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 1968 With Tom Brokaw Documentary | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Television news legend Tom Brokaw takes a penetrating retrospective look at 1968, a pivotal year in American history that saw the assassinations of MLK and RFK, the Tet Offensive, a sea change in pop culture and more. Including rare archival footage, recent interviews of key players and the perspective of four intervening decades, this provocative documentary brings to life the tragedies and triumphs of the sixties' most memorable year.

Cast: Tom Brokaw
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 20 Feet From Stardom Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

Cast: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer
Director: Morgan Neville
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 51 Birch Street Documentary | 2006 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Married 54 years, Mike and Mina Block were the picture of if not wedded bliss then at least rock-solid stability - or so thought their son, documentary filmmaker Doug Block. But when his mother dies unexpectedly and his father swiftly marries his former secretary, Doug suddenly realizes there was more to his parents' union than met his eye. Turning his lens on his own family, he discovers much he never knew about the people who raised him

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Director: Doug Block
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 '80s: The Decade That Made Us, The Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This National Geographic documentary is the defining biography of a decade, as told through exclusive interviews with more than 40 icons, entertainers and innovators who shaped its identity.

Cast: Richard E. Grant, Larry Hagman, Larry King
Director: Jonathan Rudd
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 American Movie Documentary | 1999 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! In this documentary that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, director Chris Smith chronicles aspiring filmmaker Mark Borchardt's battle to finish his horror flick Coven despite a lack of just about everything, including money and common sense. Over the course of three years, Smith follows Borchardt's dogged quest, lending encouragement and cash to a motley crew that includes Borchardt's friends, his Uncle Bill and local theater "talent."

Cast: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank
Director: Chris Smith
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Attenborough In Paradise Documentary | 1996 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Renowned naturalist David Attenborough takes viewers on journeys through some of the world's most fascinating and vivid natural wonders in this collection of seven of his television specials. Attenborough's captivating quests include tracing a piece of amber through time, tracking the history of a wooden figure back to 18th-century Easter Island, observing the outrageous mating rituals of birds in New Guinea's jungles and much more.

Cast: David Attenborough
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Babies Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Documentary filmmaker Thomas Balmes charts the simultaneous early development of four babies from different parts of the world, illustrating what makes human life unique, similar and precious wherever it occurs. Training his camera on newborns Hattie from San Francisco, Ponijao from Namibia, Bayarjargal from Mongolia and Mari from Tokyo, Balmes captures everything from first screaming breaths to first steps.

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Director: Thomas Balmes
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Biography: Google Boys, The Documentary | 2006 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Chronicles the amazing careers of the "Google Boys" - Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who met at Stanford University's PhD computer science program and began Google with credit cards and help from one savvy investor in 1988. Google is now the world's top search engine, operating in 97 languages.

Cast: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Director: A&E Television Networks
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Biography: Laura Bush Documentary | 2005 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! From librarian to first lady, Laura Bush has made her mark as the unflappable wife of the world's most powerful leader. This biography chronicles her story from her childhood and her early years as a librarian to her first meeting with her husband and her struggle to maintain a normal family life despite constant public attention. Private family photos and interviews with Mrs. Bush and the president help paint a portrait of a remarkable woman.

Cast: Laura Bush
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Born Rich Documentary | 2003 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! A documentary on children of the insanely rich. Directed by one of their own, Johnson & Johnson heir, Jamie Johnson.

Cast: Ivanka Trump, Georgina Bloomberg, Si Newhouse IV
Director: Jamie Johnson
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Breaking The Bank Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! With an eye on the financial crisis that sent Wall Street reeling in the midst of the 2008 presidential election, this penetrating edition of "Frontline" investigates what went wrong, who's to blame and how long it will take to repair the damage. Specifically, the program looks at the role of so-called "superbanks" and other players in the housing market's soaring fortunes - and its ultimately devastating decline.

Cast: Will Lyman, Jim Gilmore
Director: Michael Kirk
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Capitalism - A Love Story Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Filmmaker Michael Moore (Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11) takes on capitalism's roots, the floundering U.S. economy, and 2008's global financial meltdown and subsequent bank bailout in this rousing documentary. Combining stories about those who suffer most from Corporate America's greed and insatiable thirst for profits and the people most responsible for myriad crises, Moore embarks on another shocking fact-finding rampage.

Cast: Michael Moore
Director: Michael Moore
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Catfish Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman document the strange series of events that unfolds when a gifted 8-year-old artist named Abby contacts Nev, a 24-year-old photographer (and Schulman's brother), through Facebook. After Abby sends Nev a remarkable painting based on one of his photos, Nev begins corresponding with her family - including her seductive 19-year-old sister. Realizing that something's not quite right, Nev sets out to uncover the truth.

