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Hidden Star
Director: Mary Elizabeth Gentle, Alia Tarraf
Starring: Allison Wilke Gryphon
After the untimely death of her best friend Allison, Mary Beth was paralyzed under a tidal wave of grief and depression. But when she discovers Allison's very real, heartbreaking diary footage of her breast cancer journey, she travels to Ireland with fellow filmmaker Alia Tarraf and a group of devoted friends to scatter Allison's ashes on the Cliffs of Moher. On returning home, they find their grief has not subsided. Together, Mary Beth and Alia embark on an odyssey back to Ireland with a "death midwife," psychologist Dr. Staci Emerson, to unravel answers to the complexities of their sorrow to find a sense of hope.
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The Way
Director: Kathie Lee Gifford
Starring: Jimmie Allen, Matt Baugher, Billy Gaines, Larry Gatlin, Danny Gokey, Nicole C. Mullen, BeBe Winans
Singer/songwriter/ TV host/ author Kathie Lee Gifford created The Way, an epic film/ DVD/ audio collection that brings to life classic Biblical themes and legendary characters. The audio soundtrack features Gifford with guest vocalists Nicole C. Mullen, Danny Gokey, Larry Gatlin, Jimmie Allen, Bebe Winans, Kathy Troccoli, Katie Ohh and Louis York, all accompanied by 65 members of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. These four oratorios take listeners on a journey through the Old and New Testaments.
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Kaepernick & America
Director: Ross Hockrow, Tommy Walker
Starring: Nate Boyer, April Dinwoodie, Hue Jackson, Colin Kaepernick
The documentary explores the intersection between Colin Kaepernick's anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States, revealing unique insights into America's ongoing racial turmoil.
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Zero to Infinity: The History of Key Mathematical Concepts
Director: Daniel McCabe, Jaroslav Savol
Starring: Talithia Williams
It tells the story of a mathematician's quest to understand numbers. In her day job, professor of statistics Talithia Williams ponders the power of data looking for answers and spotting patterns in huge collections of numbers. But as the anticipated host, she takes a step back and turns her attention to the digits themselves exploring their origins and discovering the wonder that arises from simple, yet profound concepts like nothingness, infinity, and the mysteries embedded in special numbers like primes.
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Automat
Director: Lisa Hurwitz
Starring: Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elliott Gould, Colin Powell, Carl Reiner, Howard Schultz
The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served affordable food to millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. Founded by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in 1888, it revolutionized the nation's restaurant scene with technology that captured the public's imagination like nothing else the customer put nickels into slots, and little windows opened to reveal the customer's pick, be it a slice of pie, macaroni, and cheese, or a Salisbury steak. The chain welcomed those who had been ignored, including immigrants, the working class, Blacks, and women, all of whom were often not welcome in restaurants. Featuring interviews with Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Colin Powell, and Elliott Gould, The Automat illustrates how the company both served the public with great food and at the same time treated its employees with fairness and integrity.
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Banksy Most Wanted
Director: Aurélia Rouvier, Seamus Haley
Starring: Robin Barton
The documentary draws an in-depth portrait of the masked Robin Hood of the art world. Each investigation reveals a facet of the artist: his political views; commitment to environmental causes and political refugees; his links with the music scene and his entrepreneurial side. All in search of an answer to the question: do we need to know the artist behind the name to appreciate the artwork?
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Riotsville, U.S.A.
Director: Sierra Pettengill
Starring: Charlene Modeste
Focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called "Riotsvilles," where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder, director Sierra Pettengill reconstructs the formation of a national consciousness obsessed with maintaining law and order by any means necessary. Drawing insight from a time similar to our own, the film pulls focus on American institutional control; how it's constructed and how it manages to rumble on.
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Beba
Director: Rebeca Huntt
Starring: Rebeca Huntt
An Afro-Latina artist forges her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest in this powerful documentary.
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