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Waiting for the Barbarians
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
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The Who: Who's Next | Life House
The Who's landmark album, Who's Next, in a new remix by Steven Wilson, featuring bonus tracks from the 10 disc super deluxe box set. Includes stereo, 5.1, and Atmos mixes.
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Life & Debt: Stories from the Edge
Britain is experiencing the largest fall in living standards since records began almost 70 years ago, with the rising cost of everyday essentials - such as food and household bills - thought to have pushed many into poverty. ITV News' Daniel Hewitt has followed the impact of this crisis for more than a year and examines how it's changed lives across the country. Filmed over the course of the winter, he follows working people battling every day just to stay afloat, shocked by how their circumstances have changed and often unable to see light at the end of the tunnel.
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Scooter LaForge: A Life of Art
In Scooter LaForge: a life of art, the iconic queer artist reflects on his career, his struggles and triumphs, and the impact that current events have had on his life and the lives of so many artists in NYC. Originally from New Mexico, LaForge exhibits a signature style that is instantly recognizable, yet perpetually reinvented. His bespoke painted clothing, which claimed the attention and subsequent partnership of famed designer Patricia Field, has become a specialized luxury, sought after by celebrities such as Debbie Harry, Beyoncé, and Nicki Minaj. Layered with childhood fantasy and adult themes, classical inspiration and modern social commentary, his pieces are woven together using paint, found objects, fabric, and anything else that strikes his fancy.
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Get a Life
The nihilistic Helga is ready to end her life. However, finding the "perfect" way to commit suicide turns out to be no easy task. Therefore, Helga persuades Ingrid to hook her up with the underground suicide pills which promise to be the loveliest way to die - the sleeping beauty kind of way. Ingrid agrees to provide her with the pills on one condition: For each pill, Helga must do Ingrid a favor. This throws Helga into a series of tasks, out of her comfort zone and into new friendships.
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The Breath of Life
After a near-fatal accident, filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery. Instead of a linear narrative, Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist despair and deadpan humour, reflection and creativity, the joys and pains of remembering and forgetting.
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Junior Doctors: Life on the Wards
First year junior doctors embark on their careers at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, one of Europe's biggest teaching hospitals. A year of emotional lows and extraordinary highs awaits.
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Cycling Changed My Life: Rachael Elliott
What happens when an athletic amateur cyclist enjoying life to the max has a life shattering stroke? This is the extraordinary story of Rachael Elliott. On the eve of her 40th birthday, while Zwifting at home, Rachael suffers a debilitating brain hemorrhage, leaving her partially sighted. In this documentary we follow Rachael’s story and get her personal take on what’s happened including interviews with closest people to her, revealing the courage and determination she has, to not just get back in the saddle, but go on to break records on the tandem and set her sights on the GB Paralympics Team 2024.
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DeRosa: Life, Love & Art in Transition
Chronicles the extraordinary life of artist Felicia DeRosa, who came out as transgender at the age of 41. With her life, career, and marriage potentially at risk, Felicia embarks on a journey towards authenticity and self-acceptance.
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Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life
At once tranquil and bracing, Tu Neill and Jim Speers’ film is a portrait of a seaside town and its vanishing way of life. Though it is now slowly emptying, Ayukawa was once a thriving coastal community, its success based on a practice rooted in tradition, custom, and ceremony: whaling. Through the voices of local elders, the film conveys how that form of hunting developed into the lifeblood of the town before cultural changes, international condemnation, and strict regulation brought it to the brink of non-existence.