Cast: Megan Faccio, Melody C. Roscher
Director: Henry Joost
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Director Alex Gibney turns the spotlight on the life and career of politician Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor whose potential to become the first Jewish president of the United States was thwarted by his indiscretions. Supporters and opponents opine about Spitzer, who was a well-respected attorney general before becoming governor. Spitzer's career crashed and burned with the revelation that he was involved with prostitutes.

Cast: Eliot Spitzer, Joseph Bruno
Director: Alex Gibney
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Coca Cola Case, The Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Directors German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia present a searing indictment of the Coca-Cola empire and its alleged kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders trying to improve working conditions in Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey. The filmmakers follow labour rights lawyers Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth and an activist for the Stop Killer-Coke! Campaign, Ray Rogers, as they attempt to hold the giant U.S. multinational beverage company accountable in this legal and human rights battle.

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Director: German Gutierrez, Carmen Garcia
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Collapse Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! In an avant-garde soliloquy, investigative journalist Michael Ruppert details his unnerving theories about the inexorable link between energy depletion and the collapse of the economic system that supports the entire industrial world. Helmed by filmmaker Chris Smith (American Movie), Ruppert's monologue explains how the lies and political propaganda fed to Americans by big business will eventually lead to human extinction.

Cast: Michael Ruppert
Director: Chris Smith
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Corporation, The Documentary | 2003 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott explore the genesis of the American corporation, its global economic supremacy and its psychopathic leanings, with social critics like Noam Chomsky and Milton Friedman lending insight in this documentary. With their merciless quest for profit and insatiable aim to sway every aspect of culture, conglomerates' inner workings are scrutinized to draw conclusions about business as usual."

Cast: Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore
Director: Mark Achbar
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Cove, The Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Daring animal activists arrive with surveillance equipment at a scenic cove in Taijii, Japan, to capture footage of a secretive and heavily guarded operation run by the world's largest supplier of dolphins. As the group sets out to expose the horrifying truths behind the capture of dolphins for the lucrative tourist industry, they also uncover an environmental catastrophe. Louie Psihoyos directs this riveting, Oscar-winning documentary.

Cast: Richard O'Barry, Joe Chisholm
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Deadliest Crash, The (The Le Mans 1955 Disaster) Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Three years in the making in conjunction with the BBC. Using never seen before home movies, photos and eye witness accounts - this is the inside story of the world's biggest motorsport disaster. Deadliest Crash is the dramatic story of the day racing was changed forever. The carnage, seen through eye witness accounts, includes the stories of the survivors from the packed grandstands and members of the Mercedes and Jaguar teams at the heart of the disaster.

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Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room Documentary | 2005 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Based on the book of the same name by Peter Elkin, director Alex Gibney's documentary takes a behind-the-scenes look at the powerful energy company whose downfall forever changed the landscape of the business world. With a blend of fascinating footage, fast-paced interviews and a wealth of information, this film is a serious lesson in the potential trappings of dishonesty and unethical behavior dogging corporate America.

Cast: Peter Coyote, Gray Davis
Director: Alex Gibney
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Exit Through The Gift Shop Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Filmmaker Thierry Guetta had been casually documenting the underground world of street art for years, but when he encounters Banksy, an elusive British stencil artist, his project takes a fascinating twist. Unimpressed with Guetta's footage, Banksy takes over filmmaking duties and Guetta reinvents himself as a street artist named Mr. Brainwash - and, much to Banksy's surprise, immediately becomes a darling of the Los Angeles art scene.

Cast: Shepard Fairey, Banksy
Director: Banksy
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 F For Fake Documentary | 1976 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! In this free-form documentary from the one and only Orson Welles, the famed storyteller zigzags through a sardonic, fanciful tale of how art manages to amaze and fool us, often simultaneously. With faux determination, Welles examines the charismatic artist Elmyr de Hory, who makes pretty good money creating bogus Picassos and Matisses. Also fascinating is Welles's own deception and a peek into the life of the very private man.

Cast: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
Director: Orson Welles
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Fahrenheit 9/11 Documentary | 2004 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Michael Moore's hard-hitting documentary addresses the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, outlining the reasons the United States (and, in turn, thousands of innocent Americans) became a target for hatred and terrorism. The film not only criticizes President George W. Bush's response to the attacks but also reinforces Moore's theory that the Bush Administration used the tragic event to push its own political agenda.

