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The Way of Miracles
( 2021 )
Journey into human healing that follows holistic practitioner Dr. Mark Mincolla and his miracle patients.
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Tickling Giants
( 2017 )
The Arab Spring in Egypt: From a dictator to free elections, back to a dictatorship. One comedy show united the country and tested the limits of free press. This is the story of Bassem Youssef, a cardiologist turned comedian, the Jon Stewart of Egypt, and his show "The Show".
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
( 2021 )
Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
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Life of Crime 1984-2020
( 2021 )
A relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and desperate fight to survive the deadliest enemy ever to attack America.
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Secret Space UFOs: Rise of the TR3B
( 2021 )
The legendary TR3B is said to be the very first Alien Reproduction Vehicle that the military built secretly for space travel.
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The United States of Insanity
( 2021 )
The story of controversial rap duo Insane Clown Posse (ICP), their fans, and their ongoing struggle with the FBI in a landmark case that may be a bellwether of change for First Amendment rights in America.
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Escorts
( 2015 )
An insight into the lives of two self-dubbed high class call girls, Emily B and Cookie Jane.
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The Wall: Climb for Gold
( 2022 )
A uniquely emotional documentary feature film that will touch the heart of audiences around the world. Four female climbers face the sporting challenge of a lifetime as they attempt to compete in the first ever Olympic climbing competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Wall - Climb for Gold follows four elite climbers, Janja Garnbret, Shauna Coxsey, Brooke Raboutou,...Read all
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Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell
( 2015 )
Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rejection by record companies to global fame, bust-ups and a major comeback. Features friends, family and fellow musicians offering a candid, gritty and humorous profile of the overweight bullied kid who became a music icon...Read all
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This Changes Everything
( 2019 )
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
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#Dupe#
( 2021 )
This documentary explores Pompeii, that city cloaked in mystery which, over the course of history, has influenced culture and art, from Neoclassicism to Contemporary Art, through images and words by the great artists and writers who experienced, visited and imagined it: from Pliny the Younger to Picasso, from Emily Dickinson to Jean Cocteau. The film doesn't just deal with the volcano eruption, which has gone down in history, but with what the city of Pompeii itself was actually like: how its citizens lived their lives, spent their free time, experienced pleasure, passion, religion and their fate.
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Alive Inside
( 2014 )
Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, fights against a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music's ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it.
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Torn
( 2021 )
Alex Lowe's ill-fated climb and his son's arduous journey to return to the spot where his father perished.
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Charlie Bee Company
( 2021 )
A Texas beekeeper rescues killer "Africanized" honeybees from desperate and dangerous situations while raising awareness about them
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Titanic: Stories from the Deep
( 2019 )
A ground-breaking documentary series uncovering new history from 12,000 feet deep below the Atlantic Ocean. With the use of cutting-edge technology, the unique collection of artifacts salvaged from the underwater resting site of the wreck tells us brand new stories of love, deception, fate and heroics. Each episode follows the individual journeys of these artifacts from their recovery, to their connection to specific passengers on the ship and their connection to someone living today.
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NOVA
( 1974 )
NOVA brings you stories from the frontlines of science and engineering, answering the big questions of today and tomorrow, from how our ancestors lived, to whether parallel universes exist, to how technology will transform our lives.
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Yab Yum
( 2021 )
Documentary about Yab Yum, once the most famous brothel in Amsterdam. It has been closed years ago because it was being used more and more for criminal activities.
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Cow
( 2022 )
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
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The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek
( 2021 )
The Center Seat: 55 Years Of Star Trek is a multi-episode documentary series that takes viewers on the definitive in-depth journey behind the scenes of one of the greatest landmark franchises of all time: Star Trek. Celebrating the show's 55th anniversary, each episode focuses on a different chapter in the groundbreaking program's history, starting with its inception at Lucille Ball's legendary production company Desilu. Interviews with the cast, crew and experts reveal never-before-heard backstage stories and offer fresh insights. No stone is left unturned, including lesser-known aspects of the franchise like The Animated Series and Phase II. Additionally, The Center Seat features one of Leonard Nimoy's final in-depth Trek interviews. Star Trek is the most iconic television science-fiction saga of all time and remains more popular than ever. The Center Seat details how it began, where it's been, and how it's boldly going where no television series has gone before!
