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The Look of Silence
A family of survivors confront their son's killers, unafraid of what might happen to them.
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- Denmark, Indonesia, Finland • 2014
- Director Joshua Oppenheimer
- Cast Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong, Kemat
- Genre History, Documentary
- Available on Netflix, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Freevee, Hoopla, Plex Channel
The Act of Killing
(Jagal)
A story of killers who win, and the society they build.
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- United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway • 2012
- Director Joshua Oppenheimer
- Cast Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno, Safit Pardede
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Netflix, Fandor Amazon Channel, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Hoopla
Flee
(Flugt)
Part memoir, part documentary, this animated film recounts the story of a refugee from Afghanistan to Denmark.
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- Denmark, France, Sweden • 2021
- Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen
- Cast Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz, Elaha Faiz, Zahra Mehrwarz
- Genre Animation, Documentary
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Big Men
You've never seen Africa’s oil companies quite this close before.
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- United Kingdom, Denmark, United States • 2014
- Director Rachel Boynton
- Cast George Owusu-Afriyie, Bill Hayes, Jeffrey Harris
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
The Territory
The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people fight back against deforestation and illegal settling on their land.
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- Brazil, Denmark, United States • 2022
- Director Alex Pritz
- Cast Neidinha Bandeira, Bitaté Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Disney Plus
Little Girl
(Petite fille)
A documentary portrait of eight year-old Sasha, currently questioning her gender identity and dealing with (oftentimes negative) societal reactions.
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- France, Denmark • 2020
- Director Sébastien Lifshitz
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The Cave
(غار)
The patriarchy has no place in a war.
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- Syria, Denmark, Germany • 2019
- Director Feras Fayyad
- Cast Amani Ballour, Salim Namour
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandango At Home, National Geographic
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
(Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land)
Thirty heroic underground video journalists secretly videotaped the peaceful protests and violent military response of the 2007 uprising in Burma.
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- Denmark, Sweden, Norway • 2008
- Director Anders Østergaard
- Cast George W. Bush, Ko Muang, Aung San Suu Kyi
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, YouTube, Amazon Video
Angels Are Made of Light
A portrait of Afghan students and their teachers weathering national turbulence.
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- Denmark, Norway, United States • 2018
- Director James Longley
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Tubi TV, Hoopla
Bergman Island
Watch Ingmar Bergman show where he shot his film, Persona, and fell in love - and hear him list his worst personal demons!
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- Sweden, Denmark, Norway • 2006
- Director Marie Nyreröd
- Cast Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson, Marie Nyreröd
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel
Concerning Violence
(Om våld)
Based on newly discovered archival material, this film portrays the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World.
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- Sweden, Finland, Denmark • 2014
- Director Göran Olsson
- Cast Lauryn Hill
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Last Men in Aleppo
(De sidste mænd i Aleppo)
A documentary about the White Helmets, ordinary citizens who rush towards military strikes in the hope of saving lives.
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- Denmark, Syria • 2017
- Director Feras Fayyad
- Cast Khaled Umar Harah, Batul
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
Pervert Park
Many sex offenders live under bridges or in woods – or in the trailer park Florida Justice Transitions – known as Pervert Park.
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- Denmark, Sweden, United States • 2014
- Director Lasse Barkfors
- Cast
- Genre Crime, Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video
Aquarela
A film that explores and investigates water in all of its forms.
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- United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark • 2019
- Director Viktor Kossakovsky
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Five Obstructions
(De fem benspænd)
About a filmmaker not only revisiting, but also recreating one of his first films, 1967's The Perfect Human five different ways.
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- Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium • 2003
- Director Jørgen Leth
- Cast Claus Nissen, Lars von Trier, Majken Algren Nielsen, Jacqueline Arenal, Daniel Hernandez Rodriguez
- Genre Documentary
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
Amanda Knox
Either I'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing, or I am you.
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- Denmark, United States • 2016
- Director Rod Blackhurst
- Cast Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, Giuliano Mignini, Nick Pisa, Valter Biscotti, Stefano Conti
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Expedition to the End of the World
(Ekspeditionen til verdens ende)
A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map.
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- Denmark, Sweden, Greenland • 2013
- Director Daniel Dencik
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Hoopla
The Kingmaker
A journey through the Marcos family's history of corruption, extravagance and brutality as former First Family of the Philippines.
