireworks display.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-21
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Overview: Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
Genres: Horror Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-08
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Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator
Overview: The spectacular rise and scandalous fall of hot-yoga evangelist Bikram Choudhury is chronicled through archival footage and extensive insider interviews.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-10
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Santiago Files
Overview: President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the South American socialist country into a dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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All Eyes and Ears
Overview: A timely exploration into the complex links between the U.S. and China. Interspersed with remarks from journalists and experts, All Eyes and Ears interweaves the stories of U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, his adopted Chinese daughter, Gracie Mei, and blind legal advocate Chen Guangcheng as they find purpose, identity and resolve amid the two nations’ evolving relationship.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-20
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Hesburgh
Overview: He counseled presidents and popes, served on corporate boards and infuriated Richard Nixon. He was one of the only friends to whom Ann Landers turned for advice. During his 35 years as president of the University of Notre Dame, Theodore Hesburgh became one of the most influential and inspiring people of the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-26
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Overview: An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-19
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Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
Overview: How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-01-08
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Overview: With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-24
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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Overview: The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
Genres: Drama Music Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-15
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Overview: The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-18
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Shadow World
Overview: A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms trade, hidden in the shadows, feeding the shameful corruption of politicians and government officials and promoting a state of permanent war throughout the world, while they cynically asked for a lasting and universal peace.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Nixon
Overview: The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power and the public trust. His achievements in expanding peaceful relations with China and the Soviet Union stand in stark contrast with his continuation of the war in Vietnam. Finally brought down by scandal and duplicity, his administration did much to erode the citizenry's faith in government.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-15
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Overview: The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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The Making of the President 1960
Overview: The story of the 1960 US Presidential election
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-29
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Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House
Overview: This documentary profiles iconic journalist Helen Thomas who has held a front-row seat at White House press conferences for more than 60 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-18
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J. Edgar
Overview: As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-09
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Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Overview: Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth, in a tale of megalomania, farce, and horror.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-14
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Generalísimo, la vida de Franco en color
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-10-31
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I Could Never Be Your Woman
Overview: Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman and single mother, Rosie, who's unlucky in love find her match with Adam, a much younger man. As their relationship blossoms beyond physical attraction, matters complicate when her adolescent daughter starts to fall for a handsome local boy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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Disneyland '59
Overview: Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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Public Trust
Overview: There are 640 million acres of public land in the United States. But there are powerful forces, both in government and in corporate America, eager to plunder this bounty. David Garrett Byars’s eye-opening documentary travels to Alaska, into the red rock canyons of southern Utah, and to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and exposes a land war going on under our very noses.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-17
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James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Overview: On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that ripped other cities apart after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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Deadline
Overview: In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence of 13 men on death row. This documentary follows the hearings held by a panel Ryan appointed to study the issue and interviews activists, scholars and prisoners, while examining the history of the American death penalty. As Ryan's time in office comes to an end, he must decide what steps to take to reform the judicial system.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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Oswald's Ghost
Overview: For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did for Generation Y - not only for the effect that it had on the nation's morale but for the conspiracy theories that would follow in its wake as well. In the aftermath of the assassination,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-14
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Get Me Roger Stone
Overview: From his days of testifying at the Watergate hearings to advising recent presidential candidate Donald Trump, Roger Stone has long offended people on both sides of the political fence as a force in conservative America. Outspoken author, pundit, ahead of his time election strategist, this is his story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-23
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Reagan
Overview: Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president, Ronald Reagan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-07
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Da 5 Bloods
Overview: Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-12
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Where's My Roy Cohn?
Overview: Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump. This thriller-like exposé connects the dots, revealing how a deeply troubled master manipulator shaped our current American nightmare.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-20
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Cold Turkey
Overview: Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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The War at Home
Overview: Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and interviews with participants that explore the events of the period on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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Mike Wallace Is Here
Overview: For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallace's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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The Hunting of the President
Overview: Previously unreleased material outlines the campaign against Bill Clinton's presidency, from his days in Arkansas up to his impeachment trial.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-27
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Royal Family
Overview: Intimate portrait of the daily life of the British Royal Family drawn from 18 months of filming within Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-21
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Flying Supersonic
Overview: Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the glamour of jet setting at Mach 2 were stunning scientific innovations and political intrigue. Fifteen years after Concorde's final flight, this documentary takes you inside the historic international race to develop the first supersonic airliner. Hear stories from those inside the choreographed effort to design and build Concorde in two countries at once - and the crew members who flew her.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-17
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Ethel
Overview: Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
Overview: A personal exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl. Through extraordinary events in twentieth century history, this consummate soldier/spy stood at the center of the Agency's most clandestine activities and operations. The film reveals the 'cover life' of this CIA operative, who followed orders and took on the dirtiest assignments until the Nixon Administration ordered him to 'stonewall' Congress about the CIA's past abuses, but he refused. This film reveals why, for the first time, he could not obey.
