
Winnie (2017)
While her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Pascale Lamche
Actors: Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela
Country: France, Netherlands, South Africa
Ada for Mayor (2016)
A first-person chronicle of the journey of Barcelona activist mayor Ada Colau in the form of a personal diary.
Supersized Sharks (2024)
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Cinerama’s Russian Adventure (1966)
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Crazy Nights (1978)
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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
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Asian Tsunami: The Deadliest Wave (2014)
Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami forecasting.
Jelly Roll: Save Me (2023)
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Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ (2021)
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Our Children (1989)
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All of Me (2013)
The ‘Girls’ have been friends for years, bonding over hopes, dreams, food, and the shared experience of being obese. But, now, as some pursue weight-loss surgery, their center has shifted…
Long Live My Happy Head (2022)
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