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7.3

Nick Capote Director

George W. Bush as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Michael Schiavo as Self

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross as Self

Revisits the story of Terri Schiavo, a deeply personal decade-long saga that captivated the country and forced Americans to reckon with profound issues at the intersection of faith and politics that reverberate to this day.

Framing John DeLorean

2019

6.5

♡ 17

92%

Don Argott Director

Dana Ashbrook as Ben Tisa

Morena Baccarin as Cristina Ferrare

Christopher Lloyd as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self - Host, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

A documentary interspersed with acted scenes, this portrait of John DeLorean covers the brilliant but tragically flawed automaker's rise to stardom and shocking down fall.

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

2019

6.8

♡ 4

74%

Ivy Meeropol Director

Lee Pace as Joseph Pitt

Nancy Reagan as Self

Donald Trump as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s top counsel during investigations into Communist activities in the 1950s, Cohn is also known for being Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, fixer and mentor.

John Lewis: Good Trouble

2020

7.5

♡ 9

94%

67%

Action

Dawn Porter Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Jamie Foxx as Self

Michelle Obama as Self

The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social equality. The documentary illuminates the 80-year-old Congressman’s life as it chronicles the moments on the extraordinary journey that have shaped his place in history and make him such a galvanizing figure today as protests circle the globe. Lewis’ schedule has increased ten-fold as he has become the go-to figure for TV news shows, podcasts and newspapers and magazines from the Washington Post to Vanity Fair, commenting on and leading the way forward through today’s worldwide protests and demonstrations.

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

7.8

♡ 3

Dawn Gifford Engle Director

Tom Brokaw as Self

The Dalai Lama as Self

Mikhail Gorbachev as Self

Stephanie Elam as Self

This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how he ended up challenging -- and sometimes even convincing -- the greatest powers in the world to follow Costa Rica's example. "Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired" is a Don Quixote-like saga with great historical touchstones -- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War politics and Communism, Central American War and Peace. It follows a slight, academic, and most unlikely hero over the course of more than fifty years, as he travels the world in a quest to stop the spread of the weapons of war. In the end, it is a story about the triumph of reason, of the sparrow triumphing over the eagle, and how the impossible dream can sometimes come true.

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

6.7

♡ 10

67%

Stanley Nelson Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Clint Eastwood as Self

Jesse Jackson as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self - Host, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.

The Real Right Stuff

2020

7.2

♡ 14

67%

Tom Jennings Director

Richard J. Valentine as Launch Spectator

John F. Kennedy as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Tom Wolfe as Self

The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio reports, newly transferred & previously unheard NASA mission audio recordings, and more rare & unseen material.

Black Art: In the Absence of Light

7.3

♡ 4

91%

62%

Action

Sam Pollard Director

Tom Brokaw as Self

Denise Nicholas as Self

Swizz Beatz as Self

Mary Schmidt Campbell as Self

An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."

LA 92

8.2

♡ 2

96%

Daniel Lindsay Director

Jesse Jackson as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Edward James Olmos as Self

Bill Clinton as Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely seen archival footage.

Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something

2020

7.7

♡ 1

95%

Rick Korn Director

Merv Griffin as Self

Graham Nash as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Bob Geldof as Self

The life of singer-songwriter and activist Harry Chapin, who spent his fame and fortune trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing.

How Jack Became Black

2018

7.1

♡ 3

86%

Action

Eli Steele Director

Jon Stewart as Self

Jesse Jackson as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Louis Armstrong as Self

After his son is denied enrollment by the local elementary school for not identifying his "primary race," a multiracial father journeys through America's maze of Identity Politics to better understand our relentless preoccupation with race.

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

7.3

94%

John Maggio Director

John F. Kennedy as Self

Henry Kissinger as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Robert Redford as Self

An intimate portrait of Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, tracing his remarkable ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to the one of the most pioneering and consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century.

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

1989

8.1

♡ 4

100%

Rob Epstein Director

Julie Harris as Frankie Addams

Dustin Hoffman as Narrator

Eddie Murphy as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self - News Reporter

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

Endangered

2022

6.6

♡ 5

100%

Heidi Ewing Director

Donald Trump as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Andrés Manuel López Obrador as Self - President of Mexico

Enrique Tarrio as Srlf - Chairman, Proud Boys

A sobering look at the erosion of democracy & freedom of the press in the United States and abroad.

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality

2019

8.3

♡ 1

black lives matter

criminal justice

criminal justice system

prison industrial complex

incarceration

justice

Peter W. Kunhardt Director

Jesse Jackson as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

Janet Maull-Martin as Self

An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for more than three decades has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.

Journeys with George

2002

6.8

♡ 1

75%

86%

woman director

Alexandra Pelosi Director

George W. Bush as Self

Alexandra Pelosi as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

John McCain as Self

Documentary account of George W. Bush's presidential campaign during the 2000 election.

Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey

2018

7.5

♡ 2

62%

Daniel Camenisch Director

Tom Brokaw as Self

Kathie Lee Gifford as Self

Bill Clinton as Self - Former President

Harry S. Truman as Self - Former President

An inside look at the life of Billy Graham, whose message of the Gospel of Christ helped change millions of lives over his nearly seven decades of evangelism.

We Were Once Kids

7.2

♡ 8

Eddie Martin Director

Tom Brokaw as Self

Rosario Dawson as Self

Samuel L. Jackson as Self

Keith Morrison as Self

In the early nineties, before the massive gentrification of many of New York's then slums, several young people from very disparate backgrounds left their broken homes and ventured onto the brutal streets of the city. United by their love of skateboarding, they formed a family and built a unique lifestyle that eventually inspired Kids, a groundbreaking and outrageous film directed by photographer Larry Clark and released in 1995.

Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

7.7

♡ 5

91%

David Heilbroner Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Sammy Davis Jr. as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self

Barry Manilow as Self

The story of the iconic singer's fascinating six-decade career in both music and Black and LGBTQ activism.

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