Genres: Drama Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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All Power to the People!
Overview: Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the history of race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s and 70s. Covering the history of slavery, civil-rights activists, political assassinations and exploring the methods used to divide and destroy key figures of movements by government forces, the film then contrasts into Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies and the failure of the “War on Drugs”, forming a comprehensive view of the goals, aspirations and ultimate demise of the Civil Rights Movement…
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-01
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Secrets of the CIA
Overview: It fought against international terrorism in South America and watched out for our allies abroad...but what else did it do?...What are the true secrets of the C.I.A.?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Gloria: In Her Own Words
Overview: Despite decades of opposition from the right, and recent personal setbacks, Gloria Steinem remains one of the most outspoken and visible symbols of the women’s movement today. This film blends interviews of Steinem in her Manhattan apartment, archival footage, photographs from throughout her life and clips from press interviews over the years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-15
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Celsius 41.11
Overview: This film attempts to correct the record when it comes to the left's attacks on President Bush, 9/11 and the war in Iraq and Kerry's 20-year tenure in the Senate.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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The War on Democracy
Overview: Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger says that the film "...tells a universal story... analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow".
Genres: History Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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President Nixon Resigns the Office of the Presidency
Overview: President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on 08 August 1974, to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-08
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American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
Overview: Investigative reporter Jack Anderson hosts a two-hour investigation of the Kennedy Assassination featuring interviews with experts, eyewitnesses, government officials and authors. Includes dramatic recreations of key events.
Genres: Documentary History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-02
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JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
Overview: The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, all the way to 9/11 and the current age of the terrorist. Taken from an historical perspective starting around World War 1 leading to present day.
Genres: Crime Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-19
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Devils Don't Dream!
Overview: Before his journey into exile Jacobo Arbenz, the overthrown President of Guatemala, is presented to photographers stripped down to his underwear: an image seen around the world. Arbenz had led the successful 1944 revolt against the military dictatorship, a regime that had oppressed Guatemala since colonialism. Arbenz, the son of Swiss immigrants, was celebrated as a national hero. Elected President in 1950, Arbenz was not a member of any party - he didn't issue any manifestos. But he began to fulfill his promises - farmers got their own land. 'The first act of justice since colonial times,' said Arbenz. In the early 1950s, with the Cold War intensifying, then Vice President Richard Nixon said, 'Arbenz is not a Guatemalan President.' Nixon called him 'a foreigner, manipulated by foreign powers.' The young President of Guatemala was soon overthrown, declared a traitor, and chased out of the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-07
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On Company Business
Overview: A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-14
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Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Overview: This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "second conspiracy" to cover up the truth, including attempts to ruin his own reputation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-20
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Dear Fidel: Marita's Story
Overview: Marita Lorenz, the daughter of a German sea captain, recalls how she became the mistress of Fidel Castro in Havana soon after the Cuban revolution in 1959. After being six months pregnant with his baby, she was drugged and given a near fatal abortion. She was then recruited by the CIA and Mafia to assassinate Castro, but she threw away the poison pills just before she met Fidel. She then worked for the CIA in Florida and, in 1962, had a daughter while she was the mistress of an ex-dictator of Venezuela. She later married an FBI agent, by whom she had a son, and they spied on UN diplomats in a New York apartment. She claimed her spying days were over when she testified, in the 1977 Kennedy Assassination Inquiry, about her connection to Frank Sturgis and Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-14
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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Overview: A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-09
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13th
Overview: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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The Judge and the General
Overview: A Chilean judge uncovers long buried secrets of former dictator Augusto Pinochet and, in the process, must confront his own role in that dark past.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-04
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The Inconclusive Independence
Overview: Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-05
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A Grin Without a Cat
Overview: French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-23
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The Unelected Statesman
Overview: Billy Graham was a man known worldwide for his southern charm, unmistakable voice and most importantly to him, his love and devotion to Jesus Christ. Lesser known, however, is his role as a statesman of the United States. Despite never holding public office, Graham comforted the nation in some of its darkest hours, spread its causes and principles to all corners of the globe, and counseled every president from Harry Truman to George W. Bush. This is the story of the unelected statesman.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