Cast: Michael Moore, Debbie Petriken
Director: Michael Moore
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 For Neda Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! On June 20th, 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan became a tragic casualty in the Iranian protests following the recent presidential election results; unlike many of the unknown victims, she instantly became an international symbol of the struggle.

Cast: Neda Agha-Soltan
Director: Anthony Thomas
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Freakonomics Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Several documentary directors each film a segment representing one chapter of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's best-seller "Freakonomics", which explains different elements of popular culture through economic theory and statistics. Issues include everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to whether Roe v. Wade produced a drop in crime. Filmmakers include Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing.

Cast: Kahiry Bess, Zoe Sloane
Director: Heidi Ewing
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Good Ol' Freda Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Freda Kelly was just a shy Liverpudlian teenager when she was asked to work for a local band hoping to make it big. As The Beatles' devoted secretary and friend, Freda was there as history unfolded; she was witness to the evolution - advances and setbacks, breakthroughs and challenges - of the greatest band in history. For the first time in 50 years, Freda shares her story.

Cast: Freda Kelly, Paul McCartney, John Lennon
Director: Ryan White
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed The World Documentary | 2011 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Discovery Channel celebrates the contributions of the late Steve Jobs in this one-hour documentary. The program highlights Jobs' work in bringing personal computing to the masses and how he affected the way we organize information, listen to music, and watch TV, among other accomplishments.

Cast: Tom Brokaw, Gallop Cindy, Price David
Director: Brooke Runnette
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 I'm Not There Documentary | 2007 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Six actors (including Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett, in an Oscar-nominated role) portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon. The first biography ever approved by the singer-songwriter, this stylized portrait (directed by Todd Haynes) reveals how Dylan reinvented himself many times. Kris Kristofferson narrates.

Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett
Director: Todd Haynes
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Incredible Human Journey, The Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! In this 5 part BBC documentary, Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people of today.

Cast: Alice Roberts
Director: Alice Roberts
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Inside Job Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! From filmmaker Charles Ferguson comes this sobering, Oscar-winning documentary that presents in comprehensive yet cogent detail the pervasive and deep-rooted corruption that led to the global economic meltdown of 2008. Through unflinching interviews with key financial insiders, politicos, journalists and academics, Ferguson paints a galling portrait of an unfettered financial system run amok - without accountability. Actor Matt Damon narrates.

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Director: Charles Ferguson
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 It Might Get Loud Documentary | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Davis Guggenheim, creator of the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth, directs this fascinating profile of three contemporary guitarists: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, U2's The Edge and Jack White of the White Stripes. Each talks about their creative process, technique and influences as cameras follow them to key locations in their own music history. A jam session featuring all three musicians is woven into their discussions.

Cast: Jimmy Page, The Edge
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 JFK: Seven Days That Made a President Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This National Geographic documentary focuses on the seven key days in JFK's life that helped shape his character and have come to define him. They include the day he nearly died as a teenager from a mystery illness; the day, as a PT boat captain his boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer killing two of his crew; the first televised presidential debate with Richard Nixon, his birthday party in New York with Marilyn Monroe; the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cast: Adam Astill, Adam Drew, Suzie Kennedy
Director: Steve Webb
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Journey Of Man Documentary | 2002 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! The origins of mankind are put under the microscope of this riveting PBS documentary film in which geneticists, historians, anthropologists and other theorists try to trace the beginnings of the human race. Could the seed, in fact, have begun with a man in Africa who roamed the Earth tens of thousands of years ago? Or have scientists merely found yet another descendant of a prehistoric predecessor?

Cast: Spencer Wells
Director: Clive Maltby
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Killing Kennedy Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Based on Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's best seller comes this shocking thriller starring Rob Lowe and Ginnifer Goodwin. As John F. Kennedy (Lowe) rises to become U.S. president, a former Marine grows disillusioned with America. When their paths ultimately cross, the course of history is changed forever as seen in this mesmerizing film about the assassination of JFK - and its chilling aftermath.

Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Michelle Trachtenberg, Rob Lowe
Director: Nelson McCormick
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Life In A Day Documentary | 2011 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world joined together to document mundane and remarkable everyday life in a single day. Filmmaker Kevin MacDonald led a team of editors to condense more than 4,500 hours of footage and 80,000 clips into a portrait of life as it is lived on Earth. From dense cities to remote and forbidding landscapes, the myriad varieties of human experience are celebrated and revealed.

Cast: Cindy Baer, Moica
Director: Kevin MacDonald
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Magic Trip Documentary | 2011 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Using found footage captured by author Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), filmmakers Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney re-create the writer's infamous 1964 road trip to New York's Tomorrowland. And what a long, strange trip it was. While riding high on LSD in a brightly painted school bus, Kesey's inner circle of Merry Pranksters explore the limits of the mind and the possibilities of drug-addled imagination.

