Canal Zone (1977)
CANAL ZONE is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies — business, military, and civilian — related to the functioning of the Canal and the lives of the Americans in the zone. The film includes sequences of ships in transit, the work of special canal pilots, aspects of the civil government, work of the military, and the social, religious and recreational life of the Zonians.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Frederick Wiseman
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Altman (2014)
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Conor McGregor: Notorious (2017)
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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009)
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Steve Jobs: Visionary Genius (2012)
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Steal This Film II (2007)
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