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Browse the HBO Documentaries Catalog (Alphabetical by title)
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I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA Examines the extreme beliefs and motives of Ingrid Newkirk, the British-born co-founder and driving force behind People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal-rights organization.
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I Used to Be a Filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt captures the joyous, unpredictable and often hilarious process of fatherhood in the short film I USED TO BE A FILMMAKER.
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The Iceman and the Psychiatrist What makes a hit-man tick? For the first time this brutal killer speaks to a renowned psychiatrist on camera. He's behind bars for killing over 200 people and he's still ticking.
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In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01 In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01 follows Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his staff from their first realization of what had occurred, through the despair and tears, to a renewed strength that would emerge. The documentary presents a panoramic and unique historical record of that fateful day in New York City.
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Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable Once touted as a dependable source of cheap, clean energy, nuclear power plants have become flashpoints for debate in the wake of 9/11. Directed and narrated by Rory Kennedy, this documentary examines the potential for a nuclear disaster in New York City's backyard.
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Iraq in Fragments Illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, exploring the lives of ordinary Iraqis whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations and concerns are both intensely personal and reflect larger issues in the country today.
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Jacques d'Amboise in China: The Other Side of the World Over the course of his long and illustrious career, Jacques d'Amboise has championed the transcendent power of dance - first as a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, and then as founder of the National Dance Institute. In this film, d'Amboise takes his vision - and his dancers - on an unforgettable journey to China.
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Jockey From director Kate Davis, (HBO's SOUTHERN COMFORT) this film takes an intimate and often-disturbing look beyond the silks and splendor of horseracing through the extraordinary lives of three jockeys, and the sacrifices they've made to make it in the high-stakes, high-risk world of thoroughbred racing.
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Joe Louis: An American Hero Betrayed All-new HBO Sports documentary profiles one of the greatest boxers in history, his impact on America during WWII and beyond, his tragic post-career travails, and his enduring influence on sports and society.
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John and Jane Toll Free Intimate profile of six Indian call agents working in Bombay, whose lives are in many ways defined by their jobs: initiating and answering 1-800 numbers to and from America.
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Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free Each year in the United States, parole boards must decide whether over 200,000 convicted criminals are ready to return to society. Follow the cases of three convicted criminals and decide if they should be given parole.
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Juvies This feature documentary profiles twelve youth offenders being tried as adults who are chosen randomly to participate in an innovative video-production workshop at Eastlake Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles. Featuring narration by executive producer Mark Wahlberg.
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Kick Like a Girl After two undefeated seasons against girls' soccer teams their age and older, Utah's Mighty Cheetahs are about to take on a new challenge: boys.
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The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt Ingrid Betancourt shook up the political scene in Columbia with her ambitious 2002 presidential candidacy, but was silenced after she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). THE KIDNAPPING OF INGRID BETANCOURT recounts the extraordinary story of her family's desperate struggle to free her and keep her message alive.
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Kids + Money For kids growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, money can be a complicated and confusing thing. In award-winning filmmaker/photographer Lauren Greenfield's short film Kids + Money, several young people in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it, and learning to live with and without it.
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Kim Cattrall Sexual Intelligence Executive produced and presented by the Golden Globe® Award-winning co-star of HBO's "Sex and the City", Kim Cattrall Sexual Intelligence is an adult documentary that explores the mysteries and origins of sexual desire, helping to explain what turns us on and why.
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La Corona The contestants are hired killers, guerillas and thieves. The beaming winner, resplendent in an evening gown and glittering jewels, will be crowned by the previous year's queen. But she won't be invited on a press tour as a role model for young girls. Instead, she'll be escorted back to her jail cell.
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Lalee's Kin For as long as she can remember, LaLee Wallace's family has picked cotton. It's the main reason why they continue to live in poverty, but as this great-grandmother and her family know, the legacy of cotton is not an easy one to shake.
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Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops From the Battlefields of Iraq The soldiers' last words. Their families' last memories. Our nation's lasting gratitude. This film is a poignant tribute to the fallen American soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the war in Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq, read by the families of ten men and women killed in action.
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The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant Tells the inside story of the last days of a General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio, as lived by the people who worked the line.
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Latin Kings Two-time felon Antonio "King Tone" Fernandez is leader of the Latin Kings, one of the largest and most formidable urban gangs. With criminal charges threatening his future, Tone attempts to recast his gang as a peaceful, civic-minded organization - but it may be too little, too late.