Cast: Stanley Tucci, Timothy Leary
Director: Alison Ellwood
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Man On Wire Documentary | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Philippe Petit captured the world's attention in 1974 when he successfully walked across a high wire between New York's Twin Towers. This Oscar winner for Best Documentary explores the preparations that went into the stunt as well as the event and its aftermath. Obsessed with the towers even before they were fully constructed, Petit sneaked into the buildings several times to determine the equipment he needed to accomplish his daring feat.

Cast: Philippe Petit
Director: James Marsh
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Mugabe And The White African Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! An unprecedented look inside politically fractured Zimbabwe under dictator Robert Mugabe, this documentary follows Michael Campbell, one of the country's few remaining white farmers, as he bravely battles to protect his land from government seizure. After suing Mugabe for racial discrimination and human rights violations, the 75-year-old Campbell must brace his family to face potentially life-threatening retaliation.

Cast: Michael Campbell, Ben Freeth
Director: Lucy Bailey
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Murder On A Sunday Morning Documentary | 2001 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! An Oscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Muscle Shoals Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! A documentary about the legendary Muscle Shoals recording studio in Alabama that spawned some of the greatest records of all time. Luring some of the biggest figures in 20th century pop music, like Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Simon and Garfunkel, the studio produced all time classic songs like "Mustang Sally", "Wild Horses" and many more, uniting black and white musicians in the deep south during an incendiary period of racial hostility.

Cast: Rick Hall, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards
Director: Greg 'Freddy' Camalier
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History Of The Internet Documentary | 1998 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History Of The Internet (1998) is a three-hour documentary film written and hosted by Mark Stephens under the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely and produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting for PBS. A sequel to Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1 documents the development of ARPANET, the Internet, the World Wide Web and the dot-com bubble of the mid- and late-1990s. It was broadcast two years prior to the collapse of the dot-com bubble.

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Director: Mark Stephens
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Of Time And The City Documentary | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Filmmaker Terence Davies takes a nostalgic look at his birthplace of Liverpool, England, and explores the phenomenon of childhood memories unrequited by time and progress in this film essay. In addition to serving as an artistic and poetic ode to a Liverpool gone by, the film offers an inimitable perspective of the city through a mixture of archive footage and new shots, evocative music and Davies' poetry-like narration.

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Director: Terence Davies
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 One Percent, The Documentary | 2006 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! In this hard-hitting but humorous documentary, director Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the wealth of the U.S. Johnson's thesis is that this wealth in the hands of so few people is a danger to our very way of life.

Cast: Nicole Buffet, Chuck Collins, Steve Forbes
Director: Jamie Johnson
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Our Nixon Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency in this CNN documentary.

Cast: Dwight Chapin, John Ehrlichman, H R Haldeman
Director: Penny Lane
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Path To Happiness, A Documentary | 2006 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Considered one of the greatest influencers of our time, the Dalai Lama has spent his life teaching people how to be happy. Being happy is not only our right, he teaches, but is clearly the principle force that drives our lives.

Cast: Dalai Lama
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS American Experience: The Great Transatlantic Cable Documentary | 2005 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! PBS's "American Experience" series focuses its documentary light on one of the greatest engineering marvels of the 19th century - the laying of the undersea Transatlantic Cable between the United States and Great Britain. It took 12 years (1854-66) before project head Cyrus Field (a New York paper magnate) and his associates finished the job of laying nearly 2,000 miles of cable across the Atlantic Ocean (often at a depth of 3 miles).

Cast: John MacKay, Linda Hunt
Director: Peter Jones
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Cathedral Documentary | 1985 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Using his award-winning book as an outline, author and architecture buff David Macaulay takes you on a tour of France's most notable churches and carefully illustrates how each was designed and constructed. With the aid of breathtaking camerawork filmed on location and detailed computer animation, you'll travel back to 1214 to explore the creation of one of the most famous Gothic cathedrals - Notre Dame de Beaulieu.

Cast: David Macaulay
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Empires 04: Queen Victoria's Empire Documentary | 2001 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Donald Sutherland narrates this intriguing series on the life of Britain's Queen Victoria and her 64-year reign that saw the nation become an industrial superpower and expand its influence across the globe. Through personal accounts and dramatic reenactments, the four episodes create a vivid portrait of the queen, the times and the people who were influential in shaping British imperialism, including Victoria's husband, Prince Albert.

