documentary
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From Baghdad to The Bay
Ten years in the making this new excellent documentary from filmmaker Erin Palmquist is the engaging story of Ghazwan Alsharif an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the U.S. military. After years of service helping the American invading forces, he was wrongfully accused of espionage and tortured by the military police in Iraq for some 75 days…
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Scotty Bowers is a 94-year-old white-haired rascally old man who can remember the old days when he was the procurer that used to feed Hollywood stars’ insatiable appetite for all sorts of forbidden sex as if it was yesterday. However, with most of the people he names in his rather mind-boggling stories being long dead, it is left…
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Transformer
The story of the journey that transwoman Janae Marie Kroczaleski took to become her true identity is not only wonderfully uplifting but filmmaker Michael Del Monte’s affectionate documentary captures it all perfectly without any hint of sensationalism that usually accompanies stories like Janae’s. It all really starts back in In the summer of 2015 when former US…
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRÉ
Large features a lot in Andre Leon Talley’s life. He is a former Editor-At-Large of American Vogue, and he puts a whole new meaning into the expression ‘larger than life’ on so many levels. Now he is the subject of a new documentary from Kate Novack and the team that also produced The First Monday in…
