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Country: United Kingdom, Spain
Genre: Documentary, Action, Sport
Year: 2011
Feature film for release Spring 2011 following four superbike riders through their dramatic British Superbike Season. They are the new GLADIATORS battling at 200MPH riding through torturous conditions and risking life and limb at every race meeting. Only one can be the true champion. The film follows the great British hope Tommy Hill a fearless racer who cheated death at 14 years old. It...
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2011
100 min
I Superbiker
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Documentary, Music
Year: 2007
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock...
2007
93 min
Joy Division
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Sport
Year: 1994
This documentary follows two inner-city Chicago residents Arthur Agee and William Gates as they follow their dreams of becoming basketball superstars. Beginning at the start of their high school years and ending almost 5 years later as they start college we watch the boys mature into men still retaining their Hoop Dreams. Both are recruited into the same elite high school as their idol...
1994
170 min
Hoop Dreams
Year: 1999
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1999
57 min
Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 2010
2010
91 min
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
Year: 1959
Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958 this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. Its a concert film that suggests peace and leisure jazz at a particular time and...
1959
85 min
Jazz On A Summer's Day
Year: 2012
A documentary film about the extraordinary life of a famous musical prodigy who has been battling against Lou Gehrigs Disease for 22 years. A paralyzing terminal illness with no real treatment or cure it has trapped Jason inside of his body for over 15 years; unable to move unable to speak and unable to play the instrument which propelled him to international stardom at just 19 years of...
2012
87 min
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
This is a personal journey film about singer/songwriter John Mellencamp. It was made during his summer 2009 tour with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson; Mellencamp also recorded his new album in three historical locations during the month and a half tour. The story is told through the eyes of the father/son film making team of Kurt and Ian Markus neither of whom had ever made a film before. The entire...
86 min
It's About You
Country: United Kingdom, Canada
Year: 2009
Come fly with Iron Maiden and enjoy the hospitality of Flight 666 as the boys take on the biggest tour of their career flying around the world in their own private Boeing 757. This insight into the background noise that is the logistical workings of the 2008 Somewhere Back in Time World Tour is captivating both behind the scenes as well as on stage. Performing in front of sell out crowds...
2009
112 min
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
Year: 1987
1987
90 min
Iron Maiden: 12 Wasted Years
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Year: 1996
The world of grunge. This documentary examines the Seattle scene as it became the focus of a merging of punk rock heavy metal and innovation. Building from the grass roots self-promoted and self-recorded until break-out success of bands like Nirvana brought the record industry to the Pacific Northwest a phenomenon was born. More than just an examination of the music this is a look at how...
1996
84 min
Hype
HIT SO HARD follows the journey of Patty Schemel the openly gay drummer of Courtney Loves seminal rock band Hole. As a young girl who always knew she was different from the other kids in her farm town home outside of Seattle Patty never dreamed she would one day have her picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. But she also never fathomed that she could lose it all. A true survivor of what...
103 min
Hit So Hard
Year: 2006
Possibilities is an intimate documentary about Herbie Hancock and his in-studio collaborations with a dozen formidable pop recording artists collaborations that explore the unexpected like jazz improvisations. The film is also about how Herbies unique world view shapes a creative environment that encourages artists to step outside the velvet prison of easy expectations. The hip stuff...
2006
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
Country: Iceland
In the summer of 2006 Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland. This film documents their already legendary tour with intimate reflections from the band and a handful of new acoustic...
97 min
Heima
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Year: 1986
1986
17 min
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Year: 1993
Documentary about the life and death of the notorious underground punk icon GG Allin the foul mouthed heroin shooting lead singer of the Murder Junkies who would throw excrement at the crowd start fights with the biggest guys in the audience and threatened to kill himself onstage. He was considered the lowest common denominator of our society by some an avant-garde artist by others. He died...
1993
Hated: Gg Allin & The Murder Junkies
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
FOCUS is a documentary about Mike Ross an average 26-year-old African-American unemployed college graduate who happens to be one of the worlds best video game players. The documentary is a portrait of his summer as he travels around the country competing in events to prepare for the biggest tournament of his life while revealing the origins hardships and misconceptions of his...
