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  • 2025
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    Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP

    Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP

    10.00 2025 HD

    While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had...

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  • 1997
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    Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

    Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

    1 1997 HD

    Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part...

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  • 2018
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    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    8.02 2018 HD

    For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his...

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  • 1985
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    The Statue of Liberty

    The Statue of Liberty

    6.71 1985 HD

    For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and...

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  • 2025
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    Next to Normal

    Next to Normal

    1 2025 HD

    A mother struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family. The PBS Great Performances recording...

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  • 1973
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    Carola

    Carola

    6.00 1973 HD

    Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place backstage at a theatrical performance in...

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  • 1984
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    The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'

    The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'

    7.40 1984 HD

    A documentary following the various stages in the production of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).

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  • 2019
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    Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

    Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

    7.30 2019 HD

    50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground,...

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  • 1987
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    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    6.00 1987 HD

    Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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  • 2024
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    The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump

    The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump

    7.60 2024 HD

    The documentary investigates the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency. In a historic election, those...

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  • 2017
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    Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

    Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

    6.44 2017 HD

    A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...

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    Yellow Face

    Yellow Face

    1 2025 HD

    Tony winner David Henry Hwang’s comedy starring Daniel Dae Kim as an Asian American playwright who protests “yellowface” casting in...

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  • 1973
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    Steambath

    Steambath

    5.40 1973 HD

    Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes clear that the...

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  • 2020
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    City Hall

    City Hall

    6.40 2020 HD

    An epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.

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  • 2025
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    We Want the Funk!

    We Want the Funk!

    9.50 2025 HD

    Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.

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  • 2005
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    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    7.70 2005 HD

    A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

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  • 1984
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    Solomon Northup's Odyssey

    Solomon Northup's Odyssey

    6.20 1984 HD

    This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works...

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  • 1980
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    The Lathe of Heaven

    The Lathe of Heaven

    6.60 1980 HD

    George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist,...

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  • 2023
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    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    5.00 2023 HD

    Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She...

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  • 2015
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    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

    7.03 2015 HD

    The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal...

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