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Le Cirque This lively portrait of a NYC culinary institution follows Le Cirque founder Sirio Maccioni and his three sons as they close their doors at the Palace Hotel on New Year's Eve 2004, and prepare for a grand re-opening in New York's Bloomberg building two years later.
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Left of the Dial In early 2004, a group of investors set out to launch a liberal radio network that would challenge the dominance of America's airwaves by conservative talk radio. LEFT OF THE DIAL chronicles the trials and tribulations involved in starting up - and sustaining - a nationwide radio network during a highly charged election year.
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Letters to the President Four years after the election of populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - the first Iranian leader in a generation who is not a religious cleric - this hour-long documentary paints a vivid portrait of the personalities, policies and promises that are shaping today's Iran.
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Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later An all-access look into the Arkansas school that became a symbol of the struggles and hopes of the Civil Rights Movement half a century ago.
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Looking for Fidel LOOKING FOR FIDEL includes fascinating conversations between filmmaker Oliver Stone and Castro about Cuban politics, human rights, Castro's succession, democracy and Cuba's future.
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Loot During World War II, two young American soldiers on different continents looted valuable treasures amidst the chaos of combat and hid them before returning to civilian life in America. Sixty years later, both men set out to recover the stolen goods, only to discover that digging up the secrets of the past carries its own risks
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Loving & Cheating This documentary, spiced with archival footage and expert commentary, is comprised of interwoven interviews with men and women (both couples and singles) who talk candidly about their views and experiences with monogamy.
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Methadonia The shortcomings of methadone treatment are highlighted in this verite profile of a group of NYC addicts.
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Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She Award-winning filmmaker Antony Thomas (HBO's Celibacy) explores the controversial subject of the blurring of genders, as well as the serious social and family problems faced by those whose gender may fall somewhere in between male and female.
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Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks Rosa Parks struck the match that lit the fire of the Civil Right Movement. The 50,000 foot soldiers of this second American Revolution were her neighbors. Their stories are told with sparkling humor and rich detail, against a backdrop of archival footage and "faux doc" reenactments using vintage cameras.
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Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey The challenges of the real world are hard enough, but can one man abandon his real life and start an entirely new existence in a virtual one? Douglas Gayeton, a.k.a. "Molotov Alva," attempts to do just that, and decides to document his journey in hopes of making sense of it all.
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Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater Profile of Barry Goldwater, who rose from being a local businessman in Arizona to become a hugely influential U.S. Senator whose 30-year career reached a crescendo with his ill-fated run for President in 1964.
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Murder on a Sunday Morning Brenton Butler was just a regular 15-year-old African American high-school student living in Jacksonville, Florida. But when a woman was murdered on a quiet Sunday morning, Brenton suddenly found himself accused of the killing in one of the most frightening cases of mistaken identity ever.
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My Architect The Oscar®-nominated CINEMAX Reel Life documentary MY ARCHITECT chronicles Nathaniel Kahn's epic journey to reconcile the life and work of his mysterious father, Louis I. Kahn.
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My Flesh and Blood Who says you can't choose your family? Susan Tom of Fairfield, California, has done just that, adopting 11 special-needs children and giving them love, hope and as close to a normal childhood as possible. This film follows a year in the life of this remarkable family as it confronts a litany of daily routines, celebrates life's small pleasures, and copes with major crises.
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My Unlce Berns A 2004 Tribeca Film Festival Selection. Director Lindsay Crystal's intimate portrait of her beloved great uncle whose artistic talents, acute imagination and contagious sense of humor have impacted the lives and careers of his celebrated family, as well as virtually everyone else lucky enough to have known him.
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Naked States A humorous and illuminating expose of artist Spencer Tunick's dynamic and often misunderstood photogrpahs of naked people in public.
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Naked World In this follow up to NAKED STATES, artist Spencer Tunick travels to capture art in the form of nudes from countries around the globe.
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Nanking Through first-person memories, harrowing footage, and in-character readings by eminent actors, this gripping historical documentary brings to life the many voices who tried to make sense of one of the lesser-known tragedies of World War II: Japan's brutal 1937 invasion of China's then-capital city, known as "the rape of Nanking."