71 min
Focus: A Documentary
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Fixation is a documentary focusing on the thrilling world of fixed gear cycling. This film captures the excitement and popularity of this growing sport from all perspectives. With the resurgence of this original form of cycling we discover the appeal to having only one gear. Though technology has developed multiple speed bicycles for faster and easier riding both fixed and freewheel single...
40 min
Fixation
Yell out fight! on a street corner and a crowd will always come running--at once attracted and repelled by the violent spectacle of man acting on his most primal urge. The draw of two men fighting is as old as civilization itself but as far back as Plato the sport of fighting has been at odds with the notion of a civil society. Over the last decade Mixed Martial Arts MMA has grown from a...
Fightville
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
Year: 2013
Good Ol Freda tells the story of Freda Kelly a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: the Beatles. As the Beatles fame multiplies Freda bears witness to music and cultural history but never exploits her insider access. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end Freda finally tells her tales for the first time in 50...
2013
Good Ol' Freda
Year: 2008
Fathers of the Sport is a Feature Documentary which uncovers the colorful and compelling history of legendary playground basketball. It chronicles the history and lives of the many legends and unsung heroes who dominated playground basketball courts of New York Philadelphia DC Los Angeles Chicago and more in the early years and consequently turned it into the multi-billion dollar spectator...
2008
Fathers Of The Sport
Ozzy Osbournes four decade track record as a culturally relevant artist is unprecedented but his personal struggles have been shrouded in secrecy until now. Featuring never before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Paul McCartney Tommy Lee and others God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the complex mind of rocks great icon....
120 min
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
Year: 1970
In December of 1969 four months after Woodstock the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane gave a free concert in Northern California east of Oakland at Altamont Speedway. About 300000 people came and the organizers put Hells Angels in charge of security around the stage. Armed with pool cues and knifes Angels spent the concert beating up spectators killing at least one. The film intercuts...
1970
Gimme Shelter
Shot around the world in 2010 and 2011 and narrated by Ewan McGregor Fastest captures the intense and thrilling reality of the MotoGP World Championship documenting a pivotal moment in the sport. With Valentino Rossi chasing his tenth World Championship title the Italian ran into one of the toughest challenges of his career: a crop of exceptionally fast young competitors a horrific leg break...
111 min
Fastest
George Harrison first became known to the world as The Quiet Beatle of the Fab Four but there was far more to his life than simply being a part of The Beatles. This film explores the life and career of this seminal musician philanthropist film producer and amateur race car driver who grew to make his own mark on the world. Through his music archival footage and the memories of friends and...
208 min
George Harrison: Living In The Material World
Country: United States, Canada
The life and career of Muhammad Ali 1942- as seen chronologically in archival footage: Ali as a fighter a personality a political lightening rod and a man. Boxers who fought him describe what led up to major fights and the matches themselves; they also offer personal revelations about their own lives: George Chuvalos family losses George Foremans conversion Ken Nortons gratitude Ron...
Facing Ali
Country: United Kingdom, Germany
Year: 2000
2000
59 min
Freddie Mercury, The Untold Story
Rising from the ashes of Nirvana the Foo Fighters became a Grammy-winning sensation on their own. Sixteen years of the bands history comes to life in this documentary from their demo tapes through the creation of their 2011 album Wasting Light....
150 min
Foo Fighters: Back And Forth
Year: 2001
The Film is a Fantastic historical account of skate boarding in the 70s. If you were in the Santa Monica Huntington Beach area at the time you know. I think its a shame the owner of The Dog Bowl Pool is just briefly mentioned as The kid with head cancer. The Dog Bowl Pool was the epitome of the Z Boys and Dogtown and the owner that let them ride is Some kid with cancer. I believe he...
2001
Dogtown And Z Boys
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht...
Deep Water
Year: 1973
A 1973 concert by Elvis Presley taped at the Convention Center in Honolulu Hawaii. This was the first program to ever be beamed around the world by...
1973
Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii
Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport
Year: 1951
Based on Kubricks pictorial for Look Magazine January 18 1949 entitled Prizefighter Day Of The Fight tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James. This 16-minute short opens with a short about 4 minutes study of boxings history narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a...
