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- 100 men
- 12 Years a Slave
- 127 Hours
- 6 below : miracle on the mountain
- 8 1/2
- A Beautiful Mind
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A Life : the story of Lady Bird Johnson
- A ballerina's tale
- A beautiful day in the neighborhood
- A boatload of wild Irishmen
- A brief history of time
- A dangerous method
- A good day to die
- A hidden life
- A man for all seasons
- A man named Pearl
- A murder in the park
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A poem is a naked person
- A private war
- A river runs through it
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, revolutionary war double agent
- A taboo identity : the [r]evolution of Kay Taylor Parker
- A united kingdom
- Aaliyah : the princess of R & B
- Above and below
- Above ground level : dubfire
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Adele and everything after
- Afternoon of a faun : Tanaquil Le Clercq
- Ai Weiwei : never sorry
- Alexander
- Alexander Hamilton
- Ali
- Ali
- Ali : a living legend
- Ali in action : the man, the moves, the mouth
- All eyez on me
- All good things
- All is true
- All that jazz
- All the money in the world
- All the way
- Amazing grace
- Amelia
- America's journey through slavery, The life of an enslaved person in America
- American : the Bill Hicks story
- American Jihadist
- American Sniper
- American crime story, The people v. O.J. Simpson
- American gangster
- American made
- American promise
- Amy
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- An audience with Charles Dickens
- Andy Paris : bubblegum king
- Anita : speaking truth to power
- Anna Strong : a spy during the American Revolution
- Anne Frank's holocaust
- Anne of the thousand days : Mary, Queen of Scots
- Anthropoid
- Antwone Fisher
- Apollo 13
- Architects of civil rights
- At eternity's gate
- Augie
- Awakenings
- Ballerina
- Barack Obama : the story of our 44th president
- Barrymore
- Bearden plays Bearden
- Beats, rhymes & life : the travels of A Tribe Called Quest
- Becoming Warren Buffett
- Becoming more visible
- Before night falls
- Being Elmo : a puppeteer's journey
- Being Evel
- Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson : taking the stage as the first black-and-white jazz band in history
- Betty & Coretta
- Beuys
- Beyond the sea
- Bhaag Milkha bhaag
- Big Eyes
- Big in Bollywood
- Bigger : the Joe Weider story
- Bird
- Birth of the dragon
- BlacKkKlansman
- Black like me
- Black mass
- Black mass
- Black wings
- Blaze
- Bleed for this
- Blue caprice
- Bob Dylan : in his own words : interviews & contributions
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bombshell
- Bombshell
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Borg vs. McEnroe
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Born to be blue
- Bowie : the man who changed the world
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boycott
- Boys don't cry
- Brakhage
- Breathe
- Brian Banks
- Bridge of spies
- Bright Lights
- Bronx Obama
- Bruce Springsteen : between the lull and the storm
- Buscando a Gastón : Finding Gaston
- By the people : the election of Barack Obama
- Cameraman : the life and work of Jack Cardiff
- Camila
- Camille Claudel
- Can you ever forgive me?
- Cantinflas
- Capote
- Carrington
- Catch a fire
- Champs
- Chantal Ackerman, de cá
- Charged : the Eduardo Garcia story
- Chariots of Fire
- Chariots of fire
- Charles Drew : revolutionized medical science
- Charlie Wilson's war
- Charlie says
- Charlotte Forten's mission
- Chasing Trane : the John Coltrane documentary
- Che
- Che : el Argentino
- Che, el guerrillero
- Chester Himes : a rage in Harlem, African American novelist
- Christine
- Chuck
- Churchill
- Cleveland abduction
- Coal miner's daughter
- Colette
- Colored frames
- Colosio, el asesinato
- Con man
- Concrete love : the architecture of the Böhm family
- Conor McGregor : notorious
- Constelaciones
- Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
- Crazysexycool : the TLC story
- Crossroads : a story of forgiveness
- Crumb
- Cry freedom
- Cutie and the boxer
- Dali's greatest secret
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Dance crazy in Hollywood : with Hermes Pan
- Dancer
- Dancing child
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln
- Daredevil : the daring life of Betty Skelton
- Dark waters
- Darkest hour
- David Bowie : in his own words
- David Bowie : the calm before the storm : under review 1969-1971
- Dealt
- Denial
- Dietro gli occhiali bianchi
- Directed by John Ford
- Documented : a film by an undocumented American
- Dolly Parton's Coat of many colors
- Don't blink, Robert Frank
- Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
- Down there
- Dr. Ben Carson : from poverty to purpose
- Dr. Daniel Hale Williams : first Black heart surgeon in America
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. : a historical perspective
- Dream boat
- Dreamers
- Dreams from my real father : a story of reds and deception
- Duke Ellington : early tracks from the master of swing : 21 fabulous performances