Cast: Donald Sutherland
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Empires 05: The Roman Empire In The First Century Documentary | 2002 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This PBS-produced documentary sweeps through history as the Roman Empire reigns in the 1st century. But for the Romans, being in control meant dealing with a spate of social problems: coups, power struggles and crimes. Out of the ashes of disorder, however, rose a Phoenix-like empire even stronger than its original version - thanks to the work of thinkers, fighters, noblemen and peasants.

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Director: Margaret Koval
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Empires 06: Egypt's Golden Empire Documentary | 2002 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This three-part program tracks the development of Egypt's glorious New Kingdom, a majestic era marked by the rise of powerful rulers, the birth of a sophisticated civilization and advances in art, culture and politics that would influence the world for years to come. Originally broadcast on PBS, the series blends archival documents and ancient artifacts with on-location footage and expert interviews to weave a complex but compelling narrative.

Cast: Keith David
Director: Richard Bradley
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Empires 07: Peter & Paul And The Christian Revolution Documentary | 2002 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This SBS-TV production examines the life of Peter and Paul and how they weathered persecution as they led the rise of Christianity, born thousands of years ago when Jesus preached his good word and was nailed to the cross for it. His believers kept his teachings alive in spite of the oppressive Roman Empire, which worked to kill the commitment of the faithful. Instead, the Empire failed and Christianity lives on.

Cast: Salome Jens
Director: Margaret Koval
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Empires 08: Martin Luther Documentary | 2002 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Rabble-rouser or secular saint? The man who revolutionized the Christian church in the 16th century and became the father of Protestantism was probably a little bit of both. This historical look at Martin Luther originally aired on British television (and on PBS in the United States) and serves as a wonderful educational primer of a fascinating religious epoch.

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Director: James Hawes
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Empires 09: Japan - Memoirs Of A Secret Empire Documentary | 2004 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! As Europeans worked to conquer the world and extend their reach to other parts of the globe - at times imposing their beliefs on citizens of other countries - the people of Japan were decidedly isolationist, advocating separation as it nurtured its culture and traditions under its leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu. This documentary spotlights 16th and 17th century Japan as seen through the eyes of the samurai, the artist, the foreigner and many others.

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Director: Lyn Goldfarb
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Empires 10: The Medici - Godfathers Of The Renaissance Documentary | 2003 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! From a base in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family used charm, patronage, duplicity, and ruthlessness to amass wealth and power. The Medicis also ignited Western history's most important cultural and artistic revolution, the Renaissance, but doomed their own ordered world. This epic drama in the courts, cathedrals, and palaces of Europe traces a family's powerful ambition and a continent's tortured struggle to emerge from the Dark Ages.

Cast: Ross King, Mario Biagioli
Director: Justin Hardy
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Frontline: Black Money Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Slush funds, front companies and secret payments are just a few of the illegal tactics multinational companies are using to fatten their wallets - and increasingly, investigators are on to them, as this special edition of "Frontline" illustrates. Investigative journalist Lowell Bergman shows how the U.S. Justice Department is working with allies around the world to crack down on the billion-dollar business that international bribery has become.

Cast: Lowell Bergman, David Leigh
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Ken Burns: The Civil War Documentary | 1990 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This 9-part documentary masterpiece from Ken Burns depicts the strategies and action of famous Civil War battles, and relates the stories of generals, field soldiers, politicians, heroes and a beleaguered president. The Emmy-winning miniseries begins by looking at the factors that led to the firing on Fort Sumter, and covers specific notable battles, climaxing with Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender and Pres. Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

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Director: Ken Burns
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Rick Steves Best Of Travels In Europe 01: British Isles Documentary | 2000 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Join PBS travel expert Rick Steves on this in-depth exploration of the British Isles and discover the best of what places such as Cotswold Villages, Belfast, Western Ireland, Edinburgh, Dublin, London and North Wales have to offer. From popular tourist spots to historical sites and everywhere in between, Steves travels high and low to give you the skinny on all of these locations, each brimming with fascinating culture and tradition.

Cast: Rick Steves
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Rick Steves Best Of Travels In Europe 02: France Documentary | 2001 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Join popular PBS personality Rick Steves as he gets a real feel for the people he meets. Find a true understanding of treasured local customs in Burgundy, Provence, The Loire Valley, The French Riviera, Paris, The Dordogne, Normandy, and Brittany.