1951
16 min
Day Of The Fight
A mostly chronological look at the Rolling Stones with archive footage and recent off-camera commentary by Jagger Richards Watts Wyman Taylor and Wood. Topics include virtually instant success and fans dangerous antics becoming songwriters press coverage as the anti-Beatles Richards and Jaggers drug arrest and trial Brian Jones decline and death fleeing the tax man to the south of...
Crossfire Hurricane
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Music
A documentary on Conan OBriens comedy tour of the U.S. and Canada after leaving his post at The Tonight Show and severing his relationship with...
89 min
Conan O'brien Can't Stop
Starting off on his 62nd birthday Charles Bradley: Soul of America follows the extraordinary journey of singer Charles Bradley during the electrifying and transformative months leading up to the release of his debut album No Time for Dreaming. The 74-minute documentary feature will premiere at the SXSW 2012 Film Festival in Austin Texas. Despite being abandoned as a child a period of...
75 min
Charles Bradley: Soul Of America
Country: Germany, United States, United Kingdom, France, Cuba
A group of legendary Cuban musicians some as old as their nineties were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York Citys Carnegie Hall. In addition many of the individual musicians talk about their lives in Cuba and about how they got started in...
105 min
Buena Vista Social Club
Documentary about Britney...
Britney: For The Record
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...
180 South
A look at the life and music of singer Beyonce...
88 min
Beyoncé: Life Is But A Dream
A big fan of The Beatles growing up in the 60s Seth Swirsky noticed that whenever he heard someone relating a story about themselves and The Beatles he was all ears. So starting in 2005 he sought out and filmed those with never before heard Beatles...
Beatles Stories
A documentary on Michael Jackson and the legacy of his record...
131 min
Bad 25
In America we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest strongest fastest country in the world. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Director Christopher Bell explores Americas win-at-all-cost culture by examining how his two brothers became members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American...
Bigger Stronger Faster
Country: Ireland, Canada, United States
Year: 1991
In 1989 the Rolling Stones go on their Steel Wheels tour: Jagger Richards Watts Wood and Wyman backed by three singers a sax four horns and two keyboards. In Turin Berlin and London they perform on a gigantic stage in front of masses. The staging includes huge air-filled figures of women and of a wolf; there are fireworks and a light show. On stage the musicians are sometimes yards...
1991
At The Max
Its time to rock and roll - air guitar style. AIR GUITAR NATION is the feature documentary about the year that air guitar swept America - from New York to Los Angeles and then all the way to northern Finland. AIR GUITAR NATION chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships and the personal journeys of those talented contestants who are vying to become the first World Air Guitar Champion...
81 min
Air Guitar Nation
Afghan Star is a TV show modeled on the UKs Pop Idol. We join the 2008 contest when its down to nine contestants and we focus on two women Setara and Lema and two men Hameed and Rafi. We watch the two women in particular: Satara sings with emotion and includes dance in her final performance an action that puts her life in danger; Lema is traditional but her very appearance brings...
Afghan Star
A live concert performance of Grammy-winning pop-soul sensation Adele Adkins at the Royal Albert Hall in...
Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Genre: Drama, Documentary
In 2008 the Siegel family was top of the heap with the wealthy and politically influential David Siegel running the successful Westgate Resorts time-share business. To enjoy their good life he and his engineer turned beauty queen trophy wife Jackie were building the largest single family private home in America. Suddenly both the US economy and Westgate were rocked by the devastating...
The Queen Of Versailles
Genre: Documentary, Drama
First Position follows six talented young dancers ages 9-19 from five continents as they prepare for a worldwide ballet competition that could transform their lives...
95 min
First Position
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Storyline: Filmed at a sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden comedian Kevin Hart delivers material from his 2012 Let Me Explain concert...
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
Country: Austria
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2005
2005
96 min
We Feed The World
Storyline: A concert documentary shot during the Glee Live! In Concert! summer 2011 tour featuring song performances and Glee fans life stories and how the show influenced...
Glee: The 3d Concert Movie
Genre: Documentary, Music, Romance
Storyline: A documentary that chronicles Katy Perrys life on and...
Katy Perry: Part Of Me
Storyline: The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80s the film follows Sennas struggles both on track against his nemesis French World Champion Alain Prost and off it against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime spiritual yet on occasion ruthless -...
106 min
Senna