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Kings Of Pastry and Salesman
The Chair (Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: Robert Drew)
A fly on the wall look at a lawyer desperately trying to save his client's life with only a few hours to go before the time set for execution.
David (Country: US; Year: 1961; Director: Gregory Shuker, DA Pennebaker, William Ray; Stars: David Allen)
A portrait of the jazz trumpeter David Allen.
High School (Country: US; Year: 1968; Director: Frederick Wiseman)
A documentary portrait of an urban Philadelphia high school.
Hoop Dreams (Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: Steve James; Writer: Steve James, Frederick Marx; Stars: William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates, Sheila Agee, Arthur 'Bo' Agee, Earl Smith, Gene Pingatore, Isiah Thomas, Marlyn Hopewell, Bill Gleason, Patricia Weir, Marjorie Heard, Luther Bedford, Aretha Mitchell)
Documentary charts the fortunes of two boys hoping to make it as basketball stars.
Kings Of Pastry (Country: USA, UK, Netherlands; Year: 2009; Director: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker), Official Site
An American pastry chef travels to France to enter the Olympics of cooking, in pursuit of a red, white and blue collar from the Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
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Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster
Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster and Hoop Dreams
Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster (Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky; Stars: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Bob Rock, Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo)
The fall and rise of a veteran heavy metal band.
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Salesman (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
Following four door-to-door salesmen around the States in the late Sixties.
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