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Coup 53
Overview: Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-01
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1971
Overview: Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local FBI offices to leak stolen documents and expose the illegal surveillance of ordinary Americans in an era of anti-war activism. In this riveting heist story, the perpetrators reveal themselves for the first time, reflecting on their actions and raising broader questions surrounding security leaks in activism today.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-18
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Agent Number 9
Overview: A documentary about the life of former U.S. Secret Service agent, Clint Hill, who served under five United States presidents from Eisenhower to Ford and is known for his act of bravery on November 22, 1963 — shielding Jacqueline Kennedy and the stricken president with his body as the car raced from Dealey Plaza to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
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Superheroes: The Down of a New Fascist Era
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-16
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Lakota Nation vs. United States
Overview: Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promise of the Land Back movement, in this lyrical testament to resilience of a nation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-11
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Apollo 13: Survival
Overview: Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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Forrest Gump
Overview: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-23
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FACE OF FIRE
Overview: He pours gasoline on every fire
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-23
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Shanks for the Memory
Overview: Visual treasure of the world of golf according to Bob Hope. Highlights include "How (he) Became a Golf Addict", "Best Advice Ever Given to (him) about Golf", and a look at "Women in Gol"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Året var 1970
Overview: This is the year with a music party at Gärdet in Stockholm, and Lee Hazlewood and Nina Lizell wonder who can sail before the wind. The Vietnam War continues and the United States is bombing Cambodia. In Stockholm, police officers write in protest against poor conditions and the rockers take the chance to take over the town. During the "cannon race" on the Gellerås track, a fatal accident occurs. Director Roy Andersson's first feature film "En kärlekshistoria" is a must see.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2020-01-27
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Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Overview: This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America—with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-09
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Grass
Overview: Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by many governments on Earth. In this Genie Award-winning documentary veteran Canadian director Ron Mann and narrator Woody Harrelson mix humour and historical footage together to recount how the United States has demonized a relatively harmless drug.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Overview: illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967); Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967); Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" (1969); John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962); Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968); John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" (1969); Richard Brooks' "Elmer Gantry" (1960) and "In Cold Blood" (1967); and Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968). Frankenheimer, Jewison, Hopper, Schlesinger, Penn, Buck Henry, Paul Mazursky, Roger Corman and Arthur Hiller are among the filmmakers who discuss the decade.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-02
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Monday Night Mayhem
Overview: The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith, Keith Jackson, and the combative Howard Cosell as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-14
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Alien, Terror in Space
Overview: In space, no one can hear you scream! the catchy slogan that accompanies Alien sums up the unprecedented stakes of this film that will mark the history of cinema. In 1979, for the first time on screens, a mainstream feature film will mix two distinct worlds of genre cinema: science fiction and horror. Ridley Scott forever shakes up the cinematic landscape by plunging the audience into anguish with his oppressive universe and his iconic monster. The documentary looks back at the lasting impact of this masterpiece, exploring Scott’s audacity and the genesis of his unique aesthetic. In the claustrophobic corridors of the Nostromo spaceship, the heroine, played by Sigourney Weaver, becomes the first strong female figure to redefine the conventions of the genre, far from the clichés of the time. By revisiting the film's key sequences, the documentary shows how Alien explores profound themes such as survival and dehumanization, while reflecting a scathing critique of the capitalist system.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-21
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Palme
Overview: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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The Dark Side of Porn: Hunting Emmanuelle
Overview: This documentary follows the concept of the groundbreaking 1974 movie Emmanuelle, through to its release, its cultural impact, and the large amount of sequels and impersonations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-12
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Breaking the Taboo
Overview: Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship
Overview: In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-04-16
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Make No Mistake About It: The President Came to Iowa
Overview: President Nixon in Iowa, both his speeches and protesters; with reflections by a farmer far away. -longer - This documentary covers President Nixon's 1971 visit to Iowa, consisting of footage of the visit and Iowa citizens' reactions with voice over narration. Topics covered include the opinions of Iowa farmers and demonstrations against low parity numbers, anti-union laws, and the Vietnam War.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-24
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