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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures2001-00-0000
Narrated by Tom Cruise, "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" goes through each one of his movies and talks to various participants about their memories of working with Kubrick. For those who know very little about Kubrick, the documentary is an excellent career overview. Kubrick film clips include "Fear and Desire," "Killer's Kiss," "The Killing," "Paths of Glory," "Spartacus," "Lolita," "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange," "Barry Lyndon," "The Shining," "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut." Those appearing include: Arthur C. Clarke, Keir Dullea, Shelley…
The Challenges of Reconciliation2010-00-0000
This is a behind-the-scenes look at Clint Eastwood's vision of the South Africa forged by Nelson Mandela. This was shot as Eastwood lensed.
The Whale2011-09-162786627867
Set on the rugged western coast of Vancouver Island, THE WHALE describes what happens when Luna, a baby orca, gets separated from his family and unexpectedly starts making contact with people along a scenic fjord called Nootka Sound. Because orcas are highly social creatures who spend their lives traveling with their pods, Luna attempts to find a surrogate family among the area residents, much to their delight. But as word spreads about Luna, people become torn between their love for the lonely young whale and fears that human contact might harm him. Luna’s saga is seen through the eyes of…
Bus 1742003-10-0849909736
A chronicle exploring what happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12th, 2000--Valentine's Day in Brazil--when Bus 174 was highjacked by an armed young man, Sandro do Nascimento, with a dozen passengers. Nascimento, a disillusioned slum-dweller, threatened to kill all of the passengers, but eventually agreed to surrender, as TV cameras were rolling and an entire nation was glued to their screens, watching the event take place. Regardless, a police officer then decided to fire at Nascimento anyway, accidentally killing one of the female passengers instead. What followed was a revolt among the city's population, enraged both at the…
The 11th Hour2007-08-1752729901
Docu explores what it will take for humans to make a difference ecologically before it is too late. The 11th Hour interviewed 71 people to create a narrative about the state of the world and how human beings impact our only home, planet earth - from thinkers and leaders including Stephen Hawking, former CIA topper James Woolsey and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
Limelight2011-09-232795227953
As the owner of legendary hotspots like Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, Peter Gatien was the undisputed king of the 1980s New York City club scene. The eye-patch-sporting Ontario native built and oversaw a Manhattan empire that counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined the image of an era in New York. Then years of legal battles and police pressure spearheaded by Mayor Giuliani's determined crackdown on nightlife in the mid-'90s led to Gatien's eventual deportation to Canada, and the shuttering of his…
Sicko2007-06-29556510075
This looks at the medical establishment and the U.S. healthcare system and sees how patients are not saved because insurance companies choose not to incur the costs. Moore will see how many lives he can save in the documentary. The idea for Sicko stems from a segment Moore did on his The Awful Truth TV show, in which he staged a mock funeral at an HMO for a patient denied an organ transplant he needed to survive. The HMO relented and paid for the transplant.
Capitalism: A Love Story2009-10-02581420436
This will focus on the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy.
Titicut Follies1967-00-001919119192
Frederick Wiseman made his documentary debut with this controversial 84-minute survey of conditions that existed during the mid-'60s at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Made in 1967, the film was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992 because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it was an invasion of inmate privacy. The film goes behind the walls to show stark and graphic images exposing the treatment of inmates by guards, social workers, and psychiatrists. The title refers to a musical revue staged by inmates and guards. Richard Schickel, writing in Life, stated, "The repulsive…
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story 2007-01-12667411005
JAPAN, 1977. A dark, lonely road leads to the windswept shores. This is the remarkable story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted on her way home from school by North Korean spies. For 20 years, her parents had no idea what had happened to her or if she was even alive. Then, one day the whole world learned the shocking truth. An extraordinary tale of mystery, intrigue and most of all, love. The film is told through the eyes of the girl's mother and father who have been searching for their daughter for nearly 30 years. The film begins with…
La Region Centrale1971-00-0000
Shoah (1985)2010-12-10698111323
The creators of the brilliant French documentary Shoah courageously assume that their audience is willing to sit through 570 minutes' worth of interviews and little else. As unpromising as this sounds, rest assured that you will sit and listen. Relentless "inquisitor" Claude Lanzmann probes the memories of several survivors of the Holocaust--as well as several ex-Nazis who helped perpetrate the horrors. Gradually, one becomes aware that what happened in Germany and occupied Europe in the years 1933 through 1945 was not as "unthinkable" as it may seem to modern viewers; the recollections of those directly involved demonstrate all too well…
Maradona by Kusturica2008-00-00708316744
This is a documentary about football legend Diego Armando Maradona. Here, he follows the former star player as he coaches children on how to play the beloved sport. Filming for these scenes started at the beginning of this week at the football school of Salvatore Bagni in Cesenatico.
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff2010-00-00238720
Jack Cardiff was lauded by the Hollywood greats he photographed films for — John Huston, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe — and described by Michael Powell as “A genius, a daydreamer, a baby. He should have been a painter instead of being the best colour cameraman in the world.” Yet he has remained largely unknown to the general public until now. Cameraman celebrates the life and work of this unique figure in British and international cinema, a man whose career spans an incredible nine decades of cinema history. “Legend” is a word all too frequently used in Hollywood, yet…
Decasia2002-00-002215222153
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score
And Everything Is Going Fine2010-12-102187425815
This is an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by director Steven Soderbergh provides an intimate look at the master monologist as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Soderbergh distills 25 years of rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue.
Artic Tale 2007-07-25738811685
Formerly titled "Call of the North", this sees an arctic zoologist and cinematographer Adam Ravetch and filmmaker Sarah Robertson have been filming with Super 16 cameras for six years in the frozen Arctic, where temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. CALL OF THE NORTH" is an epic adventure that explores the vast permafrost world at the top of the earth. It is the nursery, the classroom, the playground, the hunting range, and the mating arena for two hardy denizens of the Great North: the endearingly burly walrus and the massively sleek polar bear. This follows the walrus and…
Article VI: Faith, Politics, America2008-09-0000
This explores the hot-button topic of faith-based politics, church and state are dissected through discussions with historians, religious leaders, politicos and citizens alike.
Who Does She Think She Is?2008-10-171914119142
This examines the mothering-versus-working choice faced by American women, and women artists in particular. The film focuses on five particularly bold women artists, each radically different in background, race, religious creed and choice of artistic field. But they all share the common challenge of making careers in various art worlds. Simultaneous to their creative existence, they are pulled in different directions as they try to answer the competing demands of artistic fulfillment, marriage, motherhood and economic survival.
An Omar Broadway Film2008-00-0000
This is a first-person look at prison life shot by Broadway, an inmate at a high-security gang unit in Newark. Broadway smuggled a video camera into his cell and for weeks secretly filmed riots and prisoner abuse through his small window.
We Are Wizards2008-11-141765917660
Most people might not be aware that there is a raging Wizard Rock scene going on in this country. WE ARE WIZARDS profiles some of the power players in the underground Harry Potter creative community. The film offers a look at a seven-year-old rock star and his teen pop idols, hilarious audio-commentary set to the movie and online creative writing sites waging war with corporate agents. The books' themes of good versus evil and using inner strength to overcome challenges serve as a catalyst for many who face personal obstacles, or just to meet like-minded folk and have fun. It…
All of Us2008-09-1900
In the South Bronx, a young doctor embarks on a research project to find out why black women are being infected with the HIV virus at an alarming rate. In ALL OF US, Dr. Mehret Mandefro takes us into the lives and relationships of two of her female patients as they identify and struggle with the social factors that put them at risk. One of Dr. Mandefro patients, Chevelle, abandoned by her family as a teenager, became addicted to drugs and dependent on sex with men to get attention and cash. When we meet her, she’s been clean for a…
Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived2008-09-171736117362
Scottish historian Niall Ferguson calls it virtual history: the great what if’s, the plausibility of counterfactuals. First-time filmmaker Koji Masutani and Brown University professor James G. Blight ask: “Can a president make a decisive difference in matters of war and peace… or, are the forces that drive a nation into war a lot more impersonal, out of the control of any single human being, even a president?” In 1963 the US had 16,000 military advisors in Vietnam. By 1968, President Lyndon Johnson had sent 500,000 troops. VIRTUAL JFK rethinks Kennedy’s legendary 1,000-day presidency, selecting from more than 250 hours of…
Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet 2008-08-2000
Serra's monumental steel sculptures are among the defining works of art of our time. The artist is wonderfully articulate, whether talking about his early paintings, Brancusi's influence upon him, the historical context in which his work developed, or the public controversies and even hostility his work has engendered. He elucidates how "matter imposes form on form," the unique qualities of steel, and how a space may move simultaneously in two directions - with a lexicon that includes gravitational vectors, open and closed volume, tectonics, conical sections and torquing ellipses. The creation of "The Matter of Time," a $20 million site-specific…
Fraude Mexico 20062008-10-101738117382
This tracks the most closely contested elections in Mexican history, which brought President Felipe Calderon to power amid accusations of fraud from the losing party, led by Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Rem Koolhaas - A Kind of Architect2008-00-0000
Koolhaas is known for founding the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 and prolifically blending the lines between art, architecture and pop culture.
Poliwood2009-00-0000
This is about the just-completed Democratic and Republican national conventions which features interviews with a host of showbiz names including Anne Hathaway, David Crosby, Alan Cumming and Susan Sarandon, plus several political notables.
Allah Made Me Funny2008-10-031754017541
Once, on a trip to Spain, a tour guide told comedian Azhar Usman that Christians, Jews and Muslims lived there together in peace for centuries, as though this was an ancient circumstance now impossible to achieve. "You been to Brooklyn?" quips Usman, co-founder of the "Allah Made Me Funny" comedy team. "They're getting along there just fine. … You can find a halal hot dog on a kosher bun, if you look hard enough!" Usman and his cohorts, Bryant "Preacher" Moss and Mohammed "Mo" Amer, are now exposing this and other truths about American Muslims in a new film, "Allah…
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father2008-10-311754917550
This examines the murder of Kuenne's oldest friend and its legal and emotional consquences.
Blue Man Group: Mind Blast2010-00-00175510
This is based on the original Blue Man stage trio of Matt Goldman, Chris Wink and Phil Stanton will star.
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love2009-06-121989919900
Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a world-renowned musician and the iconic representative “voice of Africa”. At the height of his career, Youssou, became frustrated by the negative perception of his Muslim faith and composed Egypt, a deeply spiritual album dedicated to a more tolerant view of Islam. It was a critical and career-defining moment. Ndour’s brave musical message was wholeheartedly embraced by Western audiences but ignited serious religious controversy in his homeland of Senegal. Combining unprecedented images of Senegal’s most sacred Muslim rituals, vibrant concert performances filmed around the world…
Pray the Devil Back to Hell2008-11-071763317634
This tells the remarkable but little-known story of a small band of unarmed women who risked their lives to bring change to Liberia. Reconstructing the moment through interviews, archival footage and striking images of contemporary Liberia. Armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women confronted cruelty and corruption, taking on Charles Taylor and the warlords and bringing peace to their country after decades of war. Their demonstrations brought about the exile of Charles Taylor and the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first female head of state – and mark…
The Shock Doctrine2010-01-2900
Based on Naomi Klein's bestselling book of the same name. THE SHOCK DOCTRINE is a gripping and incisive deconstruction of how free market policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

Both the film and the book argue that both big business and governments overexploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars with the very aim of pushing through radical free market policies. Naomi Klein calls this “disaster capitalism.” The film traces the doctrine’s beginnings in the radical theories of Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago, and its subsequent implementation over the past…
Walking on Dead Fish2008-09-051764917650
In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, the tiny town of LaPlace was overrun with thousands of displaced New Orleans residents. Their already bursting-at-the-seams high school, East St. John, took in over 450 new students. Twenty of them were football players. In order to make them feel more welcome, the coach declared all positions were open (even those help by ESJ seniors). For some, that meant the opportunity to play the sport they lived for, but for others, it put their scholarship chances (for many, their only chance at a college education) in jeopardy. But rather than fight or turn bitter,…
Proud American2008-09-121765317654
Tolerance, freedom, education and personal responsibility, are the pillars that make America a truly grand society. Proud American presents five powerful singular stories all of which magnify these themes. The film is an emotional, inspirational, and visual journey depicting America and the everyday Americans who exemplify the best that we can be. Proud American is based on true stories and presented through a unique combination of five dramatic scenarios, expansive natural scenery, and a collection of vignettes celebrating America.
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell2008-09-261768617687
This is a portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Arthur's work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and closest collaborators including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg to tell this poignant and important story.
The Little Red Truck2008-09-121770617707
60 kids staging a full-scale musical in just six days. "The Little Red Truck," a new, award-winning documentary film, records the emotional highs, lows and in-betweens of more than 250 kids in five communities when Missoula Children's Theatre, via its signature little red truck, comes to town. Under the direction of the two theater pros who come with the touring truck, audition, rehearse, mess up, have the occasional meltdown, overcome personal obstacles, jump for joy, don costumes, and eventually grace the stage for a one-hour performance. But more than that, it's a laugh-out-loud and uplifting movie that's perfect for everyone.…
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story2008-09-261771217713
This is a comprehensive look at Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush while leading the Republican Party to historic victories. He wrote the Republican Party’s winning playbook which is currently being used by the McCain campaign. This film is urgently relevant for anyone seeking to understand how the battle between Obama and McCain will be fought. In interviews with Atwater's closest friends and enemies, BOOGIE MAN re-examines Atwater’s crucial role in the remaking of the Republican Party.…
Searching For On The Road0000-00-0000
In preparation for his feature film based on Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, this follows Walter Salles as he follows in the trip taken by Kerouac’s alter-ego Sal Paradise through North America. Here Salles interviews some of the remaining beat poets like Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Diane DiPrima and spoke to people who were directly influenced by Kerouac like David Byrne and Wim Wenders.
Under the Sea 3D2009-02-131906819069
Previously referred to under its working title, "Deep Sea-quel," the film will explore the impact that global climate change has had on ocean wilderness.
Samsara2009-00-0085050
This is a sequel to Baraka and contains elements of travelogue, New Age trip and anthropological exploration. "Samsara" is a Sanskrit word for "cyclic existence" and the filmmakers call the film a "guided meditation" through "birth, death and rebirth" in several cultures.
Untitled Rufus Wainwright documentary0000-00-0085230
This follows singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright's re-creation of Judy Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall performance.
Naked Beauty: A Love Story That Feeds the Earth2011-00-0000
This is about a hummingbird, a butterfly and a bumblebee.
Chimpanzee2012-00-0000
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Untitled 3-D Brett Morgen sports doc0000-00-0085940
This is a 3-D documentary about the pioneers of action sports and features such figures as the surfer Kelly Slater, skateboarder Tony Hawk and BMX rider Mat Hoffman.
IMAX: Hubble 3D2010-03-192267022671
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, experience the gripping story - full of hope, crushing disappointment, dazzling ingenuity, bravery, and triumph – in Hubble 3D, the seventh awe-inspiring film from the award-winning IMAX® Space Team. Through the power of IMAX® 3D, Hubble 3D will enable movie-goers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASA’s history. The film will offer an inspiring and unique look into the Hubble Space Telescope’s legacy and highlight its profound impact on the way we view…
Every Little Step2009-04-171913719138
Shooting began in 2005, capturing auditions of some 1,700 actors, singers and dancers vying for a spot in the 2006 revival. This explores the incredible journey of A CHORUS LINE, from ambitious idea to international phenomenon. Through 15 years of continuous performances from the 70’s to 90’s and a revival beginning last year, A CHORUS LINE has touched generations around the world with stories so poignant, they could only have come from truth. The film compares and contrasts the original musical with the current revival. It investigates the societies in which they’ve debuted, and why the themes are so timeless…
One Train Later0000-00-0087110
Based on Police guitarist Andy Summers' autobiography "One Train Later", Summers would narrate his tale about the Police from his perspective. About 25,000 photos Summers has taken of the band over the years will be featured in an animated style to tell the story. The film will trace Summers' life from his youth in post-World War II England to his time playing with the Animals and 1960s psychedelic bands to the Police's formation and current reunion.
Casino Jack & The United States of Money2010-05-072348923490
Formerly titled "Burning Down the House", this is about the murky world of political lobbying, this is a subject that has caused huge controversy in the US since political lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sent to prison after being convicted on a series of criminal felony counts relating to his lobbying activities.
Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)2008-11-211806818069
This is about a family’s epic journey from war-torn Laos to the mean streets of New York. Filmed over the course of 23 years, Phrasavath tells his own story of struggling as a young man to survive both the war and the hardships of immigrant life, as well as his mother’s astonishing story of perseverance. A poetic, deeply personal film about the hidden, human face of war’s “collateral damage".

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. strategically and clandestinely operated within the neighboring country of Laos. By 1973 a secret air campaign had dropped more bombs on Laos than were…
Freakonomics2010-10-012011020111
Written by Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, "Freakonomics" has sold more than 3 million copies by using economic theories to analyze issues. Take five of the most successful documentary directors working in Hollywood today, match them to the most compelling chapters from a worldwide best selling piece of non fiction and you have Freakonomics the movie. Freakonomics is economic detective work, social theory and investigative journalism all at their most compelling and it is deeply unorthodox in its approach. Ever wondered what sumo wrestlers and Chicago school teachers had in common? Oscar winner Alex Gibney will show you the way.…
Marley0000-00-00154450
Regarded as one of the true and most loved international icons of the 20th Century, Bob Marley’s music and message of love and redemption are known throughout the world. His music transcends culture, language and creed and resonates around the world today as powerfully as when he was alive. Only a handful of musicians have ever achieved such an impact, and Bob Marley, though his life was far too short, stands among them.
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story2009-05-221993319934
If you grew up in the 20th Century, odds are you’ve been singing along to the Sherman Brothers’ songs - maybe without even knowing it. Richard and Robert Sherman, arguably defined family musical entertainment with unforgettable songs like “Chim Chim Cher-ee” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins”; “I Wanna Be Like You” from ”The Jungle Book”; the score to “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and the most translated song ever written, “It’s a Small World (After All)” from the popular Disneyland attraction.

While their songs were cherished by both audiences and Walt Disney himself, outside the public eye, the boys’ personal…
Blindsight2008-03-051564415645
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, BLINDSIGHT follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge -- made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken, a blind educator and adventurer who established the first and only school for the blind in…
Art & Copy2009-08-211885518856
This reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising's "creative revolution" of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney and others featured in ART & COPY were responsible for "Just Do It," "I Love NY," "Where's the Beef?," "Got Milk," "Think Different," and brilliant campaigns for…
Boy Interrupted2009-00-0000
An intimate look at the life, mental illness and death of a young man told from the point of view of the filmmaker: his mother.
The Cove2009-07-312017220173
In the 1960's, Richard O'Barry was the world’s leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the popular television program Flipper. Day in and day out, O'Barry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling. But one day, that all came to a tragic end. THE COVE, directed by Louie Psihoyos, tells the amazing true story of how Psihoyos, O'Barry and an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate a hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The mysteries they uncovered were only the tip of…
Crude2009-09-092058620587
Three years in the making, this is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human…
Dirt! The Movie2009-07-3100
Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book, "Dirt, The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth", Dirt! The Movie, is a witty yet poignant look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt and humans couldn't be closer. We started our journey together as stardust, swirled by cosmic forces into our galaxy, solar system, and planet. We are made of the same stuff. Four billion years of evolution created dirt as the living source of all life on Earth including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last…
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama2009-11-031579221626
This is about the historic presidential campaign mounted by Sen. Barack Obama. The doc began shooting footage before Obama’s declaration of candidacy to become the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nominee.
The Matador2008-10-311780017801
This heroic tale chronicles David Fandila's quest to become the world’s top-ranked bullfighter. Heart-wrenching setbacks and thrilling successes dramatize 'El Fandi's' three-year journey across Spain and Latin America and into the pages of bullfighting history. This is a story of love -- of a son for his family, of audiences for their heroes, of a people for their cultural traditions, and of the bullfighter’s paradoxical love for the majestic beast that he must kill to create his art. As David struggles to achieve his place in the pantheon of Spain's greatest bullfighters, he is confronted by those who question the…
Earth2009-04-221818318184
Narrated by renowned actor James Earl Jones, this is a feature-length version of the documentary TV series "Planet Earth" that follows the migration paths tracks of three animal families -- polar bears, elephants and hump-backed whales -- on epic journeys across the world's most demanding and spectacular landscapes.
Orangutans: One Minute to Midnight0000-00-0000
Big Cats2011-00-0000
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Of Time And The City2009-01-212166921670
The poetic ode to Liverpool, which is built from archival footage and narrated by Davies himself. Davies brings postwar Liverpool to life through archival footage, dotted with literary and musical references: Peggy Lee singing The Folks Who Live on the Hill, the Hollies and Johnny Mercer; quotations from T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Carl Jung. Davies paints a picture of a simpler life: row houses, women hauling laundry, little boys in short pants, grandmas in shawls, and “the annual exotic pomegranate” at Christmas. With biting humor and candor he embraces the tensions of growing up poor and gay in a…
Magic Trip2011-08-052736427365
In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” took a mythic trip across America – from West to East – to see if the New York World’s Fair, the “World of Tomorrow,” held any clues. He was joined by a group of men and women called “The Merry Pranksters,” in a painted bus steered by Jack Kerouac’s fabled companion, Neal Cassady. Together, they set out on the ultimate road trip: an undercover mission in broad daylight that would take them through time, space and the limitless magical landscape of the imagination. Their quest fueled…
Stranded: I Have Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains 2008-10-221779017791
Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains documents one of the most astonishing and inspiring survival tales of all time. On October 13, 1972, a young Rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile—and then vanished into thin air. Two days before Christmas, 16 of the 45 passengers miraculously resurfaced. They had managed to survive for 72 days after their plane crashed on a remote Andean glacier. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to the crash site—known as the Valley of Tears—to recount their harrowing story of defiant endurance and…
Voyage of Time2012-00-0000
This is an examination of the birth and death of the universe.
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience2009-02-271818718188
Zidane, a Portrait of the 21st Century2008-10-24777311969
Presenting a radically new approach to the sports film, artists Gordon and Parreno have created a real-time portrait focusing on one of the greatest soccer players of the century, Zinédine Zidane. Their remarkable film – shot before the World Cup head-butt heard around the world – places viewers right in the action, as no less than 17 cameras (both 35mm Scope and High Definition video, all supervised by cinematographer Darius Khondji) track Zidane’s every move and glance one day in April 2005, when Zidane’s Real Madrid club battled Spanish La Liga opponent Villareal. Comprising something in between an art installation…
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 2008-11-191808618087
HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 (the title was a Harvard Crimson headline), a paean to college days of the ‘60s and a look at Ivy League culture, then and now. Harvard Stadium, November 23, 1968: for the first time since 1909, the football teams of Harvard and Yale are undefeated as they meet for their final game. Yale is heavily favored: Brian Dowling, their captain and quarterback – who had famously not lost a game since 7th grade – has been satirized as “B.D.” in classmate Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury strip; he’s joined by halfback Calvin Hill, a future NFL Hall of…
It Might Get Loud2009-08-142011720118
Bringing together, for the first time, three legendary musicians, The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, this documentary celebrates the electric guitar by examining the creative process of these virtuosos through their own words and music. “It Might Get Loud” was the conception of Producer Thomas Tull, who sought out director Davis Guggenheim. They eschewed the clichés of typical rock films for something more probing about the magic of the electric guitar and what makes it the enduring symbol of rock. The film is a musically and visually uplifting love letter to the electric guitar told through the experiences of…
The Sky Turns (El Cielo gira)2009-01-301788017881
After a 35-year absence, director Mercedes Álvarez returns to her native village Aldealseñor in remote northwest Spain. She was the last child born there; now only fourteen aged inhabitants remain. Though her film is intensely personal, Álvarez yields the spotlight to the dwindling but tenacious villagers. The passing years have made them natural philosophers, historians, and comedians — they muse on the transience of things, regard the folly of conquerors from Caesar to Bush, and lace it all with ironic, quintessentially Spanish humor. For the moment, life goes on. Very soon however, without any outward commotion and without anyone to…
Soul Power2009-07-102032220323
A verité documentary about the legendary music festival “Zaire ‘74,” SOUL POWER depicts the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, and Celia Cruz. The film is crafted from the extensive “outtakes” that remained after making WHEN WE WERE KINGS, which chronicled the epic title fight between Mohammad Ali and George Foreman, but relegated the music festival to a small, supporting role.
Food, Inc.2009-06-121799117992
How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In FOOD, INC., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant…
Herb and Dorothy2009-06-051999119992
HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, they continued collecting artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough…
Chuck Close0000-00-0000
Completed shortly before Cajori's death, this looks at the artist's working process through interviews with Close and his wife, Robert Rauschenberg, Philip Glass, Kiki Smith and other artists.
Examined Life2009-02-251809018091
Featuring the “rock star” philosophers of our time, including Cornel West, Peter Singer, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Michael Hardt, Anthony Appiah and Martha Nussbaum, this interweaves fascinating “walks” with them through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas -- crowded city streets, deser ted alleyways, Central Park and even a garbage dump.
Theater of War2008-12-2400
Meryl Streep is unforgettable in Mother Courage and Her Children, Tony Kushner’s adaptation of the Brecht masterpiece, presented by The Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Theater in Central Park during summer 2006. This could easily have been reduced to a star vehicle for Streep and Kevin Kline. Indeed, watching these consummate actors, for the most part during rehearsals under George C. Wolfe’s direction, is a lesson in focus, dramatic analysis, and the art of acting at its finest. But for Walter, the play is but a jumping off point for a compelling look at Brecht’s motives and politics; the film includes the…
Toots2008-11-2100
“Toots Shor is many things to many people,” said newsman Edward R. Murrow of the legendary Manhattan saloon keeper in 1955. He was a friend to the famous, a crook to the feds, a father, a brother and a gambler, but, most of all, Toots Shor was the owner of America’s greatest bar. TOOTS is a refreshingly fun, provocative, and unmistakably authentic portrait of a self-made, unapologetic American man who became the unlikely den-mother to the heroes and larger-than-life personalities of America’s golden age. Politicians and gangsters, sports heroes and movie stars -- for 30 years, they all found their…
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie2008-10-171816718168
This is the true story of Dallas Gilbert and Wayne Burton, two best friends from a dying steel town in Ohio, who are out to convince the world that Bigfoot exists. They have amassed a vast library of video footage and still photographs of proof (their website is highly trafficked) after years of venturing into the Ohio woods, day and night, to the capture shots of the legendary creature in its native habitat. Dallas is the gregarious one, a Reiki master who has perfected his Sasquatch call and claims to have a sheep’s bone in his skull. Wayne is the…
40x152008-00-0000
In February 2006, Olivier Père, Artistic director of the Directors’Fornight, had the idea to make a movie about the 40 years, to recall the history of th Fornight, to gather testimonies of the directors (Todd Haynes, Jacques Rozier, Costa Gavras, Michael Raeburn, Ken Loach, Alain Tanner, Carlos Diegues, Werner Herzog, Theo Angelopoulos, André Téchiné, Chantal Akerman, the Taviani brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Yousry Nasrallah, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, Peter Sellars, Naomi Kawase, Manoel de Oliveira, the Dardenne brothers, Stephen Frears, Sofia Coppola, Eric Khoo, Kim Rossi Stuart, Lisandro Alonso, Christophe Honoré, Bong Joon-Ho, William Friedkin, Jacques Nolot)…
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man2008-12-171819318194
Scott Walker achieved a fame rivaling the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the mid-60’s and had the looks and the voice to be one of the biggest singing stars of all time, on par some believed, with Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra. But instead of turning to Las Vegas for fame and fortune, Scott turned for inspiration to the films of Ingmar Bergman, the existentialist novels of Sartre and the tortured chansons of Jacques Brel and became a different creature altogether. A musician at once out of step with current trends and light years ahead of them, he morphed…
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh 2009-01-281878818789
This is about the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah volunteered for a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only military rescue mission for Jews during World War II. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Though only 23 at the time of her death, Hannah left behind a body of written work that has inspired readers around the world for generations.

