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- 100 men
- 12 Years a Slave
- 12 años esclavo : (12 years a slave) : la extraordinaria historia real de Solomon Northrup
- 127 Hours
- 2 turntables and a microphone : the life and death of Jam Master Jay
- 2016 -- Obama's America
- 49 up
- 55 steps
- 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 beautiful mind
- 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 mighty heart
- 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
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- 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
- Alberto Giacometti
- Alexander
- Alexander Hamilton
- Ali
- Ali
- Ali : a living legend
- Ali in action : the man, the moves, the mouth
- Alice Neel
- All eyez on me
- All good things
- All is true
- All that jazz
- All the money in the world
- All the way
- Am I a boy or a girl, Making a public transition
- Amadeus
- Amazing grace
- Amazing journey : the story of the Who
- 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 experience : America's first lady, Dolley Madison
- American fighter
- American gangster
- American made
- American promise
- American underdog
- Ammonite
- Amy
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- An audience with Charles Dickens
- Andrei Rublev
- Andrew Carnegie : rags to riches, power to peace
- Andy Paris : bubblegum king
- Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol
- 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
- Annie Leibovitz : life through a lens
- Anthropoid
- Antwone Fisher
- Apollo 13
- Architects of civil rights
- At eternity's gate
- Audubon
- Augie
- Awakenings
- Ayn Rand : in her own words
- Backs against the wall : the Howard Thurman Story
- Ballerina
- Barack Obama : the story of our 44th president
- Barrymore
- Bastards' road
- Beats, rhymes & life : the travels of A Tribe Called Quest
- Becoming Jane
- Becoming Warren Buffett
- Becoming more visible
- Before night falls
- Behind the Candelabra
- Being Elmo : a puppeteer's journey
- Being Evel
- Beneath Hill 60
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson : taking the stage as the first black-and-white jazz band in history
- Bessie
- Betty & Coretta
- Betye and Alison Saar : conjure women of the arts
- Beuys
- Beyond the sea
- Bhaag Milkha bhaag
- Bhutto
- Big Eyes
- Big in Bollywood
- Bigger : the Joe Weider story
- Bill Cunningham : New York
- Bill Nye : science guy
- Billie
- Bird
- Birdman of Alcatraz : the story of a real and living man--
- Birth of the dragon
- BlacKkKlansman
- Black like me
- Black mass
- Black mass
- Black wings
- Blaise Pascal
- Blaze
- Bleed for this
- Blue caprice
- Bob Dylan : in his own words : interviews & contributions
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bolero ; : In search of Cezanne
- Bombshell
- Bombshell
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Booker T. Washington : the life & the legacy
- 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
- Brave girl : Clara and the shirtwaist makers' strike of 1909
- Breathe
- Brian Banks
- Bridge of spies
- Bright star
- Bronx Obama
- Bruce Springsteen : between the lull and the storm
- Buck
- Buscando a Gastón : Finding Gaston
- By the people : the election of Barack Obama
- Call the midwife, Season one
- Call the midwife, Season two
- Cameraman : the life and work of Jack Cardiff
- Camila
- Camille Claudel
- Can you ever forgive me?
