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This classic documentary by Errol Morris showcases workers in the animal burial industry while dealing with heavier existential questions regarding mortality and the afterlife. The first pet mortician featured is Floyd "Mac" McClure, who believes that a graceful burial is as important for pets as it is for people. The film chronicles his struggles to keep his niche business afloat, and interviews several of his associates and one of his competitors,...
2) Dear Santa
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
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Shines a light on the 100-year-old 'Operation Santa' Program of the United States Postal Service. Each year, hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa arrive at Post Offices around the country. Through Operation Santa, the United States Postal Service makes it possible for the public to safely adopt these letters and make children's dreams come true. The film invites audiences along for the magic of this massive endeavor.
3) Room 237
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
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A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they'll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979-at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 as the Sandy Hook massacre played on television while Marion passed away. In between, Marion filled 70,000...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"PERFECT BID: THE CONTESTANT WHO KNEW TOO MUCH" is an award winning documentary film from CJ Wallis about a math genius from Texas named Ted Slauson and his life of memorizing and documenting the prize amounts on "The Price Is Right." Keeping track of items and their prices began as a hobby for Slauson, until age 18 when he became eligible to be selected as a contestant on the show. The film explores Slauson's experience as a 37-time audience member,...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The notoriously secretive, family-owned superbrand LEGO opens its doors in the Christmas holiday spirit. The program goes behind-the-scenes to see how staff gear up for the festive period with supersized Christmas builds, multiple product launches, and robust marketing campaigns designed to ensure that the company maintains its dominance in a highly-competitive toy marketplace. Kids will love it!
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After the most destructive wildfires on the east coast of Australia, we discover a link between land, culture and giants of the land. It soon turns into a quest to discover if Australia's Bigfoot survived one of the greatest environmental disasters in Australia's recorded history.
10) Missing Mom
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This multi-award-winning documentary shows film director, Rob McCallum, and his brother, Chris, search for their Mom who's been missing for almost 25 years. The pair interview reluctant family members and discover distorted truths about their past.
11) Gamemaster
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
GAMEMASTER follows the trials and tribulations of designers as they create and publish board games. Conversations with industry legends like Klaus Teuber (Catan) help explore the cultural phenomenon of board gaming.
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Everybody has a ghost story. But how many people have filmed theirs? Welcome to MY GHOST STORY, where true and unbelievable stories of the paranormal are told by the people who lived through them - and actually captured their hauntings on tape.
13) My Ghost Story
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Everybody has a ghost story. But how many people have filmed theirs? Welcome to MY GHOST STORY, where true and unbelievable stories of the paranormal are told by the people who lived through them - and actually captured their hauntings on tape.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In recent years, at-home DNA tests have become a popular gift. Sometimes the tests reveal more than just a family's heritage or health history, uncovering things that were intentionally stashed behind a wall of secrecy. The documentary FILLING IN THE BLANKS is one such story. When Jon Baime expresses interest in learning about his family heritage at 54 years old, his dad demands Jon not take one until, to quote his 92-year-old father exactly, "I'm...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
EMILY @ THE EDGE OF CHAOS interweaves Emily Levine's live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters (John Lithgow as Sir Isaac Newton, Lily Tomlin as Ayn Rand, Leonard Nimoy as Sigmund Freud, Richard Lewis as Aristotle, Matt Groening as Aldo Leopold). The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics - the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using her...
17) Hunting Bigfoot
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The worlds of narrative feature and documentary film are skillfully melded to capture this portrait of a broken man obsessively pursuing personal redemption in a world where many think he's gone mad in his quest to find the elusive cryptid.
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nothing captures the magic of Christmas like a visit to Santa Claus. MIRACLE ON 19TH STREET is the story of a beloved NYC store Santa who, after nearly 30 years, is retiring to "the North Pole," leaving behind an indelible mark on generations of children and families. To them, he is the real deal.
19) Dear Mr. Brody
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Language
English
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When 21-year-old hippie-millionaire Michael Brody Jr. decided to give away his fortune to anyone in need, he ignited a psychedelic spiral of events. An instant celebrity, Brody was mobbed by the public, scrutinized by the press, and overwhelmed by the crush of personal letters responding to his extraordinary offer. Fifty years later, an enormous cache of these letters are discovered-unopened.
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Runnin' Down A Dream," a film directed by cinema legend Peter Bogdanovich, is the story of one of America's great rock and roll bands told as never before. Tracking Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from their Gainesville beginnings to their 30th anniversary celebration, "Runnin' Down A Dream" is the hard-hitting account of a band that became a family and, along the way, left a body of work that is among the richest deposits in American musical history....
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