The filmmakers were given unprecedented access to…
Le Quattro Volte2011-03-302359523596
The Four Times works in the non-defined field between documentary and fiction, and can be understood in three different ways: as a science fiction film (without special effects), as an ethnographic documentary on some parts of the Calabrian Apennine, or as an essay about the human soul. The four episodes tell the stories of four ‘leading characters’: an old shepherd in the last days of his life; the birth and first few weeks of a goat till its first pasturing under the olive trees; the life of an old fir tree in the course of the seasons; and the transformation…
Our City Dreams2009-02-041843318434
Chiara Clemente’s affecting love letter to the city strings together the self-told narratives of five women artists (ages 30 – 80), each of whom has a passion for making art inseparable from her devotion to New York. Swoon, the youngest, exhibits cut-outs directly on city walls and subways, and exudes idealism and energy while carrying a two by four the way some women would a briefcase. Cairo-born Ghada Amer mixes media – embroidering with painting -- to confront sexual taboos that cross cultural boundaries. After experiencing The New York Dolls in San Francisco, Kiki Smith realized she needed the energy…
Oblivion 2009-04-1500
The doc introduces us to its invisible citizens of Lima, Peru: from the bartender at a swanky hotel who has served a revolving door of presidents, to the street urchins who perform acrobatics in traffic for a few pennies.
Valentino: The Last Emperor 2009-03-181907019071
Matt Tyrnauer, longtime Vanity Fair editor and writer, takes on haute couture icon Valentino, a man whose fabulous gowns have graced the bodies of the world’s most glamorous women for nearly five decades. The film was shot over two years -- in Paris, Rome, London, NY, Gstaad, and aboard Valentino’s yacht -- during a period when rumors of the designer’s retirement were swirling about him and partner Giancarlo Giammetti. The filmmaker had extraordinary access to these men, partners in both business and life, whose arguments over the need for more ruffles or the appropriateness of sand dunes for a runway…
El General2009-00-0000
The General","Dictator," Iron-Man," Nun-Burner," "Father of Modern Mexico," my great grandfather, Plutarco Elías Calles was the president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. El General is a feature-length film about the conflicting history Natalia Almada inherited as the great-granddaughter of one of Mexico's most controversial figures and the socio-economic injustice that has prevailed from the Revolution of 1910 to the present. El General is both a journey into Almada's family past and an intimate portrait of Mexico after almost a century since the Mexican Revolution
Good Hair2009-10-092081020811
Comedian Chris Rock turns documentary filmmaker and shares follicle recollections with Maya Angelou, Nia Long, Raven Symone, Ice-T and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Stories of how hairstyles impacted their lives and self-esteem helped Rock formulate an answer to his daughter's question.
The Horse Boy2009-09-112060520606
Formerly titled "Over the Hills and Far Away", this chronicles Rowan and his family’s journey across this vast, wild landscape. It delves into the strange world of autism itself, the relationship between humans and animals, between different cultures, different ways of being (autistic versus normal, or ‘neuro-typical’), and the nature of healing. We hear the varied theories on autism from the experts in the field, well-known researchers of autism such as Dr Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University, Dr Temple Grandin, recovered autist and professor of animal behaviour at Colorado State University, and Anthropologist and researcher Roy Richard Grinker of the…
The Reckoning2009-00-0000
Launched in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first international tribunal of its kind, a permanent criminal court set up to prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The Reckoning, a feature-length documentary filmed in High Definition on 4 continents, follows charismatic, relentless Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and his team as he issues arrest warrants for leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, puts 4 Congolese warlords on trial in The Hague, charges the President of Sudan with genocide and war crimes in Darfur, challenges the UN Security Council to have him arrested, and…
Reporter2009-00-0000
This is about Nicholas Kristof, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, who almost single-handedly put the crisis in Darfur on the international radar. Now he wants to do the same for Congo, a humanitarian disaster zone where 5.4 million have died in the last decade as a result of the unceasing warfare over territory, resources and tribal hatred. But Nick knows that statistics deaden his readers' interest and compassion. So to get the world to care, he goes in search of individuals whose stories will reflect the country's desperate crisis and mobilize readers worldwide. He…
The September Issue2009-08-282024720248
Anna Wintour, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for twenty years, is the most powerful and polarizing figure in fashion. Hidden behind her trademark bob and sunglasses, she has never allowed anyone to scrutinize the inner workings of her magazine. Until now. With unprecedented access, filmmaker R.J. Cutler’s new film The September Issue does for fashion what he did for politics in The War Room, taking the viewer inside a world they only think they know.

Every August a record-breaking number of people can’t wait to get their hands on the September issue of Vogue. The 2007 issue was and…
Sergio2009-00-001904019041
Sergio examines the role of the United Nations and the international community through the life and experiences of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights, including interviews with those who knew and worked with him over the course of his extraordinary career.
Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech2009-00-0000
An exploration of the history and current state of free speech in America narrated by the filmmaker's father, First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus.
We Live in Public 2009-08-282058420585
We Live in Public is the story of the Internet’s revolutionary impact on human interaction as told through the eyes of Internet pioneer and visionary, Josh Harris.  Though once considered the godfather of the downtown Internet scene in NYC in the 90’s, known far and wide for his outrageous parties, innovations in chat, streaming audio and the creation of the first online television network, Harris is but a footnote in history at this point all because he took his experiments with the Internet and media consumption too far. 
When You're Strange - A Film About the Doors2010-04-091926619267
he creative chemistry of four brilliant artists - drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, and singer Jim Morrison - made The Doors one of America's most iconic and influential rock bands. When You're Strange is the first feature documentary to tell their story. Using footage shot between their formation in 1965 and Morrison's death in 1971, it follows the band from the corridors of UCLA's film school, where Manzarek and Morrison met, to the stages of sold-out arenas.

Taking its title from the cabaret-tinged Doors hit "People Are Strange," the film chronicles the creation of The Doors'…
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe 2009-11-131882718828
In WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE, filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed “Chicago 8” activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer.

To his daughters, it seemed that he was at the center of everything important that had ever happened. But…
Young Yakuza2008-04-18861412505
This is a portrait of the Japanese underworld that was shot over an 18-month period, the documentary centers on two figures: 20-year-old Naoki, a new recruit of the Kumagai crime organization, and his boss. Because cameras are usually banned in this world, the director had to establish a climate of trust with the clan he filmed.
The Universe of Keith Haring2008-10-2400
The film on the successful pop/graffiti artist who died in 1990 features celebs such as Madonna and Yoko Ono, and includes audio interviews of Haring conducted by biographer John Gruen for his 1991 book, "Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography."
Lucky2010-00-0000
This is described as focusing on characters who are "heavily invested, emotionally and financially, in the lottery," examining how it has or hasn't changed winners' lives. It also tells the story of obsessive players who haven't won. While the movie will sometimes take a skeptical view of the lottery, it will concentrate on the stories and on the people.
Two Days In April2008-04-091604116042
Follows the story of 4 college football players signed by the sports agency IMG, as they bring them to a training facility in Florida and both physically and mentally prepare them for the NFL draft.
The Trial of Pascual Pichun0000-00-0000
A conflict between wealthy landowners and the Mapuches (Native people of Chile) in the remote areas of rural Chile is the topic of THE TRIAL OF PASCUAL PICHUN. This timely, moving story focuses on the conflict as it takes on new urgency when the Mapuches are threatened with displacement, and acts of vandalism against private buildings and property are reported. The clash reaches new heights when Pascual Pichun, a politically vocal Mapuche, is placed on trial as a terrorist under a new Chilean law with serious implications for future cases, and for the fate of Chile's indigenous population.
Tibet in Song2010-09-242419924200
The film first shows the beauty of traditional Tibetan folk music, and showcases an array of folk songs from Tibet including working songs, songs about family, and the beauty of the land. After startling visual evidence of the early days of the Chinese invasion, and a concise explanation of the factors leading to the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in 1959, Ngawang Choephel sets the stage for an intimate portrait of how the Chinese presence has affected the lives of Tibetans inside Tibet through music to the present day.

What follows is a heartening tale of cultural exploitation and resistance,…
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North2008-00-0000
Written by Browne and Kovgan, this is a fresh look at personal history by descendants of the largest slave-trading family in America.
Slingshot Hip Hop2008-00-0000
This is a look at Palestinian rappers.
Our Beloved Month of August2010-09-032483724838
Deep in the Portuguese mountains, the population and its activities swell during the month of August. The people come home, set off fireworks, fight fires, perform karaoke, jump off the bridge, hunt wild boar, drink beer, make children. If the director and his team had gone straight to the essential, resisting the festivities, the synopsis would be reduced to: “This Dear Month of August follows the romantic relations of the father, the daughter and her cousin, musicians in a dance hall music group.” Love and music, then.
Oceans2010-04-222137721378
This is a documentary about the sea.
More Than a Game2009-10-021954119542
This is about NBA star LeBron James' high school days in Akron, Ohio. It follows the five starters on the varsity team at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, who travel a winding road from a rundown gymnasium to national glory and NBA riches, seeking to remain a tight-knit quintet even as James becomes a megamillionaire. The film mixes newly unearthed archival footage and family memorabilia with fresh interviews. James jumped straight from Akron into the NBA in 2003. The 6-foot-8 star, now 23, led the Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA Finals in 2007. The expiration of his contract in 2010…
Sex Positive2009-06-121842018421
This explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary AIDS activist in the 1980's, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe-sex practices has never been aptly credited. Berkowitz along with Dr. Joseph Sonnabend (a controversial virologist and AIDS doctor) and beloved activist/musician Michael Callen emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic as community leaders, demanding a solution to the problem before anyone else would pay attention. Through the eyes of Berkowitz, the audience is made witness to a graphic testimony of sex, death and betrayal, while placing the invention of "safe sex" in a fresh and compelling context.
America Betrayed2009-00-001843718438
Once one of America’s proudest achievements, our national infrastructure is now a dangerous embarrassment. Bridges, dams, levees and highways are crumbling, toppling, being washed away, and putting American citizens and cities at risk. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, this exposes disaster profiteering by the powerful and connected after the Oklahoma City bombing, the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war.
Obscene2008-09-261832018321
This chronicles of a publisher's fight to print the works of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Malcolm X, Che Guevara and others. It looks at Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press and Evergreen Review who waged repeated U.S. court battles over freedom of the press. Interviews and footage with Amiri Baraka, Jim Carroll, Al Goldstein, Erica Jong, Ray Manzarek, John Sayles, Gore Vidal, John Waters, Lenny Bruce and William S. Burroughs are featured.
La Vie Moderne2008-00-001832818329
The film is a sort of self-portrait of Depardon, who hails from an agricultural background, and focuses on the old countryside villagers of Cervennes.
Bigger, Faster, Stronger2008-05-301536215363
In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. We reward speed, size and above all else: winning at sport, at business and at war. Metaphorically we are a nation on steroids. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? This explores our win-at-all-cost culture through the lens of a personal journey. Blending comedy and pathos, BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER* is a collision of pop culture, animated sequences and first-person narrative, with a diverse cast including US Congressmen, professional athletes, medical experts and everyday gym…
Carmen & Geoffrey2009-03-131843518436
This celebrates two giants of the dance and theatrical worlds: dancer/ choreographer/actress Carmen De Lavallade and multi-hyphenate Geoffrey Holder, married to each other for nearly fifty years. Wife-husband team Atkinson (a student of Carmen’s) and Doob capture the intimate chemistry between quietly brilliant and beautiful Carmen and the larger-than-life Geoffrey.
A Wink and a Smile2009-05-011992519926
An intoxicating mix of private thoughts and public behavior, the feature documentary A Wink and a Smile exposes more than the human body by putting gender, power, sexuality and social identity under the glittery spotlight, as it follows the lives of ten "ordinary" women who do something extraordinary - learn the art of burlesque dancing and strip tease. The film draws back the velvet curtain providing a rare glimpse into the intimate experience, as audiences watch with glee as budding divas learn to shimmy, shake, bump and grind their way into our hearts.
Eleven Minutes2009-02-201895318954
In 2006, Selditch and Tate made a one-off TV special about Jay McCarroll for Bravo called "Project Jay." "Eleven Minutes" picks up where that story ends. Selditch and Tate are both award-winning producers and directors for "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie." Their television program "Architecture School," that aired on the Sundance Channel, was named by Time Magazine as one of the 'Top 10 TV Series of 2008.' The feature documentary "Eleven Minutes" chronicles Jay McCarroll's year-long journey while preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park, and the subsequent selling of his line to…
Tyson 2009-04-24848819205
This is the story of the former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and traces how the fighter self-destructed and let a fortune and his ring legacy slip away. This includes his marriage to actress Robin Givens, Buster Douglas knocking him out in a bout in 1990, the prison term for a sexual assault conviction and biting off Evander Holyfield's ear in the ring. After the boxer emerged clean and sober following a recent rehab stint, Tyson and Toback decided it was time to tell his story in detail, from his time under the wing of promoter Don King to his conviction…
The End of the Line2009-06-191995419955
If we do nothing, the world’s oceans will be empty of fish within our lifetimes. This beautifully-filmed international documentary is a searing investigation of how it happened, who is to blame and what can be done about it. Based on the multi-award winning book by Charles Clover, who also consults on the film, this is the second feature for Rupert Murray. His first, Unknown White Male, was released in cinemas to critical acclaim in the US and UK and short-listed for an Oscar. With Clover’s rigorous journalism and Murray’s incredibly visual cinematic style this is a winning team. The film…
The Fox & the Child2008-00-00753411801
This will combine nature documentary footage and a fictionalized story which centers on a young girl and her friendship with the eponymous animal. An adult female narrator will relate the tale as a memoir of her childhood. Luc Jacquet said he was inspired to write the story based on his own first-time encounter with a fox as a 10-year-old, along with a similar episode featured in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic children's book "The Little Prince."
God Grew Tired of Us2007-01-12759811848
John, Daniel, and Panther were lost. They had no home, no family, no hope. Then they came to America, where they were given three months. Three months to learn how to use electricity, how to live in Western culture, how to support themselves. Three months to start paying back the U.S. State Department for their plane tickets. They are the Lost Boys of Sudan, and this is their inspiring story of their triumph in their own words.
The Order of Myths2008-07-25769016926
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown, herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city’s two carnivals to explore the complex contours of this hallowed tradition and the elusive forces that keep it organized along enduring color lines. With unprecedented access, Brown traces the exotic world of centuries-old traditions and pageantry; diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous, hand-sewn gowns and trains, surreal masks and enormous paper mache floats. Against this opulent backdrop, she uncovers a tangled web of historical violence, power…
Stalags2008-04-091575715758
Taking their name from the Nazi prison camps in which they were set, Stalags were Israeli paperbacks whose stories featured lusty female SS officers outfitted with whips and boots, sexually abusing captured American or British pilots. In many of the Stalags, the inmates eventually kill their captors and escape, but not before lurid sexual encounters are recounted in graphic detail. During the early 1960s, following the trial of Adolf Eichmann – revelations from which may have inspired this phenomenon – these books became Hebrew-language underground bestsellers. Their popularity only declined after a well-publicized trial in which their authors were accused…
Religulous2008-10-01775611960
An uproarious nonfiction film about the greatest fiction ever told, RELIGULOUS follows political humorist and author Bill Maher as he travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion. Known for his astute analytical skills, irreverent wit and commitment to never pulling a punch, Maher brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey.
The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom2010-03-3100
The Dalai Lama, living in exile in Northern India, is interviewed extensively during this turbulent period and given the opportunity to explicate his “Middle Way Approach,” a compromise position essentially giving up the goal of Tibet’s independence in exchange for cultural and social autonomy. To date he has been unsuccessful in getting the Chinese to accept this proposal. A younger generation of Tibetans who are devoted to the Dalai Lama, but who nonetheless feel his solution is ineffective, appear in the film, detailing their more militant position. This is the first film to show the Dalai Lama addressing the political…
She, A Chinese2009-00-002450824509
Formerly titled "Hay Fever", this is a searching for adventure away from her rural Chinese village, Mei embarks on a life-changing journey of self-discovery which takes her to modern Beijing and later to England. Intimate and authentic, this Fever" chronicles the immense challenges and small victories of forging a new life in another culture, another world and works as a hybrid of documentary, creative writing, visual poetry and cinema.
Lake of Fire2007-10-03805112151
Ever since Roe v. Wade, the United States has been deeply divided on the issue of abortion. In that landmark case, an unmarried woman was refused an abortion in Texas. The judicial challenge that followed won women the right to legal abortions. Proponents and opponents have lined up on either side of the issue ever since, launching verbal abuse – and worse – at each other. As the religious right has increasingly flexed its power, the issue has become even more divisive – and violent. Interviewing a range of individuals – from fundamentalist Christians to professors of sociology, philosophy, and…
Captain Mike Across America2008-00-0000
Formerly titled The Great '04 Slacker Uprising, this is a scrappy road trip movie following his two months of daily campaigning against George W. Bush in the 2004 election.
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland2008-02-08805912159
This is a documnetary on the 30 cities over 30 days show that featured national touring comedians from the world famous Los Angeles Comedy Store.
Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-19652007-01-12809112185
On August 20, 1965, after 20 months of proceedings, the verdict was pronounced in one of the most significant trials in German legal history. The court heard 360 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp survivors and other witnesses from 19 countries, in a trial against 22 members of the SS, accused of taking part in the mass murder of millions. Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965 (produced by Hessischer Rundfunk, a German public television station) is a documentary of immense importance that illuminates not only the horrors of Auschwitz, but the chilling atmosphere of the courtroom in Frankfurt, Germany, almost twenty…
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains2007-10-26808612180
"Jimmy Carter Man From Plains" is an intimate, surprising encounter with President Jimmy Carter. Following the path of Mr. Carter's recent controversial book tour for Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Academy Award©-winning director Jonathan Demme reveals a complex individual who, with the gusto and determination of a youngster, criss-crosses the country to get his message across, even as that message creates a media onslaught in which his credibility and judgment are called into question. "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains" explores both the private and public sides of Jimmy Carter, whose intense sense of justice compels him to pursue, with undiminished energy…
Into Great Silence2007-02-28810212188
The Grande Chartreuse, the mother house of the legendary Carthusian Order, is based in the French Alps. "Into Great Silence" is the first film ever about life inside the Grande Chartreuse. Silence. Repetition. Rhythm. The film is an austere, next to silent meditation on monastic life in a very pure form. No music except the chants in the monastery, no interviews, no commentaries, no extra material.Changing of time, seasons, and the ever repeated elements of the day, of the prayer. A film to become a monastery, rather than depict one. A film about awareness, absolute presence, and the life of…
The Hip Hop Project2007-05-11812712201
Originally titled "Word.Life: The Hip-Hop Project", this revolves around of Chris "Kharma Kazi" Rolle, an abandoned and homeless New York teenager who grew up to develop an outreach program for troubled teens to help each other and express themselves through hip-hop. As Kazi and two of his students attempted to create their own album, rap entrepreneur Russell Simmons and Bruce Willis donated a recording studio to their "Hip Hop Project." Rapper Doug E. Fresh also makes an appearance in the chronicle of the youths' four-year struggle.
Shine a Light2008-04-04813012204
Rolling Stones documentary that focuses on the two concerts from the group's current "A Bigger Bang" tour as well as historical and contemporary behind-the-scenes footage and interviews. A recent concert in Austin, Texas, was also filmed.
Glastonbury2007-02-23813212206
Glastonbury is now the best known, longest running and most pre-eminent music festival in the world. Fuelled by a staggering range of music, the movie will embrace the spirit, characters and overwhelming experiences of the festival as it reflects the extraordinary world changes of the last three decades.
U2 3D2008-01-23813615327
The 3-D concert film saw Owens and Pellington shot more than 700 hours of footage with the band in seven South American cities during February and March. Trekking across Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, the film's 3-D director of photography Peter Anderson ("T2 3-D: Battle Across Time") used nine pairs of Sony Cinealta 950 cameras to capture the band with swooping camera angles and kaleidoscopic imagery. The director of cinematography for the film's 2-D footage is Tom Krueger.
My Enemy's Enemy2010-03-10814112210
This is about Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal known as "the Butcher Of Lyon." Barbie was also the subject of Marcel Ophuls' Oscar winning 1988 documentary Hotel Terminus, but Macdonald's film will have a very different focus. The film will chronicle how Barbie worked with the CIA after the war and how the Nazi felon was protected by the US. The documentary will also examine claims that Barbie and the CIA were involved in the 1980 Bologna railway bombing, in which 85 people died.
Standard Operating Procedure2008-04-25815112216
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE is about a series of photographs that changed the world, changed the war, and changed America’s image of itself. A hundred years from now, these photographs in all likelihood will define the war in Iraq – in particular, three iconic photographs taken by soldiers in the 372nd MP Company – Lynndie England posing with a prisoner on a leash; the Hooded Man standing on a box with wires attached to his fingers; and the pyramid of naked prisoners. In his new film, Errol Morris shows how the photographs served as both an expose and a cover-up. An…
Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa & Beyond2007-08-2800
This is described as the "definitive portrait of the world's greatest adventurer photographer."
You're Gonna Miss Me2007-06-08815912219
This is about rock n roll pioneer Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson, whose band the 13th Floor Elevators coined the term "psychedelic rock" in the 60's. Struggling with drug abuse and schizophrenia, he spent 3 years in Rusk State Hospital after pleading insanity on marijuana charges. His new band, Roky Erickson and the Aliens managed to stay vital during the 70's with a darker and more aggressive rock sound. After losing interest in music, he became a recluse, living in poverty and filth. The movie details the rise and fall of Roky Erickson and his brothers struggle to get Rokys life…
An Unreasonable Man2007-01-31816012220
A look at the career of consumer advocate Ralph Nader from wannabe presidential candidate to public pariah. In 1966, General Motors, the most powerful corporation in the world, sent private investigators to dig up dirt on an obscure thirty-two year old public interest lawyer named Ralph Nader, who had written a book critical of one of their cars, the Corvair. The scandal that ensued after the smear campaign was revealed launched Ralph Nader into national prominence and established him as one of the most admired Americans and the leader of the modern Consumer Movement. Over the next thirty years and…
Maxed Out2007-03-09817112227
When Hurricane Katrina ravaged America's Gulf Coast, it laid bare an uncomfortable reality-America is not only far from the world's wealthiest nation; it is crumbling beneath a staggering burden of individual and government debt. "Maxed Out" takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Sure, most of us may have that sinking feeling that something isn't quite right, but we're told not to worry. After all, there's always more credit! "Maxed Out" shows how the modern financial industry really works, explains the true definition…
Chicago 102008-02-29817512229
CHICAGO 10 explores the build-up and aftermath of the week-long anti-war demonstrations staged during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, during which protesters clashed with the Chicago Police Department and the National Guard. Following the protest, eight of the most vocal activists were held accountable for the violence and brought to trial in 1969. The defendants represented a broad cross-section of the anti-war movement, from counter-culture icons Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin to renowned pacifist David Dellinger. Seven of the defendants were represented by Leonard Weinglass and famed liberal attorney, William Kunstler, with the eighth defendant, Bobby Seale, co-chair…
The Trials of Darryl Hunt2007-06-15818012233
More than a decade in the making, this documents the aftermath of a brutal rape/murder and harrowing wrongful conviction in the modern American South. Told from the point-of-view of three principal subjects, an enterprising investigative journalist; an unyielding defense attorney; and a wrongfully convicted man, the film offers an eye-opening, provocative and haunting examination of a community – and a criminal justice system – subject to racial bias and tainted by fear. Chronicling this capital case from 1984 through 2004, with extensive personal narratives and exclusive footage from two decades, filmmakers Stern and Sundberg painstakingly frame the judicial and emotional…
Manufactured Landscapes2007-06-20818412237
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them. The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any…
Banished2007-00-00819312246
This is an exploration of what might be done to right the wrongs committed in three American towns that forcibly ejected their black populations in the early 20th century.
Chasing Ghosts2007-00-0000
Written by Ruchti and Michael Verrechia, this is a look at the winners of the original 1982 Video Game World Championship.
Crazy Love2007-06-01819412247
Dan Klores' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance which culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's saga on the cover of endless newspapers and magazines. With the cooperation of the principles, Burt, now 79, and Linda, 68, Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love, obsession, insanity, hope and forgiveness.
Everything's Cool: A Toxic Comedy About Global Warming2007-11-09819512248
This is about the struggles of some self-appointed global warming activists to find the right ways to move from advocacy to public action on behalf of alternative energy.
For the Bible Tells Me So2007-10-05819612249
Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating homosexuals and Christianity too wide to cross? How can the Bible be used to justify hate? These are the questions at the heart of Daniel Karslake’s acclaimed new documentary FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO. Through the experiences of five Christian American families – including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson – we discover how people of faith handle, or sometimes tragically fail to handle, having a gay child.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib2007-00-00819712250
The familiar and disturbing pictures of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison raise many troubling questions: How did torture become an accepted practice at Abu Ghraib? Did U.S. government policies make it possible? How much damage has the aftermath of Abu Ghraib had on America's credibility as a defender of freedom and human rights around the world?
Girl 272007-00-00819812251
This is about an investigation into the cover-up of a scandal stemming from the rape of underage dancer Patricia Douglas at a wild MGM stag party in 1937.
Hear and Now2007-00-00819912252
This is the story of the filmmaker's deaf parents who, after 65 years of silence, decide to have cochlear implant surgery in an attempt to gain hearing.
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)2007-08-17820012253
This looks at aspects of corruption and violence in contempo Brazil.
My Kid Could Paint That2007-10-05820112254
This focuses on a four-year-old girl whose paintings, which have been compared to the work of Kandinsky, Pollock and Picasso, have already netted her parents $300,000.
Nanking2007-12-12820212255
"Nanking" is a powerful reminder of the heartbreaking toll that war takes on the innocent, and a testament to the courage and conviction of a few individuals determined to act in the face of evil. The film tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. The events of the film are told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers,…
No End in Sight2007-07-27820312256
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jawdropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of…
Protagonist2007-11-30820412257
This uses the stories of four diverse men to explore the organic relationship between human life and Euripidean dramatic structure.
War/Dance2007-11-09820512258
Set in Northern Uganda, "War/Dance" tells the story of three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed and who reside in a displaced-persons camp in Patongo. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival, their historic journey to their nation's capital also is an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time.
Zoo2007-04-25820712260
The film explores the ensuing media coverage and public outcry that uncovered a secret community of zoophiles, who call themselves "zoos." This expressionistic rendering of how apparently upstanding citizens banded together and videotaped their journey into the most taboo realms of behavior, reveals the enormous gulf between what we appear to be and who we really are.
The Devil Came on Horseback2007-07-25821412267
Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK takes the viewer on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction of the international community, Steidle resigned and returned to the US to expose the images and stories of lives systematically destroyed. Sundberg and Stern’s…
Miss Navajo2007-00-00821812271
This is an exploration of the role of women in Navajo culture as seen through one young woman's preparation for the Miss Navajo National Pageant.
The Unforeseen2008-02-29821912272
This tells the story of a Texas farm boy who becomes a developer and transforms pristine hill country into large-scale subdivisions, threatening a fragile limestone aquifer. An environmental movement arises to fight back and the film considers the changes to the American landscape in the name of progress and convenience.
Wonders Are Many2007-00-0000
This looks at the collaboration between John Adams and Peter Sellars on their opera about Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, while also examining the complex birth of nuclear weapons.
Shoot Down2008-01-25824912287
Every day, a sophisticated array of electronic tracking equipment monitors the vast perimeter of the U.S. It operates 24/7, protecting against potential military threats, countering smugglers, and assuring the safety of commercial aircraft. But on February 24th, 1996, the agencies monitoring these systems were asked to focus on the Florida Straits, the body of water that separates the U.S. from Cuba. At 3 PM, the reason for this attention became clear. Three X's of light slowly traced across an Air Force radar screen, representing tiny civilian Cessnas flown by Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based humanitarian organization formed to rescue…
Sacco and Vanzetti2007-01-21825312291
This brings to life the heartbreaking story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of murder and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story. The ordeal of Sacco and Vanzetti came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America, and millions of people in the U.S. and around the world protested on their behalf. Nearly eighty years later, the story continues to have great resonance, as civil liberties and the rights of immigrants are again under attack.…
Darfur Now2007-11-02825512293
Formerly known as "An Indifferent World", this sees Don Cheadle as one of five subjects who are attempting to address genocide in Darfur. This film is a call to action for people everywhere to help stop the genocide in Darfur. For the first time in human history, genocide has been declared in a region while it is still ongoing. In the Darfur documentary, the struggles and achievements of six very different individuals bring to light the situation in Darfur and illustrate the absolute need to get involved. From an undergraduate student in Santa Monica, California, to a Darfurian refugee woman…
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure2007-10-05825612294
Using a combination of live action and CG animation, pic will take auds back 80 million years to explore the lives of dinosaur-era ocean dwellers.
VHS - Kahloucha2007-00-00828212311
On a snowy night in Italy, homesick Tunisian immigrants borrow a TV and VCR and gather in a basement to watch the latest movie from their favorite filmmaker. Nejib Belkadhi's fun and energetic VHS--Kahloucha is a celebration of the method, madness, and magic of amateur Tunisian filmmaker Moncef Kahloucha. Kahloucha, a house painter with an infectious personality and a love for '70s genre film, shoots hilarious features on a VHS Panasonic 3500 and claims such hits as I Had No Money and Now I'm Loaded and Misery to Get Rid of the Booze. He is shooting his latest feature, Tarzan…
A Very British Gangster 2008-07-18828312312
This is about Dominic Noonan, a notorious leader of a powerful Blighty organized crime family who was openly gay and championed the working class. Noonan legally changed his name to Lattlay Fottfoy, an acronym for the family motto: “Look after those that look after you, fuck off those that fuck off you.”
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters2007-08-17828612315
A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong. In 1982, LIFE Magazine assembled the world's greatest gamers for a photo shoot that would become the center spread of their 1982 Year-In-Photos edition. Billy Mitchell, who would later be named the "Gamer of the Century," was one of the invitees. Mitchell, the World Record holder on Centipede, had been tracking the score on Donkey Kong, and knew he could take that title as well. In front of the 20 best gamers in the world, Billy scored 874,300 points,…
In the Shadow of the Moon2007-09-07828712316
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time, IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON combines archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen,…
Fired!2007-02-02829112319
When Annabelle Gurwitch (Of TBS’s Dinner and a Movie fame) was fired from a play by Woody Allen, she was devastated. While most of us wish we could be so lucky, Gurwitch took this previously unknown misery and went off on an expedition. The result features a hilarious laundry list of past jobs from friends—Illeana Douglas David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman, Harry Shearer, Tim Allen, and Andy Dick; Fred Willard (fired because of a case of mistaken identity); and Jeff Garlin (fired because of a certain need to wear a hanger on his head)—that put everything in perspective. And…
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience2007-02-09829212320
"Operation Homecoming" is a unique documentary that explores the first-hand accounts of American troops through their own words. The film is built upon the Operation Homecoming initiative created by the National Endowment for the Arts to gather the writing of soldiers and their families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through interviews and dramatic readings by such actors as Robert Duvall, Josh Lucas, Beau Bridges, Blair Underwood, Justin Kirk, Aaron Eckhart, Chris Gorham and John Krasinski, the film transforms selections from this collection of writing into a deep examination of the experiences of the men and…
Ghosts of Cité Soleil2007-06-27831612334
An epic portrait of a family and a culture torn apart by poverty and violence, GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL is a powerful and unsettling documentary that takes us inside the lives of the notorious gang leaders who dominate the Haitian slum of Cite Soleil, one of the most desperate communities in the Western hemisphere. Set to a score by Wyclef Jean, who also executive produced the film and serves as an inspiration to the young men of Haiti, the film follows two of the gang leaders, who happen to be brothers, and are also aspiring rappers. The foot soldiers of…
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?2008-04-18831815094
This is about the hunt for Osama bin-Laden.
Buddha’s Lost Children2007-00-00832012337
The film follows a Thai boxer turned Buddhist monk who travels through the borderlands of Thailand’s Golden Triangle on horseback.
How To Cook Your Life2007-11-16832512339
Dorrie and Brown demonstrate that eating is more than just the intake of food, and that cooking is a festival of senses, an act of love and generosity. You are not only what you eat but also how you eat it. Alternately charming, playful and at times petulant, Brown teaches one to take pride in cooking and through it creates a sense of wellness and community. Interspersed with footage of Brown’s teacher, Suzuki Roshi – whose advice to Brown was “When you wash the rice, wash the rice, when you cut the carrots, cut the carrots, when you stir the…
Terror's Advocate2007-10-12832612340
This is about Jacques Vergès, the highly controversial French lawyer, war veteran, revolutionary agitator and intellectual popularly known as 'The Devil’s Advocate' and reviled as such by his critics for his persistent defence of what many perceive as the indefensible. If a Hollywood scriptwriter had invented Jacques Vergès, he might be open to charges of over-romanticising his hero. Perhaps Vergès should be viewed as an anti-hero because he is a difficult man to like. Many abhor him. Any honest, balanced film about Maître Vergès is bound to be as controversial and provocative as the man himself. For all his charm…
Air Guitar Nation2007-03-23832712341
A battle of naked ambition played out on the national and, ultimately, world stage, AIR GUITAR NATION chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships as legions of aspiring rock stars live out their dreams on a quest to become the world champion in a strange world where musical ability plays second fiddle to virtual virtuosity. As the film un-reels, two aspiring rock legends strum and strut their way towards glory and the coveted national title. C. Diddy (David Jung), a samurai warrior clad in a “Hello Kitty” breast plate and red kimono, emerges as an early favorite. But…
The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair2007-03-23834412347
Baghdad , September 2003: In a middle class house on a quiet street, a family is fast asleep. Without warning, the front door is crashed and American soldiers storm the house looking for weapons and bomb-making material. Cameraman Michael Tucker documents the event as the men in the house are cuffed and forced to kneel in the garden. A search of the house uncovers no incriminating evidence, however Yunis Khatayer Abbas and three of his brothers are taken and detained. Bent on forcing Yunis to confess to crimes he did not commit, his captors press him with bizarre questions about…
Sharkwater2007-11-02834612349
Driven by passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, filmmaker Rob Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. He goes into the most shark-rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations and the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their adventure together starts with a battle…
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis2007-04-11835912356
For Jack Smith (1932-1989), Atlantis was both the idea of a fantastical utopia and the reality of the Lower East Side apartment in which this prophetic artist staged baroque, improvisational multi-hour one-man theatrical productions, often with a cast of stuffed animals and dolls. An avant-garde photographer, filmmaker, actor, performance artist, and all around “flaming creature,” Smith has been credited as a major influence by Fellini, Godard and Jarmusch. In Mary Jordan’s mesmerizing portrait, he fairly jumps off the screen: a combination mystic, comedian and madman, a protean artist whose vast energy and creativity were undermined (or perversely fed?) by the…
Racing Dreams2010-05-212318223183
"Dreams" will track three junior high school-age "extreme kart racers" through the World Karting Assn.'s Rage Karts Speedway Pavement Series, a training ground for NASCAR hopefuls.
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front2011-06-222728827289
In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by federal agents in a nationwide sweep of environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front-- a group the FBI has called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.” Charged with burning down two timber facilities years earlier, McGowan faced life in prison for his actions.
Chalk2007-05-11837312364
CHALK is a spirited portrait of life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. A “doc” in the comedic style of The Office and Best in Show, the film follows the frenetic and sometimes painfully awkward journey of three novice teachers as they navigate one memorable school year. Former high school teacher turned film director Mike Akel joins co-teacher Chris Mass – now actor, producer and co-writer – to provide a rare and realistic look from the teacher’s point of view into the absurd, provocative and occasionally volatile world of public education. In a country where 50%…
Heart of an Empire2007-04-12838212371
"Heart of an Empire" is not just a documentary about the global organization known as the "Fighting 501st". It is a deep personal study of the people that comprise this group and the communities and lives they interact with.
American Swing2009-03-271912819129
Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway2007-05-11839112376
Over the course of one Broadway musical season, "ShowBusiness" follows the four high-profile productions that would eventually become Tony nominees for Best Musical: a big-noise musical named "Wicked," the Rosie O'Donnell/Boy George collaboration, "Taboo," the much-anticipated Tony Kushner musical, "Caroline, or Change," and an irreverent puppet show named "Avenue Q". From casting to staging, from previews to red-carpeted opening nights, from the announcement of Tony nominations to the suspense filled Tony Awards, "ShowBusiness" provides a never-before-seen look at the inner workings of Broadway musicals. Allowed unprecedented backstage access, director Dori Berinstein casts a camera's eye on rehearsals, backstage highs and…
Humpty Dumpty 0000-00-0000
This is about the behind the scenes filmmaking of American History X starrring Edward Norton.
Girls Rock!2008-03-071564615647
The primary subjects of "Girls Rock!" are Laura, an articulate adopted Korean girl from Oklahoma obsessed with death metal; Misty, who is emerging from a life of meth-addiction, homelessness and gang activity; Palace, a sweet-seeming 8-year-old with a heavy metal sneer and "rawk" heart, and Amelia, another 8-year-old, who's writing a 14 song cycle about her Chihuahua Pippi and loves "crazy noise music." Forming bands, writing songs and playing a gig in one week, these girls and the rest of the campers engage in an experiment meant to change their perception of themselves and each other. In meeting these four…
A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory2007-00-00840012383
Virtually unknown today, Danny Williams was Andy Warhol's lighting designer, lover and a promising young filmmaker. In 1966, after a family gathering in Massachusetts, he borrowed his mother’s car for a drive and never came back. In this riveting personal inquiry, Esther Robinson looks for the elusive truth behind her uncle's association with the Factory, and his subsequent disappearance. The discovery of 20 never-before-seen films Williams made during his time at the Factory—and whose many subjects include Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Paul Morrissey, Brigid Berlin, Billy Name, and what may be the earliest known footage of the Velvet Underground—reveals a…
Up from the Fire0000-00-0000
This captures the sacred music performances from around the world.
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal2007-05-23842312398
Narrated by Nicole Kidman, I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN YOU: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL is the stirring new documentary about legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. The story of a great man's determined fight for justice, the film provides enlightening insight into what drove his search and what kept him going. Born in the Ukraine, Wiesenthal lost at least 89 family members during the Holocaust. Imprisoned at the Mauthausen concentration camp, he was spared death when it was liberated by Allied forces and embarked upon a remarkable campaign of truly global proportions. With no formal training as an investigator,…
Return to Normandie 2007-00-00842612400
The follow-up to Être et avoir, (To Be and To Have) charmed audiences around the world. In 1975, when he was still a young assistant, Nicolas Philibert participated in the extraordinary adventure that was René Allio’s film Moi, Pierre Rivière, a feature film that recounted a tragedy in the Normandy countryside in 1835, when a 20-year-old man murdered members of his family with a scythe. Shot close to the place where the triple murder took place, Allio’s film owed much of its power and distinctiveness to the fact that many of the actors were locals. Thirty years later, Nicolas Philibert…
Casting About2007-05-11842812402
In the fall of 2000, filmmaker Barry Hershey set out to cast actresses for an independent, dramatic, period film (MOVING STILL) which he had co-written and intended to direct, about a combat photographer returning to New York after a harrowing experience in World War II. Casting directors in five cities searched for actresses to play the three leading female roles, while the part of the photographer was slated for an established actor who would be chosen later. The original plan was to incorporate parts of the casting footage from these auditions into the fiction film MOVING STILL.

