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Shoah

Shoah

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witn...

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Heart of the Angel

Heart of the Angel

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 8

This film documents one day in the life of Angel station on the Northern Line of the London Underground in the days before its refurbishment. We see the ticket collectors, station manager and other st...

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Which Way Home

Which Way Home

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.8

"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States.

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Off the Rails

Off the Rails

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.1

The remarkable true story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger's syndrome whose overwhelming love of transit has landed him in jail 32 times for the criminal impersonation of NYC subway drivers, co...

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Night Mail

Night Mail

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1936 IMDB Rating: 6.8

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow.

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