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Country: France, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 1992
In this up-close and personal portrait of vocalist and musician Nina Simone the singer herself and a number of friends relatives and connaisseurs tell excerpts of her path in music and life. Remarkably the documentary was able to follow Simone on a visit back to her childhood home and her mother and siblings are interviewed. Simone also discusses her participation in the civil rights movement...
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1992
54 min
Nina Simone: La Légende
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Music
Year: 2011
This past May Neil Young brought his solo tour to Torontos Massey Hall an iconic venue in the city of his birth. Jonathan Demme was on hand to capture the two nights which highlighted new songs from the album Le Noise produced by Daniel Lanois mixed with classics like Ohio and I Believe in You. At sixty-five Young retains a youthful vitality and musical curiosity that balances his...
2011
87 min
Neil Young Journeys
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Year: 2008
This documentary follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in Ohio and James journey to...
2008
105 min
More Than A Game
Year: 2002
In this cinematic concert mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music...
2002
89 min
Naqoyqatsi
Year: 2000
Michael Jordan Is Praised as the Greatest Basketball Player of All Time in This...
2000
46 min
Michael Jordan To The Max
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Year: 1999
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1999
90 min
Michael Jordan: His Airness
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Music
Year: 2012
Kate and Will Spicers brother Tom has Fragile X Syndrome the most common form of inherited learning disability. He is also a massive fan of Lars Ulrich from Metallica. They made a promise to Tom that they would get him to meet Lars. Toms dream is their promise. Together they went on a Mission to...
2012
74 min
Mission To Lars
Country: Canada
Year: 2005
Sam Dunn is a 30-year old anthropologist who wrote his graduate thesis on the plight of Guatemalan refugees. Recenly he has decided to study the plight of a different culture one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find out why this music has been consistently stereotyped dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so...
2005
98 min
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Genre: Documentary, Action, Adventure, Sport
Year: 2010
Surfing culture originated as an act of escape and joy. In our present day there has been a departure from these origins entering this new age of hyper-progression and extreme commercialism. There are still individuals immersed in the surfing experience living a rebirth of the grassroots spirit that will help guide our sport in a new revitalizing direction. Lost Prophets will will guide us in a...
2010
52 min
Lost Prophets: Search For The Collective
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Bob Marleys universal appeal impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. The definitive life story of the musician revolutionary and legend from his early days to his rise to international super-stardom. Made with the support of the Marley family there is rare footage incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people...
144 min
Marley
Country: United Kingdom
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temples Joe Strummer - The Future is Unwritten epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his...
125 min
London - The Modern Babylon
Country: Germany
A documentary encompassing the lives of world heavyweight boxing champions Vitali & Wladimir Klitschko. The first time in history two brothers have shared all the heavyweight world titles this film explores their humble beginnings in the Ukraine to their rise to stardom and domination of heavyweight prize...
118 min
Klitschko
Year: 1988
Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends family associates and lovers interspersed with film from Bakers earlier life and some modern-day...
1988
120 min
Let's Get Lost
A documentary on the life and career of revered heavy-metal musician Lemmy...
116 min
Lemmy
Genre: Documentary, Music, Musical
Local girl makes good. In February 2011 Lady Gaga 1986- brings a band and dancers to Madison Square Garden about 20 blocks from where she grew up. She sings plays keyboards dances and talks - sometimes autobiographically - emphasizing possibilities personal acceptance and tolerance on the way to the Monster Ball the greatest party in the world. The cameras catch her up close in...
117 min
Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour At Madison Square Garden
Year: 2006
An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. In the film Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later...
2006
96 min
Kurt Cobain About A Son
Year: 1998
After rocker Kurt Cobains death ruled a suicide a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobains aunt who provides home movies and recordings the estranged father of Cobains widow Courtney Love an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love a nanny for Kurt and Courtneys child friends and lovers of both and others....
1998
95 min
Kurt & Courtney
Year: 1982
Koyaanisqatsi is a documentary of sorts. It is also a visual concert of images set to the haunting music of Phillip Glass . While there is no plot in the traditional sense there is a definate scenario. The film opens on ancient native American cave drawings while the soundtrack chants Koyaanisqatsi which is a Hopi indian term for life out of balance. The film uses extensive time lapse...
1982
86 min
Koyaanisqatsi
Year: 2013
This is a story of rising to the ultimate challenge. Having the courage to risk fatal expo- sure and the perseverance demanded on the quest for achievement. These are not solely physical feats they are mental...
2013
Into The Mind
The camera follows Justin Bieber 1994- during the ten days leading up to his August 2010 sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. Footage of these ten days of concerts rehearsals and down time with boyhood friends his mom and his entourage is inter-cut with home movies old photos and interviews showing a musical prodigy who loves to perform comes to the attention of an Atlanta agent...
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
Country: United Kingdom, Spain
Genre: Documentary, Action, Sport
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...
100 min
I Superbiker
Year: 2007
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock...
2007
93 min
Joy Division
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
57 min
Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock
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
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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
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
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
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
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...
Good Ol' Freda
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...
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....
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
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
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...
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...
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