Cast: Rick Steves
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Rick Steves Best Of Travels In Europe 03: Spain & Portugal Documentary | 2001 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Join popular PBS personality Rick Steves on a grand tour of Europe, and see 15 countries as only he can show them to you! Get a real feel for the people he meets, and come to a true understanding of treasured local customs. Above all, explore the unfamiliar, discover the unusual, and marvel at fabulous and fabled places in Europe and along the Mediterranean. Visit Madrid and Toledo; Seville and Andalusia; Barcelona to Segovia; Granada to Tangier; Costa Del Sol; Lisbon; Portugal�s Southern Coast; Cape Sagres and Lagos.

Cast: Rick Steves
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Rick Steves Best Of Travels In Europe 04: Germany, Austria & Switzerland Documentary | 2001 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Join popular PBS personality Rick Steves as he finds a true understanding of treasured local customs in Munich and Bavaria; Berlin and Potsdam; Vienna and the Danube; Salzburg; Austrian Lakes District; Swiss Alps; Western Switzerland; Bern, Murten and Gruyere.

Cast: Rick Steves
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Rick Steves Best Of Travels In Europe 05: Italy Documentary | 2001 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Join popular PBS personality Rick Steves as he gets a real feel for the people he meets. Find a true understanding of treasured local customs in Rome, Naples, The Amalfi Coast, Venice, Florence, Hill Towns of Tuscany, The Italian Riviera, and more.

Cast: Rick Steves
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Rick Steves Best Of Travels In Europe 06: Greece, Turkey, Israel & Egypt Documentary | 2001 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Join popular PBS personality Rick Steves on a grand tour of the Greek Isles, and get a real feel for the people he meets. Find a true understanding of treasured local customs with visits to Athens and the Acropolis; The Peloponnese and the Mycenae Palace; The Greek Islands; Central Turkey, Ankara and Cappadocia; Turkish West Coast, Kusadasi and Ephesus; Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and Kibbutz Ein Gedi; Cairo to Luxor; The Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. Extra Features: Gates of Jerusalem; Thessalonika and Greek Monasteries; Istanbul; and Rick�s Back Door Travel Tips.

Cast: Rick Steves
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Secrets Of The Dead - Mumbai Massacre Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! The chain of terrorist attacks that battered Mumbai, India, over several days in November 2008 - replayed through the eyes of those taken hostage - is the focus of this episode of PBS's investigative series. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, the program combines survivors' firsthand accounts with an analysis of the ways in which Twitter, cell phones and other media not only abetted the terrorists' coordination efforts but also led to their downfall.

Cast: Liev Schreiber, Debra Bayne
Director: Victoria Pitt
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 PBS Wonders Of The African World Documentary | 1999 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Take a journey to far-off lands with world-renowned scholar and educator Henry Louis Gates Jr. as he examines the historical events that shaped 20th century Africa. Exploring the continent on both land and water, Gates attempts to locate the centuries-old remains of celebrated African cities and kingdoms, sometimes finding what he's looking for in unlikely places scattered throughout modern towns.

Cast: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Director: Helena Appio
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Persuaders, The Documentary | 2004 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! PBS's long-running television series "Frontline" examines the inner workings of advertising and public relations and the men and women - dubbed "persuaders" - whose job it is to influence the buying habits of today's consumers. See how they research the preferences of shoppers, pique their interest, entice them to part with their hard-earned money, and get their own messages across in an increasingly complicated and tech-savvy world.

Cast: 
Director: Barak Goodman
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, The Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe - the media industry.

Cast: Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij
Director: Simon Klose
Genre: Documentary
Language: Swedish (English subtitles)
 Portrait Of An Artist - Donatello - The First Modern Sculptor Documentary | 1985 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello made a name for himself by creating realistic pieces of art that perfectly captured the human form. With the help of experts, explore the lifestyle and work of this completely dedicated and talented artist. Viewers will travel to the cities where Donatello's works currently reside, such as Florence, Sienna, Venice, Padua, and London, to examine these amazing sculptures up close.

Cast: 
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Queen Of Versailles, The Documentary | 2012 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis

Cast: Virginia Nebab, David Siegel, Jaqueline Siegel
Director: Lauren Greenfield
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Revolution OS Documentary | 2002 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! For the past two decades, a group of computer hackers, neocommunists and entrepreneurs has been gradually undermining Microsoft's monopoly and fundamentally changing the way software is developed and owned - a revolution that resulted in the Linux operating system and the Open Source movement. This fascinating documentary explores the OS movement's origins and depicts the grassroots nature of Linux and OS as they march into the mainstream.

Cast: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman
Director: J.T.S. Moore
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Sculptures Of The Louvre Documentary | 2006 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! If you really want to see the sculptures in the famed Louvre museum but can't quite afford the airfare, this interactive tour is a decent substitute. This program explores the most prominent sculptures in detail and talks about the cultural circumstances surrounding their creation. Works include "Slaves of Michelangelo," "The Horses of Marly," "The Venus de Milo," "Bulls of Khorsbad," "Cupid and Psyche," "Ramses II" and "Mary Magdalene."