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The Nine Lives of Marion Barry Although Marion Barry became internationally known for his very public downfall, the story of his life before and after that event is less widely known. THE NINE LIVES OF MARION BARRY explores Barry's improbable personal history though archival footage of him as a young activist in the '60s and rising African-American political star in the '70s, chronicling his resugence on the D.C. political scene in 2004 with his most recent campaign.
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The One Percent Director and heir Jamie Johnson (Born Rich) profiles the tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the U.S. wealth. Interviewees include Steve Forbes, Cody Franchetti and Bill Gates, Sr.
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Orphans of Nkandla This feature documentary puts a human face on the devastating AIDS crisis in Africa through the stories of three families of South African orphans whose lives have been wrecked by the pandemic, but who struggle on and still find reason to hope.
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Pandemic: Facing AIDS Narrated by Elton John, Pandemic: Facing AIDS is a documentary series of five half-hour films by Rory Kennedy that takes a unique look at the worldwide AIDS epidemic.
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Paternal Instinct Mark and Erik have been together for ten years, and they've decided it's time to have kids. But they don't want to adopt. Is there a woman out there willing to serve as a surrogate mother and help them realize their dream? PATERNAL INSTINCT chronicles two years in the life of these New Yorkers on their journey to become fathers.
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Phantom Limb The death of the filmmaker's seven-year-old brother some 40 years ago triggers this evocative collection of personal reflections on grief and loss in an exquisitely rendered, highly allegorical film.
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Pornucopia The Best of Pornucopia features select segments from previous editions, uncovering different aspects of the industry, showing how adult entertainment is produced, distributed, marketed and consumed in films, on TV, in magazines and on the Internet.
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Portraits of a Lady In October 2006, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor sat for two 3-hour sessions, agreeing to have her portrait painted by not one, but 25 separate artists.
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Pretty Things This feature-length documentary turns the spotlight on the last generation of American Burlesque Queens, as revealed by a true devotee, director/writer/producer Liz Goldwyn.
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Prom Night in Mississippi Directed by Paul Saltzman, PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI deftly weaves together student-made videos, interviews and fly-on-the-wall moments with students, school officials, parents and Freeman himself.
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Protocols of Zion Starting with an examination of a piece of 100-year-old propaganda, this documentary is acclaimed filmmaker Marc Levin's firsthand exploration of resurgent anti-Semitism in the wake of 9/11.
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The Queen and I Three decades after leaving her home country, Iranian filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani decided to make a documentary about Iran's deposed Queen Farah: wife of the late Shah of Iran, who now lives in exile abroad. The result is a fascinating encounter between two women with clashing political visionsone a former revolutionary, the other a royalist—who end up developing an improbable friendship.
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Rape in A Small Town: The Florence Holway Story On Easter Eve 1991, 75-year-old Florence Holway was brutally raped in her rural New Hampshire home by a 25-year-old intruder. Rape in A Small Town: The Florence Holway Story recounts the horrific details of Holway's ordeal, and chronicles her 12-year struggle to bring a criminal to justice - as well as change a flawed legal system.
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Real Sex From Paris to Hawaii to Brazil to Jamaica and even to cyberspace, for twelve years, HBO's Real Sex has been on an intrepid journey, hop-scotching the globe to explore all kinds of healthy, unusual sex.
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Rehab Every year, two million Americans enter drug and alcohol treatment programs - but 80% relapse. Director and producer Steven Okazaki (the Oscar%reg;-winning "Days of Waiting") visits the Camp Recovery treatment center in Santa Cruz, Cal., to tell the stories of five suburban youths and their enormous struggle to overcome drug and alcohol abuse.
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Resolved Through the stories of two dramatically different debate teams, this vertite documentary sheds light on the win-at-all-costs tactics of top high-school debaters, and shows how an unlikely duo devised a novel strategy to bring debate back to its roots.
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Right America: Feeling Wronged In the months leading up to this historic election, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (HBO's Emmy-winning "Journeys with George") took a road trip to meet some of the conservative Americans who waited in line for hours to support the GOP ticket, and saw their hopes and dreams evaporate in the wake of that Democratic victory. These voters share their feelings about the changing America in which they live.
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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired In 1977, Roman Polanski's celebrated career was derailed by a sordid Hollywood scandal involving a 13-year-old girl -- and a bizarre case presided over by a judge whose actions led the director to flee America
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Run Granny Run Profile of Doris "Granny D" Haddock, the 94-year-old Democrat who made headlines by running for U.S. Senate in her home state of New Hampshire.
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