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The Whale

A baby orca gets separated from his family and unexpectedly starts making contact with people along a scenic fjord called Nootka Sound.

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September 9, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

Troll Hunter

Focuses on a group of students who discover what they believe is a government conspiracy to keep the existence of trolls in the north of Norway hidden from the general public.

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June 10, 2011 Limited Los Angeles Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD VOD / Digital

The Last Mountain

The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America's struggle to balance its energy needs and environmental concerns, so the daring solution proposed by this small Appalachian community takes on national significance when Bobby Kennedy, Jr. joins the Appalachian families to fight the extraordinary and insidious power of Big Coal.

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June 3, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

The Interrupters

The stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.

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July 29, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

The Undefeated

A documentary on Sarah Palin inspired by her book Going Rogue.

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July 15, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD VOD / Digital

The Last Lions

Dereck and Beverly Joubert examine the dramatic decline in the number of lions in Africa and the moral duty to protect them.

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February 18, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

The Weird World of Blowfly

Documents story of Miami musician Clarence Reid and his alter ego Blowfly, the original dirty rapper. A major force in the Miami soul scene of the 60s and 70s, Reid wrote Top-10 songs for some of the greatest R&B acts of the era, while at the same time, his X-rated recordings and stage antics as Blowfly made him a star of the "party record" scene.

The Woman with the Five...

Her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps and then young Svetlana experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.

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July 20, 2011 Limited VOD / Digital

Tabloid

The salacious adventures of a beauty queen with an IQ of 168, whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her on a labyrinthine crusade for love. Down a surreal rabbit hole of kidnapping, masochistic Mormons, risque photography, magic underwear, celestial sex, jail time and a cloning laboratory in South Korea, Joyce's fantastic exploits were constant headlines.

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July 15, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

The Arbor

The true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar (The Arbor, Rita, Sue and Bob Too) and her daughter Lorraine.

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April 27, 2011 Los Angeles Netflix DVD New York

The Black Power Mixtape...

Documentary about the black power movement using previously unseen footage.

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September 9, 2011 Netflix DVD 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

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

The Sky Turns

Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left La Aldea, a village in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. She was the last child born in La Aldea. Now, only fourteen people live there. Soon this village, like so many other rural communities all over the world, will be deserted. Alvarez returns for the first time to her ancestral home and makes a film about memory and the terrifying passing of time.

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February 11, 2011 Netflix DVD New York

Thunder Soul

Thunder Soul tells the true story of Conrad O Johnson and the Kashmere Stage Band, a mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse.

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September 23, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD

Topp Twins: Untouchable...

A documentary about the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape.

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May 13, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD New York

Turtle: The Incredible ...

Turtle: The Incredible Journey is an award-winning film that follows the life and migration of a loggerhead turtle from hatching to maturity and a return to its original Florida nesting grounds. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, has one of the longest and most difficult migratory patterns of any marine animal: Sea turtles newly hatched on the East Coast of the United States (usually in Florida) make their way from the sand into the ocean, and then begin a voyage that can span the entire Atlantic Ocean, only to return decades later to that same beach.

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June 24, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD