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Summary: Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,762,863
International: $ 169,374
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Summary: Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Austria
Language: German
Domestic: $ 378,382
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Summary: A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s.
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Runtime: 1 h 21 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 122,742
International: $ 23,258
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Summary: An in-depth look at the life and work of avant-garde musician, Frank Zappa.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: R

Countries: France, Germany
Language: English
Domestic: $ 355,074
International: $ 10,466
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Summary: Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: PG-13

Domestic: $ 24,313,888
International: $ 21,673,924
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Summary: A look at the 30-year career of The Grateful Dead.
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Runtime: 3 h 58 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 351,957
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Summary: A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: Unrated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 425,831
International: $ 90,506
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Summary: A documentary about the inventor of the first electronic synthesiser instrument and his subsequent life after he was abducted by the KGB as well as a history of his instrument.
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 253,311
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Summary: After his script is plagiarized, and he is forced to marry, an unemployed movie writer self-destructs.
Runtime: 2 h 22 min

Production: Indian Films
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Domestic: $ 100,304
International: $ 289,528
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Summary: Recovery is OUT - to change the addiction conversation from problems to SOLUTIONS. An independent feature documentary about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addictions.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 284,147
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Summary: A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same ...
Runtime: 1 h 07 min

Language: English
Domestic: $ 306,691
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Summary: A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,109,146
International: $ 298,919
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Summary: Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
Runtime: 1 h 26 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,696,196
International: $ 5,520,356
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Summary: The story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter.
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 561,460
International: $ 17,360
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Summary: The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was--not easy, as...
Runtime: 2 h 01 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 9,914,409
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Release Date: December 02, 2018
Runtime: 2 h 55 min

Domestic: $ 187,946
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Summary: Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.
Release Date: December 22, 2005
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Distributor: Palm Pictures
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 129,988
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Summary: Dramatic documentary about the young German pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who resisted the Nazi regime and was hanged two weeks before World War II was over.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: TV-14

Production: Journey Films
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 296,181
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Summary: A film about the work of the artist most famous for her monuments such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 62,186
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Summary: An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
Release Date: April 28, 1995
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,041,083