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Short Film Saturday: The Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn
Three New Yorkers find poetry and their own religion, competing for the hearts and minds of a gaggle of pigeons high in the skies over NYC.
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Ram Devineni
The Man Who Got America High
He chartered the Rolling Stones while smuggling Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side. After disappearing for decades, Alfred Dellentash finally shares his…
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Jeff Maysh
Porno Power: The Next Generation
Their parents broke barriers, supporting each other through trials and tribulations during the Golden Age of Porn. Now these grown children of porn…
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Hallie Lieberman
The Extremely Enchanting, Totally Perplexing, Possibly Never-Ending Quest for the Golden Owl
For 30 years, this labyrinthine treasure hunt has had thousands of players cracking codes and digging up the French countryside. After a sudden death…
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Phil Hoad
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The First Family of Counterfeit Hunting
Robert Holmes taught his sons everything he knew about exposing black-market knockoffs. Now they take down the world's biggest scammers while dodging…
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Amy Ridout
21 Days of Staring Down Death: Diary of a Hunger Strike
One activist’s drastic protest fiercely divided my country—and his own family—on whether he was a hero or a fool. I had to meet the man who was putting…
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Nyssa Chow
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The Man Who Pierced the Iron Curtain in a Flying Go-Kart – and Left Civilization Forever
Escaping Communism in a DIY aircraft wasn’t enough for Ivo Zdarsky. So he invented his own way of life — in a Utah desert ghost town.
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Andy Rieber
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