Cast: 
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Secret Of The Seven Sisters, The Documentary | 2012 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! A National Geographic documentary series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil. Throughout the region's modern history, since the discovery of oil, the "Seven Sisters" have sought to control the balance of power.

Cast: 
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Senna Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This fast-paced documentary profiles Ayrton Senna, one of the greatest drivers in the history of Formula One racing, and a hero in his native Brazil. Using only archival footage, director Asif Kapadia examines the idealistic Senna's inspiring legend. Charismatic, compassionate and a dedicated risk-taker, Senna was known for his integrity in a sport often fraught with cutthroat politics, and also for the deep religious faith that gave him purpose.

Cast: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost
Director: Asif Kapadia
Genre: Documentary
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
 Shake Hands With The Devil (The Journey Of Romeo Dallaire) Documentary | 2005 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Director Peter Raymont's searing documentary follows Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire - who oversaw a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during its 1994 genocide - on an emotional journey back to the site of his greatest perceived career failure. In addition to detailing the psychological repercussions suffered by Dallaire because he was rendered powerless to stop the massacre, the film addresses the wider issue of international culpability.

Cast: Romeo Dallaire
Director: Peter Raymont
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Shine A Light Documentary | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese chronicles the incomparable career of the Rolling Stones with this one-of-a-kind documentary that features footage from the legendary band's "A Bigger Bang" tour. Backed by a stellar crew of cinematographers, Scorsese mixes revealing interviews, fascinating behind-the-scenes clips and live performances to capture the "world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" in all their glory.

Cast: Rolling Stones, Christina Aguilera
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Smash & Grab - The Story Of The Pink Panthers Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! In their own words and with unprecedented access, the most successful jewel thieves of all time take you into their world: the post-Milosevic Balkans, the modern diamond trade and a 21st Century crime gang. But as the thieves brazenly commit their crimes across the world - Europe, Asia and UEA - Interpol and global police forces are tightening their grip. As many of the criminals responsible for are caught and extradited, this film asks: Is this the end of the Pink Panthers?

Cast: Tomislav Tom Benzon, Daniel Vivian
Director: Havana Marking
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Something Ventured Documentary | 2011 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Apple. Intel. Genentech. Atari. Google. Cisco. Stratospheric successes with high stakes all around. Behind some of the world's most revolutionary companies are a handful of men who (through timing, foresight, a keen ability to size up other people, and a lot of luck) saw opportunity where others did not: these are the original venture capitalists.

Cast: Bill Bowes, Herbert Boyer, Po Bronson
Director: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Staircase, The Documentary | 2005 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! One of the most highly acclaimed documentaries in recent years, this shocking, real-life thriller follows the high-profile murder trial of North Carolina author Michael Peterson, who was arraigned in 2001 for the murder of his wife after her body is discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of the couple's upscale Durham home. Did Kathleen Peterson fall down the stairs, or was it cold-blooded murder? As the mystery unravels, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's cameras are granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home, and immediate family, resulting in a gripping, inside look at a case so shocking, it is sure to leave you gasping for breath.

Cast: Michael Peterson
Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Steve Jobs: One Last Thing Documentary | 2011 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Through interviews with colleagues and others who knew the creative genius whose innovations transformed the lives of millions, "One Last Thing" provides an inside look at the man and the major influences that helped shape his life and career.

Cast: Steve Jobs, Robert X. Cringely, Bill Fernandez, Demetri Goritsas
Director: Sarah Hunt, Mimi O'Connor
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview Documentary | 2012 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! In this candid, in-depth interview with the late visionary filmed in 1995, Steve Jobs discusses at length his early days, career battles, and vision for the future. Small portions of the piece were used for a television series at the time, but the vast majority was shelved and for 17 years thought to be lost. Resurfacing, it is being presented in its entirety, providing a fascinating look at Jobs at a particularly interesting moment in his career, two years before he would go on to retake control of Apple.

Cast: Steve Jobs, Robert X. Cringely
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Taxi To The Dark Side Documentary | 2007 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) directs this Best Documentary Oscar winner that uses interviews, news footage and firsthand reports to examine the Bush administration's policy on torture. The film focuses on the case of an Afghan taxi driver who picked up three passengers and never returned home. Instead, he wound up dead at the Bagram Air Base, killed by injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers.

