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Michelle Landis Dauber Judith Helfand John W. Heltzel Colleen Scott

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 2019

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Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).

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A Healthy Baby Girl

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter a...

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Cracking the Code

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 6.6

From bizarre ancient markings to random numbers and letters, codes and ciphers have been used for millennia to send secret messages, hide identities and operate outside the law. Unravelling these co...

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Sunshine Hotel

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Just decades ago, flophouses in New York housed nearly 25,000 men living on the margins of society. Today few remain. Filmmaker Michael Dominic takes his camera behind the doors of the Sunshine Hotel,...

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Meet the Sloths

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 9

Meet The Sloths follows a year in the life of five slow-moving residents of the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, a sanctuary dedicated to saving orphaned or injured sloths. Filmmaker Lucy Cooke...

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The Last Mountain

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.1

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Cooked

Series Age rating: 9 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Explored through the lenses of the four natural elements – fire, water, air and earth – COOKED is an enlightening and compelling look at the evolution of what food means to us through the history of f...

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Black Power: America's Armed Resistance

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Filmmaker Dan Murdoch spent last summer documenting clashes between a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, and a growing Black Power movement. Now in a follow up to 'KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy' he returns...

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Flint

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In 2014, the authorities in Flint, Michigan chose to cut costs and change the city’s domestic water supply from the great Lakes to the Flint River. Soon tap water was running brown, people were fallin...

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American Revolution 2

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 6.7

AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 includes footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention protest and riot, a critique of events by working class African-Americans in Chicago, and attempts by the Black Panther Party t...

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Snake City

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8.5

As the weather warms up in Durban, S.A., deadly venomous snakes enter homes, offices, and factories. Streetwise snake-catcher Simon Keys and his partner Siouxsie Gillett, rush across the city to save...

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Black Power: America's Armed Resistance

Flint

American Revolution 2

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