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Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2004
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2004
52 min
911 In Plane Site
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Sport
Year: 2010
Conquerors of the Useless follows Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia. Along the way he gets shipwrecked off Easter Island surfs the longest wave of his life - and prepares himself for a rare ascent of Cerro Corcovado. Jeffs life turns when he meets up in a rainy hut with Chouinard and Tompkins who once driven purely by...
2010
85 min
180° South
Genre: Documentary, History
Year: 2008
The morning of September 11 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers...
2008
102 min
102 Minutes That Changed America
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2012
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven...
2012
144 min
56 Up
Country: Canada
Year: 2011
I dont know anything about mountaineering! laughs first-time climber Bagyashree as her expedition leader shows her how to use an oxygen mask. Like a beehive with no queen Everest Base Camp has become a sprawling haphazard community of individuals all competing for space to make their own push to the summit. Boy has it changed. There used to be only one expedition per season now theres...
2011
40 Days At Base Camp
Country: Palestine, Israel, France, Netherlands
When his fourth son Gibreel is born Emad a Palestinian villager gets his first camera. In his village Bilin a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist this decision. For more than five years Emad films the struggle which is led by two of his best friends alongside filming how Gibreel grows. Very soon it affects his family and his own life. Daily arrests and...
94 min
Five Broken Cameras
Country: Romania
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to yield films focused on recent history yet with an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is an eminently syntactic...
180 min
The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2003
Part documentary part narrative fiction part home movie and part acid trip. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots Super-8 home movies old answering machine messages video diaries early short films snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. The story begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother...
2003
88 min
Tarnation
Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, News
Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...
84 min
Robert Mugabe... What Happened?
Genre: Documentary, Action, Biography, Drama
ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of todays youth and young adults and the influences that perpetuate our cultures apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students parents and artists all looking for their place in society. Together they capture the thoughts and feelings of todays struggling generation as...
81 min
Regeneration
Iconic writer director actor comedian and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access Emmy-winning Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography. Woody Allen: A Documentary chronicles Allens career -...
113 min
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Country: United States, Israel, France, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, War
One night at a bar an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that theres a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he cant remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this...
90 min
Waltz With Bashir
Country: United States, China, Italy
The story of a family that suffers a tragedy but perseveres and finds redemption through each other and their work - making...
82 min
The Woodmans
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest and Conrad Anker the mountaineer who finds Mallorys frozen remains 75 years...
The Wildest Dream
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
About the daring adventure of exploring rainforest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-tops. But this logistic effort will not be without risk. Twelve years ago a similar expedition into the unique habitat of the...
The White Diamond
Year: 1984
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27 1978. Milks life leading up to his election his successful efforts to politically represent San Franciscos gay community and the citys reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal...
1984
The Times Of Harvey Milk
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, War
A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...
104 min
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, Cia Spymaster William Colby
Year: 2002
This documentary captures the life story of legendary Hollywood producer and studio chief Robert Evans. The first actor to ever to run a film studio Robert Evans film career started in 1956 poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. His good looks charm and overwhelming confidence captured the eye of screen legend Norma Shearer who offered him a film role. After a glamorous--but...
2002
93 min
The Kid Stays In The Picture
Year: 1996
1996
Full
The Ken & Barbie Killers
A documentary centered on a young Frenchman who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3...
99 min
The Imposter
A documentary about the true life story of world renowned martial artist Frank...
70 min
Put Up Your Dux
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography, War
Apple pie cheerleader turned tough-as-nails machine gunner in the Iraq War Sgt. Robynn Murray comes home to face a new kind of battle she never...
38 min
Poster Girl
Country: United States, Philippines
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy, Musical
A documentary about legendary songwriter and 70s icon Paul...
87 min
Paul Williams Still Alive
Country: Australia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
An intimate portrait of Paul Kelly Australias foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country described its landscapes and cities and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs penned lyrics for many other singers co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul...
95 min
Paul Kelly - Stories Of Me
Country: United States, Hong Kong
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography, Drama, History
On a rooftop high above the bustling streets of Hong Kong a woman practices the ancient art of tai chi as her daughter watches from the shadows. Invisible from below they share their hidden promontory with 30 other families. All live in shanties perched precariously on top of a nine-story building. This film is a porthole to an intimate view of life in these illegal rooftop tenements that exist...
31 min
Once Upon A Rooftop
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Charles Darwin is taken aback when he receives a manuscript from a colleague Alfred Wallace which contains many of the same conclusions as he on evolution and the development of various species. Darwins theory was developed over a great many years and in flashbacks the manner in which it developed is shown. He had many supporters and likely more critics. He knew that his ideas were radical...
Nova Darwin's Darkest Hour
Dec. 26 2004...
54 min
Nova Wave That Shook The World
Secrets Of Lost Empires: China Bridge
NOVA investigates the furious scientific debate raging over what Hobbit bones...
Nova Alien From Earth
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...
96 min
Nicky's Family
Country: Switzerland, Netherlands, Malaysia, Italy, United States, Germany, Finland, Venezuela, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Family
For twenty years filmmaker Jennifer Fox has been following the high Tibetan master Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and his Italian born son Yeshi with her camera. The result is the astounding feature length documentary MY REINCARNATION which tells the rare inside story of one of the last reincarnate teachers to be trained in Tibet and his sons stubborn reluctance to follow in his fathers...
My Reincarnation
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, News, Thriller
IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front the radical environmental group that the FBI calls Americas number one domestic terrorist threat. With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The...
