Films and programs like Life Overtakes Me

St. Louis Superman

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Bruce Franks Jr. is a 34-year-old battle rapper, Ferguson activist and state representative from St. Louis, Missouri. Known as Superman to his constituents, he is a political figure the likes of which...

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Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.3

The story of a young boy forced to spend all five years of his short life in hospital while the federal and provincial governments argued over which was responsible for his care, as well as the long s...

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Saving Face

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 8

Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his h...

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A World Without Down's Syndrome?

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, fronted by Sally Phillips. This film explores the science and thinking around the proposed new screening test for Down's syndro...

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Erasing Family

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 6.8

This documentary exposes the failure of family courts to keep children from being used as a weapon after separation. Courts decision ends up completely erasing one parent, causing severe emotional tra...

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A Love Song for Latasha

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, reimagining Latasha Harlins' story by excavating intimate memories shared by those who loved her.

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Resurface

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A suicidal war veteran finds like-minded souls in a surf therapy program that helps traumatized soldiers heal while riding the waves.

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Prowlers of the Everglades

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1953 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Part of the "True-Life Adventure Series"; Disney filmmakers take their cameras to Florida, not to document the swamps that would become Walt Disney World, but to capture the lives of creatures in the...

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I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.6

This insightful Home Box Office documentary profiles some American children afflicted with Tourette's syndrome -- a hereditary neurological disorder manifested by recurrent, involuntary vocal and moto...

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