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This documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968.
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From Emmy-winning producers Mark and Jay Duplass (HBO’s Room 104) comes The Lady and the Dale, a documentary series exploring an audacious 1970s auto scam centered around a mysterious entrepreneur.

An in depth look into the secret and often fabricated lives of social media influencers. Through elaborate photoshoots and purchasing followers the filmmakers will manufacture their own influencer to reveal that with the right ingredients anyone can become a social media icon.

The two-part documentary explores the history of Black television as seen through the eyes of trailblazers who wrote, produced, created, and starred in groundbreaking series of the past and present.
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