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Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2005
This film documents the rise and fall of Buddy Cianci former Mayor of Providence RI. It shows how he turned a rundown New England city in a vibrant community. It also shows the corruption of the community from which he benefited. Despite have been convicted on Federal RICO charges and having gone to prison he remains beloved in Providence. Many argue that he could easily be elected...
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2005
90 min
Buddy
Year: 2012
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 - an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level - that also happens to have the best most winning junior high school chess team in the country. If Albert Einstein who was rated 1800 were to join the team hed only rank fifth best. Chess has transformed the school from...
2012
101 min
Brooklyn Castle
Country: United States, Canada, China, Norway
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Year: 2010
Some say that to embrace ones greatest talent is to make the world a better place. Others see a grown man spinning a sixteen-foot hula hoop and snicker about trivial obsessions. Breaking world records is a mysteriously seductive tradition alternately inspiring reckless and bizarre. Follow a joggler a grape catcher and a man who cycles nowhere as they battle the odds - and their respective...
2010
88 min
Breaking And Entering
Year: 1995
Back in the days of the Brady Bunch series all the cast members were given home movie cameras as a gift. For the first time ever the footage they shot has been assembled in a loving sometimes irreverent tribute to the show that would not...
1995
60 min
Brady Bunch Home Movies
Country: United States, Canada, Germany
Genre: Documentary, History
Year: 2002
The USA of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns violent national history violent entertainment and even...
2002
120 min
Bowling For Columbine
Genre: Documentary, Short, Adventure
Year: 2011
This heartwarming film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them-saving endangered species one life at a...
2011
40 min
Born To Be Wild
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Musical
Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Harel tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish a young boy diagnosed with bipolar...
80 min
Bombay Beach
Genre: Documentary, War
Year: 2007
Body of War is a documentary following Tomas Young an Iraq War veteran paralyzed from a bullet to the spine on a physical and emotional journey as he adapts to his new body and begins to question the decision to go to war in Iraq. From soldier to anti-war activist the film takes an unflinching view of the physical and emotional aftermath of war through the eyes of an American hero. The film...
2007
87 min
Body Of War
Six years in the making this documentary film follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest through his life-threatening struggle with addiction to his transformation into one of the most influential and controversial drug counselors in the US today. BOB AND THE MONSTER crafts contemporary footage animation and compelling interviews with archival performances and personal videos from Bobs...
Bob And The Monster
Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Short, Documentary
Year: 1990
On several Shuttle missions Earth has been portrayed from places that nobody else could reach. We also get shown the different locations and the environmental problems mankind created there because of our wish to exploit our planet for our own...
1990
42 min
Blue Planet
Year: 2008
Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants private investors and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply prompting protests lawsuits and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor...
2008
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Year: 2003
The comedic stylings of four sort-of famous funnymen are brought to the big screen courtesy of this 2002...
2003
105 min
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
Country: Germany, Denmark
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83 min
Blood In The Mobile
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Year: 2006
Marty Callaghans Synopsis: Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empires demise in 1918 and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies a close study of this conflict provides two...
2006
112 min
Blood And Oil: The Middle East In World War I
Blind Spot is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance greed wishful thinking we have put ourselves at a crossroad which offers two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we dont our way of life will...
86 min
Blind Spot
Today Manhattan is a byword for overpriced property overexposed landmarks and overdressed fashionistas. In the late 70s however it was rat-infested crime-crippled cheap and nasty - somewhere for America to dump its immigrants poor people and artists. Music art fashion and filmmaking burgeoned fueled by drugs dares fads feuds and a fair helping of...
94 min
Blank City
Black Metal Veins unflinchingly documents the dark realities of despair and morbid self annihilation surrounding the lives of five heroin junkies. The addicts intertwining stories of pain loss sadness and abandonment lead the viewer down the agonizing and hideous path of horrifying psychological and spiritual destruction as the grim disease of heroin addiction infects and decays the bodies...
92 min
Black Metal Veins
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World-renowned herpetologist Joe Slowinski is bitten by a juvenile krait while on expedition in Burma. Rani has also been bitten by a krait in a rural Indian village. The kraits venom causes the victim to suffer from locked-in syndrome where the body becomes paralyzed but the mind can still function. Only one will...
44 min
Bite Of The Living Dead
Country: United Kingdom
91 min
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
Genre: Documentary, Short
25 min
Big Guns, Bigger Heroes: The 1980's And The Rise Of The Action Film
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, News
Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish filmmakers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the...
Big Boys Gone Bananas
Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African...
100 min
Beware Of Mr. Baker
Country: United States, Spain, Hungary, Italy, France, Germany, Croatia, Switzerland
Four college students travel to Europe to escape their routine faith and gain a radically new perspective on following...
Beware Of Christians
A pair of childhood friends from Texas who set out to prove...
82 min
Better This World
Bermuda Triangle Exposed
Country: United States, Netherlands
Genre: Documentary, News
This documentary looks for an answer to the question of why the number of suicides among young American veterans and soldiers of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is so frighteningly high. The filmmakers traveled to Killeen Texas home of Fort Hood - the largest Army base in the USA where last year 19 soldiers committed suicide. The kaleidoscopic film consists of interviews with soldiers and...
78 min
Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Raised in the Tennessee mountains Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wees Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape...
Beauty Is Embarrassing
Year: 2004
Using specially designed and camouflaged cameras this documentary offers an intimate look into the secret lives of bears in various parts of the world. The disguised spy-cams blend into the bears natural environment to capture a glimpse of the everyday life of these engaging creatures. Unprecedented footage of wild Pandas in their native bamboo groves in China shows never seen before activities...