- E.O. Wilson : of ants and men
- Eddie the Eagle
- Eight days a week : the touring years
- Eisenstein in Guanajuato
- El angel
- El cantante
- El discurso del rey : (The king's speech)
- El escandalo : (Bombshell)
- Elizabeth : the Golden Age
- Ella Brennan : commanding the table
- Embrace of the serpent
- Emma Amos : action lines
- Emperors of Rome
- Erin Brockovich
- Escapes
- European history and European lives : 1715 to 1914
- Eva Hesse
- Eva Perón
- Evelyn
- Everest
- Every child is born a poet : the life and work of Piri Thomas
- Exile nation : the plastic people
- Experimenter : the Stanley Milgram story
- Facing Ali
- Fair game
- Famous activists : Paul Robeson, Richard Wright
- Fannie Lou Hamer : voting rights activist
- Farinelli, il castrato
- Fats Waller : this joint is jumpin'
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
- Fernando Bujones : a portrait of a dance legend
- Fidel Castro : an unauthorised biography
- Fighting with my family
- Film stars don't die in Liverpool
- Final portrait
- Finding Fela
- Finding Vivian Maier
- First man
- First person singular : I.M. Pei
- Five minutes of heaven
- Flash of genius
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Fold crumple crush : the art of El Anatsui
- Foo Fighters : back and forth
- For Sama
- For us, the living : the Medgar Evers story
- Foxcatcher
- Frame by frame
- Framing John Delorean
- Frances
- Francesco
- Frank Serpico
- Free Angela and all political prisoners
- Free solo
- Free state of Jones
- Freedom flyers of Tuskegee
- Freeheld
- Frida
- Frontline, Long walk of Nelson Mandela
- Frost/Nixon
- Fruitvale Station
- Full of grace
- Funny bones : Posada and his day of the dead calaveras
- Funny girl
- Gainsbourg : vie héroïque
- Game face
- Genius
- Genius within : the inner life of Glenn Gould
- Get On Up
- Get rich or die tryin'
- Gleason
- Glen Campbell : I'll be me
- Glory road
- Go man go!
- Good night, and good luck
- GoodFellas
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Gordon Parks "visions" : the images, words and music of Gordon Parks
- Gorillas in the mist : the story of Dian Fossey
- Gospel according to Al Green
- Gotti
- Grace Jones : bloodlight and bami
- Grace of Monaco
- Gray matters
- Great balls of fire!
- Great masters : their lives & music, Robert & Clara Schumann
- Great masters, Beethoven, his life and music
- Great masters, Haydn, his life and music
- Great masters, Mahler, his life and music
- Great masters, Mozart, his life and music
- Green book
- Gus : an American icon
- Guyana tragedy : the story of Jim Jones
- Hacksaw Ridge : a true story
- Hands of stone
- Hannah Arendt
- Harlem Street singer
- Harmonies from Heaven
- Harold and Lillian : a Hollywood love story
- Harper Lee, from Mockingbird to Watchman
- Harriet
- Harriet Tubman : they called her Moses
- Harry & snowman
- Have a little faith
- Hawking
- Helen Keller in her story
- Hell on the border
- Hey, Boo : Harper Lee & To kill a mockingbird
- Hidden figures
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : some girls are born to lead
- Historical icons, Coretta Scott King
- Historical icons, Famous African Americans
- Historical icons, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Hitler on trial : the true story
- Hollywoodland
- Hotel Mumbai
- Hughes' dream Harlem
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- Hysteria
- I am Big Bird : the Caroll Spinney story
- I am Bolt
- I am Michael
- I am Paul Walker
- I am another you
- I can only imagine
- I have never forgotten you : the life and legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
- I know a woman like that
- I saw the light
- I still believe
- I want to live!
- I will : a tribute to African American woman
- I'm not ashamed
- I'm not there
- I, Tonya
- Ida B. Wells : a passion for justice
- Ida B. Wells : crusader for human rights
- If a tree falls : a story of the Earth Liberation Front
- Il divo : la spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti
- Imagine, John Lennon
- In like Flynn
- In my father's house
- In search of greatness
- In the heart of the sea
- In the name of the father
- International Jazz Hall of Fame : 1997 awards ceremonies
- Into the Wild
- Invictus
- Invincible
- Ip Man 3
- Iris
- Iris
- Irving Stone's The agony and the ecstasy
- It is no dream : the life of Theodor Herzl
- It's about you
- It's always about the story : conversations with Alan Ladd Junior
- It's not yet dark
- J. Edgar
- J.T. LeRoy
- JFK : the private President
- Jackie
- Jackie Robinson : my story
- Jamel Shabazz : street photographer
- James Dean : the first American teenager
- Jane
- Janosik : based on the classic legend
- Jeanne la pucelle
- Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc
- Jefferson in Paris
- Jeremiah Tower : the last magnificent
- Jersey boys
- Jimi Hendrix Experience : Electric Church : Atlanta Pop Festival, July 4, 1970
- JoJo Dancer, your life is calling
- Joan Miró : the ladder of escape
- Joan Rivers : a piece of work : a year in the life of a semi legend
- Jobs
- Joe Frazier : when the smoke clears
