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Browse the HBO Documentaries Catalog (Alphabetical by title)
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Salim Baba This 15-minute documentary short follows Salim Muhammad, a 55-year-old man who lives in North Kolkata, India with his wife and five children. Since the age of ten, Salim has made a living screening discarded film scraps for the kids in his surrounding neighborhoods using a hand-cranked projector that he inherited from his father.
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Sand and Sorrow SAND AND SORROW details the historically tragic events in Dafur that have given rise to an Arab-dominated government's willingness to kill and displace its own indigenous African people.
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Sari's Mother From the maker of Cinemax's Oscar®-nominated 2007 documentary feature film Iraq in Fragments comes a new Cinemax Reel Life presentation, a short verité film examining the frustration and challenges facing an impoverished Iraqi woman caring for her young family, including a 10-year-old boy who contracted AIDS after a tainted blood transfusion.
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Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery Called "the saddest acre in America," Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery is a burial ground for U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a place that epitomizes the honor of service and the cost of war.
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The Sex Inspectors: A Real Sex International British Import This British import gives adult couples sound, no-nonsense advice on how to get their love life on track.
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Shelter Dogs What happens to the approximately five million abandoned and unwanted dogs who end up in shelters across the U.S. each year? Only a quarter of America's shelter dogs ever find new homes, presenting a murky moral debate for those who care for the leftovers. Through a unique window into an upstate New York shelter, this documentary takes a hard, bold look at a tough dilemma.
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Shock Video All over the world, TV audiences are tuning in to a spicy menu bursting with more sexy, over-the-top programs than ever before. This sizzling documentary series introduces titillating examples of how pervasive sex on television has become around the globe.
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Shot in the Dark Adrian Grenier questions the necessity of fatherhood and the meaning of family history as he embarks on a personal quest to become reacquainted with his estranged father.
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Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech In a unique collaboration with her father, noted First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus, Oscar nominee Liz Garbus explores the social and political trends that have shaped America's attitudes about free speech and how they can threaten the very tenets upon which the country was built.
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Showgirls: Glitz & Angst Employing an innovative blend of high-energy dance numbers, verité footage and home video shot by the cast, this film is a fast-paced, narratively driven rush of hopes, dreams and harsh realities. The film's multiple cameras chronicle the backstage tensions - weigh-ins, company politics, frank girl talk, untimely injuries and even firings, from auditions through rehearsals.
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Sister Rose's Passion Nominated for an Academy Award® this year in the Documentary Short Subject category, SISTER ROSE'S PASSION is a inspiring portrait of a remarkable woman who challenged the doctrine that blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus, and took a leading role in Vatican II, which officially changed the Catholic Church's position on its relationship with the Jewish people.
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Smile Pinki Born with cleft lips in one of the poorest regions of rural India, five-year-old Pinki and 11-year-old Ghutaru are ostracized and ridiculed for their condition. While surgery to correct the defect is routine in the U.S., it is a distant dream for them and their families—until they meet Pankaj, a social worker for the G.S. Memorial Plastic Surgery Hospital, who travels from village to village to find children with cleft lips and palates.
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Spellbound From the hardscrabble plains of Texas, to the manicured lawns of Connecticut, to inner-city Washington D.C., teenagers of diverse backgrounds do battle in the National Spelling Bee every spring, hoping to make their dreams come true. SPELLBOUND follows eight young Americans who wrestled with daunting words in the 1999 competition, capturing the behind-the-scenes drama.
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Stevie From the award-winning director of "Hoop Dreams," the acclaimed feature documentary STEVIE takes a compelling look at how a myriad of forces from poverty, neglect and abuse have affected the development of a troubled young man from the Midwest.
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Taxi to the Dark Side The appallingly inhumane tactics used by military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo Bay flaunted the Geneva Conventions while killing untold numbers of prisoners - including innocents like Dilawar, a young Afghan taxi driver whose only "crime" was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is the story of how America lost its dignity in its zeal to win the War on Terrorism: Taxi to the Dark Side.
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Taxicab Confessions Take a ride in HBO's Taxicab. Outrageous stories of love, life and loss are always a sure bet in this hit series.
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Teddy: In His Own Words TEDDY: IN HIS OWN WORDS tells the story of Camelot's last male survivor through his own words, from his childhood through his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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Terror in Moscow In October 2002, 41 Chechen terrorists took more than 700 people hostage in a Moscow theater, demanding an end to Russia's war against their homeland. This gut-wrenching documentary takes you through the endless hours of waiting, a seemingly miraculous rescue operation, and the ultimate tragedy, that could have been avoided.
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They Killed Sister Dorothy On February 12, 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun from Ohio, was shot six times at point-blank range and left to die on a muddy road in an Amazon jungle. The film is a gripping murder mystery and courtroom drama that examines one American nun's life work in the rainforest of Brazil, and follows the sensational trials and arrest of the three men who killed her.
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Thinking XXX Acclaimed portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders presents a behind-the-scenes look at the making of his new book of adult film star portraits, combining candid insights from a diverse collection of porn stars with reflections on sexuality from cultural observers, authors and artists.