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Kidnapped for Christ
( 2014 )
A young evangelical filmmaker is granted unprecedented access inside a controversial Christian behavior modification program for teens, where she discovers shocking secrets and young students that change her life.
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That Vitamin Movie
( 2016 )
A respected documentary maker, hears from a friend, that his long term depression has been helped after watching a video entitled, "Food matters" and following a nutritional protocol involving high doses of vitamins, as outlined by a featured speaker in Foodmatters, by the name of Andrew W Saul. Beatie visits Saul and is given an outline of Orthomolecular Medicine, the protocol envisaged by Nobel prize winners and eminent scientists.
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
( 2021 )
SUMMER OF SOUL is part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten--until now. SUMMER OF SOUL shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, and more.
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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
( 2021 )
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.
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The Diabetes Solution
( 2021 )
A group of families and doctors reveal a corporate cover-up in exposing the truth about Diabetes management, in this seminal documentary about the disease.
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Infamy
( 2005 )
A feature-length documentary about graffiti culture as told through the experiences of six well-known graffiti writers and a graffiti buffer.
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Rescue Me: A Home 4 Spot
( 2019 )
Rescue Me explores the highs, lows and daily realities of running an urban animal rescue. It tells the story of Diana England, a retired nail-stylist, who started her own dog rescue in Las Vegas, a Home 4 Spot.
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Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream
( 2019 )
The journey of two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream: creating the world's first fully painted feature film.
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The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
( 2018 )
When Garry Shandling passed away in 2016, he was widely remembered as a top stand-up comic and the star of two of the most innovative sitcoms in TV history. But to those who knew him, the "real" Garry Shandling was a far more complex person. Now, Judd Apatow has created a remarkable portrait of this iconic comedian in the four-and-a-half-hour documentary The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling.Epic in scope and intimate in detail, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling features conversations with more than 40 of Shandling's family and friends, including James L. Brooks, Jim Carrey, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Coulier, Jon Favreau, Jay Leno, Kevin Nealon, Conan O'Brien, Bob Saget, Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman, and four decades' worth of TV appearances, along with personal journals, private letters and candid home audio and video footage that reveal his brilliant mind and restless soul.
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Zeitgeist
( 2007 )
Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues.
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The Ascent of Civilisation
( 2015 )
What were the Vikings really like? What did the Romans accomplish? And do the singular achievements of the ancient Greeks live on in us today? The Ascent of Civilisation questions the myths and unravels age-old clichés about these ancient cultures. It examines their strange and sometimes amusing idiosyncrasies, gives fresh insights into who they really were, and provides a novel take on their societies, peppered with surprising new revelations. This is a new look at the Ancients that will change our perception of them.
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Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)
( 2023 )
A different perspective on the climate change debate supported by the scientists who signed the Clinton World Climate Declaration.
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Spermworld
( 2024 )
Three men enter the new wild west of baby making - online forums where sperm donors connect with hopeful parents - but find themselves exchanging more than just genetic material.
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At the Drive-in
( 2017 )
Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free.
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Mammals
( 2024 )
Full of new, never-before-seen behaviors, this series offers fascinating insights into the most successful animal group in the world. From the tiny Etruscan shrew to the giant blue whale, Mammals will reveal the secrets of their success, and how their winning design, incredible adaptability, unrivaled intelligence, and unique sociability have all contributed to their remarkable rise.
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Europa: The Last Battle
( 2017 )
World War II revisionist film that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews--as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel.
