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Manson’s Music

‘Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind,’ a film about the rock-star ambitions of Charles Manson, is available to rent from Vudu and others

ABC, CBS, Fox, & NBC have sued Locast, which rebroadcasts their channels online for free

‘Otherhood,’ starring Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman as neglected moms, debuts Aug. 2 on Netflix

‘The Great Hack,’ a documentary about the surreptitious use of personal Facebook data to manipulate voters, debuts July 24 on Netflix

On July 20, NASA TV will alternate between 1st moon landing celebration and live coverage of an International Space Station mission

The Decades channel will return to the air in New York, Dallas and other major markets this fall via Fox-owned stations.

Ovid.tv is adding two documentaries commemorating LGBT Pride Month, as well as three war-related docs

‘Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party,’ 2-hour historical doc, debuts June 25 on PBS, PBS.org & the PBS video app

Ovid.tv will add four gritty documentaries from Oscilloscope this Friday, June 21

‘Return to the Moon,’ presented in 4K, examines the technology needed to revisit — and colonize — the moon and beyond