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  • Amateur Photographer - The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.

  • August Sander - A portrait of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, who though uncelebrated in his own lifetime, pioneered social documentary photography.

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  • Conversations with Roy DeCarava - The life of the first black photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.

  • E

  • El Dia Que Me Quieras - A haunting meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors.

  • Eye to Eye - A documentary about Robert Mapplethorpe, the flamboyant and often outrageous photographer.

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  • The Face of Evil - A history of attempts to categorize the physiognomy of evil. From the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch to physiognomics, phrenology, eugenics, and anthropometrics.

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  • House of the World - Examines the Holocaust through the eyes of survivors and their descendants.

  • K

  • Kim's Story: The Road from Vietnam - The story of Kim Phuc, the subject of perhaps the most famous photograph of the Vietnam War - a story of the personal and public healing of wounds from this century's longest, most divisive war.

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  • Living Memory - About Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Exposes tensions in a society assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.

  • Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness - Portraits of a diverse and dynamic group of people who have HIV or AIDS, but refuse to be crippled by their conditions.

  • Looking for an Icon Still
  • Looking for an Icon - Four world-famous photos. From the moments before they were taken, until their status today as unforgettable icons. How does it happen; what does it mean?

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  • Magnum Photos - Behind-the-scenes of the Magnum Photos agency, and in-the-field with several of the group's leading photographers (including Martin Parr, Larry Towell, Donovan Wylie, and others).

  • Malick Sidibé - Short but sweet look at the work of the renowned African artist whose photographs have documented social and cultural changes in Mali over a forty-year period.

  • O

  • Our Daily Bread - A spectacular visual essay composed of epic tableaus, a haunting vision of our modern food industry, and the methods and technology utilized for mass production.

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  • Paparazzi - A glimpse into the world of celebrity chasing photographers, where the reward for a single revealing photo can be over a million dollars.

  • Photo Souvenir - Philippe Koudjina was once a renowned portrait photographer in Niger, but now, due to injury and illness, he barely ekes out an existence, while his contemporaries Sidibe and Keita have gone on to international success.

  • The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover - A complex tale of art world profit, deception and crime, framed by O. Winston Link's stunning iconic photographs of the last of the American steam locomotives.

  • R

  • Remembering Romero - Eleven months prior to Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero's assassination, a well known photograph of the Archbishop of San Salvador standing amidst a large group of young people was taken. REMEMBERING ROMERO returns to El Salvador to find the

  • Remembrance of Things to Come - Reminiscent of Resnais, Ivens, even Kubrick, but in its deployment of still photographs (as in La Jetée), its theme of history and memory, its subject-skipping montage and rapid shuttle of wit and philosophy it's pure Marker.

  • Ringl and Pit - The lives and times of emigré photographers Grete Stern (b. 1904) and Ellen Auerbach (1906-2004) - from their early days together as the "ringl + pit" studio in Weimar Germany to their current activities spanning three cont

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  • Sermons and Sacred Pictures - Profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Baptist minister and inspired photographer / filmmaker who documented the fabric of black American life prior to the civil rights movement.

  • The Spectre of Hope - Critic and writer John Berger and photographer Sebastião Salgado. A searing examination of imagery and images, the abyss, hope, and globalization.

  • T

  • Tango of Slaves - A Holocaust survivor's journey to Warsaw becomes the springboard for a meditative essay about history, memory, and their preservation in imagery.

  • W

  • War Photographer - Considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time, James Nachtwey hardly fits the cliché of the hard-boiled war journalist. 2001 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature.

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  • Zygosis - A radical and humorous electronic homage to John Heartfield, anti-Nazi German satirist who pioneered the photomontage.

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