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The Arbor (2010)
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The Lost Aviator (2014)
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Confessions of an Innocent Man (2007)
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Making Shankly (2017)
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Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)
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The Great Famine (2011)
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I Am Secretly an Important Man (2010)
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