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SUB-GENRES · Television · Radio
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Sex and Broadcasting
SEX AND BROADCASTING is a human and humorous look at New Jersey's WFMU, a radio station that refuses any programming boundaries. Most of its disc jockeys are unpaid volunteers, working for their love of surprising, spontaneous radio. They play everything from flat-out...Watch Movie
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Korla
KORLA is the amazing story of John Roland Redd, an African-American from Columbia, Missouri who migrated to Hollywood in 1939 and reinvented himself as a musician from India. He played the piano and organ, wore a jeweled turban, had a hypnotic gaze and never spoke a word while performing on his...Watch Movie
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Kate Plays Christine
A gripping nonfiction thriller, Robert Greene's KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed a shocking act on live television in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck's...Watch Movie
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Life on the V
In the early 1980s, Massachusetts radio personality John Garabedian came up with a plan to launch a TV channel to function as music television for the Boston-based college crowd. His goal was to take the Music Video television concept and make it live (real time) and local (catering to Boston's...Watch Movie
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In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko
Were it an episode in a lurid spy thriller, it would be dismissed as too fantastical: a dissident intelligence officer, a thorn in the side of a ruthless and unforgiving regime, dispatched in the most inventively terrifying of ways, by nuclear poisoning. Not only that, hotels,...Watch Movie
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Radicalized
A revolutionary film about the new season of political resistance in Los Angeles. RADICALIZED is the definitive voice of a generation documentary film, crafted from thousands of hours of footage shot over a three year period. Ideology meets reality and collides with the powers that be, as...Watch Movie
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The Cropping of the Spectacle
In this live cinema essay, Ross Lipman investigates the birth of the Television Spectacle. Based loosely on the classic anarchist documentary POINT OF ORDER! (a film which at once deconstructed the hearings and re-invented documentary form), the performance integrates archival...Watch Movie
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Wisconsin Rising
WISCONSIN RISING documents the largest sustained workers' resistance movement in American history. Wisconsin was a testing ground for the nation in 2011 as big money attempted to undo basic workers' rights when newly-elected Republican Governor Scott Walker suddenly stripped...Watch Movie
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This Will Only Hurt For a Minute
Charles E. Cullen has persevered as a television personality through sheer will. While his brand of entertainment may not be considered mainstream, Charles' odd sense of dark humor endeared him to a loyal and growing following. Whether it is his nightly television shows, films...Watch Movie