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War
Examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim 1918-1992 and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of 7 groundbreaking books. These books were the birth of Street Lit and explored the world of the ghetto in gritty and poetic detail and have made him a cultural icon. Interviews with Iceberg Slim Chris Rock Henry Rollins Ice-T Snoop Dogg and Quincy...
89 min
Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp
Year: 1999
1999
50 min
John Wayne Gacy: A Monster In Disguise
The full story of this groundbreaking dance company from their founding in 1956 to the present. The Joffrey is considered the first truly American ballet company and was the first to perform at the White House and the first company to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin the film shows how the Joffrey transformed American dance by combining modern dance with...
Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance
Year: 2005
A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films explores their compassionate lives as they found solace among these endangered...
2005
103 min
Grizzly Man
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Filmed over a decade Brief Encounters follows internationally renowned photographer Gregory Crewdsons quest to create his unique surreal and incredibly elaborate portraits of suburban life. He sets a house on fire builds 90 foot sets with crews of sixty shuts down city streets...all in the service of his haunted image of American life and his own anxieties dreams and inner desires. Brief...
78 min
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
We live in the age of the bromance. Never has pop culture been so fascinated with male friendships. What do they look like? Why are they important? And how do we talk about them without seeming...unmanly? Films like I Love You Man or the recent GQ article entitled Are You Man Enough for the Man-Date? are just a couple of examples of how society is wrestling with what male relationships...
Five Friends
Country: France, Switzerland
Year: 1974
Ugandas dictator General Idi Amin Dada accepts a foreign crews request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations his goal of eradicating Israel his views on economic policy and his views of Nixon Kissinger and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting two weeks after this meeting the foreign...
1974
General Idi Amin Dada
Country: Spain
Year: 2009
A compelling account of Juan Pujol an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of...
2009
Garbo: The Spy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, Family
Year: 2007
The grail is not the gold nor the books of ancient wisdom but the 3000 year old DNA of the mummies which may lead to a cure for...
2007
Mummies: Secrets Of The Pharaohs
This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the worlds premiere museums is for any living artist the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina it is far more - it is the chance to finally...
106 min
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
On August 7 1974 Philippe Petit a French wire walker juggler and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday spent 45 minutes walking dancing kneeling and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews archival footage and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney...
Man On Wire - Der Drahtseilakt
Three-time New York City Mayor 1978-1989 Ed Koch was combative funny and blunt. He was also intensely private. Koch gives us a contemporary history of the worlds greatest city and an intimate portrait of the 86-year old former mayor as he confronts his own mortality and legacy. The film examines issues still relevant today - race homelessness AIDS and gay rights - and gives us a...
100 min
Koch
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were Americas most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals they have risen to iconic status in American culture. Eames: The Architect & The Painter draws from a treasure trove of archival material as well as new interviews with friends colleague and experts to capture the...
Eames: The Architect & The Painter
A documentary on speculative fiction writer and essayist Harlan...
Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Alexander Sasha Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA more commonly known as Esctasy. Considered to be one of the the greatest chemists of the twentieth century Sashas vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research. Dirty Pictures delves into the lifework of Dr. Shulgin and scientists alike explores...
Dirty Pictures
For decades Diana Vreeland was one of the leading authorities in fashion through eccentric self-taught skill and a bold stylistic audacity. This film guides you through this fashion pioneers long career from her youth in Paris until she became a leading magazine fashion columnist and editor. In this medium Vreeland challenged its preconceptions to present a new definition of beauty and...
86 min
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
Year: 1994
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin Fritz the Cat and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother two brothers wife and ex-girlfriends as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one mans...
1994
119 min
Crumb
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, News
The story of the battle to free Debbie Peagler an incarcerated survivor of brutal domestic violence. Over 26 years in prison cannot crush the spirit of this determined African-American woman despite the injustices she has experienced first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution and later by prosecutors who cornered her into a life behind bars for...
Crime After Crime
National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the worlds changing glaciers. Balogs hauntingly beautiful...
75 min
Chasing Ice
In the late 1980s the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman mother and housewife Elaine Friedman and their three grown sons David Friedman Seth Friedman and Jesse Friedman - of Great Neck Long Island are seemingly your typical middle class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious - Arnold and Elaine...
107 min
Capturing The Friedmans
Country: United States, France
Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thingthe pictures he takes that document the way people dress. The 80-year-old New York Times photographer has two columns in the papers Style section yet nobody knows who he...
Bill Cunningham New York
Country: United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery, News, War
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...
American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein (2009)
Spinning Plates is a documentary about three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are. A cutting-edge restaurant named the seventh-best in the world whose chef must battle a life-threatening obstacle to pursue his passion. A 150-year-old family restaurant still standing only because of the unbreakable bond with its community. A fledgling Mexican restaurant...
Spinning Plates
Year: 2013
An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger the reclusive author of The Catcher in the...
2013
120 min
Salinger
For years Ushio Shinohara has been one of the leading and most underappreciated alternative artists in Japan and New York City with an wildly esoteric style. For many of those years his wife Noriko has been a faithful companion to this idiosyncratic man but grew want to be more. This film covers the relationship of these special couple as Ushio struggles for commercial success on his own...
Cutie And The Boxer
Young Margaret: Life, Love & Letters
British biologist and military veteran Steve Backshall visits the Arabian peninsula to film its surprisingly rich and varied wildlife. Contrary to its desert reputation Arabia comprises various distinct regions each with its own...
Wild Arabia