This is a…
Planet B-Boy2008-03-21843212405
A vibrant and infectious look at the global resurgence of break-dancing, PLANET B-BOY weaves spectacular dance footage with poignant personal stories. From the outskirts of Paris to the suburbs of Seoul, Korea, Lee’s film deftly spotlights how young men of such different cultural backgrounds come together for their love of dance, community, and hip-hop. Though unfairly viewed in the U.S. as a mid-eighties fad, the culture of “b-boying” has thrived overseas while remaining true to its underground roots. PLANET B-BOY follows crews from France, Korea, Japan, and the U.S. as they prepare for “The Battle of the Year” – an…
Taxi to the Dark Side2008-01-18843412406
“TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE” is a gripping investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration. By probing the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film exposes a worldwide policy of detention and interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of human rights. This disturbing and often brutal film is the most incisive examination to date of the Bush Administration’s willingness, in its prosecution of the “war on terror,” to undermine the essence of the rule of law. The film asks and answers a key question: what happens…
9 Star Hotel2007-05-23845012411
Just as Mexicans cross U.S. borders illegally to find work as day laborers, thousands of Palestinians do likewise, into neighboring Israel, seeking jobs in construction. For 9 STAR HOTEL, Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar gained the trust of a group of nomadic young men whom he observed fleeing from police, risking their lives to cross highways at night, sleeping in makeshift hovels – a dramatic contrast to the luxury housing they build by day. “We think backwards – we never think forward. We are like scavengers, like those who harvest olives after the locust,” one of his subjects confesses with lyrical…
Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise2008-03-121583415835
Actor, performer, and multi-platinum rock icon Meat Loaf reveals surprising shades of himself - and a fertile creative mind in constant flux - in this intimate and highly-entertaining theatrical feature documentary. The time is early 2007, one of the most stressful in Meat Loaf's career, when he is about to launch his most ambitious tour ever: an 18 month long marathon to support Bat Out of Hell III, the final album of the legendary "Bat" trilogy (first two albums had combined sales of over 55 million- two of the biggest selling albums of all time). His exhausting - and often…
The Camden 282007-07-27847012427
What can a person do to end an immoral war? In 1971, 28 individuals intentionally risked prison while protesting the war in Vietnam. With archival materials, current interviews with former FBI agents involved in the case and scholars such as Howard Zinn, THE CAMDEN 28 explores a watershed moment in the history of anti-war activism in the United States. This is a story about civil disobedience that has powerful relevance in our current political climate.

In August, 1971, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced the arrest and indictment of 28 antiwar activists conspiring to…
Unborn in the Usa: Inside the War on Abortion2007-06-15847112428
UNBORN IN THE USA: Inside the War on Abortion is a revealing and provocative look into the deep secrets and deep pockets of the pro-life movement. This documentary weaves a riveting story from more than 70 exclusive interviews with pro-life activists and seldom-seen archival footage to document one of the most controversial social movements in American history. When the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade affirmed a woman’s constitutional right to privacy, a new movement – dedicated to criminalizing abortion – was born. Now, more than 30 years later, with President George W. Bush’s conservative appointments to the…
Beyond Hatred2007-06-15847212429
BEYOND HATRED is a unique film about one family’s need to forgive. On the night of September 13, 2002 Francois Chenu, because he admitted his homosexuality, was beaten to death by three skinheads and thrown into a pond. The gang was known to the police and quickly caught. Two years after the tragedy Francois’s parents continue to struggle with their grief and anger – but part of their struggle was to fight for tolerance and respect for others. BEYOND HATRED depicts the details of this crime but primarily focuses on its aftermath. Director Oliver Meyrou traveled to Reims before the…
Not Quite Hollywood2009-07-311733817339
The same cultural explosion that gave birth to Australian art classics Picnic at Hanging Rock and My Brilliant Career spawned a group of demon-children: maverick filmmakers who thumbed their noses at authority, made their own rules and in the process unleashed films such as Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Alvin Purple, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Patrick and Mad Max. Across the globe, audiences applauded Aussie brutes with white line fever, well-stacked heroines and stunts unparalleled in their quality and extreme danger. NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is the first detailed examination and celebration of the Australian genre films of…
Lagerfeld Confidential2007-10-00850712446
This is a documentary about fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Carnaval 3D: The Magic & the Music0000-00-0000
This chronicles Brazil's annual street party in Rio de Janeiro.
Next: A Primer on Urban Painting2008-00-00851612450
The doc explores the global iterations of graffiti culture, via interviews with painters, journos, collectors, sociologists, DJs and critics.
Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko Files2008-03-21851712451
Formerly titled "Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case", this was filmed over the last four years of his life, this is about the plutonium poisoned Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko who died an agonizing death -- followed live by the world's media -- in November after ingesting radioactive Polonium-210, slipped into his tea during a meeting in London where he had been living in exile. On his deathbed he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his assassination. Pic implicates Putin in Litvinenko's killing, and in a series of interviews and never-before-seen footage also makes a wider attack on Putin, his rise to…
Angels in the Dust2007-10-00851812452
This doc is about Africa and its ills are in fact a hot new area for exploration by filmmakers. This looks at the AIDS crisis in South Africa through the eyes of orphans. "Angels" is the story of Marion Cloete, an Afrikaner who -- with her husband and two daughters --walked away from a privileged life in Johannesburg to establish Botshabelo, a village and school that provide shelter, food and education to South African children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Alice Neel2007-00-00852412453
Portrait painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) was a self-described collector of souls who recorded her sitters on canvas through six decades of the 20th century, among them Andy Warhol, Bella Abzug, Allen Ginsberg and Annie Sprinkle. Neel always sought the "authentic," moving from Greenwhich Village to Spanish Harlem just as the Village was gaining reputation in the art scene. She sacrificed almost everything for her art, delving so far into the psyches of her sitters she would almost lose herself. Yet Neel was also a dedicated mother, raising two sons in the bohemian world she inhabited. Filmmaker Andrew Neel, Alice Neel’s…
Chris & Don: A Love Story2008-06-131649316494
A sleeper hit at the Telluride Film Festival, CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From Isherwood’s Kit-Kat-Club years in Weimar-era Germany (the inspiration for his most famous work) to the couple’s first meeting on the sun-kissed beaches of 1950s Malibu, their against-all-odds saga is brought to dazzling life by a treasure trove of multimedia. Bachardy’s contemporary reminiscences (in the Santa Monica home he…
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman2007-07-04852812455
This is a 2-part, 6-hour documentary tour-de-force. Jennifer Fox is a woman whose life seems ripped from the pages of The New York Times Style Section crossed with the personals of the New York Review of Books. She is a pretty, 40-something single woman, living in a spacious downtown loft, a seasoned documentary filmmaker whose subject is, inevitably, relationships. With startling candor, Fox turns the camera on her own life, the conflicts in balancing work and love, specifically two far-flung relationships with men: a married South African and a Swiss boyfriend. Then she ups the ante by contrasting her nearly…
Sand and Sorrow2007-00-00852912456
While analyzing the historical events that have given rise to an Arab-dominated government's willingness to kill and displace its own indigenous African people, “Sand and Sorrow” also examines the international community's “legacy of failure” to respond to such profound crimes against humanity in the past. But while immersed in the despairing crisis of our time, Freedman manages to give voice to the ever-growing and inspiring movement of those who wish to make “Never Again” finally mean something. John Prendergast, Samantha Power, and New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, lead the viewer through burgeoning refugee camps along the Chad-Sudan border, past…
The Sugar Curtain2007-07-25853812463
In this intimate autobiographical portrait, the filmmaker, who was born in Chile in 1971 but after the 1973 coup moved with her family to Cuba, returns to Havana (which she left in 1990), to look for her childhood friends, and to see what became of the 'golden years' of the Cuban Revolution in which they grew up. For them, growing up in Cuba in the '70s and '80s seemed like a paradise, where the state provided everything— playgrounds, education, healthcare, housing, work—and Camila and her friends were part of an idealistic generation of young "Pioneers," dedicated to building a new…
Autism: The Musical2008-00-00854212466
This centers on a group of five autistic children who are given the chance to explore their creativity by putting on a musical under the instruction of a pro acting coach. Doc also examines struggles and triumphs of the children's families.
Sari Soldiers, The 2008-00-0000
Six Nepali women on opposing sides of Nepal's political conflict battle to transform their country's future. Amidst an autocratic Monarch's "War on Terror" against the Maoist rebels, the film follows their journey from the war-torn hillsides, to the extraordinary street revolution to reclaim democracy, and their struggles and pursuits for justice.
Recycle2008-00-0000
A moderate Muslim father in Jordan faces a setback at every turn. Forced to collect cardboard in the streets of Zarqa, he is barely sustaining his family. As his situation deteriorates he has to make a radical decision to save himself from humiliation.
Trouble the Water2008-08-221728617287
This visceral account which begins from the perspective of a couple (aspiring rap artist Kimberly Roberts and her husband Scott Roberts) who filmed their neighborhood the day before and the day of Hurricane Katrina with a camcorder they had bought on the street a week earlier. This story of survival under extreme conditions touches on issues of race and class and the stratification of our society, and speaks to anyone interested in the ‘state of our union’ and the upcoming election.
Steep2007-12-21856312473
Mark Obenhaus’s Steep is an awesome documentary about extreme skiing, a sport that barely existed 35 years ago. Shot in Alaska, Wyoming, British Columbia, France and Iceland, the film takes a look at daredevil skiers who shun the regular resorts and instead seek out the big, wild mountains. The footage is not only visually stunning but also vertigo inducing. Skiers either climb up the mountain or ride a helicopter to its peak. Then they begin their gravity-defying descent, often down slopes that are nigh on vertical. Some ski alongside an avalanche or slice through trees or, in one case, end…
Deep Water2007-08-24856512474
A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race. When Donald Crowhurst, the owner of an ailing marine electronics business, stakes everything to complete the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, he becomes a minor celebrity. But as the truth of his ten-month voyage becomes apparent, it is revealed that things have gone terribly wrong.
Young@Heart2008-04-09856712475
Stephen Walker's Young @ Heart is about a Massachusetts seniors chorus that covers tunes ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Coldplay. When the Young@Heart began in 1982 the members all lived in an elderly housing project in Northampton, MA called the Walter Salvo House. The first group included elders who lived through both World Wars. One of our members had fought in the Battle of the Somme as a 16 year old and another, Anna Main, lost her husband in the First World War. Anna was a stand-up comic who at 88 told jokes that only she could get away with.…
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten2007-11-02857312478
"The Future is Unwritten," Julien Temple's new film on the life and career of late Clash frontman Joe Strummer. Taking its name from one of Strummer's favorite phrases, the film includes interviews with such Strummer disciples as Bono, actors Johnny Depp and John Cusack, members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Clash, old friends and those who squatted with him in condemned buildings in London before the Clash took off. Also featured is unseen footage of Strummer's early life, as well as unearthed clips of the Clash and the Mescaleros, the band he fronted in the years prior…
Skid Row2007-08-2400
This follows the musician known as Pras with hidden cameras as he lives as a homeless person in Los Angeles' emonymous neighborhood for nine days.
The Unknown Soldier2007-09-07858612486
The Wehrmacht Exhibition, which toured in Germany between 1999 and 2004 and was visited by more than half a million people, challenged ordinary Germans to rethink what their fathers and grandfathers did during the war. Whereas most had been led to believe that the cold-blooded murder of civilians had been a crime of a minority of Gestapo and S.S. officers, for the first time Germans saw photos and footage of ordinary soldiers gleefully tormenting and executing civilians and P.O.W. The nation was shaken, and large protests were organized by those who believed the evidence was manufactured. Verhoeven interviews historians and…
Primo Levi's Journey2007-08-17858812488
In the winter of 1945, Primo Levi, one the century’s greatest writers (“If This Is A Man”), was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. With the war still underway, he embarked on a thousand-mile journey to his home in Turin, Italy – a strange and beguiling odyssey memorialized in his book, “The Truce.” Sixty years later, director Davide Ferrario set out to follow in Levi’s footsteps. Retracing his historic trip through Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Rumania, Hungary, Slovakia and Austria, PRIMO LEVI’S JOURNEY weaves a path through a modern Europe that has both changed and remained eerily the same –…
Kurt Cobain About A Son2007-10-03858912489
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 dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public and they reveal a highly…
Punk's Not Dead2007-07-27859712494
Sprawling and comprehensive, Punk's Not Dead takes the filmgoer into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios, and yes, shopping malls and stadium shows where punk rock music and culture was born and continues to thrive. The film features scores of interviews with dozens of artists, and rare and unseen footage from across the spectrum. This features The Adicts, Bad Religion, The Damned, The Exploited, GBH, The God Awfuls, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Billy Idol, Minor Threat, My Chemical Romance, NOFX, Offspring, Pennywise, Pogo Atak, The Ramones, Rancid, Henry Rollins, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers, Subhumans, Sum 41, UK…
The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories2007-00-0000
This is about a community besieged by insects, earned an honorable mention from the jury.
Here Is What Is2007-00-0000
“Here Is What Is” is a sonic, filmic, journey to unique and captivating places from the last year and a half of Lanois’ life. The camera work is classic, uninterrupted and deadly committed. The film opens with a magical performance on the piano by Canada's national treasure, Garth Hudson. The film includes moments of Lanois philosophizing with his old friend Brian Eno during an exotic visit to Morocco, where the Eno Lanois production team has been working with Irish friends, U2. Lanois also travels to the birthplace of the groove - the Deep South, Shreveport, Louisiana and sits in with…
The Price of Sugar2007-09-28860312497
On an island known for its tropical beauty, tourists flock to the resorts of the Dominican Republic. Not 10 miles away, thousands of dispossessed Haitians labor in the sugarcane fields under slave-like conditions, cutting cane that will eventually end up in the United States as sugar. Narrated by Paul Newman, “The Price of Sugar” follows Father Christopher Hartley, a charismatic Spanish priest, as he organizes some of this hemisphere’s poorest people to fight for their basic human rights. Father Hartley must go up against one of the country’s most powerful sugar baron families, the Vicinis, and even the government of…
'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris2007-12-07860512499
De Felitta's examination into the art and mysterious life of legendary jazz vocalist Jackie Paris. Using both new and archival performance footage, found footage, still photography, historical audio clips and rare unreleased recordings, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raymond De Felitta ("Café Society," "Two Family House," "The Thing About My Folks") conducts on-camera interviews with the late Jackie Paris as well as many of the musicians, songwriters and personalities who knew him best. Hailed as the new sound of the day and working with some of the biggest names in jazz—Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton, and Charles Mingus to name a few—Jackie Paris went…
Untitled Brett Morgen Kurt Cobain documentary0000-00-0000
This is a documentary about the lead singer of Nirvana.
The Monastery: Mr. Vig & The Nun2007-08-29860812501
Jørgen Lauersen Vig, a deeply eccentric, never-married 82-year-old Dane, living alone in ramshackle Hesbjerg Castle in the Danish countryside, dreams of donating his homestead to the Russian Orthodox Church to become a monastery. In a long black overcoat, with a shock of unruly white hair, and glasses perched on the tip of his nose, he looks like a character straight out of Dickens. Enter Sister Ambrosija, a remarkably attractive young Russian Orthodox nun, who arrives with a small entourage and begins to whip the place into shape. A whirlwind of activity (days begin at 5:30 am), she insists upon extensive…
Afghan Muscles2007-00-00862112506
The young men of Afghanistan have discovered the art of bodybuilding. In a country ravaged by war, these men still hold on to their dreams; dreams of muscle, honor and fame – absolute control of the body in a world of chaos. ”Afghan Muscles” is a story about dreams. The dreams we all share, but that are never the same. From the rubbles of Kabul to the skyline of Dubai we follow Hamid on a great journey that will take him across mountains and through a struggle to honor both his own dreams and his fathers aspirations.
Helvetica2007-09-12862412508
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. The film also serves as a long-overdue profile of some of the greatest graphic designers and type…
The Business of Being Born2008-01-091535115352
Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to examine and question the way American women have babies. The film interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. When director Epstein discovers she is pregnant during the making of the film, the journey becomes even more personal. Should most births be viewed as a natural…
Lou Reed's Berlin2008-07-181543215433
Filmed at Reed’s December 2006 performances of his rock opera, Berlin, at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse. A Brechtian tale of junkies in love, Berlin was a commercial failure when it was first released in 1973; Reed did not perform it again for 33 years. Here he is backed up by a 35-piece ensemble that includes guitarist Steve Hunter, who performed on the original album, and vocalist Antony, front man for Antony and the Johnsons, who sings a sublime version of “Candy Says,” one of three non-Berlin songs in the film. Schnabel sets this live performance against stage sets of his…
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song2007-09-14862912512
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger.
Joy Division2008-00-0000
This is a chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band.
I For India2007-11-14865412524
This is a chronicle of immigration set in '60s Britain through the experience of one Asian family and their movie camera.
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe2007-10-19866012527
Today, Sam Wagstaff is almost unknown outside of the art world. But his legacy — more than 2,500 photographs — is a priceless archive of mostly anonymous masterworks that has shaped the way we think about modern photography. A son of privilege, Wagstaff left behind a successful advertising career to plunge himself into the thriving downtown art scene of 1970s New York. In 1972 he met Robert Mapplethorpe — 25 years his junior — whose tastes were just beginning to form. Wagstaff pulled him from his suburban Queens existence, gave him a camera and brought him into an art world…
Africa Unite2008-02-1200
This is about the family of the late Bob Marley and their first trip to Ethiopia. The 2005 Africa Unite event, led by the singer's widow, Rita Marley, included a 12-hour concert attended by 300,000 people. The film will contain rare footage of Marley in performance, as well as corresponding footage of his family performing his songs at the Africa Unite concert.
George Harrison: Living in the Material World2011-10-052808128082
By the age of 25, George Harrison had achieved unparalleled international fame and financial success as the lead guitarist of The Beatles.  He spent years navigating the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team, while quietly establishing himself as one of the greatest guitarists in rock and roll.  By the late 1960’s, Beatlemania became claustrophobic and George began to seek meaning beyond his material success.  So began a lifelong quest to balance the material with the spiritual. Using never-before-seen photos and footage (including unreleased Beatles footage), Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese traces the lines of George’s journey, from Liverpool to India to Los Angeles…
Confessions of a Superhero2007-11-02866512531
CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO is a feature length documentary chronicling the lives of three mortal men and one woman who make their living working as superhero characters on the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard. This deeply personal view into their daily routines reveals their hardships, and triumphs, as they pursue and achieve their own kind of fame. The Hulk sold his Super Nintendo for a bus ticket to LA; Wonder Woman was a mid-western homecoming queen; Batman struggles with his anger, while Superman’s psyche is consumed by the Man of Steel. Although the Walk of Fame is right beneath their feet,…
Meeting Resistance2007-10-19866612532
MEETING RESISTANCE is a verité-style non-fiction feature-length film set in the streets, alleyways and ubiquitous teashops of the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad. It enters the physical and psychological heart of the "insurgency" against the American occupation. Photojournalists/directors Steve Connors and Molly Bingham spent ten-months among the insurgents there to create this exclusive, unique, and at once horrifying, compelling and insightful film about their lives, motivation, and goals. MEETING RESISTANCE focuses on eight "insurgents", each with his or her own tale and reasons for opposing the American-led occupation, yet all people who within days of the fall of Baghdad were arranging…
What Would Jesus Buy?2007-11-16866812534
What Would Jesus Buy?" follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!