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Three Sisters: Searching for a Cure This is the remarkable story of three courageous sisters - filmed at a time when Jenifer is almost completely paralyzed, but still fighting for a cure for ALS - even if it comes too late to save her life.
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Thrilla in Manila Boxing's ultimate rivalry was between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, whose epic three-bout series from 1971 to 1975 transcended the sport. THRILLA IN MANILA tells the previously unknown story of their final fight in the searing heat of the Philippines through the eyes of the "other man" in the ring - Frazier.
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To Die In Jerusalem The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is humanized through the story of two teenage girls - one Israeli, the other a Palestinian suicide bomber - whose lives intersected tragically in 2002, triggering a four-year attempt by the girls' mothers to connect.
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To Live Is Better Than To Die This documentary records a year in the life of a family in the village of Wenlou in Henan province, chronicling their bleak day-to-day existence and struggle to cope under dire circumstances.
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Too Hot Not to Handle Executive produced by environmental activist Laurie David, this one-hour special sheds important light on climate change and global warming, especially as they impact, and are impacted by, the United States.
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The Trials of Darryl Hunt This award-winning documentary investigates a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, imprisoned nearly 20 years for a crime he did not commit.
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The Trials of Ted Haggard Intrepid filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi takes a behind-the-scenes look at the recent life and hard times of Ted Haggard, the founder and pastor of the New Life Church and President of the National Association of Evangelicals, who lost his job and his reputation after a sordid sex/drug scandal.
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Trouble the Water The day before Hurricane Katrina hit, 24-year-old Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a resident of New Orleans' 9th Ward, turned her new video camera on herself, declaring, "It's going to be a day to remember." With hardly any supplies and no way of leaving her hometown, Roberts taped her harrowing ordeal as Katrina raged and the levees failed.
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Twist of Faith When he was a teenager 20 years ago, Tony Comes says a Catholic priest in his Ohio hometown sexually abused him. Humiliated and ashamed, Tony carried the secret with him into adulthood, even as he married, had two kids and became a firefighter. But when Tony recently learned that the same priest now lived down the street, he decided to take action -- even if it meant going public.
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives Presents dramatic selections from the extensive Slave Narrative Collection through on-camera readings by over a dozen actors, interspersed with archival photographs, music, film and period images.
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Unknown Soldier: Searching for a Father On June 30, 1969, Lieutenant Jack Hulme of the U.S. Marine Corps was killed in Vietnam, just days before he was to leave the country and see his newborn son for the first time. Thirty years later, John Hulme - the son Jack never met - decided to uncover the truth about the father he never knew.
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The Vagina Monologues Acclaimed writer/performer Eve Ensler is the star of this innovative special that features some of the candid, funny, painful, yearning insights of women talking about their no-longer-so-private part.
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Watermarks Eight swim-team members of the legendary Hakoah Vienna Women's Sports Club shed light on life in Nazi-occupied Vienna - and reunite in the city for the first time since leaving it prior to WWII - in this heartfelt documentary feature.
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When I Knew Documents a cross-section of men and women of all ages and lifestyles who invoke the exact moment in their lives - whether as toddlers, grade-schoolers, teens or young adults - when they knew, once and for all, that they were gay.
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts This intimate, heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal.
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Which Way Home An official selection of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and the upcoming 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, views the immigration issue through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers as they journey to the United States.
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White Cane & Wheels This verite documentary charts the physical challenges and emotional bonds shared by a middle-aged couple with disabilities from California.
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White Horse On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Maxim Surkov lived just three kilometers from Chernobyl, in an apartment complex located in Pripyat, Ukraine, and was one of 48,000 Pripyat city residents who were evacuated from their homes.
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White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Filmmaker Steven Okazaki revisits the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and shares the stories of the only people to have survived a nuclear attack.
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Wide Awake Using himself as a primary case study, director and lifelong insomniac Alan Berliner artfully explores the world of chronic sleep deprivation - an affliction experienced by more than 100 million Americans.
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The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 One of the men in the motel room with Dr. King the day of his assassination—and the only man on the balcony with him—was the Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles. Recently nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Documentary Short, THE WITNESS: FROM THE BALCONY OF ROOM 306 offers his intimate eyewitness account of the events leading up to King's assassination.
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Xiara's Song This 36-minute documentary profiles a seven-year-old girl named Xiara, whose father Harold, has been in and out of jail her whole life - and whose current sentence will keep him locked up until she's 17.
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Yellow Brick Road Chronicles the heartwarming efforts of a Long Island based organization as they mount a performance of The Wizard of Oz, revealing the positive impact of community-based efforts to bring joy and purpose to people living with disabilities.
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The Yes Men Fix the World The film follows The Yes Men - Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno - as they take on Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton and the U.S. government, posing as official spokesmen who make altruistic announcements that fly in the face of institutional interests.
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Youth Knows No Pain Follows filmmaker Mitch McCabe, the age-obsessed daughter of a plastic surgeon, as she journeys through America's $60 billion a year anti-aging world. In this "Alice in Wonderland" tale, McCabe spends two years traveling across the country visiting doctors and experts, living with a cross-section of characters from Minnesota to Texas who have gone to varying lengths to "beat the clock."
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