- Cantinflas
- Capone
- Capote
- Carmen & Geoffrey : the extraordinary lives of dancers Carmen de Lavallade & Geoffrey Holder
- Carrington
- Cartesius
- Catch a fire
- Catching Salinger
- Catherine the Great
- Cesar Chavez
- 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
- Chuck Close
- Churchill
- Cleveland abduction
- Coal miner's daughter
- Coco avant Chanel : Coco before Chanel
- Colette
- Colored frames
- Colosio, el asesinato
- Con man
- Concrete love : the architecture of the Böhm family
- Confirmation
- Conor McGregor : notorious
- Constelaciones
- Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
- Crazysexycool : the TLC story
- Crossroads : a story of forgiveness
- Crumb
- Cruz Reynoso : sowing the seeds of justice
- 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
- Danton
- Daredevil : the daring life of Betty Skelton
- Dark waters
- Darkest hour
- David Bowie : in his own words
- David Hockney : a bigger picture
- Dealt
- Denial
- Deux de la vague
- Diana : Princess of Wales : an unauthorized tribute
- Dietro gli occhiali bianchi
- Documented : a film by an undocumented American
- Dolly Parton's Coat of many colors
- Dolores
- 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. Daniel Hale Williams, Charles Drew : famous men of medical science
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. : a historical perspective
- Dream boat
- Dreamers
- Dreams from my real father : a story of reds and deception
- Dropping in on Picasso
- Duke Ellington : early tracks from the master of swing : 21 fabulous performances
- E.O. Wilson : of ants and men
- Ed Wood
- Eddie the Eagle
- Edie & Thea : a very long engagement
- Eight days a week : the touring years
- Eisenstein in Guanajuato
- El angel
- El cantante
- El castillo de cristal
- El discurso del rey : (The king's speech)
- El escandalo : (Bombshell)
- Elie Wiesel goes home
- Elizabeth : the Golden Age
- Ella Brennan : commanding the table
- Embrace of the serpent
- Emma Amos : action lines
- Emperors of Rome
- Enlighten up!
- 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
- Extraordinary measures
- 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 : un filme
- Fidel Castro : an unauthorised biography
- Fighting with my family
- Film stars don't die in Liverpool
- Final portrait
- Finding Fela
- Finding Vivian Maier
- First ladies revealed
- First man
- First person singular : I.M. Pei
- First position
- 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
- Gabo : the creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Gainsbourg : vie héroïque
- Game face
- Gauguin : maker of myth
- Genius
- Genius within : the inner life of Glenn Gould
- George Washington Carver : his life and his work
- Get On Up
- Get rich or die tryin'
- Gleason
- Glory road
- Glory road
- Go man go!
- Gonzo : the life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- 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
- Goya, or, the hard way to enlightenment
- Grace Jones : bloodlight and bami
- Grace of Monaco
- Gray matters
- Great balls of fire!
- Great circle
- 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
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens
- Grizzly Man
- Gus : an American icon
- Guyana tragedy : the story of Jim Jones
- Hacksaw Ridge : a true story
- Handel's last chance
- 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
- Having our say : the Delany sisters' first one hundred years
- Hawking
- Helen Keller in her story
- Hell on the border
- Henson's place : the man behind the muppets
- 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
- Hive
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1930s, Dancing away the Great Depression
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1940s, Stars, stripes and singing
- Hollywoodland
- Hotel Mumbai
- House of Gucci
- Howard Zinn : you can't be neutral on a moving train
- Howl
- Hughes' dream Harlem
- Hunger
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- Hysteria
- I am Big Bird : the Caroll Spinney story
- I am Bolt
- I am Heath Ledger
- I am Michael
- I am Paul Walker
- I am another you
- I am not your Negro
- I can only imagine
- I danced for the angel of death : the Dr. Edith Eva Eger story
- 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'm still here
- I, Tonya
- Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein : My name was Sabina Spielrein
- Ida B. Wells : a passion for justice
- Ida B. Wells : crusader for human rights
- Ida B. Wells Fannie Lou Hamner : Famous human rights crusaders
- If a tree falls : a story of the Earth Liberation Front
- Imagine, John Lennon
- In a dream
- In like Flynn
- In my father's house
- In search of Walt Whitman
- In search of greatness
- In the heart of the sea
- In the name of the father
- In the realms of the unreal
- 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'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
- Jacob Lawrence : the glory of expression
- 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
- Jim Brown : All-American
- Jimi Hendrix Experience : Electric Church : Atlanta Pop Festival, July 4, 1970
- Jiro dreams of sushi
- 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 Bell
- Joe Frazier : when the smoke clears
- John Lewis: good trouble
- John Muir in the new world
- John Rabe