- John Muir in the new world
- John Rabe
- Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat
- Judy
- Julia
- Julian Schnabel : a private portrait
- Julie & Julia
- Just mercy
- Kevin Roche : the quiet architect
- Kill the Irishman
- King in the wilderness
- Kongzi : Confucius
- Krow's transformation
- L'amour fou
- L'ennemi public no 1
- LBJ
- La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
- La glace et le ciel : Antarctica: ice and sky
- La reina
- La vie en rose
- Lady sings the blues
- Larry Kramer : in love & anger
- Last rampage
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Le métis de Dieu : the Jewish cardinal
- Lebron James : king of kings
- Lee Daniels' The butler
- Legend
- Leitis in waiting ; : & Lady Eva
- Lenny ; : Bojangles
- Letters from Baghdad
- Libertador : The liberator
- Life after life
- Life is strange
- Life itself
- Limelight
- Lincoln
- Linda Ronstadt : the sound of my voice
- Lizzie
- Llévate mis amores : All of me
- Long distance revolutionary : a journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Louie Bluie
- Love & mercy
- Loving
- Loving Pablo
- Loving Vincent
- Low down
- Lucky
- M.S. Dhoni : the untold story
- MacArthur
- Machine gun preacher
- Magician : the astonishing life and work of Orson Welles
- Maiden
- Malala : activist for girls' education
- Malcolm X
- Malcolm X
- Mama Africa : Miriam Makeba
- Man on wire
- Mandela, long walk to freedom
- Mao's last dancer
- Mar adentro : The sea inside
- Marcus Garvey : a giant of Black politics
- Maria by Callas
- Marianne & Leonard : words of love
- Marie Antoinette
- Marie Antoinette
- Marley
- Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martina & Chrissie : the greatest rivalry in the history of sports
- Mary McLeod Bethune : champion for education
- Mary Shelley
- Matangi, Maya, M.I.A.
- Maudie
- Maurizio Cattelan : be right back
- McQueen
- Me Jane & more stories about girl power
- Megan Leavey
- Men with beards
- Mi nombre es John Lennon
- Michael Collins
- Michael Jackson : searching for Neverland
- Miles ahead
- Milk
- Million Dollar Arm
- Miracle man : the story of Jesus
- Miracles from Heaven
- Misdirection : the real magic
- Miss Angela
- Miss Hill : making dance matter
- Miss Potter
- Molly's game
- Mommie dearest
- Moms Mabley
- Moneyball
- Monkey business : the adventures of Curious George's creators
- More than a game
- Mr Civil Rights : Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP
- Mr. Dynamite : the rise of James Brown
- Mr. Turner
- Mrs Lowry & son
- Muhammad Ali : fighting spirit : the unauthorized story
- Muhammad Ali : in his own words
- Muhammad Ali : through the eyes of the world
- Mully
- Muslim girls rise : inspirational champions of our time
- My Left Foot : the Story of Christy Brown
- My all American
- My dinner with Hervé
- My friend Dahmer
- My transgender life
- My week with Marilyn
- Más fuerte que el destino : Stronger
- Narnia's lost poet : the secret lives and loves of C.S. Lewis
- Neerja
- Nelson Mandela : ...and more inspiring stories
- Neruda
- Neruda : fugitivo
- Nicholas & Alexandra : the letters
- Nim a, kŭ kang ŭl kŏnnŏji mao
- No crossover : the trial of Allen Iverson
- No subtitles necessary : Laszlo + Vilmos
- Not for ourselves alone : the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
- Nothing left unsaid : Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
- O captain, my captain : Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
- Of men and war
- Official secrets
- On the basis of sex
- One Direction : this is us
- One cut, one life
- One nation under Trump
- Only the brave
- Otto Frank, father of Anne
- Our last tango
- Out of Africa
- Out of Omaha
- Padman
- Papillon
- Papirosen
- Pasolini
- Patton
- Paul Robeson : 20th century Renaissance man, entertainer and activist
- Paul Robeson : songs of freedom
- Paul, apostle of Christ
- Pawn sacrifice
- Peaceful Warrior
- Pearl S. Buck : a life, a legacy
- Pelé
- Pelé : la película
- Persepolis
- Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
- Phil Ochs : there but for fortune
- Phil Spector
- Philomena
- Pina : Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost
- Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpre
- Princes of the palace : the House of Windsor's royal princes
- Prodigal sons
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
- Public Enemy : welcome to the Terrordome : 20 years of rap, rock, and revolution
- Public enemies
- Purple rain
- Queen of Katwe
- RBG
- Race
- Raging Bull
- Ralph Ellison : invisible man, celebrated writer
- Ray
- Rebel in the rye
- Red Joan
- Red army
- Reminiscing in tempo
- Renoir
- Restless creature : Wendy Whelan
- Richard Jewell
- Richard Mayhew : spiritual landscapes
- Richard Wright : native son, author & activist
- Riding my way back
- Risen : the rise of a true British champion
- Robert E. Lee and his high command
- Robin Williams : come inside my mind
- Rocketman
- Romare Bearden : visual jazz ; Faith Ringgold : the last story quilt
- Ronald Reagan : an American journey
- Ronaldo
- Run boy run
- Rush
- Rāmenhezzu : Ramen heads