From producer Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me") and director Rob VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk…
Lynch2007-10-2600
A rare and revealing glimpse into Lynch’s world, this documentary follows the iconoclastic creator of such visionary classics as "Eraserhead," "Mulholland Dr.," "Blue Velvet," and "Twin Peaks" during the lengthy production of his 2006 magnum opus "Inland Empire." Ranging from LA to Poland , the film follows Lynch on set and off, as he paints, sculpts, jokes, and delivers his famed webcast of current LA weather conditions. Shot on lightweight digital equipment over a two-year period, with virtually unlimited access to the artist, LYNCH delivers a personal, insightful portrait of a genius at work.
Paper cannot Wrap up Embers2007-00-00868912540
The film is situated as close as one can get to the life – and thus the spiritual death – of a prostitute. The ultimate social decay ends with the irreparable injustice of a process that cannot be reversed: the destruction of a body.
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour2008-02-01869412542
This is a 3-D film of the upcoming concert tour will play in theaters in the U.S. and Canada from Feb. 1-7. The filmed version of the tour will be shot in 3-D at several venues during the upcoming 54-city tour, which begins Thursday in St. Louis.
King Corn2007-10-12869512543
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about…
Operation Filmmaker2008-06-04870412548
In the wake of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," American actor Liev Schreiber had an idealistic notion: to rescue an Iraqi film student from the rubble of his country and bring him to the West to intern on a Hollywood movie (Everything Is Illuminated). It promised to be a heartwarming tale, a small victory out of the troubled mission of the U.S war in Iraq. But as in the war itself, "good" intentions yielded unintended consequences, and even this operation doesn't go according to plan. Director Nina Davenport becomes personally involved in Schreiber's charitable effort, and soon finds herself embroiled in a…
Billy the Kid2007-12-05870612550
Growing up in small-town Maine, 15-year-old Billy is, in some ways, much like other teenage boys. He’s into heavy metal and horror movies and is desperate to find a girlfriend. But in most other ways Billy is an outsider. His self-confessed “issues” can send him into rages, and he often retreats into the world of his imagination – a world of superheroes, poets and fictional characters. Supported by a mother who encourages his unique intelligence and unflagging sincerity, Billy is a disarmingly candid guide to his own self-discovery.
Untitled Jason Pollock documentary0000-00-0000
The doc will follow five men and women ages 18-20 who are seeking elected posts in a range of states, including New Jersey and Tennessee. The candidates include Ytit Chauhan, 18, a first-generation Indian-American running for city council in Atlantic City, N.J.; and George Monger, 18, who successfully appealed to lower the Memphis voting age from 23 so that he could run for city council.
Heima2007-00-00870912551
Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world’s shyest and least understood bands captured live in their natural habitat.

The culmination of more than a year spent promoting their hugely successful ‘Takk…’ album around the world, the Icelandic tour was free to all-comers and went largely unannounced. Playing in deserted fish factories, outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened…
Running With Arnold2008-00-00871212553
Narrated by Alec Baldwin, "Arnold" chronicles Schwarzenegger's rise to celebrity and political power.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson2008-07-04871616553
"Gonzo" is the definitive film biography of a mythic American writer, particularly covering his most provocative and productive period from 1965 to 1975. His wicked words continue to resonate today, at a time when politicians have become manufactured celebrities, shrouding themselves in Teflon, issuing banalities whose only value is that they rarely offend. Too often, contemporary journalists play the politicians game, taking them seriously with a balance they don�t deserve. Thompson never stood for that. He understood, better than any other, that when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Narrated by Johnny Depp, who portrayed Thompson in…
To the Limit2008-06-13871912554
Thomas and Alexander Huber, risk takers in the extreme, rank as two of the best mountain climbers of our time. Now the two Huber brothers have set out to break the record in speed climbing at the wall of all walls, the 1,000 foot vertical “Nose” of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California. Featuring breathtaking footage of the mountains of Patagonia and Yosemite National Park, Academy Award® winner Pepe Danquart follows the Huber brothers to locations never before reached by a film crew. To the Limit is a portrait of two competitive brothers who go to the very edge of…
1000 Journals2007-00-00872312556
1000 Journals is a film about people whose lives are touched by 1000 traveling journals. These blank journals were released into the world in the summer of 2000, by Someguy, a San Francisco based artist. Some people found a journal, or got it from a friend or stranger. Some signed up on the web and received it in the mail. Some wrote in them, others doodled, pasted in photographs, or added artworks. Some kept them. Some passed them on. There are no rules, and no one really monitors these journals and their movements. And yet, they are connecting tens of…
Fighting For Life2008-03-07873112558
This real life M*A*S*H for our times about the doctors and nurses fighting on the frontlines. The film interweaves stories of military doctors, nurses and medics, working with skill, compassion and dedication amidst the vortex of the Iraq War, wounded soldiers and marines reacting with courage, dignity and determination to survive and to heal, and students at Uniformed Services University, the "West Point" of military medicine, on their journey toward becoming career military physicians. The film also follows 21 year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis, from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, as she fights to recover…
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L10372007-11-0700
Niles begins his documentary on the genesis of a Steinway concert grand in the company’s gritty 5-story Queens factory (on Steinway Street in Astoria) where a melting pot of highly skilled technicians ply their trade in much the same way as their predecessors a century ago. Each piano’s journey is complex—spanning 12 months, 12,000 parts, and assembled by up to 450 people, including workers with such titles as tone regulator, rough tuner and case maker, all of whom explain their craft. The mystery of each piano’s sound and personality is also explored by musicians Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Harry Connick Jr., Hélène…
The Life of Reilly2007-11-16873212559
If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony winner, a staple of television, and a generational icon? Enter The Life Of Reilly. The cliché goes that truth is stranger than fiction. In this case, it is also funnier and more heartbreaking. Charles Nelson Reilly, famous for his game show innuendos and “X Files” guest appearances, takes us through his bizarre, star-studded, tragic, hilarious, and ultimately amazing life with a potent blend…
Praying with Lior2008-02-011508415085
Shot over three years and focusing on the months leading up to Lior's Bar Mitzvah in 2004, Praying with Lior draws a riveting portrait of a high-functioning, quick-witted, friendly and sincere boy, who, as he proudly approaches manhood, is simultaneously "retarded" and, according to his many admirers, a "spiritual genius." It also offers a wonderfully illuminating window into how disability can strengthen a family and a community. In extensive media coverage in Philadelphia where the film was shot, Praying with Lior has already been hailed for encouraging greater inclusion in faith communities for persons with disabilities.

Lior's siblings figure prominently…
Hats Off2008-03-281571215713
With the style and grace of Katherine Hepburn, the smoky wit and wisdom of Dorothy Parker, and her own personal philosophy, “rise above it,” Ms. Weddell is truly an iconic American original, rising above the mundane and difficult confines of her own daily life to reach for the stars and fulfill her dreams. This captures the essence of this most unusual woman, named at age 90 by New York Magazine as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People in New York,” whose full-time acting career began at age 65 upon the passing of her husband, and whose daily routine mocks…
CSNY Déjà Vu2008-07-251673216733
Since their debut in the late 'sixties, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have functioned as the "town criers" of their generation. "CSNY: Déjà Vu" finds the band heading out on their "Freedom of Speech 2006" tour of North America, featuring music from Neil Young's controversial "Living With War" CD. With "Embedded" reporter Mike Cerre aboard, the film documents audience reactions to the music and the band's ongoing connection with its fans, all against the backdrop of the Iraq/Afghanistan War. Songs from the Tour are woven together with archival material, news footage, and audience reaction and observations, as the film examines…
An American Soldier2008-00-0000
Written by Belzberg this is a look at one of the U.S. Army's all-time top recruiters, Sgt. 1st Class Clay Usie.
American Teen2008-07-251519515196
This intimately follows the lives of four teenagers in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. Using cinema vérité footage, interviews, and animation, it presents a candid portrait of being a teenager and all that goes with it. A modern day "Breakfast Club," we see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future.
Fuel2008-00-002147321474
Written by Tickell, this is about his search for an alternative to America's dependence on foreign oil. America is engulfed in an oil war, the environment is being destroyed and gas prices have gone through the roof.
Flow: For Love of Water2008-09-121700417005
This is an investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "Can Anyone Really Own Water?"

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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo2008-00-0000
Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 4 million people have died. And there are the uncountable casualties: the many tens of thousands of women and girls who have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. The world knows nothing of these women. Their stories have never been told. They suffer and die in silence. In The Greatest Silence: Rape in Congo these brave women finally speak. Background, context and opinion are provided by interviews with peacekeepers, politicians, activists, doctors and…
I.O.U.S.A2008-08-221519915200
As the Baby Boomer generation prepares to retire, will there even be any Social Security benefits left to collect? Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.

Throughout history, the American government has found it nearly impossible to spend only what has been raised through taxes. Wielding candid interviews with both average American taxpayers and government officials, Sundance veteran Patrick Creadon (Wordplay) helps demystify the nation’s financial practices and policies.…
Patti Smith: Dream of Life2008-08-061720917210
When people ask her “how does it feel to be a rock icon?” Patti Smith says she “always thinks of Mount Rushmore.” Twelve years in the making, artist/photographer Steven Sebring’s directorial debut takes a lyrical, stream-of-consciousness approach that is exactly right in his affecting portrait of the “rock ‘n’ roll Joan of Arc” (Stephen Holden, The NY Times) who can bring a crowd of devotees to their feet chanting “Glor-i-a!” as effectively as she can share her pain over the early death of her husband, Fred (Sonic) Smith and her brother, and the loss of her close friend Robert Mapplethorpe…
Secrecy2008-09-121780417805
This examines the complexities and layers of our government’s obsession with secrecy and the effects it has had on individuals and on our government. Using original animation, a powerful score, and expertly edited interviews, Secrecy takes us deep into the dark shadows of this process, shedding light on the implications of reasons behind the need to classify a document as secret while asking who polices the state’s ability to do so.
Trumbo2008-06-271652516526
It is an odd irony of history that renowned American screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is still best known for the years of his life in which he didn’t work. In 1947, the accomplished writer of KITTY FOYLE and THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO, was called to testify before the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee and was thrown into prison as one of the infamous "Hollywood Ten." Upon his release from jail in 1950, Trumbo moved with his family to Mexico, where he continued to write screenplays (ROMAN HOLIDAY, THE BRAVE ONE) under various pseudonyms. Finally in 1960, Otto Preminger and Kirk Douglas…
Body of War2008-04-09874512567
This offers a poignant look at the life of a true American hero who went to war one kind of patriot and came home a very different kind. Mapped against an expertly edited selection of congressional testimony demonstrating how rhetoric, unsupported assertions and fear tactics duped the American public into supporting the deployment of U.S. troops into Iraq, the film ultimately becomes - in its own powerful way - an anti-war national anthem.
Made in America2008-00-001256912570
With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts2008-04-181609716098
Exploring the composer’s creative process in opera, concert and film, the film interweaves candid scenes of his personal and spiritual life.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad2008-00-001257312574
Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2004-2007, Iraq disintegrated around them while Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, always refusing to let their heavy metal…
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired2008-07-111660516606
What happens when one of the world’s most famous directors becomes trapped inside one of his own movies? In 1977, Roman Polanski was convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. 30 years later, the Polanski case is still a live issue. ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED reopens this complex and controversial case, challenging many of the myths that have built up around it.

Drawing on interviews with many of the key players, the film explores how the case affected both victim and perpetrator, while addressing larger, lasting questions about the media, our cultural obsession with celebrity and…
The Rape of Europa2007-09-141393913940
The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and World War II. In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But heroic young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back with a miraculous campaign to rescue and return the millions of…
One Minute to Nine2008-00-0000
After suffering, with their four children, eighteen years of humiliation, oppression, physical and mental torture, Wendy beat her husband to death with a hammer. One Minute to Nine recounts Wendy’s last five days before her incarceration: during this short period of freedom, she spends time with her children, parents, and friends, sharing moments recalling memories and disappointed hopes. But also moments of solidarity between women, since for them, what Wendy has gone through is not totally unfamiliar. Tommy Davis filmed her activities and interviews that occurred during this time. He seeks reasons for the drama, conveys the oppressive atmosphere of…
Up the Yangtze2008-04-251570115702
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "the river." See it while you can. The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam - contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle - provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside the 21st century Chinese dream. Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang crafts a moving…
Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma2008-00-0000
The act of triage is the ultimate humanitarian nightmare. Racing against time with limited resources, relief workers make split-second decisions: who gets treatment; who gets food; who lives; who dies. This impossible dilemma understandably haunts humanitarians like Dr. James Orbinski, who accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as their President, and was a field doctor during the Somali famine, the Rwandan genocide, among other catastrophes.

Having seen the best and worst of humanitarian assistance and of humanity itself, Orbinski embarks on his most difficult mission to date - writing a deeply personal and…
Morning Light2008-10-171700617007
Fifteen young sailors... six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring. This exciting true-life documentary tells the inspiring story of a group of intrepid and daring young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life's first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the TRANSPAC, the most revered of open-ocean sailing competitions, the crew of Morning Light matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2,300-mile showdown against top professionals. From their earliest training sessions in Hawaii conducted by world-class teachers through their test of endurance on the high seas, they form…
Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' with the Godmother2008-00-001693416935
This begins in 1991 with Charles Cosby, who is selling ounces of cocaine on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California. His life is changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco, an unforgettable crime figure immortalized in COCAINE COWBOYS who is serving time at a nearby federal prison. Six months later, Cosby is a multi-millionaire, Blanco’s lover, and the head of her $40 million a year cocaine business. Also known as “The Black Widow” for her propensity to permanently dispose of her men when she’s done with them, Blanco will stop at nothing to…
Sputnik Mania2008-03-141564815649
Historians say that there have been three great shocks that brought America to its knees. The events of Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and the launch of Sputnik. With its story told by actor Liev Schreiber, "SPUTNIK MANIA" reveals the dramatic and fast-moving story of what happened to America after the Soviet Union's launch of the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik placed the U.S. and the USSR on a collision-course missile and space race. "SPUTNIK MANIA" is a journey that chronicles how quickly the swing from Americans’ initial thrill and awe turned to panic, fear and anxiety as leading politicians and the…
Burning the Future: Coal in America2008-02-291565815659
This examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the Coal Industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by an emerging coal-based US energy policy, local activists watch the nation praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, our heroes demonstrate a strength of purpose and character in their improbable fight to arouse the nation’s help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.
The Beaches of Agnes2009-07-012008720088
“Les plages d’Agnes” tells one story that synthesizes 50 years of filmmaking, and 80 years of a life well-lived. An early member of the French New Wave, Varda has worked with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve and Philippe Noiret - not to mention Harrison Ford, the Black Panthers and Viva. Stories of her childhood in Brussels and adolescence in occupied Paris, of Los Angeles in the ‘60s, and of life in her 14e arrondissement Paris neighborhood are melded with clips from both documentary and fiction work. Husband/filmmaker Jacques Demy, who died in 1990,…
Bloodline2008-05-001553415535
This provides “remarkable evidence” of a Jesus Christ-Mary Magdalene bloodline. Filmmakers Bruce Burgess and Rene Barnett examined historical records, legends and artifacts and conducted interviews with experts and members of secret society the Priory of Sion. The notion of such a bloodline was explored in the 1983 international bestseller “Holy Blood, Holy Grail.”
The First Saturday in May2008-04-181595715958
40,000 baby horses are born each year. Only 20, however, will make it to the gate in the Kentucky Derby. Known as "the most exciting two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby is racing's holy grail and every horseman's ultimate goal. Just to get a horse to the gate in the world’s most prestigious race defies all odds. The path to the first Saturday in May remains long and unpredictable. Euphoria and heartbreak abound. But as a racetracker, you’re prepared for everything.

Follow six diverse trainers – as well as the mighty Barbaro - as they jockey for position…
Surfwise2008-05-091553915540
This delves into the life of legendary Malibu surfer Dorian 'Doc' Paskowitz. A successful doctor, Paskowitz 'dropped out' of normal society in the 1960s and traveled to Israel , where he is credited as having introduced the sport of surfing. He went on to raise nine children (eight of them boys) in a cramped motor home, home schooling all of them in the ways of health and fitness, sexuality, and above all surfing. This is their family's story—one that needs to be seen to be believed.
Man on Wire2008-07-251555215553
This is the true life story of Philippe Petit. Equal parts heist story, true life drama and urban fairytale, MAN ON WIRE brings together, for the first time, all of the key participants in Petit’s “coup” to tell their story. These first-hand memories help illustrate how Petit, who had already gained worldwide attention for his street performances and daring clandestine high-wire walks between the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia, became obsessed with an idea that, in retrospect, seems too incredible to achieve. From never-before-seen footage shot at a covert training camp…
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub2008-03-141556115562
Wetlands. For many the name evokes a spirit, a community, an ethos. People still rave about the time they first encountered Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, Phish or Pearl Jam at the legendary New York City rock club. Others never visited, but have seen the signature Wetlands bus in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or have listened to the celebrated live recordings that originated from the club’s intimate stage. Still others participated in Wetlands’ working groups for social and environmental advocacy and remain tethered to its influential Activism Center.

With the opening of Wetlands Preserve in February…
Encounters at the End of the World2008-06-111666416665
There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science. Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. In his first documentary since "Grizzly Man," Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his camerman, traveled to Antarctica, with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under. "Encounters at the End of the World," Herzog's latest meditation on nature, explores this land of Fire, Ice and corrosive Solitude.
The Cool School2008-03-281583015831
Think the New York cognoscenti dismisses Los Angeles' art scene today? The '50s were worse. On the East Coast, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns were blasting creative boundaries while in Los Angeles, the anti-communist brigade was stifling art that refused to kowtow to their standards of decency. Enter curator Walter Hopps and artist Ed Kienholz, who in 1957 flipped over a hot dog wrapper and scribbled a pledge to open L.A.'s premiere modern art venue—the Ferus Gallery. Over the next decade, under the stewardship of Hopps and dealer Irving Blum, the Ferus nurtured L.A.’s first generation of…
The Dhamma Brothers2008-04-111575515756
East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system is dramatically changed by an ancient meditation program. Behind high-security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days.

In The Dhamma Brothers, cultural anthropologist, psychotherapist…
Constantine's Sword2008-04-181602516026
Why are intolerance, violence and war so deeply ingrained in religion? How did the Cross become a rallying symbol for persecution? How does one man who loves the Church confront its history of crusade and conquest? Carroll, a National Book Award winner and columnist for the Boston Globe, is a practicing Catholic whose search for the truth leads him to confront persecution and violence in the name of God – today and in the Church’s past. He discovers a terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries – from the Emperor Constantine’s vision of the cross as a sword and symbol…
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot2008-06-271584315844
On the corner of 155th and Frederick Douglas Boulevard in Harlem lies Rucker Park. By appearances, the concrete pavement, anchored on one side by its run down slab bleachers, is no different than any other basketball court in the city, but this is the place where nicknames are indelibly branded, and legends are born.

On September 1, 2006, the top 24 high school basketball players in the nation stepped out on this court, that once saw the likes of Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Dr. J to compete in the first annual "Elite 24" all-star game. Starring Jerryd Bayless, Michael…
Chops2008-00-0000
The annual event: Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival is where 15 high school jazz bands from across North America get the chance to wow audiences and Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, with their interpretations of the work of the great Duke Ellington. CHOPS follows three such bands, two from Seattle, one from Jacksonville, Florida as they prepare for and compete in the 2006 Essentially Ellington event. While CHOPS is a natural draw for jazz-lovers, it's equally compelling for anyone who appreciates a film with a great story and…
Bra Boys2008-04-111588715888
Narrated by Russell Crowe, written, directed and produced by Sunny Abberton, himself a childhood resident of Maroubra's public housing projects, BRA BOYS traces the cultural evolution of the much maligned --- and tattooed --- youthful surfing community, and in particular the Abberton brothers: Sunny, Koby, Jai and Dakota, one charged with murdering a Sydney "standover man" (Australian slang for an extortionist who uses physical violence, or threats, to extract payment on behalf of another), another pursuing a professional surf career but charged as an accessory in his brother's murder trial, another trying to hold the family together, and the youngest…
Anita O'Day: The Life Of a Music Legend2008-08-151593415935
The film is an intimate portrait of the maverick jazz vocalist Anita O’Day, a self-professed "song-stylist" and rightly known as one of the greatest jazz divas of all time. Filmmakers Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden have devoted four years in order to perfectly capture O’Day’s seven decade career. "Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer" documents her wild ride; following her career from the early days singing alongside the likes of Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Stan Kenton, Louis Armstrong and Hoagy Carmichael through her many great adversities which she fought to overcome; a 20-year heroin and alcohol addiction, several…
A Jihad for Love2008-05-211602716028
In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack - from within and without -'A Jihad for Love' is a daring documentary filmed in twelve countries and nine languages. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma has gone where the silence is loudest, filming with great risk in nations where government permission to make this film was not an option. This is the world’s first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. Parvez enters the many worlds of Islam by illuminating multiple stories as diverse as Islam itself. The film travels a wide geographic arc presenting us…
Without the King2008-04-251601016011
The tiny country of Swaziland is the last absolute monarchy on the African continent. Its leader, King Mswati III, faces huge challenges as his people face starvation and the worst AIDS crisis in the world. Swaziland has the lowest life expectancy in the world at a startling 31 years of age. These problems have given birth to an underground revolutionary movement intent on bringing democracy to the country. WITHOUT THE KING explores Swaziland’s Royal Family and their lavish lifestyle, replete with palaces for each of the King’s fourteen wives, a fleet of expensive cars, designer wardrobes, and school abroad for…
On the Rumba River2008-06-061602916030
Before emerging as the first superstar of Congolese Rumba, Antoine Kolosoy, who came to be known as “Wendo,” was persecuted by the church and his music banned by the Belgian colonial authorities, who feared his joyful rhythms would stir unrest. Featuring stunning images and unforgettable music and interviews, ON THE RUMBA RIVER is a musical tribute to Wendo and the Congolese people, who continue to be sustained by music despite desperate poverty, a history of oppression and an ongoing civil war that has killed nearly 4 million people.
Beyond Belief2008-02-291603316034
Susan Retik and Patti Quigley were two ordinary soccer moms living in the suburbs of Boston until tragedy struck on 9/11, killing both of their husbands. Both Patti and Susan were pregnant at the time, and in the aftermath of unimaginable shock, turned to each other for support as they endure a time of giving birth and fighting grief.

