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by Alvin Toffler
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Future Shock is a 1972 American short documentary film directed by Alex Grasshoff and narrated by Orson Welles. It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition. It is based on the book of the same name.
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Constable Al Arsenault, along with six other policemen, document the people on their beat to create a powerful film about drug abuse.
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Scared Straight! is a 1978 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts.
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by Bill Moyers
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Since 1992, Bill Moyers has been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee -- one black, one white -- as they battle to keep from sliding into poverty.
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by Mary Beth Kirchner
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Questions about our origins as a species have been plaguing us as humans, prodding us as scientists and dividing us as Americans for more than a hundred years...
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Living in a Perfect World is a 2006 feature-length documentary film by National Geographic Channel International (NGCI) about the German-speaking Mennonites between Chihuahua Desert and the Bolivian forest.
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The documentary, "Growing Up Poor in America", follows three children and their families in the battleground state of Ohio as the COVID-19 pandemic amplifies their struggle to stay afloat.
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by Werner Herzog
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People whose lives have been altered by texting while driving share their stories.
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The Interrupters tells the moving and often surprising stories of three "Violence Interrupters"-Ameena Matthews, Eddie Bocanegra, and Cobe Williams--who with bravado, humility, and even humor, work to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.
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Americans overwhelmingly say they prefer to die at home, but most deaths actually occur in hospitals or other long-term care facilities. Aging Matters: End of Life explores the complicated experience of dying and why so few of us get the death we say we want.
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