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Revealed: How to Poison a Planet
( 2024 )
Investigates toxic chemicals that have sparked an international health and environmental catastrophe, and examines a decades-long battle between some of the world's largest chemical companies and the contaminated communities fighting for
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You Can Call Me Bill
( 2023 )
An intimate portrait of William Shatner's personal journey over nine decades on this Earth, You Can Call Me Bill strips away all the masks he has worn to embody countless characters, and reveals the man behind it all.
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Bill Hicks: Reflections (Short 2015)
( 2015 )
Stand up comedy legend 'Bill Hicks' is recalled by his brother, Steve, in this documentary. Steve tells the story of the family's religious family roots, in a film that examines Hicks' provocative public life, as well as the private side you never knew.
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Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police
( 2013 )
Based on the acclaimed memoir One Train Later by rock guitarist Andy Summers, Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police follows Summers' journey from his early days in the psychedelic '60s music scene, when he played with The Animals, to chance encounters with drummer Stewart Copeland and bassist Sting, which led to the formation of a punk trio, The Police. During ...Read all
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Pignorant
( 2024 )
An ex gang member's love for pigs spurs him on a life-risking mission to uncover the truth behind 'bacon'.
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The Apprentice
( 2024 )
The story of how a young Donald Trump started his real-estate business in 1970s and '80s New York with the helping hand of infamous lawyer Roy M. Cohn.
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Enter the Clones of Bruce
( 2024 )
Enter the Clones of Bruce dives into the Bruce Lee exploitation craze, otherwise known as Bruceploitation.
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Theaters of War
( 2022 )
If you've seen Top Gun or Transformers, you might suspect all that military machinery comes with strings attached. This influence is not limited to a handful of movies, though. A vast new trove of internal documents reveals that the Pentagon and CIA have doctored thousands of film and television scripts. Parting the curtains on this world, media professor Roger Stahl ...Read all
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Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself
( 2021 )
Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
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Cannabis: A Lost History
( 2018 )
This documentary explores the longstanding relationship between human beings and cannabis, from its use in ancient Asia to its ban in 20th century America.
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Have a Nice Trip: Psychedelics and Medicine
( 2021 )
Scientists and practitioners explore the benefits and dangers of using Psychedelic medicine. Psychedelics are a class of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary states of consciousness (known as psychedelic experiences or "trips") via serotonin 2A receptor agonism. The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research is lead...Read all
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Tower to the People: Tesla's Dream at Wardenclyffe Continues
( 2015 )
Nikola Tesla dreamed of sending free wireless energy from a mysterious tower and lab called Wardenclyffe. Deteriorating for decades, the remains of his great work were almost lost forever. Until a grateful world united to save them.
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The History of Magic
( 2023 )
Magic is the belief, rituals or actions that manipulate the natural or supernatural. This documentary examines the history and practices behind the ancient concept of magic.
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Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime
( 2001 )
If you are a Star Trek fan then I think you will find this documentary interesting. This is mainly 75 Shatner + Nimoy discussing various aspects of the original series and their private lives how they related to the show.
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Fungi: The Web of Life
( 2023 )
A British biologist seeks a rare blue mushroom in Tasmania's ancient Tarkine rainforest, revealing fungi's extraordinary abilities. Fungi may provide solutions to humanity's problems, with millions more species yet to be discovered.
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The Game Changers
( 2019 )
A UFC fighter's world is turned upside down when he discovers an elite group of world-renowned athletes and scientists who prove that everything he had been taught about protein was a lie.
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Tesla's Medicine - The Universal Fluid
( 2024 )
After being miraculously healed from a chronic life threatening illness, an investigative journalist travels the world to discover the lost secrets of Nikola Tesla's energy medicine inventions.
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The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens
( 2024 )
The Montreal Canadiens continue to evolve with the sole objective as re-establishing the team as a NHL powerhouse. Up close with players, coaches, exequtives and die hard Habs fans, The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens reveals a behind the scenes story of an iconic sports organization undergoing profound change.