As they desperately try to understand how events halfway around the world led to the deaths of their husbands, Patti and Susan, focus on the country where the terrorists who took their husbands’ lives were trained: Afghanistan. Over the course of…
The Singing Revolution2007-12-071603516036
This tells the remarkable story of how music played a crucial role in Estonia’s liberation from the Soviet Union. Nearly annihilated in the 20th Century, the Republic of Estonia was resurrected through gatherings at the Estonian song festival, which often drew upward of 25,000 people. Narrated by Linda Hunt, The Singing Revolution highlights the struggles Estonians endured over the course of nearly 50 years, until they finally announced their independence in 1991. The Singing Revolution is an intimate portrayal of ordinary, every-day people who refused to believe that freedom was out of their reach.
A Man Named Pearl2008-07-181626516266
This tells the inspiring story of self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar, whose unlikely journey to national prominence began with a bigoted remark. In 1976, Pearl took a job in a can factory in Bishopville, South Carolina. New to this rural southern town, he and his wife Metra looked at a house for sale in an all-white neighborhood. The Fryars’ real estate agent was notified by neighbors in the prospective neighborhood that a black family was not welcome. A homeowner voiced the collective concern: “Black people don’t keep up their yards.” Pearl was stung by the racial stereotype. But rather than…
Chelsea on the Rocks2009-10-022103021031
Including interviews with residents from both past and present, this explores the personal journey inside the walls, history and mythology of Manhattan’s celebrated bohemian landmark, The Chelsea Hotel. Since 1883 The Chelsea Hotel has been a home to artists great and small, from icons such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Tennessee Williams, Charles Bukowski, Andy Warhol and Mark Twain, to assorted aspirants, junkies, prostitutes and hermits. But new management has recently begun evicting boho tenants in favor of a more upscale crowd, prompting long-time resident – and consummate New Yorker – Ferrara to capture the ragged splendor of the place…
Dreams with Sharp Teeth2008-06-041652216523
Ellison’s work, like that of Philip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut, was once marginalized as science fiction; but now his hugely popular writings (nearly 2000 published stories and some of the best episodes of "Outer Limits" and "Star Trek") has defined its own genre. Ellison's larger-than-life personality is legendary. “ In this hilarious portrait, Ellison’s fecund imagination is matched by his nearly limitless supply of outrage.

In the film, Ellison is interviewed in his Hollywood Hills home (“The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars”), with his 5th wife, expounding wittily on the stupidity of humankind, especially those of us associated…
Bustin' Down The Door2008-07-251658016581
During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to it's core. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture and an industry that is today worth billions of dollars and has captured the imagination of the world. With a radical new approach and a brash colonial attitude, these surfers crashed headlong into culture that was not ready for revolution.
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine2008-06-251682916830
This records Louise Bourgeois at work and play, creating art in her studio and ruminating upon the deep emotional and psychological roots of her work. Bourgeois’s massive spiders, some as large as 30 feet, have been exhibited throughout the world. They symbolize the maternal impulse, but it is the artist’s passionate connection with various childhood traumas (her father’s live-in mistress being just one) that fuel much of her groundbreaking work. Curators Robert Storr and Deborah Wye, the Guerilla Girls, and the artist’s longtime aide-de-camp, Jerry Gorovoy, lend piquant commentary.
Full Battle Rattle2008-07-091682716828
The U.S. military has built a billion-dollar simulated Iraq in California’s Mojave Desert, complete with hundreds of Iraqi exiles employed to play civilians and insurgents, terrorist suspects, grieving mothers and innocent shopkeepers. Filmmakers Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss take a smart fly-on-the-wall approach to much of the action, as in-training Army recruits enter “Medina Wasl” (one of 13 fake villages in the simulation), trying to quell uprisings and cajole locals for three weeks prior to their deployment to the real Iraq.

FULL BATTLE RATTLE observes Army officers explaining local customs to a confused force, under orders to bring “peace…
Moving Midway2008-09-121771017711
award-winning film critic Cheshire uses the relocation of his family’s North Carolina plantation house to embark on a surprising journey. While observing the elaborate, arcane preparations for the colossal feat of moving a centuries-old house over fields and a rock quarry, unexpected human drama — from both the living and the dead — emerges. Some fret over how Mary Hilliard Hinton, past mistress of Midway and now a ghostly presence, will react when the house gets trucked across the landscape. And a chance encounter leads Cheshire and his cousins to discover a previously unknown African American branch of the family.…
Beautiful Losers2008-08-081667116672
This follows a loose-knit group of likeminded and creative outsiders in the 1990s who found common ground at a little NYC storefront art gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, these individuals created art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Featuring Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton, BEAUTIFUL LOSERS speaks to the collective memory of the 1990s and sheds new light on those that were unbeknownst to mainstream America, but in the end, left an…
Untitled Spike Lee Michael Jordan documentary0000-00-00166780
This is about Michael Jordan - the basketball legend. the doc will include extensive unseen footage shot by NBA cameras during the final two years in Jordan's career, the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons.
Audience of One2008-00-0000
This is about a Pentecostal minister who receives a vision from God telling him to make a science fiction film.
Very Young Girls2008-07-0400
Very Young Girls is an exposé of human trafficking that follows thirteen and fourteen year old American girls as they are seduced, abused, and sold on New York’s streets by pimps, and treated as adult criminals by police. Startling footage shot by the brazen pimps themselves provides a rare glimpse into how the cycle of street life begins for many women. Virtually the only chance these girls have for a normal life comes by way of GEMS (Girls Education and Mentoring Services), a recovery center founded and run by Rachel Lloyd, herself a survivor of sexual exploitation. She and her…
Stealing America: Vote by Vote2008-08-011714517146
Narrated by Peter Coyote, STEALING AMERICA: VOTE BY VOTE brings together behind-the-scenes perspectives from the U.S. presidential election of 2004 – plus startling stories from key races in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2006. The film sheds light on a decade of vote counts that don't match votes cast – uncounted ballots, vote switching, under-votes, and many other examples of election totals that warrant serious investigation. The last two presidential elections both came down to a relatively small number of votes, and in both elections the integrity of the voting process has been called into question. With the upcoming election looking…
My Trip to Al Qaeda2010-00-0000
Chronicles fundamentalist Islam's rise to power and explores Wright's struggle to maintain his objectivity as a journalist writing about Islamic terror.
Frontrunners2008-10-151689916900
It’s hard to run for office — even in high school. And the campaign for student body president at Stuyvesant, perhaps the most prestigious public high school in the country, is almost as sophisticated as any presidential election. Candidates must choose running mates, navigate primaries, write political platforms, perform in televised debates, shake as many hands as possible, and win newspaper endorsements. But unlike presidential candidates, they also have to do their homework, take their SATs and write their college applications. FRONTRUNNERS, a feature-length documentary, follows the most recent elections at the ultra-competitive Stuyvesant High School in New York City,…
America the Beautiful2008-08-0600
Roberts, who also narrated and produced the docu, follows teenage model Gerren Taylor as he examines the beauty industry and entertainment media's impact on our views about body image and plastic surgery. "Beautiful" won best docu at the Chicago International Film Festival and had a recent theatrical run in the city before the acquisition deal.
We Are Together2008-07-041688016881
This tells the moving and inspiring story of 12 year old Slindile and her remarkable friends at the Agape orphanage in South Africa. Filmed over three years, with unforgettable kids, soaring music and a plot full of surprises, "We Are Together" arrives as a stirring and uplifting theatrical documentary.
All this Tea2008-06-271688416885
Les Blank’s handheld camera takes us into the hidden world of tea by following world-renowned tea expert David Lee Hoffman to some of the most remote regions of China in search of the best handmade teas in the world. Hoffman is obsessed; during his youth, he spent four years with Tibetan monks in Nepal, which included a friendship with the Dalai Lama, and was introduced to some of the finest tea--that golden nectar with which we can taste the distant past.
Pass the Sugar0000-00-0000
This focuses on the nine players who made the 2005 World Series of Poker final table and the eventual winner, Australian "Diamond" Joe Hachem, who captured the largest prize ever awarded in a single poker tournament at the time.
Prodigal Sons2010-02-261797017971
Marc has had a rough life. Adopted as an infant, he was held back in pre-school (putting him in the same grade as his younger brother), failed to graduate high school, and suffered a head injury at twenty-one. His entire worldview was that he was cheated by life. Then he discovered he is the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. Unlike Marc, his sister Kim’s life always seemed to be easy. She was the first child born to her attractive parents, into an extended family of tall Montana farmers. She was high school class president and valedictorian, voted most…
Big River Man2009-12-041876918770
Who is the greatest swimmer of all time? Michael Phelps? Mark Spitz? If gold medals are your barometer, then maybe, but I'd like to see either of them drink two bottles of wine a day and still swim the length of the Amazon river. This feat is attempted by Martin Strel, an endurance swimmer from Slovenia, who swims rivers—the first to conquer the Mississippi, the Danube, and the Yangtze to date, the latter he says to highlight pollution in the world. In his fifties and with a belly like a medicine ball, his treacherous journey brings him face to face…
Brothers at War2009-03-131884618847
This is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. The documentary film follows Jake Rademacher in his directorial debut as he sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. Unprecedented access to US and Iraqi combat units take Jake behind the camouflage curtain with secret reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border, into sniper "hide sites" in the Sunni Triangle, through raging machine gun battles with the Iraqi Army.
The Times of Harvey Milk1984-00-001889318894
This documents the political career of Harvey Milk, who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor. The film, at times humorous, at times tragic, documents the rise of Milk from a neighborhood activist to becoming a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination at San Francisco's city hall, and the Dan White trial and aftermath.
Throw Down Your Heart2009-04-2400
This follows American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little known African roots of the banjo and record an album. Béla’s boundary-breaking musical adventure takes him to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali, and provides a glimpse of the beauty and complexity of Africa. THROW DOWN YOUR HEART presents a portrait of Africa that is very different from what is often seen in the media today. As Ugandan folk musician Haruna Walusimbi states in the film: “There is this negative thinking about Africa. There is nothing good in Africa. They are beggars, there is…
The Garden2009-05-081897018971
The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from…
Forbidden Lie$2009-04-031894318944
In July 2004, Norma Khouri, best-selling author of “Forbidden Love” (US title "Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan"), was exposed as a fake. In Australia, she’d won fame and fortune as a Jordanian virgin on the run from Islamic extremists who’d put a Fatwah on her head for her campaign against honor killings. But she was really Norma Bagain, a Chicago real estate agent and mother of two, on the run from the FBI for one million dollars of fraud.

When director Anna Broinowski read Malcolm Knox’s Sydney Morning Herald article exposing Norma Khouri as a hoax,…
Anvil! The Story of Anvil2009-04-1000
At fourteen years old, best friends Lips and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal," influenced a musical generation including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax. Though Anvil never made it, they never stopped playing or believing. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now well into their fifties, set off to record their thirteenth album, "This is Thirteen," in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dream.
Enlighten Up!2009-04-011900119002
This is about a skeptic's journey into the world of yoga, will open on April 17 in Los Angeles area. The film takes a fresh look at yoga through the curious but irreverent eyes of a 29 year-old journalist, Nick Rosen, as documented by Kate Churchill, a Boston-based filmmaker and yoga devotee. Kate believes yoga can transform anyone—even Nick. Nick signs on to investigate yoga for six months, intrigued by the opportunity to delve inside a discipline practiced by some 16 million Americans and fueling a 5.7 billion dollar industry in the U.S. alone. But before he can say OM,…
Must Read After My Death2009-02-201905519056
This is about the life of a troubled family during the turbulent '60s is based on the home recordings, snapshots and transcripts of the filmmaker's grandmother.
Guest of Cindy Sherman2009-03-271907719078
In 1993, artist Paul H-O discovered a new passion when he melded his two great loves: the art world and the video camera. From that combination came the quirky, handmade public-access show, "GalleryBeat." Years later and flying high, Paul discovers one of his biggest fans is the reclusive, art world superstar Cindy Sherman. During a series of exclusive interviews, Paul and Cindy fall in love and begin a romance. Unexpectedly, the relationship forces Paul to confront issues of ego, gender and identity as he gets caught up in the aura of Cindy's celebrity. With unprecedented access, the documentary places us…
Irene2009-00-002097920980
Filmmaker Alain Cavalier turns his personal grief of becoming a widower into a first-person subjective documentary that focuses on his diary entries.
Gotta Dance2009-07-312035820359
This captures the adventures of the New Jersey NETSationals, the first-ever, seniors hip-hop dance team. Directed and produced by Dori Berinstein, GOTTA DANCE follows 12 women and one man, all dance newbies, from auditions through to center court stardom!

Despite swollen ankles, challenges from their 20-something Nets Dancer coaches, exhausting rehearsals, fashion clashes, radical personality transformations and seemingly impossible dance steps, the NETSational Seniors go for it, on and off the court, spreading joy, inspiration and cool dance moves as they hip-hop their way into the hearts of Nets fans and beyond. Director Dori Berinstein captures the energy and spirit…
Dream Diaries0000-00-0000
This would look at an archived UC San Diego research project about man's nocturnal adventures. It is based on a Canadian man's dreams that were written down over the course of his lifetime.
Burma VJ2009-05-201917319174
While 100,000 people (including 1,000s of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the country’s repressive regime that has held them hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned to enter and the Internet was shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and dramatic events on handycams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police – even after they…
Unmistaken Child2009-06-031941719418
The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp. UNMISTAKEN CHILD follows the 4-year-search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation, a child who may be anywhere in the world. Tenzin sets off on foot, mule and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages. He listens to stories about children…
The Windmill Movie2009-06-172018920190
Richard P. Rogers (1943-2001) was a NYC baby boomer, born to privilege: a Harvard-educated WASP who became a first-rate independent filmmaker (QUARRY and ELEPHANTS both opened at Film Forum in the ‘70s) and a gifted film teacher. But he was also a tortured, neurotic soul who freely admitted to being jealous of Steven Spielberg and simultaneously ashamed of the impulse. Torn between narrow class loyalties and broader professional goals and political values, Rogers found the time to juggle multiple relationships with the skill of a world-class Lothario, but was unable to complete an autobiographical film he had worked on for…
Yasukuni2009-08-122072420725
When Japan’s Prime Minister Koizumi insisted that his visits to the Yasukuni shrine were a purely personal matter, he unleashed an international furor. Established in 1869, the shrine houses 2.5 million Japanese war dead including WWII “class A war criminals,” among them General Tojo and others sentenced to death at the Tokyo Trial (Japan’s Nuremberg). Visitors to Yasukuni include still-militant Japanese nationalists as well as outraged protesters from China, Taiwan, Korea, and Okinawa. Chinese filmmaker Li Ying doesn’t pull his punches. He includes archival footage of a “100-man beheading contest” between Japanese officers as well as a fascinating contemporary interview…
Afghan Star2009-06-261946919470
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop Idol has come to Afghanistan. Millions are watching the TV series ‘Afghan Star’ and voting for their favorite singers by mobile phone. For many this is their first encounter with democracy. This timely film follows the dramatic stories of four contestants as they risk all to become the nation's favorite singer. But will they attain the freedom they hope for in this vulnerable and traditional nation?
Outrage2009-05-081945619457
Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States' most powerful policymakers who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to, the doc takes a comprehensive look at the harm they've inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media's complicity in keeping their secrets. With analysis from prominent members of the gay community such as US Representatives Barney Frank and Tammy Baldwin, former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer and radio personality Michelangelo Signorile, this probes deeply into the psychology of this double lifestyle, the ethics of outing closeted politicians, the double standards that…
Nursery University2009-04-241932519326
Set in New York City, NURSERY UNIVERSITY is a feature documentary that reveals the oddly competitive, yet often humorous, world of nursery school admissions. The film tells the story of five families – each with different backgrounds and economic circumstances – attempting to place their toddlers in prestigious Manhattan preschools that have limited spaces and high price tags. NURSERY UNIVERSITY follows the families’ journeys while also going behind the scenes with the experts that advise them and the school directors who must determine which “applicants” to allow through their doors. Enjoy the insanity in this sweeter look at the social…
Under Our Skin2009-06-191937119372
A dramatic tale of microbes, medicine and money, this eye-opening film investigates the untold story of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic larger than AIDS. Each year thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, told that their symptoms are "all in their head." Following the stories of patients and physicians as they battle for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of our health care system and its inability to cope with a silent terror under our skin. In the early 1970's, a mysterious ailment was discovered among children living around the town of Lyme, CT. What was…
Objectified2009-05-082035620357
This is about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want…
Blast!2009-06-122016620167
This follows the story Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists hoping to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their adventure takes them from Arctic Sweden to Inuit polar bear country in Canada, where catastrophic failure forces the team to try all over again on the desolate ice in Antarctica. No less than the understanding of the evolution and origins of our Universe is at stake on this exciting escapade that seeks to answer humankind's most basic question: How did we get here? Balloon-borne…
Senna2011-08-121960226477
This is about the legendary Brazilian athlete Ayrton Senna, considered to be one of the greatest drivers in Formula One history. The riveting story of the Brazilian driver in a predominantly European sport, a purist in a world polluted with backroom deals, and a man of faith in an arena filled with cynicism, Senna had to fight hard - both on and off the track. Facing titanic struggles, he conquered Formula One and became a global icon idolized in his home country. SENNA unfolds as an extraordinary story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques and using astounding…
Dust2008-12-0300
With a diameter of only a tenth of a millimeter, a speck of dust is just about perceptible to the naked eye. In associative and symphonic movements, Hartmut Bitomsky follows its path, peeling away layers of what we believe to be a well-known phenomenon. He pursues dust to the place where it settles and seeks out people who contend with it: columns of cleaners in their daily battle for cleanliness, inventors of air cleansing products, scientists who investigate the damaging consequences of the fine dust of uranium munitions from the US army’s stockpile of weapons, botanists, meteorologists, astronomers and artists……
180° South2010-05-212350323504
The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia.
Convention2010-05-1400
AJ Schnack assembles an all-star crew of documentary filmmakers to tell the story behind the mounting of one of the biggest events of the decade: the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
An Unlikely Weapon2009-04-101948619487
UNLIKELY WEAPON: Eddie Adams photographed 13 wars, six American Presidents and every cultural and historical figure of the last 50 years. "History would be changed through his lens," says narrator Kiefer Sutherland. Eddie Adams always dismissed his work. Of his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph "The Saigon Execution," he said "When I saw the picture, I wasn't impressed, and I'm still not impressed." "Eddie brought the American public face-to-face with the victims" said Tom Brokaw. Eddie's photographs were credited with helping end the Vietnam War. Later, it was his series of photographs "The Boat of No Smiles" that persuaded the US…
In a Dream2009-04-1000
In the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood of South Philadelphia, 50,000-square feet of concrete are covered with tile and mirrors—mosaics that were created by Isaiah Zagar, an eccentric, tormented artist. The murals chronicle his love for his wife, Julia, and subtly hint at the darker corners of an extraordinary imagination. For decades, Isaiah and Julia complemented one another perfectly. But suddenly the family is torn apart at the seams when Isaiah confesses to an affair, is kicked out of the house, and spirals into depression. A fascinating portrait of love and betrayal, family bonds, and the intimacy of dysfunction.
Ballerina2009-01-161950819509
The Kirov Theatre has produced many of the world’s finest choreographers and dancers including Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikael Baryshnikov, and Natalia Makarova. Now, The Mariinsky Theatre, under the artistic direction of the legendary Valery Gergiev, brings us to a new generation of rising stars: Alina Somova, Svetlana Zakharova, Diana Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina and Evgenia Obraztsova - tough, insightful and exceptionally talented women, each with her own personal hopes, dreams and career-changing challenges. From leaving school to coming-back from a crippling injury, their journeys reflect unique components of the ballerina’s experience. Weaving intimate interviews with rehearsal studio footage,…
The Thorn in the Heart2010-04-022001420015
L'epine dans le Coeur is a personal look at the life of Gondry family matriarch, Michel's aunt Suzette Gondry, and her relationship with her son, Jean-Yves. Michel examines Suzette’s years as a school teacher and her life in rural France. During the course of filming the documentary, Michel unearths new family stories and uses his camera to explore them in a subtle and sensitive way.
Petition (La Cour des plaignants) 2009-00-0000
My Neighbor My Killer2009-00-001955019551
In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village, local ‘patrols’ massacred lifelong friends and family members, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. Officially announced in 2001, and ending this year, the government put in place the Gacaca (ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals—open-air hearings with citizen-judges meant to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation. As part of this experiment in reconciliation, confessed genocide killers are sent home from prison, while traumatized survivors are asked to forgive them and resume living side-by-side. Filming for close to…
Land of Madness2009-00-0000
Ne change rien2010-11-032194821949
In smoky black-and-white chiaroscuros, French actress turned singer Jeanne Balibar (The Duchess of Langeais) breathily rehearses for an upcoming rock performance and an operetta, while Costa looks at her ritualistic discipline as a deconstructive investigation of the creative process itself.
Payback2012-04-25195830
Based on Margaret Atwood's brilliant 2008 essay, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth", Payback offers a fascinating look at debt, tracing how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and the very fate of the planet. The film explores the link between debtor and creditor in a variety of contexts – from the mountains of northern Albania to the tomato fields of southern Florida – blending compelling stories of ‘owing’ and ‘being owed’ with the insights of renowned thinkers like Karen Armstrong, Louise Arbour, William Rees and Raj Patel, as well as personal reflections from Conrad Black and others.…
Act of God2009-11-041958619587
Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. To explore these profound questions, Baichwal sought out riveting personal stories from around the world—from a former CIA assassin and a French storm chaser, to writer Paul Auster and improvisational musician Fred Frith. The philosophical anchor of the film, Auster was caught in a terrifying and deadly storm as a teenager, and it has…
OceanWorld 3D2010-00-002213722138
“OceanWorld 3D” takes moviegoers on an awesome journey that captures the beauty and diversity of the oceans – the source of all life on our planet – and inspires them to protect its fragile ecosystem and inhabitants. Guided by a sea turtle, viewers will enjoy a close-up look at her fascinating world from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and Argentina’s Peninsula Valdez to Mexico’s Roca Partida Island, home to thousands of sharks. They will witness some of the most unforgettable scenes of life beneath the waves ever captured: the manta ray’s enchanting ballet, the noble procession of hammerhead sharks;…
Pressure Cooker2008-05-291962519626
No Impact Man2009-09-042006020061
A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency for a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption…no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein’s film provides a front row seat into the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin’s and Michelle’s struggle with this radical lifestyle change.
The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights2009-00-0000
This is a documentary on the White Stripes 2007 Canadian tour, in which the duo played a gig in every province and territory. The tour was an homage of sorts to his family’s Nova Scotia roots. Jack and Meg White touch down in remote northern communities and surprising city venues.
The English Surgeon2009-07-242036020361
Henry Marsh is one of London’s foremost brain surgeons, a phlegmatic, philosophical man with no illusions about the nature of his work. “When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on people’s thoughts and feelings...and if something goes wrong I can destroy that person’s character…forever.” On a trip to Kiev to give a lecture in 1992, Marsh was shocked to witness the plight of those with severe neurological problems there – a ghastly world of primitive clinics, Kafkaesque bureaucracy, and medieval surgery – and began making regular trips back…
Walt & El Grupo2009-09-092152321524
For ten weeks in 1941, Walt Disney, his wife Lilly, and sixteen colleagues from his studio visited nations in Latin America to gather story material for a series of films with South American themes. The feature documentary film WALT & EL GRUPO uses this framing device to explore inter-American relations, provide a rare glimpse into the artists who were part of the magic of Disney’s “golden age” and give an unprecedented look at the 39 year old Walt Disney during one of the most challenging times of his entire life.
Tales From the Script2010-03-122261222613
The doc features exclusive interviews with a who’s who of Hollywood storytellers, from newcomers to veterans. Among the 46 screenwriters featured in the movie are Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging), John August (Go), Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), Antwone Fisher (Antwone Fisher), two-time Oscar winner William Goldman (The Princess Bride), David Hayter (Watchmen), Oscar winner Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), Guinevere Turner (American Psycho), and Oscar winner David S. Ward (The Sting).
Died Young, Stayed Pretty2009-07-172037020371
This is a candid look at the underground indie-rock poster subculture in North America that was reborn, post-Punk, with the launch of groupie Clayton Hayes’ website Gigposters.com. The documentary reveals a new breed of subculturists who’ve set out to destroy the mainstream through their controversial and intensely visceral design work. Under the guise of advertising for rock shows, these unheralded masters of the silkscreen and Xerox machine carry on public discourses that range from hot button political issues to lewd, inside jokes. Stealing pieces from America’s disposable culture, these graphic artists pervert classic references into beautiful obscenities that they slap…
Facing Ali2009-07-102035420355
Three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali defeated almost every top fighter of the golden age of boxing and symbolized the sport for generations of fans. Now, ten of his acclaimed rivals pay tribute to perhaps the world’s most beloved and inspiring athlete in FACING ALI, a riveting documentary from director Pete McCormack (Uganda Rising) and producer Derik Murray (Legends of Hockey). From the moment he captured the gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics, the fighter who first came to prominence as Cassius Clay electrified the world and transformed the art of boxing. Articulate, handsome, charismatic and outspoken, he became an…
At the Edge of the World 2009-08-282036220363
The 3rd Antarctic Campaign was arguably “the perfect combination of imperfections” and the risks taken to stop a Japanese whaling fleet were astonishingly reckless and admirable. At the Edge of the World chronicles this controversial campaign in the uniquely beautiful and dangerous Ross Sea as ordinary men and women, relying on an array of tactics which range from the bizarre to the simply brilliant, face extraordinary odds. With one ship too slow to chase down the whaling fleet (if they can find the fleet), with their second ship unsuited for Antarctic ice conditions and with no country supporting their efforts…
The Way We Get By2009-07-172036420365
Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters - a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. When its three subjects aren't at the airport, they wrestle with their own problems: failing health, depression, mounting debt. Joan, a grandmother of eight, has a deep connection to the soldiers she meets. The sanguine Jerry keeps his spirits up even as his personal problems mount. And the veteran Bill, who clearly…
X Games 3D: The Movie2009-08-2100
This captures the drama and spectacle that play out every year at the X Games events, highlighting the behind-the-scenes stories of the featured athletes and the sacrifices they make in pursuit of glory and the advancement of their sports on the industry’s biggest stage.
We Believe2008-06-122037520376
In November of 2007 Producer Chad Smith had the initial idea to produce a documentary about the 2008 Cubs season, the 100th anniversary of the last time the team won a World Series. Together with director John Scheinfeld a meeting was scheduled with Cubs officials and although initially reluctant to participate in any film project, team executives were impressed by the work previously done by Scheinfeld and his team as well as the project’s overall creative vision. Within weeks they committed to participating in the production and provided extraordinary access to players, Wrigley Field and the team’s archive. During the…
Earth Days2009-08-142060720608
This traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment of triumph in 1970 with the original Earth Day, and to its status as a major political force in America. Drawing heavily on eyewitness testimony and a wealth of never before seen archival footage, Stone examines the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities—of a decade of groundbreaking activism. The result is both a poetic meditation on man’s complex relationship with nature and a probing analysis of past responses to environmental crisis.
Araya (1959)2009-10-072061220613
Benacerraf’s film portrays a day in the life of three families living in one of the harshest places on earth — Araya, an arid peninsula in northeastern Venezuela. For 450 years, since its discovery by the Spanish, the region’s salt was manually collected and stacked into glowing white pyramids. Overlooking the area, a 17th-century fortress built to protect against pirate raids stood as a reminder of the days when the mineral was worth as much as gold and great fortunes were made in the salt trade. Benacerraf captures the grueling work of these salineros in breathtaking high-contrast black-and-white images. Her…
Passing Strange: The Movie2009-08-212142821429
This tells the semi-autobiographical story of a young black man who leaves behind his middle-class, church-ruled upbringing in mid-1970s Los Angeles to travel to Europe in search of his artistic and personal identity, or what he calls “the real.” Picaresque misadventures with sex, drugs, politics, and art await him in far-out Amsterdam and hyper-militant Berlin. His eyes are opened ever wider, even revealing what he left behind. An absolutely superb cast, ably supported by sparing (but pitch-perfect) costumes, design, and stagecraft, bring to life the emotionally charged story with its astounding original music, narrated and overseen by Stew himself. Lee’s…
Garbage Dreams2009-08-072070820709
Hunting Down Memory2009-07-312071020711
Who are you if you do not know yourself? Who am I if my whole past is gone? What is identity? In which way is identity connected to memory? Imagine waking up tomorrow without recalling today. All recollections are deleted. Imagine living without a background history, without recognizing those who know you. Imagine encountering the world as if it was for the first time. And finally, imagine this happening to you while travelling alone on a train in China.
Videocracy2010-02-122103821039
This penetrating look at the media empire of Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi reveals how his reality TV shows full of bikini-clad women enriched his friends and beguiled a nation.
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel2010-07-302390023901
From the first issue of Playboy he pasted together in his living room in December 1953 through the 1960s sexual revolution some say it sparked and the philanthropy he now practices from the fabled Los Angeles mansion that seems still to be stocked with the latest generation of the fabled Bunnies, Hugh Hefner has been a lightning rod for popular culture, sexual controversy and social change for nearly 60 years.

In HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, ACTIVIST AND REBEL, Brigitte Berman—who met the icon when he contacted her to get a copy of her documentary on cornetist/composer Bix Beiderbecke—has for the…
Les Dames en bleu (Ladies in Blue)2009-00-0000
In the 1960s, women swooned at his passing. The mention of his name could start a stampede. The mythic figure was Michel Louvain, who became the Wayne Newton of Quebec’s pop music scene in the 1950s. His admirers are mostly grandmothers now but their youthful passion has not aged. This respectful and tender film slips gently into the daily routines of five Louvain fans, women from different generations who made a place for the crooner in their hearts and in their lives. For them, he is the dream lover, the understanding friend, the most beautiful story ever told. The reality…
The Yes Men Fix the World2009-10-232092920930
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can't take "no" for an answer. They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways - basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world. One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that Dow will…
This Is It2009-10-272144921450
Drawn from hundreds of hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage, captured in high definition with state-of-the-art digital sound as the late singer was preparing for his concert series in London. The film, which will also offer select sequences in 3-D, will provide a unique career retrospective and feature interviews with some of Jackson's closest friends and creative collaborators. The majority of the film's footage was shot in June, 2009 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California, and The Forum in Inglewood, California, as Jackson prepared for "This Is It," the series of fifty concerts Jackson planned to present at the…
The Movie Orgy1968-00-0000
This is a seven-hour-long compilation of movie clips, commercials, and film trailers assembled by Dante while a college student. The film, assembled without permission of the clips' owners, toured colleges and repertory cinemas with support from Schlitz beer. A tribute to B-movies of the 1950s and 1960s. It was made by the director in 1968. Dante’s The Movie Orgy – Ultimate Version, and originally lasted seven hours.
Ahead Of Time2010-09-102467624677
This tells the remarkable journey of American writer and journalist Ruth Gruber, who will turn 99 years old on September 30th. Gruber, a youthful Jewish woman in the late 1920s, was the youngest person to receive a PhD at the age of 20, a feminist before feminism. While at school in Berlin she witnessed the rise of Nazism and began documenting her observations. Eschewing tradition and rejecting the gender standards of her generation, she became a full-time journalist at the age of 24, traveling to the Soviet Arctic in 1935 as the first reporter in the region and beginning an…
The Art of the Steal2010-02-262255922560
In 1922, rags-to-riches industrialist and visionary art collector Albert C. Barnes created an educational institution—which he located in Merion, Pennsylvania—based on his unparalleled collection of masterworks by the likes of Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne, and Matisse. When he died, the Barnes Foundation carried on as his will stipulated for fifty years—until a powerful group of moneyed interests plotted to relocate the art to a new museum in Philadelphia. With the Governor, the Mayor, and several of the country’s most powerful charitable organizations on the verge of moving the Barnes, a loyal group of former students has gone to court to…
Bassidji2009-00-0000
In a desert, on a hill, men and women in chadors and children wander through a vast open air «museum» dedicated to the memory of the martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war. It is Iranian New Year and we are close to the Iraqi border. I’m following my guide. He’s tall and charismatic. His name is Nader Malek-Kandi. For almost three years, I’ve decided to immerse myself among the most extremist supporters of the Islamic republic of Iran (the Bassidjis), to get a better understanding of their way of thinking. We come from the same country yet there’s an enormous gulf…
Cleanflix2009-00-002099720998
The Mormon religion preaches against the content of R-rated films, so several Utah-based entrepreneurs started offering “clean” versions of Hollywood movies at specialty DVD stores. But the thriving industry runs into legal problems and its own sex scandal.
Collapse2009-11-062163321634
Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst? Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown…
Colony2010-07-3000
The unexplainable phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder has left landscapes of empty beehives all across America, threatening not only the beekeeping industry but our food supply. As scientists and beekeepers search for the cause, Colony captures the struggle within the beekeeping community to save the honeybee through the efforts of veteran beekeeper Davis Mendes and newcomers Lance and Victor Seppi, two young brothers getting into beekeeping when most are getting out. As Mendes tries to save the nation's collapsing hives, the Seppis try to keep their business alive amidst a collapsing economy.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers2010-01-292099921000
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. Hailed as a hero, vilified as a traitor, and ostracized by even his closest colleagues, Ellsberg risks life in prison to stop a war he helped plan. This riveting story of one man’s profound change of heart is also a piercing look at the world of government secrecy as revealed by the ultimate insider. Marked by a landmark battle between…
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould2010-09-102103421035
An enigmatic musical poet, Glenn Gould continues to captivate audiences twenty-six years after his early passing. His inimitable music and writings reveal an insightful worldview that we are still trying to unravel. Though there have been many documentaries about Gould, most are distracted by his eccentricities, focusing on the pills, gloves, and scarves while missing the man and message behind the music. Glenn Gould: The Inner Life pierces through the myths, revealing the man beneath the icon and reconstructs his thoughts on music, art, society, love and life. It weaves together an unprecedented array of very rare archive footage with…
Google Baby2009-00-0000
In India, the latest form of outsourcing is surrogate mothers who carry embryos for couples who can’t have a child. Director Zippi Brand Frank follows an entrepreneur who proposes a new service – baby production for western customers.
How to Fold a Flag 2009-00-0000
The makers of Gunner Palace follow U.S. soldiers as they create new lives post-Iraq—from a Congressional candidate in Buffalo to a cage fighter in Louisiana—set against the backdrop of the 2008 election.
Once Upon A Time Proletarian: 12 Tales Of A Country2009-00-0000
A subjective anatomy of contemporary China in the post-Marxist era, this is a dark, poetic depiction of people from different backgrounds, living in modern China. Twelve chapters explore the country’s current social and political landscape, from which emerge stories of loss and yearning. This is the latest documentary from director Guo Xiaolu, who recently was awarded the Golden Leopard Grand Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival for She, A Chinese.
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands2009-00-0000
Located beneath 4.3 million hectares of boreal forest in Alberta, Canada, the tar sands are a mixture of sand, clay and a heavy crude oil called bitumen that is either mined in open pits or extracted from underground by injecting superheated water. Getting the oil out of the tar sands uses roughly three barrels of water per barrel of oil, or as much water as a city of two million people. After use in tar sands processing, 90 per cent of this water is so contaminated with toxic chemicals that it must be stored in tailings ponds so huge that…
Presumed Guilty2009-00-002103621037
Presumed Guilty tells the heart-wrenching story of a man who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a December day in Mexico City, 2005, José Antonio Zuñiga pleaded: "God, kill me or put me in jail" as he wrestled with an unhappy love affair. A week later, a boy pointed him out from a police car, and he was arrested then charged with murder. 48 hours later he was sent to prison. A judge who never heard him speak sentenced him to twenty years on the testimony of a single, shaky, eyewitness. Two unlikely filmmakers,…
Reel Injun2010-06-1100
Neil Diamond’s documentary Reel Injun is a long-needed corrective to the wildly inaccurate portrayals of native peoples in Hollywood films and filled with revealing and often poignant interviews with key players like actors Wes Studi, Adam Beach and Sacheen Littlefeather.
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags2009-00-0000
SCHMATTA brings to life the vibrant, unexpected history of New York City’s Garment District, which for years was the heart and soul of midtown Manhattan, but is now in danger of disappearing. For thousands of immigrants, the garment industry was a path to the American Dream. But today, with the increased globalization of clothing manufacturing, most of those jobs are gone. The film offers a microcosm of the worldwide economic crisis and chronicles the financial and social forces that have transformed our nation over the past 100 years. SCHMATTA (Yiddish for “rag”) tells the story of one vanishing industry through…
Snowblind 2009-00-0000
Rachael Scdoris, a blind 23-year-old, doesn’t let her disability stop her from competing in one of the most gruelling endurance contests in the world: the Iditarod dogsled race traversing 1,100 miles of Alaska’s most rugged terrain. But being blind is only the start of her challenges.
Stolen2009-00-0000
Filmmakers Fallshaw and Ayala's journey of discovery among Saharawi refugees turns into a political thriller.
A Mother's Courage: Talking Back To Autism2010-09-242204922050
Formerly titled The Sunshine Boy, this tells the story of the autistic boy Keli and his mother, Margret, who travels to the United States looking for an effective treatment for her son. Even if Margrét holds no unrealistic aspirations on behalf of Keli, she has the quenchless thirst for knowledge about the mysterious and complex condition that autism undeniably is. The film received a 4 star review in yesterday’s Morgunbladid and is said to be the best piece of work by Fridrik since Angels of the Universe.
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls2011-05-132656726568
This is the first time that the irrepressible Kiwi entertainment double act, Jools and Lynda Topp's extraordinary personal story has been told. As well as rarely seen archive footage and home movies, the film features a series of special interviews with some of the Topp's infamous comedy alter-egos including candid chats with the two Kens, Camp Mother and Camp Leader, the Bowling Ladies and the Posh Socialite sisters, Prue and Dilly. The Topp Twins have attained a unique status within New Zealand culture, and their fans range from hard core political activists, to sheep farmers and 'Ladies who Lunch'. Their…
Waking Sleeping Beauty2010-03-262262022621
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. The conditions produced a series of box office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn’t care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It’s the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - “Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,”…
Mine2010-01-152280522806
MINE explores how tragedy intensifies that bond and is told from the perspective of original guardians, rescuers, and adoptive parents of the voiceless victims of Katrina. These individuals are all connected by two things, the tragic aftermath of Katrina and their love of animals.

In response to an unprecedented crisis, thousands of pets needed to be transported around the country and adopted even when their displaced guardians still desperately wanted them. Meanwhile, many adoptive guardians have forged strong bonds with their new pets, nurturing them back to health from the traumas they suffered during and after the storm.

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That Should Not Be2010-00-0000
Visual Acoustics2009-10-092194221943
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of…
Oh My God2009-11-132127521276
In every corner of the world, there's one question that can never be definitively answered, yet stirs up equal parts passion, curiosity, self-reflection and often wild imagination: "What is God?" Filmmaker Peter Rodger explores this profound, age-old query in the provocative non-fiction feature "Oh My God." This visual odyssey travels the globe with a revealing lens examining the idea of God through the minds and eyes of various religions and cultures, everyday people, spiritual leaders and celebrities. His goal: to give the viewer the personal, visceral experience of some kind of reasonable, meaningful definition of one of the most used—some…
Rembrandt's J'accuse2009-10-212165021651
REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE is a first-person analysis of ‘The Night Watch,’ the 1642 masterpiece on view in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Greenaway claims that the artist laid out dozens of clues regarding a murder — and for this indiscretion was forced into bankruptcy. Secret alliances, homosexual relationships, phallic symbolism, a transvestite dwarf, illegitimate children, and a Hitchcockian cameo by Rembrandt himself, all come into play. Greenaway complements his revisionist art history with witty dramatic recreations of these conspiracy theories that reference Rembrandt’s own aesthetic in their elegant framing and lighting.
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet2009-11-042150421505
This is about one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, the Paris Opera Ballet. The camera roams the vast Palais Garnier, an opulent 19th-century building: from its crystal chandelier-laden corridors to its labyrinthine underground chambers, from its light-filled rehearsal studios to its luxurious theater replete with 2,200 scarlet velvet seats and Marc Chagall ceiling. LA DANSE devotes most of its time to watching impossibly beautiful young men and women — among them Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnès Gillot, and Agnès Letestu — rehearsing and/or performing seven ballets, including: Genus by Wayne McGregor, Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, The Nutcracker by Rudolf Nureyev,…
Until The Light Takes Us2009-12-042171021711
Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this…
Defamation2009-11-202133021331
In the tradition of films such as Roger & Me and Sherman's March, Shamir embarks on a provocative and irreverent quest to answer the question, “What is anti-Semitism today?” Is it an immediate threat on the verge of coalescing into a second Holocaust? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with the head of the Anti-Defamation League, controversial author Norman Finkelstein, and others, Yoav Shamir sets out to discover the realities of anti-Semitism today.
TEN9EIGHT: Shoot for the Moon2009-11-132144721448
In America, a kid drops out of high school every 9 seconds… Imagine if they didn’t. This is the compelling question behind award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio’s newest project Ten9Eight, a thought provoking film which tells the inspirational stories of several inner city teens (of differing race, religion, and ethnicity) from Harlem to Compton and all points in between, as they compete in an annual business plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).
The Providence Effect2009-09-252133221333
This is a unique and inspiring account of an individual man, the inner city Chicago school he founded, and the student lives that school has changed and saved. The school, Providence St. Mel, has a 30-year 100% college placement record; with an “old school” approach to learning --- “Do the work.” --- and a dedicated corps of teachers and administrators, Providence St. Mel can serve as the model for revamping all of American education. The film also features a glimpse into a public charter school initiative, Providence Englewood Charter School, which was founded in 2006 and modeled after the original…
Nobody's Perfect2010-04-162135421355
Filmmaker Niko von Glasow, whose short arms identify him as a grown-up “child of Thalidomide”, documents in this film his search for eleven other people affected by Thalidomide, to join him in posing naked for a book of photographs. With humour and a surprising lightness of touch, "Nobody’s Perfect" is a portrait of twelve extraordinary characters, from childhood to today. These are people who have gotten used to furtive glances from passers-by, but now they have to stand completely unprotected in front of a camera, and look at their own bodies in a new light.
,br> With a darkly humorous…
Kimjongilia2010-03-192135721358
KIMJONGILIA, The Flower of Kim Jong Il, is the first film to fully expose the disaster through a tapestry of defectors’ stories, North Korean propaganda, and original performance. This feature documentary shows why the defectors fled, describes their hair-raising escapes, and recounts the dangers they face in China, hunted by Chinese as well as North Korean police. These refugees are from every walk of life, from child concentration camp inmates to an elite concert pianist. But their stories all speak of body-and-soul killing repression and paint a picture of a country so far off the rails it defies belief. Ultimately,…
Barefoot to Timbuktu2010-02-052216622167
This cleverly weaves archival and new material into a fascinating portrait of artist Ernst Aebi, an out-of-the-ordinary Swiss/American swashbuckler, one of the pioneers in the transformation of Soho and Tribeca’s factory spaces to lofts, and a social activist of a different kind. On a trip to the Sahara in 1989, Aebi came across Araouane, a settlement in the middle of the desert, seven days by camel from Timbuktu. The once prosperous oasis was disappearing under encroaching dunes, when Aebi passed through on a caravan. So moved by the destitution, Aebi stayed three years to help the people. Under his guidance,…
Bulletproof Salesman2010-00-0000
This is a look at war profiteer Fidelis Cloer.
Labor Day2009-10-3000
The doc reveals the largely unknown story of how one union, thousands of activists, and a commitment to change turned Election Day into Labor Day. For Labor, the Presidential campaign was mission critical. After eight years of Republican policies, the union felt an incredible sense of urgency to take back the White House and change the direction of the economy and the country. LABOR DAY relives the passion and excitement of this moment in American history with vibrant, cross-country footage from the Presidential campaign– conventions, concerts, rallies, speeches, door-to-door canvassing, and interviews with union members and prominent politicians about their…
Loot2009-12-042209622097
This follows a jack-of-all-trades who pursues two hidden troves of WWII loot.
The Game Of Death2010-00-002296422965
This updates a series of 1960s electric shock experiments carried out by Yale professor Stanley Milgram to study authority and obedience. Milgram’s original experiment used two ordinary people – one asking questions and other responding, who was given a list of words to memorise. The respondent was then strapped into a device that provided an electric shock if he was unable to recall any of the terms. The electric shock was administered by the questioner for every wrong answer in increasing charges of up to 450 volts. In the documentary, the film-makers updated the experiment, transferring it to the set…
Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution2009-10-162151921520
For the first time ever, our children are growing up less healthy than we are. As the rate of cancer, infertility and other illnesses linked to environmental factors climbs ever upward each year, we must ask ourselves: why is this happening?

Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town's mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground - children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, researchers and the…
Four Seasons Lodge2009-11-112152121522
From the darkness of Nazi-occupied Europe to the lush mountains of New York's Catskills, the award-winning Four Seasons Lodge documents what might be the final season for a community of Holocaust survivors who come together each summer to celebrate their lives. Beautifully photographed by a team of cinematographers led by Albert Maysles, this unexpectedly humorous film takes on sobering topics like aging and the legacy of the Holocaust in a uniquely life-affirming way - capturing the Lodgers' intoxicating passion for living, in bracing contrast to lives harrowed by loss. Says Fran Lask, 82, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen: "This is our…
The End of Poverty?2009-11-132154721548
Award-winning actor and activist, Martin Sheen, provides the narration for THE END OF POVERTY?, which connects the dots from colonialism to modern times in an indictment of the creation of the free market system, the system now blamed for the worst global recession in decades. THE END OF POVERTY? is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an accident. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade…
Film ist a Girl & a Gun2009-12-0200
Once upon a time cinema was born of the spirit of fairground attractions, sleight of hand and fireworks (genesis). The world of moving images, glowing deep red (paradeisos), was soon populated by all kinds of rejoicing figures, who jumped, crawled and rolled in groups through forests and over dunes. Later man opened his wall safe to woman with the code word eros; a little finger was kissed tenderly, a violent grab was met with his hand being bitten. The age of masquerades, games of hide and seek, and playacting had begun. The hands of strange men loaded and bent female…
The Hand of Fatima2009-11-132168221683
THE HAND OF FATIMA is a double portrait of a rock critic and his favorite band. Robert Palmer was America’s pre-eminent music writer, best known for his book DEEP BLUES and his work for the NEW YORK TIMES. The Master Musicians of Jajouka are a hereditary Moroccan brotherhood who play music older than history, but have also jammed with Ornette Coleman and Sonic Youth. Using Robert Palmer’s writing about the band as her guide, Palmer’s daughter Augusta set out for Morocco in 2005 hoping to find out what happened when her father first met the Master Musicians of Jajouka on…
Man with a Movie Camera1929-00-002168621687
A cameraman travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
In Search of Memory2010-01-0800
Kandel, born in Vienna in 1929, emigrated to the U.S. at the age of nine to escape Nazi persecution. After early studies in history and literature, he focused on medicine and became a psychoanalyst before devoting his life, for the last fifty years, to neuroscience. His research field, which is closely linked with his traumatic childhood experience during the Nazi era in Vienna and the Holocaust, is the search for memory. He relates his life story and scientific work in his award-winning autobiography, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, in 2006.

The documentary interweaves…
Waiting for Armageddon2010-01-082176621767
Waiting for Armageddon explores the culture of 50 million American Evangelicals who believe that Bible prophecy dictates the future of mankind and that Israel and the Jewish people play pivotal roles in ensuring Christ’s return. The film raises questions regarding how this theology shapes U.S.- Middle East relations and how it may even encourage an international holy war. Using intimate portraits and archival footage to explore how literal belief in Biblical prophecy – including the Rapture and Armageddon – exerts a dangerous influence on U.S. relations in the Middle East, Waiting for Armageddon tells its story through the eyes of…
Babies2010-05-072212522126
Based on an original idea by Alain Chabat, this simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in the United States, in San Francisco. Re-defining the nonfiction art form, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us…
Bhutto2010-12-032200022001
BHUTTO casts an unblinking lens on the ascent of the first woman ever elected to lead a Muslim state and uncovers the slippery mechanisms and murderous politics that define modern day Pakistan. The current President, Asif Ali Zardari, is Benazir’s widower, and her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was Pakistan’s first democratically elected president, making Benazir’s story and that of Pakistan itself inextricably fused. Perhaps the most strategically important country in the international War on Terror, Pakistan is the recipient of billions of dollars in U.S. aid and is the Muslim world’s sole nuclear power. With recent U.S.-Pakistani relations under strain…
Family Affair2010-07-3000
This examines the complex levels of pedophilia and how it can manipulate and control an entire family for life. The film is also a portrait of a family that struggles with issues we all face. Family Affair challenges the audience to take a more complicated view of child molesters like the filmmaker’s father, while fostering compassion for their victims, like his sisters. Their story is a universal one about resilience, survival and having the capacity to accommodate a parent’s past crimes in order to satisfy their longing for family.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child2010-07-212302523026
In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom. However, soon his cult status began to override the art that had made him famous in the first place.

Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast.…
Waiting for Superman2010-09-242391723918
Every morning, in big cities, suburbs and small towns across America, parents send their children off to school with the highest of hopes. But a shocking number of students in the United States attend schools where they have virtually no chance of learning—failure factories likelier to produce drop-outs than college graduates. And despite decades of well-intended reforms and huge sums of money spent on the problem, our public schools haven’t improved markedly since the 1970s. Why? There is an answer. And it’s not what you think. Tackling such politically radioactive topics as the power of teachers’ unions and the entrenchment…
Freedom Riders2010-07-3000
The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called the Freedom Riders who in 1961 creatively challenged segregation in the American South.
GasLand2010-00-0000
Natural gas has been advertised as a solution to our nation’s energy problems. But behind the PR campaign is a flurry of under reported disasters: polluted air, undrinkable water and a rising health crisis. When filmmaker Josh Fox learned that natural gas drilling was coming to New York City’s watershed, as well as to his hometown in Milanville, PA, he got in his car and drove across the US to find out the effects of the recent drilling boom out west. Traveling to ravaged lands in Colorado, Wyoming & Texas, Josh interviewed people who lived near these drilling sites—people who…
The Tillman Story2010-08-202303423035
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002 and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately far more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.

