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- DirectorAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsJohn S. DicksonAntonio FargasHeidi FleissStreet pimps, all of them African-American, discuss their lives and work: getting started, being flamboyant, pimping in various U.S. cities, bringing a woman into their group, taking a woman from another pimp, and the rules and regulations of pimping. The men are clear: it's about money. The women work every night, hustle hard, turn over all their earnings, and steal anything they can from clients. We meet a few of the women, who tell us what they want from a pimp. We also listen to a women who's legally employed at a Nevada brothel; we meet her White boss, a legal pimp. He and the street pimps, some of whom are now retired, make the case for legalizing the trade.
- StarsAdam CurtisRobert ReichAnn BernaysA documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
- StarsJim Al-KhaliliAndrea SellaHal SosabowskiSeries in which Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of how the elements, the building blocks that make up our entire world, were discovered and mapped.
- StarsSean PertweeJoe JonesMarco HofschneiderLooks at the race for Nuclear Superemacy from The Manhatten Project through to The Islamic Bomb.
- StarsSam NeillExplore the wonders of our universe with Sam Neill.
- StarsRichard DillaneSteve NicolsonRavil IsyanovThe BBC's Space Race is a documentary/drama chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race, leading up to the first moon landing. The series concentrates on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart, as their rivalry intensifies and the pressure to be the first builds.
- DirectorDov FreedmanStarsEfraim ZuroffThis documentary follows Efraim Zuroff on his search for Dr Aribert Heim. Heim, or Dr. Death, is known to have performed gruesome and needless experiments on the inmates of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in 1941.
- DirectorCharlie RussellStarsEdeltraut AschnerMilivoj AsnerIsobel CharmanTwo young filmmakers gain access to some of the most wanted Nazi war criminals still alive to discover how their wartime actions have shaped their lives forever.
- DirectorDov FreedmanJames CohenThe story of the Nazis' secret breeding programme, and how the children have lived their lives in the knowledge that they were bred to rule the world.
- DirectorHelen SageStarsMarcus du SautoyDan BrownSimon ColtonFor the first time in history, machines are helping us unlock the secret of what intelligence is. Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, Marcus Du Sautoy asks if a machine could ever think like him, and examines what that would mean.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreWilliam BlackJimmy CarterAn examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good.
- DirectorJulian JonesStarsRichard ArmitageRichard GloverNatasha PringWith 250 million competitors, it is the most extreme race on earth and there can only be one winner.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogScott RowlandStefan PashovFilm-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
- DirectorRobert KennerStarsMichael PollanEric SchlosserRichard LobbAn unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
- DirectorIJsbrand van VeelenStarsVint CerfThis interesting Dutch documentary examines the mother of all search engines and discusses issues like the page rank algorithm, user privacy, targeted advertising and the danger of Google's monopoly.
- DirectorFax BahrGeorge HickenlooperEleanor CoppolaStarsDennis HopperMartin SheenMarlon BrandoDocumentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.
- DirectorCharles FergusonStarsMatt DamonGylfi ZoegaAndri Snær MagnasonTakes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
- DirectorHeidi EwingRachel GradyStarsMike PapantonioLou EngleBecky FischerA documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.
- DirectorTegan BukowskiLoressa ClisbyKevin MacdonaldStarsHiroaki AikawaCindy BaerTeagan BentleyA documentary shot by film-makers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the twenty-fourth of July, 2010.
- DirectorKenneth BowserStarsSheree AliJoan ArmatradingDan AykroydA retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live.
- DirectorKeith FultonLouis PepeStarsTerry GilliamJohnny DeppJeff BridgesTerry Gilliam's doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.
- DirectorScott PaddorStarsVincent BridgesEdward HerrmannTony JayThe life story of Nostradamus unfolded in medieval Europe at the time of the Great Plague and the Inquisition. He lived in an age of superstition and magic and believed that he could foretell the future. For this he was labeled both a prophet and a heretic, and his cryptic journals continue to inspire controversy just as they did in the 16th century. In this two hour examination of his life, we visit his birthplace in France and trace his career as doctor, astrologer, father and seer.
- DirectorJames MarshStarsNim ChimpskyStephanie LaFargeHerbert TerraceTells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.
- DirectorEven BenestadAugust Baugstø HanssenStarsHariton PushwagnerA personal portrait of a small man with a great personality. The directors followed the artist Pushwagner for three years. He is an artist who is in danger of losing everything.
- DirectorRon FrickeStarsBalinese Tari Legong DancersNi Made Megahadi PratiwiPuti Sri Candra DewiFilmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.