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How to Start a Revolution
( 2012 )
HOW TO START A REVOLUTION is the remarkable untold story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp, the world's leading expert on non-violent revolution. This new film (from first time director Ruaridh Arrow) reveals how Gene's work has given a new generation of revolutionary leaders the weapons needed to overthrow dictators. It shows how his 198 steps to non-violent re...Read all
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Manufacturing the Threat
( 2023 )
Shining a light into the murky world of police infiltration, incitement, and agent provocateurs, Manufacturing The Threat shows how Canada's policing and national security agencies, granted additional powers after 9/11, routinely break laws with little to no accountability or oversight. For the first time ever, a feature-length documentary is examining the issue of ag...Read all
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
( 2019 )
Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.
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Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy
( 2024 )
Pulls back the curtain on the world's top brands, exposing the hidden tactics and covert strategies used to keep all of us locked in an endless cycle of buying, no matter the cost.
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This Hits Home
( 2023 )
This Hits Home is a feature length documentary that reveals the invisible and silent epidemic of permanent traumatic brain injury in women devastated by domestic violence. The intimate and compelling stories of courageous women, insights from lawmakers and domestic violence authorities, and the shocking revelations from world renowned experts at the Mayo Clinic, Harva...Read all
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The Program
( 2024 )
Explores the unprecedented bipartisan congressional effort to uncover what intelligence agencies really know about UFOs, now referred to as UAP.
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Heartworn Highways
( 1976 )
The best music and the best whiskey come from the same part of the country.
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USS Liberty: Dead in the Water
( 2002 )
During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Israel claimed that the whole affair had been a tragic accident based on mistaken identification of the ship. The American government accepted the explanation. For more than 30 years many people have disbelieved the official explanation but have been unable to rebut it convincingly. Now, Dead in the Water uses startling new evidence to reveal the truth behind the seemingly inexplicable attack. The film combines dramatic reconstruction of the events, with new access to former officers in the US and Israeli armed forces and intelligence services who have decided to give their own version of events. Interviews include President Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara, former head of the Israeli navy Admiral Shlomo Errell and members of the USS Liberty crew.
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Trilogy: New Wave
( 2024 )
Three elite surfers travel to eight remote destinations searching for pristine waves and an escape from the pressures of competition.
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For the Birds
( 2018 )
A woman's love for her pet ducks, chickens, geese, and turkeys - all 200 of them - ignites a battle with local animal rescuers and puts her marriage in jeopardy.
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Seeking Mavis Beacon
( 2024 )
Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.
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2073
( 2024 )
It will tackle challenges the world faces and is inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée, about a time traveler who risks his life to change the course of history and save the future of humanity.
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Listening to Kenny G
( 2021 )
An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
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Dogs & Us - The Secret of a Friendship
( 2020 )
This heart-warming documentary shows true stories about the unconditional loyalty between humans and dogs and investigates our best friends' remarkable intelligence, their outstanding sensory abilities and emotional bond to us humans.
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Cheech and Chong's Last Movie
( 2025 )
Exploring their 5-decade career performing stand-up, making records, and starring in hit films. It covers their lives, comedy partnership, and lasting influence on pop culture.
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We Beat the Dream Team
( 2025 )
The true behind-the-scenes story of the only game the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team lost, as told by the young college players who beat them.
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Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness
( 2021 )
What is consciousness? Is it in all living beings? What happens when we die? Why do we seem to be hardwired for mystical experience? In these times of existential crisis, there has been an explosion of research into consciousness. After four centuries of silence, scientists are confronting the "Big Questions", cutting a window into a realm previously held tight by phi...Read all
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Amazing Ocean 3D
( 2013 )
Amazing Oceans 3D is a fantastic journey through the magic of the deep blue sea. Let yourself be amazed by little schools of fish that swim right into your living room and experience dolphins and whale sharks that visit you on your sofa. Shot in stereoscopic 3D, Amazing Oceans 3D is a breathtakingly beautiful 3D experience for the whole family. Fun for the young and the young at heart!
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