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Love Etc.

Five different relationship stories: high school sweethearts, octogenarian lovebirds, the divorced father of two teenagers, a gay single man and a traditional Indian wedding.

Limelight

A documentary about legendary NYC nightclub owner Peter Gatien. Profiles Gatien’s rise and fall in the world of nightspot dominance as owner of Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium and Club USA.

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September 23, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

American: The Bill Hick...

An animated documentary drama on the legendary Texas outlaw comic Bill Hicks.

Completed

April 8, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

General Orders No. 9

An experimental documentary that contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South as potent metaphors of personal and collective destiny.

Completed

June 24, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

My Reincarnation

Yeshi, who was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, considers departing from tradition to embrace the modern world.

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October 28, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

Plastic Planet

Reveals the far-flung reaches of our plastic problem with interviews with the world’s foremost experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to our environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects our bodies and the health of future generations.

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January 14, 2011 New York VOD / Digital

The Harvest/La Cosecha

Children who work as many as 12 hours a day, six months a year in the scorching hot sun, without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working here, in our back yard, in America.

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July 29, 2011 New York VOD / Digital

Armadillo

In February 2009, documentary filmmaker Janus Metz accompanied a group of Danish soldiers at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions.

Bill Cunningham New York

For decades, the Schwinn-riding Bill Cunningham, cultural anthropologist, has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the New York Times Style section.

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March 16, 2011 New York VOD / Digital

Circo

Set within a century-old traveling circus, a Mexican family struggles to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict that threatens this once-vibrant family tradition.

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April 1, 2011 Los Angeles Netflix DVD New York

Garbo: The Spy

A documentary about a Spanish double agent during World War II.

Completed

November 18, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

Page One: A Year Inside...

In the tradition of fly-on-the-wall documentaries, the film gains unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the public's main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil.

Rebirth

The nearly ten-year transformation of five people whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001.

The Man Nobody Knew: In...

Exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director William Colby told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl.

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September 23, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

United Red Army

The docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan, when mass student uprisings coincided with the beginnings of the far-left United Red Army group, which tortured and murdered its “deviant” members during a 1972 training session.

Completed

May 27, 2011 VOD / Digital

Chasing Madoff

The true-life tale of investigator Harry Markopolos' meticulous, decade-long fight to reveal Madoff's widely destructive Ponzi scheme.

Completed

August 26, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

Corman's World's: Explo...

This documentary chronicles how Hollywood writer-director producer Roger Corman created his cult film empire, one low-budget success at a time, capitalizing on undiscovered talent, and pushing the boundaries of independent filmmaking.

Completed

December 16, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Crime After Crime

Documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

Completed

July 1, 2011 Los Angeles Netflix DVD New York

Granito: How To Nail A ...

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.

I Am

A first person documentary of Tom Shadyac (helmer of bigscreen comedies including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty") on his unusual journey of self-discovery. Film includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Desmond Tutu, among others.

Completed

February 18, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD