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Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners

Afrobeats: The Backstory

Afrobeats: The Backstory

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Series Age rating: 18 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Music pioneers Kenny Ogungbe, Dayo "D1" Adeneye, Paul "Play" Dairo and others dive into the rise of Afrobeats, the Nigerian global music phenomenon.

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Saving Face

Saving Face

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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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The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8

The story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was, at her death, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor. She discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how to h...

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One Survivor Remembers

One Survivor Remembers

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Coproduced by the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute,this Academy Award-winning documentary relates the harrowing story of Gerda Weissmann Klein and her journey of survival and rememberi...

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Freeheld

Freeheld

Film Age rating: 19 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner - Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and...

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Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.5

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, one veteran dies by suicide in America every 80 minutes. While only 1% of Americans has served in the military, former service members account for...

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Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.5

This Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces the career of Paul Robeson through his activism and his socially charged performance...

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The Elephant Whisperers

The Elephant Whisperers

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The Elephant Whisperers follows an indigenous couple as they fall in love with Raghu, an orphaned elephant given into their care, and tirelessly work to ensure his recovery & survival. The film highli...

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Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.4

56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For a time she even lost the power of speech, and it was during this period that her drawings became ext...

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Inocente

Inocente

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.3

INOCENTE is a personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist's determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becomin...

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