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- Denmark, United States • 2019
- Director Lauren Greenfield
- Cast Imelda Marcos
- Genre Documentary
- Available on fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Two men investigate the killing of the secretary general of the United Nations, and discover a secret far worse.
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- Denmark, Norway, Sweden • 2019
- Director Mads Brügger
- Cast Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza, Göran Björkdahl, Hilding Björkdahl, Charles Southall
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, DistroTV, Plex, Plex Channel
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
(Jag är Ingrid)
A personal portrait of mythical and controversial actress Ingrid Bergman.
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- Sweden, Denmark, Germany • 2015
- Director Stig Björkman
- Cast Alicia Vikander, Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini, Isotta Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
David Lynch: The Art Life
Experience a unique documentary event: exploring the life and the mind of the creative genius behind David Lynch.
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- United States, Denmark • 2017
- Director Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes
- Cast David Lynch, Lula Lynch, Edwina Lynch, Donald Lynch, Peggy Reavey
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
A Family Affair
Tom's long forgotten 95-year old grandmother Mariann, asks him to come and help her with her will, so he sets off to South Africa and decides to bring his camera.
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- Netherlands, Denmark, South Africa • 2015
- Director Tom Fassaert
- Cast Marianne Hertz, Robert Fassaert, René Fassaert, Madeleine Fassaert
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Something Better to Come
Yula's home is the largest garbage dump in Europe, outside Moscow, and this is the story of her journey out.
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- Denmark, Poland, Japan • 2014
- Director Hanna Polak
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
A House Made of Splinters
(Будинок зі скалок)
This documentary explores the daily routines of young children left in a shelter in Ukraine.
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- Denmark, Ukraine, Sweden • 2023
- Director Simon Lereng Wilmont
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Raft
(Flotten)
The surviving members of the Acali Expedition are gathered and interviewed to discuss their experience of the 101 day voyage.
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- Sweden, Denmark, Germany • 2019
- Director Marcus Lindeen
- Cast Daniel Giménez Cacho, Maria Björnstam, Mary Gidley, Rachida Lièvre, Edna Reves
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
While under house arrest, artist Ai Weiwei continues to challenge the Chinese government in his fight for human rights.
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- Denmark, China, United Kingdom • 2013
- Director Andreas Johnsen
- Cast Ai Weiwei, Jerome A. Cohen, Feng Wang, Pan Haixia, Yunchang He
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Armadillo
For you it's a movie. For them it's reality.
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- Denmark • 2010
- Director Janus Metz Pedersen
- Cast Rasmus, Mads 'Mini', Daniel 'Olby', Kim 'Birkerod'
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Kanopy, Hoopla
I Am Breathing
Neil has 5 months left to live, and contemplates how to communicate his life in a letter for his baby son.
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- Denmark, United Kingdom • 2013
- Director Morag McKinnon
- Cast Neil Platt
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films, Kanopy
Bugs
Two chefs investigate the possibilities of edible insects.
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- Netherlands, Denmark, France • 2016
- Director Andreas Johnsen
- Cast Ben Reade
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Why We Fight
Explore the military-industrial economy that fueled America's status as a global superpower
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- United Kingdom, France, Denmark • 2005
- Director Eugene Jarecki
- Cast Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft, Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Robert Byrd
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Into Eternity
In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository for high-level radioactive waste is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years.
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- Denmark, Finland, Sweden • 2010
- Director Michael Madsen
- Cast Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm, Michael Madsen, Wendla Paile, Esko Roukola, Mikael Jensen
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films
The Ambassador
To break the story, he must become the story.
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- Denmark, Sweden • 2011
- Director Mads Brügger
- Cast Mads Brügger
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, MZ Choice Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandor, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
(Melancholian 3 huonetta)
A documentary exposing the brutal tole of the Chechen war, especially on children.
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- Finland, Denmark, Germany • 2004
- Director Pirjo Honkasalo
- Cast Pirkko Saisio
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Bananas!*
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- Sweden, Denmark, United States • 2009
- Director Fredrik Gertten
- Cast Byron Rosales Romero, Juan J. Dominguez, Duane Miller, Rick McKnight, David Delorenzo, Mercedes Del Carmen Romero
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
50 years ago Mr. Vig bought Hesbjerg Castle hoping to turn it into a monastery. His dream is about to come true.
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- Denmark • 2007
- Director Pernille Rose Grønkjær
- Cast Sister Ambrosija, Mr. Vig
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films
The Tainted Veil
This documentary explores complex feelings surrounding the hijab, or Muslim headscarf.