Cast: Brian Keith Allen
Director: Alex Gibney
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Terror In Mumbai Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Murder may be most foul when random and arbitrary, partly because the murderers may thus be imagining themselves God�s equals, entitled to administer the ultimate in verdicts. Such was the character of a callous outbreak of killings in India by Pakistan-based terrorists, a hellish episode masterfully reconstructed by Terror In Mumbai, an HBO documentary.

Cast: 
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 This Film Is Not Yet Rated Documentary | 2006 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence. Interviewees include John Waters, Darren Aronofsky, Maria Bello, Atom Egoyan and more.

Cast: Darren Aronofsky, Maria Bello
Director: Kirby Dick
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Tobacco Conspiracy, The Documentary | 2005 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This France-Canada co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at the expense of public health. A gripping investigation covering three continents, Nadia Collot's film exposes the vast conspiracy of a criminally negligent industry that conquers new markets through corruption and manipulation.

Cast: 
Director: Nadia Collot
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Transcendent Man Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is the subject of this documentary that follows him on a world speaking tour in which he expounds on his ideas about the merging of man and machine, which he predicts will occur in the not-so-distant future. The visionary who invented the first text-to-speech synthesizer and much more raises eyebrows here with his wildly optimistic views of a technology-enhanced future.

Cast: Ray Kurzweil
Director: Barry Ptolemy
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Triple Cross: Bin Laden's Spy In America Documentary | 2007 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! How did Ali A. Mohamed, a radical ex-Egyptian Army sergeant, survive inside the United States for more than 14 years as a mole for Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda? This master spy convinced the CIA to hire him and worked for the FBI as an informant, but he was "'triple crossing"' U.S. officials. This special connects the dots using insight from FBI, military, and justice department officials who help reveal how one man exploited gaps in the U.S. intelligence community.

Cast: Vivek Shah
Director: Peter Lance
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Triumph Of The Nerds Documentary | 1996 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Robert Cringely's in-depth look at the rise of Silicon Valley giants from nerd-dom to success is exacting in detail, providing an impressive history of personal computing. All three episodes of the 1996 PBS series ("Impressing Their Friends," "Riding the Bear" and "Great Artists Steal") invite viewers into the lives of modern movers and shakers such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Cast: Robert X. Cringely, Bill Gates
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Waiting Room, The Documentary | 2012 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients.

Cast: 
Director: Peter Nicks
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Waste Land Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Renowned artist Vik Muniz embarks on one of the most inspired collaborations of his career, joining creative forces with Brazilian catadores - garbage pickers who mine treasure from the trash heaps of Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho landfill. In this Oscar-nominated documentary, the catadores prove to be unique and surprising individuals in their own right, waxing philosophic as they impart a valuable lesson about what society discards.

Cast: Vik Muniz, Tiao Santos
Director: Lucy Walker
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.

Cast: Julian Assange, Adrian Lamo, Chelsea Manning
Director: Alex Gibney
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 White Light, Black Rain Documentary | 2007 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Made 60 years after the nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this documentary features interviews with atomic bomb survivors, who help shed light on the tragic events. Because of the bombings, tens of thousands of people perished, the overwhelming majority of whom were civilians. Veteran filmmaker Steven Okazaki continues in his tradition of carefully exploring the human side of difficult social issues.

Cast: 
Director: Steven Okazaki
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Winnebago Man Documentary | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This entertaining documentary explores the phenomenon of Jack Rebney, who became an Internet sensation after a grainy, nearly 20-year-old video of him furiously swearing up a storm while filming a Winnebago sales video made the rounds online. Traveling to a mountaintop, filmmaker Ben Steinbauer tracks down Rebney - who's become known in underground circles as the "Angriest Man in the World" - and tries to discover what makes the loner tick.

Cast: Jack Rebney, Ben Steinbauer
Director: Ben Steinbauer
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Yes Men Fix the World, The Documentary | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! Two didactic pranksters known as the Yes Men - Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno - employ monkey business to highlight the political and economic shenanigans surrounding ecological catastrophes, such as the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in India. "Punk'd" meets social commentary as the duo impersonate corporate spokespersons, gain access to the BBC, and expose the moral limitations of government and commerce.

Cast: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno
Director: Andy Bichlbaum
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
 Yes Men, The Documentary | 2003 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! This humorous documentary monitors the exploits of a group of jokester liberals who make names for themselves as they mimic members of the World Trade Organization at various venues across the globe. The absurd facade gets started when two members of The Yes Men create a web site that looks quite similar to the WTO site, resulting in the group being invited to high-level meetings and being mistaken for WTO officials.

Cast: Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum
Director: Dan Ollman
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
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