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When We Went Mad!
MAD Magazine redefined humor with fearless satire of politics and pop culture. Featuring icons like Quentin Tarantino, this doc celebrates its wild legacy, free speech and the "Usual Gang of Idiots" who helped shape comedy forever.
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Taste of Mango
A hypnotically cinematic love letter flowing through time and generations. Director Chloe Abrahams probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family's unspoken past.
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American Delivery
In the U.S. where more women die in childbirth than any other wealthy nation the joys of pregnancy and motherhood are often overshadowed by fear. Amid a growing maternal health crisis, especially for women of color, this documentary tells the story of the glimmers of hope: women finding their voice and autonomy; nurses listening to women and offering birth choices; and hospital leaders welcoming the community as the patient. The film interweaves the stories of women and their families across the U.S. as they navigate the challenges of pregnancy, mental health, childbirth, and the postpartum period. It paints a joyous portrait of the moment babies come into the world, and the heroic efforts of families and communities to catch new mothers before they fall through the broken healthcare safety net.
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Cooking with Legends
Host Lidia Bastianich and special guest Jacques Pepin are the perfect pairing for a lively program that showcases each chef's remarkable ability to teach from a lifetime of experience on-air and in the kitchen. Their combined knowledge doubles the fun when these two 'good-natured bosses' and longtime friends come together to share personal family stories and mouthwatering recipes.
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Andy Warhol's Factory People: Inside the Sixties
Andy Warhol's aluminum foil-covered Silver Factory becomes the hotbed of avant-garde creativity in '60s New York City. Pop art, provocative movies, sex, drugs, and the Velvet Underground. Recalled by those who were there and lived to talk about it.
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Blur: To the End
Iconic British band blur ('Song 2', 'Girls & Boys') comes together to record their first album in eight years the chart-topping The Ballad of Darren and prepare for the biggest concerts of their career, two sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium. With footage of the band in the studio and on the road, plus performances of their much-loved, seminal songs.
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Room 666 / Room 999
At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked such filmmaking luminaries as Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Yilmaz Guney, Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, and Susan Seidelman to ponder the question "Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?" Forty years later adopting the same minimalist, fixed-camera format as Wenders, Lubna Playoust poses the same question to a group of contemporary auteurs, including David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, Lynne Ramsay, and Wenders himself. Together, Wenders' Room 666 (Chambre 666) and Playoust's Room 999 (Chambre 999) capture the unfiltered perspectives of pathbreaking filmmakers on the state of the industry as well as the upheavals brought on by various new technologies and methods of distribution in the process touching on large-scale issues of politics, culture, and the meaning (and continued relevance) of cinema in two distinct eras, nearly half a century apart.
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Atomic People
The dropping of atomic bombs on two Japanese cities Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki, three days later, was one of the most momentous and destructive moments in world history. The bomb known as 'Little Boy' that decimated Hiroshima was 2,000 times more powerful than any bomb before, instantly killing approximately 80,000 of the city's 350,000 residents. By the end of the year, the death toll would rise to 140,000 as initial survivors succumbed to illnesses connected to radiation exposure. In Nagasaki, where approximately 40,000 were killed instantly, the number would rise to 74,000 by the end of the year. Now, eighty years later, this unique award-winning film gathers the testimony of some of the last 'Hibakusha' survivors of the two atomic bombs before their voices are lost forever. With an average age of 85, most Hibakusha were children when the bombs were dropped. Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, Atomic People feature a significant number of voices from this shrinking group, the only people left on Earth to have survived a nuclear bomb while exploring how their experiences continue to affect them to this day.
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Star Without a Star
A biopic documentary showcasing the need for younger generations to champion unsung pioneers, especially those worthy of recognition as the first. Features Sidney Poitier, Juanita Moore, and Susan Kohner.
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