Documentary

• Title: The Tale of Silyan
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Highlighting the struggles of farmers in Macedonia, director Tamara Kotevska‘s film showcases Nikola and his family unable to make a profit on one of the farm’s best harvests and unable to sell the farm for more than a fraction of its worth due to new governmental policies. After his daughter and her family move away, and Nikola’s wife goes with them to help with the children, Nikola finds himself alone. Needing money, he takes a job at the local landfill where he discovers and injured stork who he adopts and nurses back to health helping soothe his loneliness.

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• Title: Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory
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Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory takes wildlife filmmaker and documentarian Bertie Gregory to the Serengeti where he focuses on two groups of cheetahs to highlight the struggles of the fastest land animal which finds itself stuck in the middle of the food chain. Bertie and his team spend time with both a mother and her two young cubs, noting that 95% of cheetahs don’t make it to adulthood, and a pack of three young males all struggling to survive.

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• Title: M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television
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Brimming with clips and interviews, M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television offers a look back at the beloved television series which aired from 1972 to 1983, far outlasting the length of the war in which the sitcom about a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital was set. So iconic, many today forget M*A*S*H, inspired by Richard Hooker’s 1968 novel, was a movie before a TV-series (which the documentary touches on briefly).

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• Title: When We Went MAD!
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When We Went MAD! offers a fun look back at the creation and rise of MAD Magazine, its struggles over the years, the contentious relationship between MAD‘s first editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, the creation of Alfred E. Neuman, the band of idiots who came and went over the years helping the magazine find and develop its satiric voice, and its eventually decline and end of the magazine publishing new content.

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