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- United Arab Emirates, Denmark, Egypt • 2015
- Director Nahla Al Fahad, Mazen al Khayrat, Ovidio Salazar
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Apple TV
Ghosts of Cité Soleil
A documentary about two brothers from rival gangs in Port-au-Prince.
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- Denmark, United States • 2006
- Director Asger Leth
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Beautiful Something Left Behind
A documentary about a program that provides holistic bereavement support for children going through loss.
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- Denmark • 2021
- Director Katrine Philp
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
That Summer
Return to "that summer" in 1972, a seductive dream world of radically unconventional creative personalities, from Warhol to Jagger.
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- Sweden, Denmark, United States • 2017
- Director Göran Olsson
- Cast Edith Bouvier Beale, Andy Warhol, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Peter Beard, Lee Radziwill
- Genre Documentary
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The Yes Men Are Revolting
The Yes Men go to various lengths to prank government officials and corporations to highlight climate change issues.
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- Netherlands, Denmark, France • 2014
- Director Laura Nix
- Cast Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno
- Genre Documentary
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy
Videocracy
Filmmaker Erik Gandini explores Italy's latest obsession with celebrity worship.
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- Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom • 2009
- Director Erik Gandini
- Cast Silvio Berlusconi, Flavio Briatore, Fabrizio Corona, Lele Mora, Simona Ventura, Marella Giovannelli
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
My Darling Supermarket
(Meu Querido Supermercado)
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- Brazil, Denmark • 2019
- Director Tali Yankelevich
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Defamation
(Hashmatsa)
Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?"
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- Israel, Denmark, United States • 2009
- Director Yoav Shamir
- Cast Uri Avneri, Norman Finkelstein, Abraham Foxman, John Mearsheimer
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
The Red Chapel
(Det røde kapel)
Two Korean-Danish comics accompany the director on a trip to satirize North Korea, disguised as a vaudeville tour.
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- Denmark • 2009
- Director Mads Brügger
- Cast Simon Jul Jørgensen, Jacob Nossell, Mads Brügger
- Genre Comedy, Documentary
- Available on Fandango At Home, VUDU Free, Kanopy
Children of the Enemy
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- Sweden, Denmark, Qatar • 2021
- Director Gorki Glaser-Müller
- Cast Patricio Gálvez, Clive Stafford Smith, Isabel Coles, Rena Effendi, Cecilia Uddén
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Big Time
(Big Time: Historien om Bjarke Ingels)
Insight into the brilliant, unique mind of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.
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- Denmark • 2017
- Director Kaspar Astrup Schröder
- Cast Bjarke Ingels, Charlie Rose, Elisabet Ingels, Knud Bundgaard Jensen, David Zahle
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
The Man Who Saved the World
The true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who actually saved the world.
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- Denmark, Latvia, Russia • 2014
- Director Peter Anthony
- Cast Stanislav Petrov, Kevin Costner, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Sergey Shnyryov, Nataliya Vdovina
- Genre Documentary, History, War
- Available on Flix Premiere, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee, Hoopla
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
A pair of filmmakers fight Dole's attempts to block the release of their documentary exposing the food company's use of harmful pesticides.
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- Sweden, Denmark, Germany • 2011
- Director Fredrik Gertten
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on GuideDoc, Hoopla
Putin's Kiss
A documentary focusing on a young woman who begins to question her pro-Putin political activities when she befriends liberal journalists.
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- Denmark, Russia • 2011
- Director Lise Birk Pedersen
- Cast Oleg Kashin, Masha Drokova, Garry Kasparov, Dmitry Medvedev, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Bobbi Jene
A love story portraying the dilemmas and inevitable consequences of ambition.
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- Denmark, Sweden, Israel • 2017
- Director Elvira Lind
- Cast Bobbi Jene Smith, Ohad Naharin, Or Schraiber, Laura Dern, Oscar Isaac
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Chai Flicks, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy
A LEGO Brickumentary
This documentary looks at the global culture and appeal of LEGO.
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- Denmark, United States • 2014
- Director Kief Davidson, Daniel Junge
- Cast Jason Bateman, Jamie Berard
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The Human Scale
Humanity's rapid shift toward urbanization may not be entirely positive.
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- Denmark, Bangladesh, China • 2013
- Director Andreas Dalsgaard
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
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