Featuring candid and revelatory…
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work2010-06-112368923690
JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK takes the audience on a year long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. This is a rare, brutally honest glimpse into the comedic process and private dramas of legendary comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers as she fights tooth and nail to keep her American dream alive.
My Perestroika2011-03-232581625817
When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities. Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the story of five Moscow schoolmates who went from sheltered Soviet childhoods through the hopes of Gorbachev’s Glasnost (openness) and Perestroika (restructuring) to the chaos of the USSR’s dissolution. Today, Borya and Lyuba are married history teachers; Olga is a single mother who works for a billiard table rental company; Ruslan, once a famous punk musician, now busks in the Moscow metro; and Andrei owns a thriving chain of menswear stores. With candor and humor, each paints…
The Oath2010-05-072307323074
Filmed in Yemen, The Oath is a family drama about two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that would lead to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Abu Jandal is a taxi driver in Yemen and a free man, while the man he recruited, his brother-in-law Salim Hamdan, is the first man to stand trial before the controversial Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay Prison. Abu Jandal and Hamdan’s intertwined personal trajectories – how they became bin Laden’s bodyguard and driver respectively – act as prisms that serve…
Restrepo2010-06-252324123737
Tim Hetherington’s image of a soldier resting at Restrepo bunker in Afghanistan (above), taken on assignment for Vanity Fair, was named the World Press Photo of the Year in 2007. When Vanity Fair contributing editor Sebastian Junger and contributing photographer Tim Hetherington traveled to Afghanistan’s beautiful, rugged Korengal Valley in 2007 to be embedded with the Second Platoon of Battle Company—part of the Second Battalion of the U.S. army’s 503rd Infantry Regiment (airborne)—in one of the most violent areas of conflict of the war there, they each took video cameras so that they could capture the harrowing experience of live…
A Small Act2010-00-0000
When Hilde Back sponsored a young, impoverished Kenyan student, she thought nothing of it. She paid roughly $15 dollars per term to keep him in primary school. She certainly never expected to hear from him, but many years later, she does. Chris Mburu has been thinking of his “angel” Hilde since he was a boy. The small contribution she made paid off – Chris went all the way to Harvard. Now, he’s a respected UN human rights lawyer, dedicating his life to battling genocide and crimes against humanity. Chris decides to replicate Hilde’s generosity by starting his own scholarship fund,…
Smash His Camera2010-07-302399423995
Jackie Onassis sued him. Marlon Brando broke his jaw. To the celebrities he pursued, legendary paparazzo Ron Galella was the enemy, but he created some of the most lasting, iconic photographs of the modern era. Over the course of a career marked by perseverance, Galella has been praised and vilified for his pioneering work in hit-and-run celebrity photography. Taking its name from an order Onassis issued to her security team, SMASH HIS CAMERA chronicles Galella’s meteoric career as a notorious guerrilla photographer and offers a thoughtful examination of the nature of fame, the relationship between celebrities and their chroniclers, and…
12th & Delaware2010-00-002263122632
The abortion battle continues to rage in unexpected ways on an unassuming corner in America.
Old Partner2009-12-302201522016
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France. Choi Won-kyun and Lee Sam-soon, elderly peasants, eke out a living in a remote portion of South Korea, served by their 40-year-old ox (dubbed by the filmmaker, “possibly the oldest ox in Korea,” older than most of their 9 children) who is their friend, their colleague, their lifeblood – and clearly the wife’s (successful) competitor for her husband’s love and loyalty. Choi is single-mindedly focused on the ox, instinctively turning to the animal whenever he hears its bell, even though he’s nearly deaf. “We…
Off and Running2010-01-292201722018
With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean - Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. When her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, Avery decides to contact her birth mother, which thrusts her into a complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she’s always known. But when it seems like her life is unraveling, Avery decides to pick up the pieces and make sense of her identity, with inspiring results.
Sweetgrass2010-01-062207622077
“Sweetgrass” follows a group of modern-day cowboys as they lead their enormous flock of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often-dangerous Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Dancing Across Borders2010-03-262305923060
On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass came across a sixteen year old boy who moved her immensely with his amazing and seemingly natural charms and grace as a dancer. Having been a longtime devotee to the world of dance herself back in the United States, Anne felt compelled to give this young boy the opportunity to leave his home and follow a dream that she felt he hadn’t even yet seen for himself.  From the serene countryside of Southeast Asia to the halls of the New York’s School of American…
Fake Orgasm2010-00-0000
Based interviews done in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America. Sol attempts to find common answers that cross-cultural boundaries as to why three quarters of women say they're sexually dissatisfied and many fake orgasms.
Untitled Robinson Devor Documentary on Sarah Jane Moore2011-00-00223210
This is about Sara Jane Moore, a suburban, middle-aged wife and mother who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. In a very short time, Moore went from country clubs and nurseries to meetings with violent Marxist radicals who advocated the overthrow of government by violent force. Strangely, she was also a narc for the FBI. Torn between loyalties, Moore eventually gave information to both the FBI and the radical left. Her exposure led to death threats from both camps, and the hatching of a plan to assassinate…
October Country2010-02-122246822469
October Country is a beautifully rendered portrait of an American family struggling for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse. A collaboration between filmmaker Michael Palmieri and photographer and family member Donal Mosher, this vibrant and penetrating documentary examines the forces that unsettle the working poor and the violence that lurks beneath the surface of American life. Every family has its ghosts. The Mosher family has more than most. Shot over a year from one Halloween to the next, the film creates a stunning cinematic portrait of a family who are unique…
Harlan -- In the Shadow of the Jew Suess2010-03-032249022491
The infamous JEW SÜSS (1940), directed by Veit Harlan, and produced under Joseph Goebbels’s Ministry of Propaganda, was the Nazis’ most vicious anti-Semitic film—required viewing for all SS members. A drama set in 18th century Germany, it purports to tell the true story of a Jew who dresses incognito (as a Christian), corrupts a local Duke, restructures the government to bleed the people through punitive taxes, and forces himself upon a beautiful, married Christian woman (played by Kristina Söderbaum, Harlan’s third wife). At the war’s end, the filmmaker was prosecuted for crimes against humanity, but acquitted. Today, his children and…
Catfish2010-09-172437424375
Nev, a 24-year-old New York–based photographer, has no idea what he’s in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on MySpace, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable painting, Nev begins a friendship and correspondence with Abby’s family. But things really get interesting when he develops a cyber-romance with Abby’s attractive older sister, Megan, a musician and model. Prompted by some startling revelations about Megan, Nev and his buddies embark on a road trip in search of the truth.
Project Nim2011-07-082734327344
This is the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the mid-1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature – and indeed our own – is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Only When I Dance2010-06-252252722528
'Only When I Dance' follows two young teenagers, Isabella and Irlan as they strive to realise an extraordinary dream. One girl, one boy. Both black and poor and living in a lawless community on the outskirts of Rio. Irlan and Isabella both want to dance - to dance ballet and their ambition is to leave Brazil to join one of the great companies in the North. On our very first shoot, the pair won the Brazilian national championships and qualified to compete in Switzerland & the USA where the major talent scouts would be waiting to select their new young…
8: The Mormon Proposition2010-06-182253622537
8:TMP follows the stories of many LGBT citizens seeking marriage equality and never-before revealed Mormon efforts to stop them. The stories of Tyler Barrick and Spencer Jones, two gay Mormon men, are the marquis players in 8:TMP. Barrick is the direct descendant of Mormon polygamist Fredrick G. Williams. The Barrick-Jones family history tells tales of Mormon ancestors chased from state to state because of their own practice of alternative marriage (polygamy). Now, decades later, the Barrick-Jones family is experiencing cultural and governmental discrimination of the same kind that haunted their ancestors. Only now, they're at war with their own religion…
The Other City2010-09-1700
This introduces us to the Washington D.C. that tourists rarely see and to residents who are both infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. It chronicles the epic struggles they face confronting social, cultural and political boundaries. Surprisingly, the very city that is home to the U.S. federal government not only has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the U.S. but rates that rival some African nations.
Countdown to Zero2010-07-232257322574
During the Cold War, nothing loomed as large in the public mind as the bomb. When the Soviet Empire collapsed, the bomb became a symbol of another era. Naively we felt the danger had passed. In recent years, the threat of nuclear proliferation has grown more urgent, and the political will to eliminate nuclear weapons is greater than ever in our history. We have now entered a second nuclear age. Nuclear weapons have proliferated to nine nations, and that number could continue to grow, as over 40 nations have the technical capacity to construct nuclear weapons. Terrorists are actively seeking…
Picture Me2010-09-172258722588
Filmmaker Ole Schell follows model Sara Ziff for several years documenting her rise from a fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. In the process, Ole and Sara go behind the scenes and chronicle the glitzy world of high fashion modeling, from photo shoots with celebrated photographers to runway shows in New York, Milan, and Paris. This intimate account features in-depth interviews with noted photographers and designers, but also relies on footage shot by the models themselves, giving voice to those who are often seen, but rarely heard. With appearances by Gilles Bensimon, Karl Lagerfeld,…
Great Directors2010-07-092326823269
A deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it, and this features original, in-depth conversations with world-class filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater, and John Sayles. These interviews more than just chronicle Ismailos’ encounters with ten remarkable men and women. Extensively illuminated by clips and historical archives from the subjects’ works, they also reveal the distinctive personalities who created the timeless images that have long inspired Ismailos—and all of us. Intercutting among the filmmakers in a freely associative way,…
Behind the Burly Q2010-04-232264122642
Behind the Burly Q reveals the true story of burlesque by telling the intimate and surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and men!) who lived it. Featuring dozens of interviews with performers, musicians and authors including actor Alan Alda, whose father Robert Alda was a handsome “tit singer” and a straight man; Nat Bodian, journalist who wrote and saw burlesque at the Empire in Newark in the 1930’s; Lorraine Lee, who used to dance for Bonnie and Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd and “earned a quarter”; Tempest Storm, who still performs today and claims to have been…
Exit Through the Gift Shop2010-04-162319223193
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian segregation wall in the West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop is the story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur filmmaker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Billed as ‘the world’s first street art disaster movie’ the film contains exclusive…
Best Worst Movie2010-05-142319623197
In 1989, Italian director, Claudio Fragrasso cast small-town dentist Dr. George Hardy and a group of unwitting Utah actors in the ultra-low budget horror film, Troll 2. Soon after its disastrous release, Dr. Hardy retired from his short-lived acting career and returned to dentistry in his hometown of Alabama, unaware of the legions of fans that would one day recognize him as a cult movie luminary. “Best Worst Movie” reveals the improbable heartfelt story of an Alabama dentist-turned-cult-movie icon and an Italian filmmaker as they come to terms with their internationally revered cinematic failure.
Last Train Home2010-09-032290822909
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos, as all at once, a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return home by train. It is the Chinese New Year. The wave is made up of millions of migrant factory workers. The homes they seek are the rural villages and families they left behind to seek work in the booming coastal cities. It is an epic spectacle that tells us much about China, a country discarding traditional ways as it hurtles towards modernity and global economic dominance.

Last Train Home, an emotionally engaging and visually beautiful debut film from Chinese-Canadian director…
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno2010-07-162291222913
Our film is a legend! In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot chose 26 years-old Romy Schneider and 42 years-old Serge Reggiani, to be the leads of L’ENFER. An enigmatic and original project; an unlimited budget; a film, which was meant to be the cinematographic event at its release. However, after 3 weeks into filming, drama happens. The project is interrupted and the images, which were told to be “incredible”, will never be shown. I have recovered those images that were forgotten for half a century and they are more mind-blowing than the legend predicted. They are telling a unique film, that of…
Journal de France2012-00-0000
Traveling alone, internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing his home country with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for the creation - with his long-time partner and collaborator Claudine Nougaret - of an extraordinary travel journal. The journey returned Depardon to important places from his past as a reporter - Chad, Venice, Cannes - and to a wealth of previously unseen footage from his archive - an interview with Jean-Bedel Bokassa, film of Jean-Luc Godard, extraordinary glimpses of private and public life. Intimate, compelling, revelatory, "Journal de France" offers…
Stonewall Uprising2010-06-162374423745
The film chronicles the remarkable story of the night of June 28, 1969 when a police raid at Greenwich Village’s famous Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons, Village Voice reporters and the cop who led the raid, STONEWALL UPRISING compellingly recalls the bad old days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment was rampant.

A treasure-trove of archival footage…
Breath Made Visible2010-04-232306523066
For the last seven decades, Anna Halprin, the American dance pioneer (who will turn 90 years old in July), has redefined our notions of modern art by exploring one question in her work: What is important in life? The search for that answer has ushered in such revolutionary experimentation in theater, music, and performance that it's reach extends beyond the arts and into our cultural conscious. Anna has not only succeeded in fusing art and life but has developed a new mindset: one that hails the vitality of existence and debunks the 'limitations of age.'

BREATH MADE VISIBLE is…
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders2010-06-042307123072
Bosnia. Rwanda. Kosovo. Sierra Leone. Pakistan. Just a few of the world’s humanitarian and political crises in the past years. Whether the result of war or nature, these disasters devastate populations and cripple health systems. Despite the immense dangers and difficulties of the work, one organization, Doctors Without Borders, has continuously intervened at these frontlines of overwhelming human need. Set in war-torn Congo and post-conflict Liberia, Living in Emergency interweaves the stories of four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under the most extreme conditions.

Two volunteers are new recruits: a 26 year-old…
The Cartel2010-04-162307523076
Teachers punished for speaking out. Principals fired for trying to do the right thing. Union leaders defending the indefensible. Bureaucrats blocking new charter schools. These are just some of the people we meet in The Cartel. The film also introduces us to teens who can't read, parents desperate for change, and teachers struggling to launch stable alternative schools for inner city kids who want to learn. We witness the tears of a little girl denied a coveted charter school spot, and we share the triumph of a Camden homeschool's first graduating class. Together, these people and their stories offer an…
After the Cup: The Sons of Sakhnin United2010-05-212349323494
This tells the story of the soccer franchise Bnei Sakhnin, the first team from an Arab town to win the Israeli Cup and represent Israel in European competition. Fielding Arab, Jewish and foreign-born players, owned by an Arab, and coached by a Jew, Bnei Sakhnin’s success begins to represent a symbol of co-existence, a potential bridge between Arabs and Jews in Israel. But as Bnei Sakhnin begins its next season, they know it may well be their first, and last, in the limelight as the serious consequences they face if they fail to live up to expectations tear at the…
Waste Land2010-10-292519925200
“Waste Land” follows world-renowned Brazilian artist Vik Muniz through an emotional journey in the world’s largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro - in a place called Jardim Gramacho. Over three years, Muniz photographed people who inhabited the trash city and the art objects they created out of the trash. Muniz sold these photos at auction to help raise money for the people of Jardim Gramacho. The film not only shows the transformative power of art, but also the triumph of the human spirit.
Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe2010-04-3000
Director Harry Kim spent eight tumultuous years following a young near-schizophrenic street artist, David Choe, who devises numerous criminal schemes that make it possible for him to hitchhike across the globe. Choe skirts the legal constraints of society to “freely” create his art. His nonchalant law-breaking style lands him in jail several times, leading to his eventual demise in solitary confinement in a Tokyo prison cell. He resurfaces with a radically religious agenda and returns home with hope to overcome his criminal temptations and repair his severed relationships. The filmmaker (who has been friends with Choe since they met at…
Cocksucker Blues2010-00-0000
A film by photographer Robert Frank on the Rolling Stone's 1972 American tour. Not released by the Stones because it contained scenes of drug use and groupie orgies.
Fantasia Lusitana2010-00-0000
This a documentary about Lisbon during WWII, when the country’s capital became the frontier between Europe and the American continent for nearly 100,000 people escaping the Nazi regime. Using archive images and refugee testimonies read by actors Hanna Schygulla, Rudiger Vogler and Christian Patey, the film tries to trace the legacy of those people and how their presence influenced the national perception of WWII.
Draquila — L'Italia che trema2010-00-0000
Italy is shaking. Apart from the privileged of few, Italy's is guilty for its laws, for the misappropriation of public funds, for the corruption, for the services denied to the citizens. Don't stand and watch. Change the law of expression of democracy.
Inside Job2010-10-082487024871
INSIDE JOB is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
Nostalgia for the Light2011-03-182656226563
In Nostalgia for the Light, Guzmán travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth: Chile’s remote Atacama Desert. There, atop the mountains, astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars; the sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh dry heat keeps human remains intact, from pre-Columbian mummies, to those of political prisoners who were “disappeared” by the Chilean army after the military coup of 1973. While astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies,…
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow2011-08-102776427765
In 1993 Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barjac. From 2000 he began constructing a series of elaborate installations there. Like a strange, sprawling village, La Ribaute extends over 350,000 square meters and is composed of old industrial buildings and working studios that link to a network of underground tunnels dug out by Kiefer, which run underneath pavilions built to house paintings and installations. An underground pool at the cul-de-sac of a tubular iron tunnel is embedded within a crypt which backs onto to a 20 m tiered concrete amphitheatre. There are caves and…
Armadillo2011-04-152501325014
Director Janus Metz follows Danish soldiers fighting the Taliban in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan with sophisticated visual artistry rarely achieved under such raw conditions. Building his film around the characters within the platoon, Metz allows us to witness how war transforms the different personalities, and the group, approaching his subjects with an intimacy equal to that of fiction.

The active military base “Armadillo” houses a mix of 170 Danish and British soldiers in the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) who are responsible for providing security to the surrounding area and eliminating the Taliban insurgency. Metz follows his subjects…
5XFavela2010-00-0000
This is a short film anthology featuring young filmmakers from the Brazilian favelas that were trained by director Carlos Diegues.
Mundo Alas2010-08-062434824349
Not just an inspiring documentary, MUNDO ALAS is a road movie. A journey of initiation by a group of new young artists who present their works, accompanied by the voice, talent and experience of León Gieco (Argentina’s most important folk-rock singer and songwriter) on a tour through several Argentinean provinces. Exceptional artists, musicians, singers, dancers and painters, they all live with disabilities that might deter some, but not them. As the tour progresses, we get to know their stories and witness their artistic growth over time. Shows, rehearsals, roads and hotels are the settings of anecdotes and music that conceive…
The Lottery2010-06-112374223743
In The Lottery, four Harlem children’s lives intersect at a high-stakes lottery. Winning means access to one of the top elementary schools in New York. Losing may mean being trapped in some of the worst schools in America. The film will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival as part of the “Tribeca Talks” program, to be followed by a panel discussion with New York City Chancellor of Public Education Joel Klein.
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo2010-05-122337623377
What is it about the Japanese and bugs? Inside a Tokyo pet shop, a little boy delights in selecting his new pet, a rainbow beetle (cost: $57). Japanese aesthetics – whether textiles, architecture, gardening, graphics, brush painting or haiku – all reflect a highly refined appreciation for both the diminutive and the transient. BEETLE QUEEN explores the world of Japanese insect-lovers, from the sublime (families who visit the countryside to hear choruses of crickets or experience the yellow-green flashes of light emitted by thousands of fireflies) to the ridiculous (cartoon beetles that infest the zeitgeist). With unabashed humor and tremendous…
Two in the Wave2010-05-1900
The French New Wave crashed onto international shores when François Truffaut’s debut feature, THE 400 BLOWS, premiered at Cannes in 1959, followed quickly by Jean-Luc Godard’s equally thrilling BREATHLESS, based on a Truffaut story. The two filmmaking rebels, great friends and fellow graduates of the fabled magazine, Cahiers du Cinema, for which both wrote extensively, hailed from different sides of the tracks: Truffaut, a poor reform school boy, and Godard, a Swiss haute-bourgeois. Both cast Jean-Pierre Léaud in many of their movies -- for Truffaut, as his alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, in a series of films that constitute an important part…
Floored2010-05-072337823379
Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans while wearing the weight of our complex economy on their shoulders--along with their neon jackets. It’s a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates heroes, rich beyond what their high school educations should ever afford. But the wrong move on the wrong day can ruin lives. In FLOORED, Director James Allen Smith, not only penetrates this cult-like profession and its closely held…
Benda Bilili!2011-09-302449624497
French film directors Florent de la Tullaye and Renaud Barret encountered the extraordinary group in 2004 as they played their music on homemade instruments in the area around the Kinshasa Zoo and began documenting the band's struggles to survive, through music, in the volatile city. The result is an exuberant film that follows the band's journey from the streets to the world's stages, culminating in the 2009 release of their acclaimed album "Tres Tres Fort." The core of the group is four singer/guitarists stricken with polio, who use customized tricycles to get around: Ricky, the eldest and a co-founding member…
Cleveland Vs. Wall Street2010-00-002449824499
The story of a trial in Cleveland, in a small town shattered by a severe crisis stemming from low-cost mortgages. The mayor blames the big banks in America for the disaster. While two attorneys confront each other in the courtroom, seven witnesses are called up one after another. A jury court has to submit their verdict: guilty or not guilty? The Wall Street process as a modern fable about capitalism.
Lessons of Darkness1992-00-002339523396
Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's Lektionen in Finsternis is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. Herzog, as much a daredevil as a documentarian, took his small crew in a helicopter and, floating above the fields, photographed jaw-dropping footage of the blazing, blackened landscape. Alternately horrific and majestic, the movie is a phantasmagoric, if distanced, catalog of horrors. Boiling lakes of crude oil, twisted scraps of melted metal, and ominous billows of smoke and fire abound. On the ground, the images are just as…
Boxing Gym2010-10-222375923760
Austin, Texas. Lord's Gym was founded sixteen years ago by Richard Lord, a former professional boxer. A wide variety of people of all ages, races, ethnicities and social classes train at the gym: men, women, children, doctors, lawyers, judges, business men and women, immigrants, professional boxers and people who want to become professional boxers alongside amateurs who love the sport and teenagers who are trying to develop strength and assertiveness. The gym is an example of the American “melting pot” where people meet, talk, and train.
Marwencol2010-10-082492224923
On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside of a bar in Kingston, NY, by five men who beat him literally to death. Revived by paramedics, Mark had suffered brain damage and physical injuries so severe even his own mother didn’t recognize him. When he emerged from his coma nine days after the attack he could barely walk, speak or remember anything from his previous life. Less than a year later, Mark’s state-supported physical, cognitive and occupational therapies ran out. He was 38, broke, living in a trailer and unable to work. And he was angry. He realized he…
Kings of Pastry2010-09-152437224373
Sixteen contenders seek the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (“MOF”), France’s highest honor in the sublime art of patisserie, employing vast amounts of sugar, butter and eggs – not to mention adrenaline – to create gorgeous, fantastical, delicious creations. Some of the world’s most accomplished chefs gather in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates and elaborate cream puffs to six-foot-high sugar sculptures. D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus secured exclusive access to shoot this never-before-filmed event. They follow chef Jacquy Pfeiffer, co-founder of Chicago’s French Pastry School, as he journeys to his childhood…
Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope2012-00-0000
A behind-the-scenes look at the fans who gather by the thousands each year in San Diego, California to attend Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention.
Cropsey2010-06-042373523736
Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of ‘Cropsey.’ For the kids in their neighborhood, Cropsey was the escaped mental patient who lived in the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution, who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Sometimes Cropsey had a hook for a hand, other times he wielded a bloody axe, but it didn’t matter, Cropsey was always out there, lurking in the shadows, waiting to get them. Later as teenagers, the filmmakers assumed Cropsey was just an urban legend: a cautionary tale used…
Whiz Kids2010-06-042385623857
At a time when American teens lag far behind other countries in math and science, WHIZ KIDS tells a coming-of-age story of three remarkably different yet equally passionate 17-year-old scientists who vie to compete in the nation's oldest, most prestigious science competition. Win or lose, these ‘whiz kids’ raise questions about class, courage, personal sacrifice, success and failure, and in the process, learn as much about themselves as they do about science. Over the past decade, countries like China and India vastly increased support for research and development, while U.S. funding remained largely stagnant. Government appropriations for agencies such as…
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage2010-06-102373823739
Directors Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen embark on a comprehensive exploration of this extraordinary power trio, from their early days in Toronto, through each of their landmark albums, to the present day. Featuring never–before–seen footage and interviews with notables such as Jack Black, Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor, Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and Gene Simmons, this film explores the forty–year career and phenomenon behind what could be the world’s biggest cult band.
South of the Border2010-06-252374823749
There's a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn't know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Néstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecendented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in…
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within2010-11-172376923770
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage of Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with colleagues and confidants including John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra, and David Cronenberg, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN is a probing, yet loving look at the man whose works at once savaged conservative ideals, spawned countercultural movements, and reconfigured 20th century culture. The film is narrated by Peter Weller, with a soundtrack by Patti Smith and Sonic Youth. Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of queer and drug…
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector2010-06-3000
This is a portrait of the legendary pop music genius/record producer who created “the wall of sound”: a unique musical soundscape that defined some of the greatest hits of the 1960s. These are songs forever imprinted on the brains of everyone whose teenage years spanned that tumultuous decade: Be My Baby, He’s a Rebel, Da Doo Ron Ron, You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling, to name but a few. Today he is imprisoned -- serving 19 years-to-life for the murder of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. It was during his first trial (resulting in a hung jury) that the reclusive Spector gave…
Convention2010-06-0400
Filmed during the historic 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, CONVENTION focuses on the efforts of local Denver citizens as they host, report on and protest the massive event. In this breathtaking documentary, a team of uniquely talented cinematographers, producers, and directors, led by accomplished documentary filmmaker AJ Schnack, assemble together in an unprecedented effort to cover the behind the scenes perspectives of this landmark moment in our country’s history. Through the intertwining stories of several protesters, reporters from the Denver Post, the Mayor of Denver and his staff, the convention planners, protest groups and many more, CONVENTION delivers…
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields2010-10-272504025041
Songwriter Stephin Merritt is known as "the Cole Porter of his generation" for his memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings. Shot over a period of 10 years, "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields" explores his friendship with his longtime bandmate and manager Claudia Gonson. Through his recording and songwriting process, the film traces a 20-year career that has yielded one of the most engaging bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook.
Enemies of the People2010-07-302430224303
The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. In ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE the men and women who perpetrated the massacres – from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party’s ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two – break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen. Unprecedented access from top to bottom of the Khmer Rouge has been achieved through a decade of work by one of Cambodia’s best investigative journalists, Thet Sambath.

Sambath is…
Highwater2010-08-272434424345
Welcome to the North Shore of Oahu – the 7 Mile Miracle – surfing’s Xanadu. A freak of nature that is long considered the ultimate test for surfers. It’s the Triple Crown – the final 3 contests of the year - held in the cyclone of the North Shore between Halloween and Christmas Eve. The Triple Crown is a catalyst for a big wave soap opera that unfolds around, beside and away from the actual contests.

Fifty-five days of low comedy, high drama and nonstop jaw dropping action with the biggest waves, while the best surfers young and old, men…
A Film Unfinished2010-08-182433824339
At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. A FILM UNFINISHED presents the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party) falsely showing “the good life” enjoyed by Jewish urbanites, and…
Winnebago Man2010-07-092394423945
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you’ve never heard of — an RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts circulated underground on VHS tapes in the 90s before turning into a full-blown Internet phenomenon in 2005. Today, the “Winnebago Man” has been seen by more than 20 million people worldwide, and is regarded as one of the first and funniest viral videos. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer goes in search of Rebney — and finds him living alone on a mountain top, unaware of his fame. WINNEBAGO MAN is a laugh-out-loud look at viral culture and an unexpectedly poignant tale of one…
Mugabe and the White African2010-07-232394623947
Michael Campbell is one of the few hundred white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent land seizure program in 2000. Initially a policy meant to reclaim white-owned land and redistribute it to poor black Zimbabweans, it has instead been used to gift farmland to Mugabe’s supporters. Like hundreds before him, Mike has suffered years of land invasions and violence at his farm. But this genial 75-year-old grandfather with a dry sense of humor has refused to back down. In 2008, Mike took the unprecedented step of challenging Mugabe and his Land Reform program in an…
Life in a Day2011-07-292740927410
An idea borne out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated feature-length documentary, shot on a single day - July 24, 2010 - that enlisted the global community to capture a moment of their lives on camera. The world responded by submitting more than 80,000 videos to YouTube, representing over 4,500 hours of deeply personal, powerful films from contributors from Australia to Zambia, from the heart of bustling major cities to the furthest and most remote reaches of the earth. LIFE IN A DAY brings together the most compelling YouTube…
Evolution of a Criminal2011-00-0000
Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns home to examine how his actions affected the lives of family, friends...and victims.
LYNCHThree0000-00-0000
This is the third and final installment on a documentary series on David Lynch.
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same2010-00-002413524136
Artist Brock Enright packs a minivan and travels across the country with his longtime girlfriend Kirsten Deirup to create his first major New York City solo show at her family's cabin in Mendocino, California. Brock dives into his work, disregarding the gallery's mandated budget, schedule, and Kirsten's financial concerns for life after the show. The couple soon begins making an often violent and sexually graphic road film that pushes boundaries and sets the artist on an irreversible path toward an impending emotional breakdown. Once at the cabin, Brock works under Kirsten's family's watchful eye, and already mounting tension increases between…
Nénette2010-12-222418224183
She’s a 40-year-old longtime Parisian, with an unruly mop of red hair and soulful, close-set dark brown eyes. Nénette is introspective, perhaps melancholic, but beloved by those who visit her daily. After “having worn out three husbands” and given birth to four children, she’s convalescing from major surgery, and looks forward to life’s simple pleasures, like tea and yogurt at 4:30 each afternoon. Nénette is an orangutan in the famed Jardin des Plantes Exotiques zoo, and acclaimed documentarian Nicolas Philibert (TO BE AND TO HAVE) captures her day-to-day routine in this charming, poignant and wonderfully funny portrait. She’s one of…
Gerrymandering2010-10-152419724198
Right now, across the country, our two major political parties are gearing up for a once-a-decade war whose winner will control Congress for the next ten years, and possibly more. There will be battles in every state, and each will be kept carefully hidden from the prying eyes of average voters who only become more disenchanted with their government with each meaningless election.

