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 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | 2018 | 13+ | 8.4 | 98% | | Want To See  Seen  | ||
 | Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | 2015 | N/A | 8.0 | 95% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | 1996 | N/A | 8.3 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | March of the Penguins | 2005 | all | 7.6 | 95% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Capturing the Friedmans | 2003 | N/A | 7.8 | 97% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Mommy Dead and Dearest | 2017 | 18+ | 7.4 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory | 2011 | N/A | 8.1 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind | 2018 | 18+ | 8.0 | 96% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Religulous | 2008 | 18+ | 7.7 | 69% |  | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Andre the Giant | 2018 | 16+ | 7.8 | 95% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | The Crash Reel | 2013 | N/A | 8.2 | 96% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Spielberg | 2017 | 18+ | 7.7 | 92% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds | 2016 | 16+ | 8.0 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Tupac: Resurrection | 2003 | 18+ | 8.0 | 78% |  | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Paradise Lost 2: Revelations | 2000 | N/A | 7.6 | 91% |  | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Momentum Generation | 2018 | N/A | 8.2 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 2007 | 13+ | 8.3 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | 2012 | 16+ | 8.0 | 98% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | 4 Little Girls | 1997 | 16+ | 7.8 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Life According to Sam | 2013 | all | 8.2 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | The Price of Everything | 2018 | 16+ | 7.2 | 92% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets | 2015 | 18+ | 7.2 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Jane Fonda in Five Acts | 2018 | 16+ | 7.9 | 96% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers | 2017 | N/A | 8.5 | 89% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Thin | 2006 | 13+ | 7.5 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Which Way Home | 2009 | N/A | 7.9 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing | 2016 | 18+ | 8.0 | 90% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures | 2016 | 18+ | 7.4 | 97% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Every Brilliant Thing | 2016 | N/A | 8.5 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Cries from Syria | 2017 | N/A | 8.0 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | The Case Against 8 | 2014 | 16+ | 7.4 | 92% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Banksy Does New York | 2014 | N/A | 7.3 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Ghosts of Abu Ghraib | 2007 | 18+ | 7.9 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | The Loving Story | 2011 | N/A | 7.6 | 100% | docu + Rent or Buy | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists | 2018 | 7+ | 8.2 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | I Am Evidence | 2017 | N/A | 7.6 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | King in the Wilderness | 2018 | 16+ | 7.8 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Everything Is Copy | 2015 | 16+ | 7.5 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Jim: The James Foley Story | 2016 | 18+ | 7.7 | 91% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | David Bowie: The Last Five Years | 2017 | 16+ | 7.4 | 88% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Twist of Faith | 2005 | 18+ | 7.3 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Valentine Road | 2013 | 16+ | 7.1 | 91% |  | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired | 2008 | N/A | 7.3 | 85% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Six by Sondheim | 2013 | 13+ | 8.0 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Atomic Homefront | 2017 | N/A | 7.4 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly | 2000 | 18+ | 8.8 | N/A | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland | 2018 | 18+ | 6.4 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | 2000 | 13+ | 7.8 | 91% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Class Divide | 2016 | N/A | 7.3 | 100% | | Want To See Seen | ||
 | Believer | 2018 | 16+ | 7.2 | 64% | | Want To See Seen |