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Heroin(e)
The Trader (Sovdagari)
American Factory
The Pez Outlaw
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
What Happened, Miss Simone?
The Social Dilemma
Hip-Hop Evolution
Chasing Coral
Ghosts of Sugar Land
A Lion in the House
Immigration Nation
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
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Descendant
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
Father Soldier Son
Strong Island
The Surgeon's Cut
The Edge of Democracy
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
To Kill a Tiger
Shirkers
Knock Down The House
Disclosure
A Man Returned
Five Came Back
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
Virunga
The Thin Blue Line
Chef's Table
The Last Days
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
El Pepe, a Supreme Life
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
E-Team
Dick Johnson Is Dead

Biographical Movies

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
Hot Girls Wanted
A Secret Love
Team Foxcatcher
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
A Love Song for Latasha
Ghosts of Sugar Land
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
Procession
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Knock Down The House
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
Shirkers
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
"Sr."
Circus of Books
Kingdom of Us
Pelé
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
El Pepe, a Supreme Life
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Dick Johnson Is Dead
It's Only Life After All
Elena

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