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Documentary about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. Depicts a way of life that is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above: in the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home for as long as 25 years.
Seventy million Americans are born-again Christians. They make up 40% of George W. Bush's vote, and expect a powerful voice at the political table with input on foreign and domestic policy. In an attempt to understand these believers, Andrew Denton visits the 63rd National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Dallas, Texas. He delivers a new perspective on America's faithful, documenting their personal journeys to the light of faith and, in some cases, the darkness of fundamentalism
A documentary film of Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, in their decaying East Hampton 28 room mansion who are aunt and cousin to Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
On February 4, 1974, college student Patty Hearst (granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst), was kidnapped from her apartment by a terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The SLA, seeking to foment a violent uprising within America's working class, forced the Hearst family to donate millions of dollars in food to the poor. But two months after her kidnapping, Patty emerged in public as Tania, an armed member of the SLA who helped her captors to rob a bank. Director Robert Stone uses rare and previously unseen archive footage as well as interviews with former SLA members to explain "America's first encounter with modern media-driven political terrorism."
Seven years in the making, with appearances by Spike Lee and Isaiah Thomas, this documentary evolved from being a look at the game on the streets, to a real life drama that follows the lives of two inner-city kids with aspirations to play professional basketball in order to leave the streets.
New Zealand small town Kaikohe made world news in 1991 when some of it's children attacked Santa in the local Christmas Parade. Habicht's documentary focuses on something more positive, Northland's most rock 'n roll event, the Kaikohe Demolition Derby. Told by the people involved, Kaikohe demolition exposes the innocence and artistic beauty of a violent spectator sport
Chronicles one man's extraordinary misadventures in making a Hollywood movie. Alternately hilarious and horrifying, it starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay.
Starfish is a Māori man who survives by washing car windows at intersections on the main streets of South Auckland, New Zealand. He's a born hustler with an extreme personality-magnetic charisma, infectious humour, and a vicious temper.Squeegee bandit follows Starfish's struggles through nine months, three cars, two women, thirty residences, three weeks of homelessness, a hundred run-ins with the cops, one court date, a kilo of marijuana, a closet full of skeletons, finding God and the Zen of window washing.
Documentary following the experiences of eight high-school children in the US as they prepare for the 1999 National Spelling Bee.
There is a dedicated community of people for whom Scrabble is more than a game - it is an obsession. Travel to Scrabble tournaments across the United States.
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