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McLibel (2005), Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010), Divan (2003), The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019), Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006), Blackfish (2013), The Thin Blue Line (1988) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
McLibel (2005)
McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
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Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010)
An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician.
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Divan (2003)
In this film, documentarian Pearl Gluck chronicles her Hasidic Jewish upbringing and her subsequent, more secular life as a Manhattanite. Gluck then documents her return trip to her old neighborhood, where she tries to reconcile with her devout father, who hopes that she will move back to Brooklyn. Gluck strikes an on-camera compromise with her dad, and agrees to trek to Hungary in order to find a long-lost family heirloom -- a couch that many notable rabbis have crashed on.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.
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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006)
Filmmaker James D. Scurlock examines the outrageous practices that consumer-lending and credit-card companies use to rack up huge profits while bleeding customers dry.
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Blackfish (2013)
A documentary following the controversial captivity of killer whales, and its dangers for both humans and whales.
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The Thin Blue Line (1988)
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
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Incident at Oglala (1992)
This film describes the events surrounding a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge reservation in S. Dakota where two FBI agents were killed.
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The Imposter (2012)
A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
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Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
This documentary explores the American military's use of torture by focusing on the unsolved murder of an Afhgani taxi driver who, in 2002, was taken for questioning at Bagram Force Air Base. Five days later, the man was dead. The medical examiner claimed the driver died from excessive physical abuse. Taking this case as a jumping-off point, the film examines wider claims of torture that occurred at bases like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay during the Bush administration.
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
Director Errol Morris profiles Leuchter, the reinventor of the electric chair, and questions him on his insistence that the Holocaust never happened.
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The First Angry Man (2019)
In 1987, U.S. Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.
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The Devil's Miner (2005)
Filmmakers Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani profile Basilio, a 14-year-old Bolivian who supports his family by working in a silver mine. Like his fellow workers, the boy looks to Satan for protection from the daily hazards he encounters in the bowels of the Earth.
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Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 (2000)
Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky chronicle the appeals process of three men indicted for the murders of three children in Robin Hood Hills.
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Happy Valley (2014)
In 2011, longtime Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse, rocking the small town of State College, Pa.
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Off and Running (2009)
Avery Klein-Cloud, a teenage African-American girl, lives in Brooklyn with her Caucasian Jewish lesbian mothers and two brothers who are also of other races. When Avery decides to contact her birth mother, this triggers a major identity crisis.
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Raw Deal: A Question of Consent (2001)
Filmmaker Billy Corben looks at the circumstances leading up to an alleged rape at a college fraternity house. Actual footage shot the night of the party is shown, the same footage that was used to persuade the police not to press charges in the case.
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The Seven Five (2014)
Former NYPD officer Michael Dowd tells how he and his partner committed a long list of crimes, including running their own cocaine ring, while on the job in the 1980s and early '90s.
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