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Planet of the Humans | By Jeff Gibbs, Executive Producer Michael Moore
This eco-documentary takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices.
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Did Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ Forget About The Tigers?
The crazy, chaotic energy of Netflix’s Tiger King proved the perfect antidote to coronavirus anxiety, as 34 million people watched the series during its first ten days on the streaming platform. Judging from the initial responses on social media, many viewers felt absolutely certain that Carole Baskin murdered her husband (as the documentary strongly implies), while Joe Exotic was hailed as a warped kind of hero, being the protagonist of Netflix’s story.
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Netflix Takes Aim at Jared Kushner: ‘A Tier-One Predator’
The second season of Netflix’s docuseries examines a number of shady financial schemes—including that of “Slumlord Millionaire” (and Trump son-in-law) Jared Kushner.
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'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater,' a video game that defined a generation, gets its own documentary
Tony Hawk’s reached one of the more enviable places in pop culture. Who wouldn’t want to be a pioneer in their field, amass a huge fortune, and still go unrecognized at the airport? Later this month, he’ll be in a public place where every person in the room should know his face: the Mammoth Film Festival.
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Greta Thunberg to make new documentary series for the BBC
The series will follow the teenage climate activist on her international crusade, giving an ‘inside view on what it’s like being a global icon’
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‘Surviving Jeffrey Epstein’ Docuseries Gets Greenlight at Lifetime
Lifetime has officially ordered the four-hour documentary series “Surviving Jeffrey Epstein.” The announcement was made at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Saturd…
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50 Cent and Russell Simmons bash Oprah over #MeToo documentary
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey’s forthcoming #MeToo documentary is already sparking controversy. Hip-hop artist 50 Cent took to Instagram on Thursday, writing, “I don’t understand why Oprah is going after black men,” along with a photo of Winfrey and Russell Simmons — the latter of whom was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017. Simmons, a 62-year-old music mogul, has denied the allegations.
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In the Age of AI
FRONTLINE investigates the promise and perils of artificial intelligence, from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the U.S. and China.
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An Anthony Bourdain Documentary Is In the Works: Get the Details
A new feature-length documentary will focus on the life and legacy of the late Anthony Bourdain. The as-yet-unnamed project will be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, reports The Hollywood Reporter,
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The Story of Plastic: New Film Exposes the Source of Our Plastic Crisis
The documentary looks at how to turn the tide on petrochemical companies that are driving a boom in plastic production — just when we don’t need it most.
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the 1940s House e1
Yet another well done series where people step back in time to live a different life.
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The Double Life of a Truck Driver
On his way to work every day, Andrew Cohn passed a truck stop on the side of the road. One truck was always there: a long, white semi with the words Mobile Chapel painted on the side. Each time he drove past it, he’d imagine the conversations that were going on inside. Who was in there? What kind of stories were being told? “The whole idea of a mobile chapel dedicated to long-haul truckers seemed a bit out of the ordinary,” Cohn told me. “I mean, who opens a church in the back of a semi-truck?”
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Ken Burns on America: 'We're a strange and complicated people'
Through war, baseball and music, Burns’ monumental TV documentaries have told the story of the USA – a mission he says is even more urgent in the age of ‘alternative facts’. Many birthday presents are rapidly discarded or forgotten, but a gift given to a 17-year-old Michigan high-school student, on 29 July 1970, changed American television. Ken Burns received an 8mm movie camera, the first step on a path that made him such a revered figure in documentary film-making that, five decades later, his birthday this year will be celebrated with a whole day of his work on the PBS network.
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Netflix Takes Aim at Facebook With ‘The Great Hack’
A new documentary from Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim (“The Square”), out July 24, explores Facebook’s role in helping get Trump elected and pushing Brexit—among other things.
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The Grandmother Lovers
Introducing the grandmother lovers - the young men who only date elderly women! In this documentary, meet 31-year-old Kyle who can't get enough of his 91-year-old girlfriend. And 40-year-old Octavio who is going through a recent breakup and is on the lookout for a new older woman.
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s new HBO documentary explains climate science and solutions
In one of the first scenes of Ice on Fire, a new climate documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, a scientist drives a snowmobile to a tiny cabin on a ridge in the Rocky Mountains and turns on a pump that sucks outdoor air into a glass flask so it can be taken to a lab to measure how much CO2 is in the atmosphere. In another scene, it shows bubbles of methane–a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide–escaping from an Arctic lake as the permafrost melts.
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Know I'm Here - Handcraft
Documentary Film. In a moment of crisis for the subarctic town of Churchill, Manitoba, Kal Barteski brings together artists from around the world to paint massive murals on the town’s neglected buildings, to bring hope and awareness.
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The Bee Rescuer
Bees are some of the hardest working creatures on the planet, and because of their laborious work ethic, we owe many thanks to this amazing yet often under appreciated insect. Our lives – and the world as a whole – would be a much different place if bees didn’t exist. Amit Godse, founder of Bee Basket, has taken it upon himself to save the world by saving these bees. Amit slowly became well-known in Pune as the Bee Man. This is his story!
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Why everything is a subscription
Selling a gadget isn’t enough anymore. Creators need to find a way to keep revenue coming in, even after they sell a device. Companies like Peloton sell the hardware, but also a service to go along with it. Ashley Carman reports on recurring revenue and subscription services, and why they might be the key to keeping hardware businesses afloat.
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Experience the Underwater World Through the Eyes of a Free Diver
Free diver Guillaume Néry takes you on an underwater journey that will take your breath away.
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