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    Deep Water (2007)

    Amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst competes in a 1968 sailing race around the world.

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    Darfur Now (2007)

    Don Cheadle, Adam Sterling and four other individuals try to turn the world's attention to the...

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    Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

    Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore creates a searing examination of the Bush...

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    Oswald's Ghost (2007)

    Delves into the conspiracies, truths, myths and lies stemming from the assassination of President...

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    Saint of 9/11 (2006)

    When two planes ripped through the World Trade Center on September 11, the first official casualty...

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    Grizzly Man (2005)

    Filmmaker Werner Herzog profiles grizzly bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell, who was killed by one of...

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    Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)

    Filmmaker James Cameron, actor Bill Paxton and a team of experts explore the wreckage of the...

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    7 Days in September (2002)

    A documentary, told from the perspectives of 27 filmmakers, that chronicles life in New York in the...

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    Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo... (2005)

    Former U.N. Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire travels back to Rwanda to discuss the 1994 genocide.

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    Touching the Void (2004)

    British mountain climbers Joe Simpson (Brendan Mackey) and Simon Yates (Nicholas Aaron) try to scale...

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    Afspa, 1958

    Manipur is the easternmost state of the Indian Union. It was an independent country before what many...

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    Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)

    A new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, let more than 900...

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    The White Diamond (2005)

    Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur falls in the heart of...

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    Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers (2005)

    A chronicle about the thousands of emergency personnel, on and off-duty, who responded to this...

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    Parallel Lines

    In the wake of 9/11, New York Resident Nina Davenport takes a road tour of America using the...

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    ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB

    A disturbing examination of the human tragedies of war and America's nuclear legacy, as viewed...

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    Hamburg Lectures

    At the end of the 1990s Mohammed Fazazi became Imam of the Al Quds mosque in Hamburg. In January of...

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    Fires of Kuwait (1992)

    An aerial view reveals a row of blazing out-of-control oil wells far into the distance, filling the...

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    Six O'Clock News

    A trip across America in search of the story behind televised disasters, including robberies,...

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    The Struma

    In December 1941, the Struma, a converted "gentleman's yacht" carrying 769 Romanian...

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    Westray

    Filmmaker Paul Cowan documents a mining disaster in Nova Scotia that killed 26 people.

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    Collateral Damages (2004)

    An intimate scrapbook of the memories of several firefighters who survived the horror of the...

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    F.D.N.Y. Dream Bike (2004)

    After Gerard Baptiste's death in the World Trade Center bombing, firefighters pay tribute to...

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    Diameter of the Bomb

    A documentary about a group of disparate people in Israel and the Occupied Territories, all...

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    Serambi

    Set in Aceh. Portrays the stories of Tari, a girl who lost her friends to the tidal wave, Lisa, a...

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    Beyond Belief (2008)

    Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston...

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    Kamp Katrina (2007)

    Good intentions go awry when a New Orleans couple allow a group of displaced hurricane survivors to...

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    Desert Bayou (2007)

    In the wake of one of the worst natural and humanitarian disasters ever to visit American shores,...

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    Trouble the Water (2008)

    On the day before Hurricane Katrina--just blocks away from the French Quarter but far from the New...

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    Waltz with Bashir (2008)

    One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is...

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