2004
Bears: Spy In The Woods
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Battle for Brooklyn follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for the densest real estate development in U.S. history. Along the way he falls in love gets married and starts a family while living in an abandoned building located at the heart of the project site. Over the course of seven years...
93 min
Battle For Brooklyn
Delve into the world of Batman and the vigilante justice that he brought to the city of Gotham. Batman is a man who after experiencing great tragedy devotes his life to an ideal - but what happens when one man takes on the evil underworld alone? Examine why Batman is who he is - and explore how a boy scarred by tragedy becomes a symbol of hope to everyone...
46 min
Batman Unmasked
A look at the life of Bob Kane the creator of...
38 min
Batman And Me: A Devotion To Destiny, The Bob Kane Story
Year: 1992
Without words cameras show us the world with an emphasis not on where but on whats there. It begins with morning natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes water falls veldts and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging blasting and strip mining. Images of...
1992
96 min
Baraka
Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged is a feature length documentary film that examines the resurging interest in Ayn Rands epic and controversial 1957 novel and the validity of its dire prediction for...
Ayn Rand & The Prophecy Of Atlas Shrugged
Country: Australia
The story of Australias greatest flood the Queensland flood of early 2011. This is told from the perspective of the people who actually lived through...
52 min
Australia's Great Flood
Country: United States, Australia
A breathtaking journey through the exotic surreal and dramatic natural environment of...
Australia: Land Beyond Time
Year: 1997
Although many areas are visited: Bimini the Azores the Canary Islands Malta and Antarctica great credence is given to the evidence that supports the Greek island of Thera Santorini as the actual location of the legendary...
1997
45 min
Atlantis: In Search Of A Lost Continent
Country: Sweden
In At Night I Fly: Images from New Folsom inmates at one of Californias most maximum security prisons let us see their world. This world is less about dangerous drama and more as one of them describes about isolation. About closure of both the mind and the heart. And the spirit. The documentary shows prisoners most serving a life sentence who refuse such closure and instead work to...
At Night I Fly
Country: Netherlands
Year: 2013
For the first time in history the tables have turned on men. In the past Witch-Hunt was associated with women but now it is associated with men. In an effort to protect our children society has started to isolate men. This documentary explores the pedophilia hysteria and how all men are viewed as potential pedophiles. How did society come to such a conclusion and what are the political and...
2013
70 min
Are All Men Pedophiles?
Australian Aquaponics master Murray Hallam reveals little known secrets to successfully growing fish and vegetables in your...
97 min
Aquaponics Secrets
Aquaponics master Murray Hallam takes you into the world of Aquaponics and explains how you can grow clean fresh and organic fish and vegetables in your own...
Aquaponics Made Easy
Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
At 14 best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil hailed as the demi-gods of Canadian metal influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica Slayer and Anthrax despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour Lips and Robb now in their fifties set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill...
Anvil The Story Of Anvil
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gores personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way. Al Gore strips his presentations of politics laying out the facts for the audience...
An Inconvenient Truth
This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular...
American Grindhouse
Year: 1978
1978
55 min
American Boy: A Profile Of: Steven Prince
A documentary that explores the connection between income tax collection and the erosion of civil liberties in...
95 min
America: Freedom To Fascism
Country: Germany
Amazing Oceans 3D is a fantastic journey through the magic of the deep blue sea. Let yourself be amazed by little schools of fish that swim right into your living room and experience dolphins and whale sharks that visit you on your sofa. Shot in stereoscopic 3D Amazing Oceans 3D is a breathtakingly beautiful 3D experience for the whole family. Fun for the young and the young at...
Amazing Ocean 3d
All About 'the Good Life'
James Cameron journeys to some of the Earths deepest most extreme and unknown environments in search of the strange and alien creatures that live there. Joining him is a team of young NASA scientists and marine biologists who consider how these life forms represent life we may one day find in outer space not only on distant planets orbiting distant stars but also within our own solar system....
Aliens Of The Deep
Bob Swerer and Bob Swerer Sr. visit Dick Proenneke at his famous cabin on Twin Lakes where the wildlife is still abundant and the scenery is...
58 min
Alaska: Silence & Solitude
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is the first feature-length film about the internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. In recent years Ai has garnered international attention as much for his ambitious artwork as his political provocations. AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY examines this complex intersection of artistic practice and social activism as seen through the life and art of Chinas...
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
A nature documentary centered on two cat families and how they teach their cubs the ways of the...
89 min
African Cats
A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans and proposed solutions to the...
84 min
A Place At The Table
It is the largest movement the world has ever seen it may also be the most important - in terms of whats at stake. Yet its not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still environmentalism is one of the great social innovations...
A Fierce Green Fire
Year: 1945
This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September 1944. Narration explains to Timothy what his family his neighbors and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to...
1945
A Diary For Timothy
Before Bad Brains the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed three teenage brothers in the early 70s formed a band in their spare bedroom began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hoped of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Deaths music - and band name - too...
A Band Called Death
A documentary that examines the question If Barack Obama wins a second term where will we be in...
2016: Obama's America
Genre: Documentary, Short, Drama, Family
We were at it for seven years. My mother and I. Trying to make the perfect image of...
11 min
1987-1993
9/11: Surviving The Impact
Four airplanes. Nearly three-thousand victims. One unimaginable tragedy. The terrible events of September 11 2001 will never be...
9/11: Stories In Fragments
