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The Salt Of The Earth The Salt Of The Earth
The Salt Of The Earth and Citizenfour
The Case Against 8 (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Ben Cotner, Ryan White; Stars: Ted Olson, Christopher D. Dusseault, Jeffrey J. Zarrillo, Paul T. Katami, Kristin M. Perry, Sandra B. Stier)
Documentary about the legal case against Proposition 8, which sought to prevent same sex couples from marrying in California.
Citizenfour (Year: 2014; Director: Laura Poitras)
Documentary about Edward Snowden.
E-TEAM (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman)
E-TEAM is driven by the high-stakes investigative work of four intrepid human rights workers, offering a rare look at their lives at home and their dramatic work in the field.
Finding Vivian Maier (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel)
Documentary about the street photographer who only became famous after her death.
The Great Invisible (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Margaret Brown; Stars: Meccah Boynton-Brown, Doug Brown, Bob Cavnar, Brent Coon, Roosevelt Harris, Keith Jones, Sara Lattis Stone, Latham Smith, Stephen Stone)
Documentary about the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster.
Finding Vivian Maier Finding Vivian Maier
Finding Vivian Maier and The Case Against 8
Happy Valley (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Amir Bar-Lev)
The children of "Happy Valley" were victimised for years, by a key member of the legendary Penn State college football programme. But were Jerry Sandusky’s crimes an open secret? With rare access, director Amir Bar-Lev delves beneath the headlines to tell a modern American parable of guilt, redemption, and identity.
Keep On Keepin On (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Alan Hicks; Writer: Davis Coombe, Alan Hicks; Stars: Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Dianne Reeves, Clark Terry, Terri Lyne Carrington, Mulgrew Miller, Arturo Sandoval, Gwen Terry, Frank Kauflin, Justin Kauflin, Candy, Quincy Cavers, Phylis Kauflin)
Eighty-nine year old trumpeting legend Clark Terry has mentored jazz wonders like Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but Terry’s most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year-old blind piano player with uncanny talent, but debilitating nerves. As Justin prepares for the most pivotal moment in his budding career, Terry’s ailing health threatens to end his own.
Last Days In Vietnam (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Rory Kennedy; Writer: Mark Bailey, Keven McAlester, Keven McAlester)
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only US citizens.
Life Itself (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Steve James; Stars: Roger Ebert)
The story of the surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert. The film details his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
Merchants Of Doubt (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Robert Kenner)
Documentary puts spin doctors in the spotlight.
The Great Invisible The Great Invisible
The Great Invisible and Happy Valley
The Overnighters (Country: US; Year: 2014; Writer: Jesse Moss)
Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.
Red Army (Country: US, Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Gabe Polsky; Writer: Gabe Polsky; Stars: Mark Deakins, Anatoli Karpov, Vyacheslav Fetisov)
The story of Russia's Red Army hockey team.
Rich Hill (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos; Writer: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos)
In a rural, American town, kids face heartbreaking choices, find comfort in the most fragile of family bonds, and dream of a future of possibility.
The Salt Of The Earth (Country: France, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2014; Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders)
Documentary about photographer Sebastião Salgado.
Tales Of The Grim Sleeper (Country: US, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Nick Broomfield)
The case of the notorious serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," who terrorised South Central Los Angeles for 25 years.
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