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  • 2024
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    Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined

    Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined

    1 2024 HD

    Explore the story of Dominican-American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez, who burst onto the literary scene and blazed a trail for a generation of...

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  • 2018
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    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    8.01 2018 HD

    For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...

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  • 1992
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    Lincoln and the War Within

    Lincoln and the War Within

    1 1992 HD

    First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North...

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  • 2015
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    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    7.01 2015 HD

    The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...

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  • 2023
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    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    5.00 2023 HD

    Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She...

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  • 2019
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    Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

    Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

    7.20 2019 HD

    50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground,...

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  • 2009
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    Love and Valor

    Love and Valor

    1 2009 HD

    Narrated by Tony Award winning actor Brian Dennehy, a tremendously moving story of a Union soldier and his wife during the Civil War. Based on the...

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  • 2021
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    Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains

    Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains

    8.50 2021 HD

    Travel to the ice mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma (aka panther, mountain lion and cougar) the area's largest predator....

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  • 2005
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    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    7.70 2005 HD

    A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

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  • 2017
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    Out of Gitmo

    Out of Gitmo

    1 2017 HD

    The dramatic story of a Gitmo detainee released from the controversial U.S. prison after 14 years. With NPR, a report on the struggle over freeing...

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  • 2010
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    Through a Dog's Eyes

    Through a Dog's Eyes

    1 2010 HD

    A PBS documentary featuring the service dogs of Canine Assistance and how they are matched to the people who need them.

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  • 2015
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    A Few Good Pie Places

    A Few Good Pie Places

    1 2015 HD

    There's something tasty, often sweet, fruity and all-American about a really good piece of pie. In this delicious documentary, travel across the...

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  • 1972
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    Another Part of the Forest

    Another Part of the Forest

    1 1972 HD

    A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.

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  • 2006
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    Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

    Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

    8.20 2006 HD

    Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. [Made for and aired on PBS's...

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  • 2003
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    Prisoner of Paradise

    Prisoner of Paradise

    6.30 2003 HD

    The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt...

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  • 2020
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    Santa's Wild Home

    Santa's Wild Home

    6.00 2020 HD

    Green lights dance across a star-filled sky, and snowflakes sparkle on the trees. It is little wonder Lapland is famous as a realm of elves and...

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  • 1983
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    The Ghost Writer

    The Ghost Writer

    1 1983 HD

    Nathan Zuckerman, a budding 23 year old writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovers the contradictory claims of literature and experience while...

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  • 2023
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    The Balloonist

    The Balloonist

    1 2023 HD

    Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley of Vermont.

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  • 2023
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    Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

    Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

    9.00 2023 HD

    Compulsive Twitterer, Elon Musk bought himself his favorite social network in 2022, and brutally shaped it according to his desires. This punchy...

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  • 2017
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    Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

    Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

    6.20 2017 HD

    A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...

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