Michael Bloomberg
Also Known As: Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Michael Rubens Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg, Mayor Bloomberg
Biography: Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P. He was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Overview: When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deliver the notes to the North Pole. Along the way, they discover that Christmas is the time to be with those you care about most, as they dash home to make a friends Christmas wish come true.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-17
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Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York
Overview: Gotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city with over 2200 murders, 93,000 violent robberies and 147,000 car thefts in 1990 become the capitol of the world a mere handful of years later? This feature documentary explores what happened during these decades, told by the people who did the hard work, some at great personal and professional cost.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-22
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Monumental Art
Overview: In the summer of 2018, on the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park, world-renowned artist Christo created his first public work of art in the UK. Inspired by ancient Mesopotamian tombs, the Mastaba is constructed from 7,506 painted oil barrels and weighs six hundred tonnes. It is the latest work in a career spanning half a century and stretching across the world. His work to date have included surrounding 11 islands off the Florida coast with pink polypropylene and wrapping Berlin's Reichstag and the Pont Neuf in Paris. This programme charts the creation of the Mastaba - from the first barrels being put on the water to its final unveiling - and paints a portrait of Christo as he looks back on a life spent making provocative works of art with his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-09
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Counterterror NYC
Overview: The NYPD's Counterterrorism Bureau is on the front lines in the war on terror. These specialized task forces have one goal: to keep New York City safe. During the busiest season of the year, Hercules teams deploy with 9-mm submachine guns, the TORCH team patrols New York's subway system and the bomb squad sweeps for explosive devices, all to secure the nation's largest city.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-30
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The Stroll
Overview: The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-23
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Off the Record: The 9/11 Election
Overview: Filmmaker Jonah Green documents his father Mark Green's 2001 campaign for mayor of New York City, detailing how the events of 9/11 severely altered the landscape of the election itself.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-04
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Overview: A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-08
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New York Memories
Overview: In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and loved in the woolly 1970s, to see what he might find and also to check in on the colorful protagonists of his 1989 documentary, Überleben in New York. Both a personal journey and a historical survey, New York Memories captures a transformed city by charting the shifting course of gay life, from Warhol Factory figures to the AIDS ravaged, within it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-07-15
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Fed Up
Overview: Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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The 9/11 Faker
Overview: Tania Head, a survivor from the 9/11 attacks, made it her job to help other survivors toward emotional recovery. That is, until the facts of her story fell through, and she was uncovered as a fraud. Find out the facts behind this story of betrayal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Herb & Dorothy
Overview: He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and disciplines and defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
Overview: At the end of 2005, New York's famed restaurateur, Sirio Maccioni, closed Le Cirque, destination of the rich and famous. During 2006, he and his three sons, open a new Le Cirque, taking four months longer and $4 million more than planned. The film follows this process, the new restaurant's opening, and the emotional impact of two New York Times reviews over the next few months. Maccioni, in his 70s, seems tired, chained to his work for his sons's sake; then, the restaurant opens and his indefatigable charm returns. It's a roller coaster ride. At the film's end, Maccioni, with a small Gucci bag on his hip, receives communion in a church in his home town of Montecatini Italy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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New Year's Eve
Overview: The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-08
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The Gates
Overview: A documentary on New York City’s biggest public art project ever, an installation called “The Gates” by Christo and Jeanne Claude.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-26
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On the Way to Over the River
Overview: Christo and Jeanne-Claude try to get their project "Over the River" off the ground. Meanwhile, "The Gates" take shape in New York City's Central Park.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-13
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Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision
Overview: Ground has been broken on Roosevelt Island for New York City's newest academic campus - the sustainable, high tech home of Cornell Tech, a radical reconception of graduate level engineering study for the information age. Over the next three years, a stunning complex of architecture and landscape will emerge - a unique hub of high tech research and entrepreneurial activity. Before every great piece of architecture, there is a unique journey, and since 2013, Checkerboard has been documenting the journey of Cornell Tech as it rises on Roosevelt Island. This film tells the story of how political visionaries, educational innovators, architectural designers and philanthropic benefactors have come together to create something that will have an incredible impact on New York City for decades to come.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-16
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16 Acres
Overview: The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-23
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The Adjustment Bureau
Overview: A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-03
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Overview: An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in music have performed here.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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The Armstrong Lie
Overview: In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong’s confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, “I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-08
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Overview: Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
Genres: Documentary Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-06
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The Swap
Overview: The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same character as in the previous episodes, but now reduced to a lost, exhausted soul roaming Shanghai's cityscape from the remotest periphery to the financial district. Another narrative, spoken this one, takes us to September 2008, as gigantic bailouts put the financial system on life support instead of letting it collapse, thus seizing our reality and replacing it with a fiction tailored for the situation. These two streams end up meeting on a Shanghai dancefloor, where unresolved contradictions can finally be performed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-19
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In Defense of Food
Overview: In Defense of Food tackles a question more and more people around the world have been asking: What should I eat to be healthy? Based on award-winning journalist Michael Pollan's best-selling book, the program explores how the modern diet has been making us sick and what we can do to change it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-30
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Koch
Overview: A documentary on the former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-01
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