Democrats and Republicans collude to keep these skirmishes private so that they can maintain total control over the ultimate political weapon: the ability to directly determine the outcome of elections. Why bother stuffing ballots when they can…
Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer2010-11-052499724998
Eliot Spitzer's meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Governor Spitzer - the paragon of rectitude - had been caught visiting high-priced call girls. As his powerful enemies gloated, his supporters questioned the timing of it all because as the Sheriff of Wall Street fell, so did the financial markets, in a cataclysm that threatened to unravel the global economy. With unique access to the escort world as well as friends, colleagues and enemies of the ex-Governor (many of whom have come forward for the first time) this film explores the hidden contours…
Apaporis2010-07-3000
Apaporis follows the journey of ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who in 1941 set off on an epic 12-year research trip down the Amazon and through the Andes, navigating unknown rivers, collecting new plant species, establishing friendships with indigenous tribes and uncovering age-old secrets of sacred plants. The filmmakers navigated the Apaporis River and sought the cultures that Schultes found with surprising results. Apaporis records the present state of the customs and beliefs of the communities, such as the use of psychotropic plants, and the threats to community survival posed by increasing globalization.
Budrus2010-10-082512325124
Ayed Morrar took leave of his comfortable job at the Palestinian Authority upon hearing that the Israeli government was planning to build a separation barrier through Budrus, his small agricultural village. He convened a town-hall meeting, invited Israeli civilians, and formed a movement whose motto, “We Can Do It,” resonates with community organizers worldwide. To everyone’s surprise, Ayed became the leader of the first unarmed movement to successfully protect and even expand Palestinian territory—an accomplishment made possible in large part by Ayed’s 15-year-old daughter Iltezam, who launched a women’s contingent that quickly moved to the front lines.
Fambul Tok2011-00-0000
“Fambul Tok” tells the story of healing in post-conflict Sierra Leone through the intimate stories of perpetrators and victims, including: Esther and Joseph – family members who were caught in the horrors of the war. At age 12 Esther was captured by rebels, and raped by 15 men. Among them was her uncle, Joseph. He, too, had been caught by the rebels and ordered to rape Esther – or be killed. Sahr and Nyumah – best friends whose lives were forever changed by the conflict. Rebel forces turned the two boys on each other, forcing Nyumah to beat his best…
The Great Invisible2012-00-0000
The Great Invisible looks at the global oil economy through the lens of characters that work in the oil and fishing industries on the Gulf Coast. This look into the personal stories behind the tragic 2010 BP Oil Spill and uncovers how government and corporate interests respond in the wake of an environmental crisis, and the way this affects a region and culture so rooted in nature.
Queen of Versailles2012-00-0000
This is a documentary about billionaires Jackie and David Siegel and how their plans of constructing what will be the largest house in America (a 90,000 square foot behemoth modeled after the palace of Versailles) are put on hold when the financial market collapses in 2008.
The Arizona Project0000-00-0000
Reporting from the frontlines of the new battle for America’s soul, filmmakers Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini follow the volatile, unfolding story of Arizona’s racially charged immigration law, Senate Bill 1070.
Neshoba: The Price of Freedom2010-08-132428124282
It was June 1964, the beginning of the Freedom Summer—the height of the Civil Rights movement—when a mob of Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi murdered three civil rights workers: two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi. It took 41 years for the state to convict one man, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old Baptist preacher and notorious racist, in the killings. The disappearance and murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner quickly became an international story as the shocking crime woke up the consciousness of the nation and the world. On August 4th, 1965 the Voting…
L'Amour Fou2011-05-132569825699
Yves Saint Laurent built one of fashion's most celebrated empires. This moving documentary chronicles his rise, his lifelong partnership with Pierre Bergé and their decision to auction off a lifetime of precious art and objects.
Quest For Honor2010-08-0600
The alarming rise in “honor killing,” the heinous act of men killing daughters, sisters, and wives who threaten “family honor,” endangers tens of thousands of women in Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and adjoining countries. Global communication through satellite television, Internet, and cell phones has raised the expectations of young Middle Eastern women, who now are not content to marry a much older relative their father might chooses and live a life of servitude. While young women respond to new ideas from cyber pals in Los Angeles or episodes of popular Western sit-coms, their fathers and brothers demand strict tribal justice for…
Sequestro (Kidnapping)2010-09-102440124402
This is a documentary chronicling the heroic efforts of the Anti Kidnapping Division of the São Paulo police department (Divisão Anti-Sequestro aka DAS) from 2005 until 2009 – a time when kidnapping was booming business in Latin America’s largest city. SEQUESTRO travels deep into the seedy world of organized abductions for the purposes of extortion, exploring the lives of those victimized while tagging along with investigators as they work around the clock, following clues and apprehending suspects in effort to locate victims before it’s too late. SEQUESTRO, often set in some of the nastiest neighborhoods in the world, is a…
Who Killed Nancy?2010-07-302429724298
October 12, 1978. Room 100, the Chelsea Hotel – a faded 19th century façade masking, a clientele of junkies. The floor of the tiny en-suite bathroom is covered in blood. And, slumped between the toilet and the sink is the body of a woman, peroxide blonde in black bra and panties. She is Nancy Spungen, a twenty year old, heroin addicted, former stripper, prostitute and groupie. She also has the accolade of being Sid Vicious’ girlfriend, to add to her crimes. A trail of blood leads to the bedroom where an NYPD detective – watched by his partner and six…
The Arbor2011-04-272557425575
The Arbor is the powerful true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and her troubled relationship with her daughter Lorraine. Andrea wrote honestly and unflinchingly about her upbringing on the notorious Buttershaw Estate. When she died, tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, Lorraine was just ten years old. The Arbor catches up with Lorraine in the present day, also at 29; ostracised from Buttershaw and now in prison, serving a sentence for manslaughter for the death of her son. Whilst in prison and undergoing rehab, Lorraine is re-introduced to her mother's plays and private letters and as she…
Who is Harry Nilsson?2010-09-102431624317
This celebrates the life and music of Harry Nilsson. The Beatles said that Nilsson was their favorite American musician. In his career, Nilsson won 2 Grammys and sold 17 gold records, and yet he is relatively unknown today. Who Is Harry Nilsson?, a wildly entertaining, star-studded documentary, sets out to prove that he was one of the most talented singer-songwriters in pop music history. Through a hall-of-fame roll call of interviews (and archival audio of Nilsson himself) with Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Robin Williams, Micky Dolenz, Yoko Ono, and many others, director John Scheinfeld paints a detailed and revelatory portrait…
The Leak Heard Around the World2011-00-0000
This is about WikiLeaks, the organization that recently circulated classified US government documents on Afghanistan.
Fightville2011-00-0000
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Detropia2012-00-002961629617
Formerly titled "Detroit Hustles Harder," this chronicles the lives of several brave men and women that have made a conscious decision to stay in Detroit and attempt to turn the city around. A character-driven, ensemble piece crafted in the style of Robert Altman, the film will slip into the shoes of people who are all interconnected in a high stakes gamble to stick with Detroit. An unlikely consortium of entrepreneurs, visionaries and public servants that include a farmer, a laid-off auto worker, a dogged educator, an unabashed opera lover, an urban planner, a real estate tycoon and a former basketball…
Skeleton Picnic2011-00-0000
This is about a FBI sting of grave robbers who plunder Native American burial sites.
Street Fighting Man2011-00-0000
This look's at the economically depressed city of Detroit and how individuals are treating problems with novel solutions such as vigilante justice.
The Wildest Dream2010-08-062433624337
George Mallory was obsessed with becoming the first person to conquer Mount Everest. Last seen 800 feet below the summit in 1924, the clouds rolled in and he disappeared into legend. 75 years later, climber Conrad Anker’s life became intertwined with Mallory’s after finding his frozen body with all his belongings intact. The only thing missing was a photograph of his wife, Ruth, which Mallory had promised to place on the summit. Haunted by Mallory’s story, Conrad returns to Everest to unravel the mysteries surrounding his disappearance.
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town2010-00-0000
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the recording of their fourth album. Grammy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny has collaborated with Springsteen on this documentary, gaining access to never before seen footage shot between 1976-1978, capturing home rehearsals and recording sessions that allow us to see Springsteen’s creative process at work.
Erotic Man2010-00-0000
The elder gentleman, the anthropologist, has an entire life’s collection of erotic moments. He has written many poems where he steps back into the observer’s distance of the erotic. It has been his gift to master a double grasp on the erotic situation: To live it fully and to observe it at the same time. He studied eroticism framing sexual desire and has caught its circling dramaturgy. He has experimented with watching a burning hot material with the coolness of distance. Now late in his life he feels he doesn’t have the energy to maintain the double grasp, but he…
ANPO2010-00-0000
ANPO depicts resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying collage of paintings and photographs, as well as animated, narrative and documentary films by Japan’s foremost contemporary artists.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams2011-04-292684226843
For over 20,000 years, Chauvet Cave has been completely sealed off by a fallen rock face, its crystal-encrusted interior as large as a football field and strewn with the petrified remains of giant ice age mammals. In 1994, scientists discovered the caverns, and found hundreds of pristine paintings within, spectacular artwork dating back over 30,000 years (almost twice as old as any previous finds) to a time when Neanderthals still roamed the earth and cave bears, mammoths, and ice age lions were the dominant populations of Europe. Since then, only a handful of specialists have stepped foot in the cave,…
Cool It2010-11-122509625097
Climate catastrophe? The end of civilization as we know it? Cool It is based upon the book of the same name and lectures by Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial author of The Skeptical Environmentalist. Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner travels the world with Lomborg exploring the real facts and true science of global warming and its impact. Lomborg is the founder and director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a globally respected think tank that brings together the world’s leading economists to prioritize major global problems -- among them malaria, the lack of potable water and HIV/AIDS -- based upon a cost/benefit analysis…
Genpin2010-00-0000
A serene observation of women giving birth at the clinic of Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura who has spent 40 years on the path of natural childbirth, Genpin is Naomi Kawase's special meditation on life and on the unshakable bond between mother and child.
Guest2010-00-0000
Filmmaker Jose Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of travelling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beaten track in some of the world's major cities.
!Women Art Revolution2011-06-012725827259
Over 40 years in the making, Hershman Leeson’s film draws from hundreds of hours of in-the-moment interviews with her contemporaries—visionary artists, historians, curators and critics—and presents an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large. In the 1960s, the Feminist Art Movement emerged to politicize female artists and challenge complexities of gender, race, class and sexuality. Through interviews with her colleagues, Hershman Leeson—a pioneering, award-winning multimedia artist—traces the history of the movement from its relationship to the anti-war and civil rights forces of the 1960s, through its groundbreaking…
25 to LIFE0000-00-0000
William Brawner was infected with HIV before he turned two and kept it a secret for over twenty years. Now he confronts his promiscuous past and embarks on a new phase of life with his pregnant wife, who is HIV-negative.
Dear Mandela0000-00-0000
As South Africa hosts the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the government aims to ‘eradicate the slums’ by evicting families from their homes at gunpoint. Dear Mandela chronicles the rise of three young leaders from the chaos on the streets to the highest court in the land as a new generation puts Nelson Mandela’s promise of a ‘better life for all’ to the test.
Green Shall Overcome0000-00-0000
Van Jones' dream for America is social justice through green jobs. Handpicked by the Obama Administration to help create the nation’s “green” energy policy, this controversial environmentalist gets more than he bargained for when partisan politics collide. Can his revolution of black and green ultimately succeed?
Semper Fi: Always Faithful0000-00-0000
A retired Marine fights for justice on behalf of U.S. soldiers and their families exposed to toxic drinking water.
Barefoot College0000-00-0000
An intimate observational documentary that follows five women/grandmothers with limited formal education as they take a life-changing journey to India from their home villages in Africa, the Middle East and South America to become educated in solar engineering, and then return home to provide their villages with electricity.
Connected0000-00-0000
What happens when highly-skilled professionals leave the world’s leading technology companies in Silicon Valley, returning home to Africa to revolutionize business and governments there? Connected follows the challenges and triumphs of tomorrow’s “DotCom Billionaires” who are bringing technology solutions that radically improve the lives of Africans.
Untitled Partners in Health Documentary0000-00-0000
This is the story of Partners In Health, a remarkable public health charity organization operating in thirteen of the poorest countries around the world and the controversial man who founded it, Dr. Paul Farmer. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues are larger-than-life heroes to millions, fighting to change the way the world cares for its poorest citizens, by insisting on quality health care as a basic inalienable human right.
Race to Nowhere2010-09-102468024681
Featuring the stories of young people who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their kids, Race to Nowhere points to the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has become commonplace; students are disengaged; stress-related illness and depression are rampant; and many young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired. The film also features national experts in education including the Dean of Stanford University’s School of Education and leading child development experts.
Passione2011-06-222681326814
There are places that you go to, and once is enough. And then there is Napoli. We journey through one of the biggest of jukeboxes in the world, a treasure chest of songs, from 1200 to now, conjuring distant stories and myths that still live, a repertoire that speaks of love, sex, jealousy, crime, poverty, irony, superstition, and social protest. Each song is a small screenplay, an emotional postcard sent from a city by the forces driving it.
I Want Your Money2010-10-152510125102
Set against the backdrop of America’s growing disproval of current economic policies, I Want Your Money takes a provocative look at our nation’s deeply depressed economy using the words and actions of Presidents Reagan and Obama. The film exposes the shocking reality of a bloated government while offering alternatives to help steer the United States back towards firm fiscal ground. By utilizing interviews with key leaders of America’s conservative movement – Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, Mike Huckabee – movie clips, dramatic portrayals, music, graphics and even comedic animation, I Want Your Money tells the story in the plainest terms of…
The Woman with the Five Elephants2011-07-202472324724
Svetlana Geier is considered one of the world’s greatest translators of Russian literature. Her new German translations of Dostoevsky’s five great novels, known as the five elephants, are literary milestones and the culmination of a life’s work. But her success has come with its share of loss. As a child in the Ukraine, Svetlana witnessed first-hand the impact of Stalin’s purges. As a young girl, she watched Nazi forces occupy her country. Her love of the written word and gift for languages ensured her survival. But it forced her to make a choice that altered the course of her life.
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie2010-12-082555325554
This reveals the true story of cultural phenomenon Wavy Gravy – a man whose commitment to making the world a better place has never wavered. We experience the impact one man can have and connect to the hope that each one of us can make a difference and have fun doing it! As the Village Voice declared, “Wavy Gravy will make as big a fool of himself as is necessary to make a wiser man of you.” Wavy Gravy is known in some circles as the MC of the Woodstock festival, a hippie icon, clown, and even a Ben &…
Making the Boys2011-03-112546525466
The Boys in the Band is a groundbreaking play that earned historical significance by being the first successful work to authentically depict gay characters. Over a year before the Stonewall rebellion, the play found surprising success and became a must-see phenomenon around the world. It had an impact on mainstream and gay audiences in a way no creative work about homosexuals had ever done before. It stood alone for years as the premiere depiction of the gay lifestyle. Simultaneously praised for being a landmark moment in gay visibility, and yet often condemned for reinforcing stereotypes, The Boys in the Band…
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu2011-09-092520425205
A shattering cinematic work of the “new non-fiction” that culls decades of propaganda films from the Romanian national archives, synthesizing them into a taught, tragic, sprawling epic that seems recounted from the megalomaniacal point of view of the brutal 20th century dictator himself. Opening with the chilling mock trial of Ceaucescu and his wife Elena just before their execution in 1989, the film drifts back in time to glean the leader’s rise from the son of a backwater peasant to international statesman, surreally embraced with high pageantry and pomp by world leaders of every political denomination, including Queen Elizabeth, Richard…
Tabloid2011-07-152489724898
Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who, in the late seventies, abducted Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary in England, chained him to a bed and forced him to have sex with her. But that's hardly the weirdest thing about McKinney or the case. After jumping bail, she was eventually sentenced in absentia to one year in prison, due to the fact that Britain, at the time, didn't really have rape laws against men in the books. She was later accused of stalking her victim -- who had since married and had children -- during the 1980s and in 2008, she…
A Letter to Elia2010-00-0000
Martin Scorsese cites the works of Elia Kazan as being highly influential on his life and career.
Saturday Night2011-00-0000
From Tuesday morning's first pitch meeting with guest host John Malkovich through early Sunday morning’s closing credits, SATURDAY NIGHT takes you to a world few have witnessed: a behind the scenes look at creating one of the most iconic and long standing television shows in history. Featuring unprecedented access and candid interviews with SNL cast members, Franco delves into previously uncharted territory to reveal all the blood, sweat, tears, coffee induced all-nighters, rejected sketches, jizz in your pants, and calculator jokes that go into the making of one hilarious episode.
Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune2011-00-002659426595
Phil Ochs, a folk singing legend, was moved by the conviction that he and his music would change the world. Ochs rose to fame in the early 1960's during the height of the folk movement with songs and lyrics that captured the idealism of the day. From protesting the Vietnam War to supporting striking miners, from ridiculing sitting Presidents to mocking the politically disinterested, he attacked the political establishment and often his own fan base with anger, satire and righteous indignation. Ochs released seven acclaimed albums and wrote hundreds of songs - from humorous to haunting. The songs serve as…
Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project2011-00-002510525106
This is a powerful, uncensored, no-holds-barred account that traces Weinstein's path from concert promoter on the cold streets of Buffalo to his first trip to the Cannes Film Festival, where he arrived with one pair of pants and closed his first movie deal, to winning an Oscar, and breaking the bank with his first $100 million film. It examines his complex relationships with his brother, his staff, and the Hollywood community at large and features interviews with industry insiders and the Hollywood creative community.
The Legend of Pale Male2010-11-242545525456
This is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of New York. It begins in 1993, when a young man from Belgium looking to change his life has an unexpected encounter in Central Park. He meets a hawk. Not just any hawk, but a wild Redtail, a fierce predator that has not lived in the City for almost a hundred years. Compelled to follow this extraordinary creature, he buys a video camera and sets out to track the hawk. Little does he know that the journey will take him almost twenty…
The Kids Grow Up2010-10-292513725138
Documentary filmmaker Doug Block (51 Birch Street) has captured much of his daughter Lucy’s life on camera, both to her delight and dismay. Now his only child is turning 18 and soon she’ll be leaving home for college. Lucy’s imminent departure is the springboard for The Kids Grow Up, a humorous and poignant first-person look at father-daughter relationships, modern-day parenting, and the looming empty nest.
11/4/082010-10-222514225143
Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, filmmaker Jeff Deutchman asked his friends around the world to record their experiences of 11/4/08, a day that had become "historic" before it had even taken place. He collected footage from a combination of passionate amateurs and acclaimed independent filmmakers, including Henry Joost (Catfish), Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths), Joe Swanberg (Alexander the Last) and Benh Zeitlin (Glory At Sea). In this vérité documentary, we see the results of that project: in St. Louis and Austin, idealistic volunteers think they can turn their states blue; in Chicago, voter lines are made…
I Am2011-03-112591125912
I AM recounts what happened to the filmmaker after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, Shadyac emerged a changed man. Disillusioned with life on the A-list, he sold his house, moved to a mobile home community, and decided to start life anew. Armed with nothing but his innate curiosity and a camera crew, Shadyac embarks upon a journey to discover how he as an individual, and we as a race, can improve the way we live. Appearing on-screen as character, commentator, guide, and even, at times, guinea pig, Shadyac meets with a variety…
Vidal Sassoon The Movie2011-02-112623826239
A fast-paced feature documentary spanning 80 years of revolution in history and culture, VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE is a true rags-to-riches tale, tracing Sassoon’s path from a London orphanage to international success and celebrity. Producer Michael Gordon, founder of hair care company Bumble and bumble, first set out to document Vidal's life in a richly visual book about icons in the world of hairdressing. What started as an 80th birthday tribute to Sassoon became a movie when Gordon brought on director Craig Teper. While chronicling the fashion, style and social revolutions of the 1960s, VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE shows how…
Kati with an i2011-04-082690026901
KATI WITH AN I is an intimate documentary portrait of Kati, a teenage girl in Alabama, about to graduate high school. The film captures her moment-by-moment emotional transformation over the course of three tumultuous days that leave her future in doubt. With microscopic focus, through the searching lens of cinematographer Sean Price Williams, the movie explores the period in one’s life when the only constant is motion. As Kati says, "What happened...happened."
On Coal River2010-00-002525025251
ON COAL RIVER takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia — a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The film follows a former coal miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children, and life as they know it. Ed Wiley is a former coal miner who once worked at a toxic waste facility that now threatens his granddaughter’s elementary school. When his local government refuses to act, Ed embarks on a quest to have the school relocated to safer ground.…
Summer Pasture2010-00-002525225253
Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary about a young couple living with their infant daughter in the nomadic pastures of eastern Tibet. With rare access to an area seldom visited by outsiders, Summer Pasture reveals a unique window into a highly insular community and a sensitive portrait of a family at a time of great transition. Locho and his wife Yama live in Dzachukha, eastern Tibet – nicknamed “5-most” by the Chinese for being the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote area in Sichuan Province, China. They depend on their herd of yaks for survival, just as their ancestors…
Untitled Branson, Missouri AJ Schnack Documentary2011-00-0000
Branson, a town of 7,000 tucked inside the Bible Belt, has over forty theaters and a hundred shows that draw annual crowds in the millions.
Bill Cunningham, New York2011-03-162644726448
"We all get dressed for Bill," says Anna Wintour about Bill Cunningham, the legendary, yet enigmatic New York Times photographer known for his two columns in the Style section: "On The Street," and "Evening Hours." Obsessively interested in one thing – the pictures he takes that document the way people dress – Bill Cunningham has managed not only to chronicle fashion trends he spots emerging on the street but the intersection of fashion and society in New York for over fifty years. The documentary is not only a portrait of this elusive fashion-world deity but of New York City itself.
Our School2011-00-0000
Roma (Gypsy) children struggle to break the barriers of segregation in a small Transylvanian town.
The Patron Saints2012-00-002897428975
Bound by first-hand ruminations of a nursing home’s youngest resident, ‘The Patron Saints” is an intimate and disquieting portrait of assisted living. A disquieting and at times surreal exploration of an assisted living facility. Framed by the ruminations of Jim, the nursing home’s youngest—recently disabled—resident, the film is a revealing portrait of the changing nature of bodies and minds.
Hospital1970-02-0100
Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of health care.
Histoire(s) du cinéma1988-00-002537825379
Histoire(s) du cinéma is a video project begun by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1980s and completed in 1998. It is always referred to by its French title, because of the wordplay it implies: histoire means both “history” and “story,” and the s in parentheses gives the possibility of a plural. Therefore, the phrase Histoire(s) du cinéma simultaneously means The History of Cinema, The Histories of Cinema, The Story of Cinema and The Stories of Cinema. Similar double and triple meaning, as well as puns, are a recurring motif throughout Histoire(s) and much of Godard’s work.
Give Up Tomorrow2011-00-0000
On a stormy night in July 1997, Marijoy and Jackie Chiong, two young girls waiting for a ride at a shopping mall, disappear without a trace… Simultaneously a murder-mystery and an exposé of endemic corruption in the Philippines today, Give Up Tomorrow looks intimately at the trial of Paco Larrañaga, a Spanish mestizo student accused of killing two Chinese-Filipino sisters on the provincial island of Cebu. Secret filming from Paco’s cell in Bilibid Prison exposes the appalling conditions of a prison system stretched to breaking point. Spanning over a decade, Give Up Tomorrow chronicles the controversial case dubbed “The Trial…
Untitled Leon Gast Manny Pacquiao Documentary2011-00-0000
This will focus on boxer Manny Pacquiao's emergence from poverty, his election in May to the Congress of the Philippines and his plans to introduce legislation aimed at slowing the tide of human trafficking in the Philippines and other developing nations.
Into Eternity2011-02-022624226243
Onkalo (Finnish for “hiding place”) is under construction: it’s a cavernous world of tunnels and corridors, a permanent storage facility for nuclear waste, meant to last 100,000 years (that’s 20 times as long as the pyramids have so far). Conceptual artist Michael Madsen’s film is a creepy, eerily elegant meditation on human folly, punctuated by philosophical and historical references, that asks: how do you keep 3,000 future generations from inadvertently opening this Pandora’s Box? Should markers be posted in every language or in hieroglyphics that say “keep out”? (Someone suggests Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” might work nicely.) Would it be…
The Woodmans2011-01-192557825579
Francesca Woodman’s haunting B&W images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and Charles Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/ photographer), Francesca was a precocious RISD graduate, who came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on fire. But in 1981, as a despondent 22-year-old, she committed suicide. “The Woodmans” beautifully interweaves the young artist’s work (including experimental videos and diary passages) with interviews with the parents who have nurtured her professional reputation these past 30 years, while…
Born to Be Wild2011-04-082565025651
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Walking with Dinosaurs 3D2013-10-1100
Love Etc.2011-07-012675726758
Filmed over the course of a year, LOVE ETC. is actually five different relationship stories—all of them real—combined in a single film. With characters ranging in age from 18 to 89, the youthful end of the spectrum is represented by high school sweethearts Gabriel and Danielle, whose first-love romance is tested as graduation nears. On the other end of the spectrum are Albert and Marion, octogenarian lovebirds whose chance meeting turned into a 50 year marriage, and who remain as enamored of one another today as they were when they first married. In between, are two men: Ethan, who is…
The People vs. George Lucas2011-05-062703727038
Compiled from celebrity interviews and fan submissions, THE PEOPLE VS GEORGE LUCAS is a hilarious work of "digital democracy" as a courtroom debate asks a singular question: who truly owns the world's most famous film franchise -- its creator, or the fans who have embraced it? Revered by some, feared and demonized by others, George Lucas is undoubtedly the most talked about and criticized filmmaker in movie history. Why have so many STAR WARS fans turned against him to decry the release of the Special Editions and the Prequel Trilogy? Why is George Lucas the constant target of bloggers, critics…
Beware of Ginger Baker2012-00-00270440
This is a documentary film on Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker - the English drummer, best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith.
Khodorkovsky2011-11-302784627847
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once the richest man in Russia; yet today he’s one of the world’s most famous political prisoners. It’s a story of Shakespearean proportions. The New York Times has reported on Khodorkovsky in both its news and op-ed pages. Joe Nocera (June 4, 2011) writes: “Over the past six months, I’ve written three columns about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oligarch who has been in prison since 2003, charged, tried, convicted — and recently reconvicted — on transparently bogus tax and embezzlement charges… His real crime, after all, was challenging Vladimir Putin, the Russian strongman. More importantly, Khodorkovsky’s…
Pina2011-12-212595825959
...Through the collaboration of Pina Bausch and Wim Wenders, along with the pioneer of European stereographie Alain Derobe, we will set a new benchmark for 3D. Pina Bausch, artistic director of the TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH since 1973, has expanded and reformulated the language of dance with her innovative and unique choreography. Her work has become legendary and performances continue to sell out world-wide.
You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo2011-09-282780427805
This is a documentary based on security camera footage from the Guantánamo Bay prison. This encounter between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and a child detainee in Guantánamo has never before been seen. Based on seven hours of video footage recently declassified by the Canadian courts this documentary delves into the unfolding high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four day period. Maintaining the surveillance camera style this film analyzes the political, legal and scientific aspects of a forced dialogue.
The Boy Who Was King2011-00-0000
This explores the strange history of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha who became Bulgaria's tsar at age 6, then was exiled during years of communism and returned to be elected Prime Minister. - TIFF
American: The Bill Hicks Story2011-04-082646926470
Seventeen years after his death, Bill Hicks has taken a permanent place in the cultural landscape and is widely recognized as one of the greatest American comedians of the modern era. Described as many things – philosopher, social satirist, even preacher – Hicks was ultimately a performer who, for many, changed what comedy could be. He believed that comedy played a vital role in any free and just society, and that the comedian, a free spirit detached from political or corporate agendas, was able to voice what others wouldn't, challenging convention and presenting ideas that would stimulate the minds of…
Arirang2011-00-002733027331
An actress almost got in a fatal accident during the filming of . While filming a scene of committing suicide, the actress was left hanging in the air with no one able to do anything. Luckily, we had left a 50 cm ladder below for just in case. If I didn’t quickly jump on that ladder and untie the rope... I totally lost it for a while and cried without anyone knowing. That moment which I never want to recall, made me look back on the 15 films I frantically made during my 13 year film career. Films... During the…
One Lucky Elephant2011-06-082723027231
Where does an elephant go after a life in the circus? Sixteen years have passed since circus producer David Balding adopted Flora, the orphaned baby African elephant. As Flora approaches adulthood, he realizes that she is not happy performing. Ultimately, David must face the difficult truth that the circus is no place for Flora; she needs to be with other elephants. The road to Flora’s retirement, however, is a difficult and emotional journey which tests their bond in unexpected ways. Ten years in the making, ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT eschews easy sentimentality and doesn't shy away from examining the problems and…
Exporting Raymond2011-04-292631526316
This tells the hilarious, warm and intimate journey of one man - considered an expert in his country having created one of the most popular television shows of all time – who travels to a foreign land to help people who don’t seem to want his help. When Rosenthal joins forces with Hollywood studio Sony Pictures Television to recreate “Everybody Loves Raymond” for Russian TV audiences as “The Voronins,” he finds himself lost in Moscow, lost in his mission, lost in translation. Rosenthal tries to connect with his Russian colleagues but runs into unique characters and situations that conspire to…
Los Angeles Plays Itelf2003-00-002579925800
Los Angeles Plays Itself is a video essay by Thom Andersen, finished in 2003, exploring the way Los Angeles has been presented in movies. Consisting entirely of clips from other films, it was never released due to rights issues, though can been seen at film festivals and in special presentations by the director.
My Best Fiend1999-00-002580125802
My Best Fiend (German: Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski, literally My Dearest Enemy - Klaus Kinski) is a 1999 documentary film by Werner Herzog about his tumultuous yet productive relationship with German actor Klaus Kinski.
Plastic Planet2011-01-142590925910
We live in the age of plastic. It’s cheap and practical, and it’s everywhere – even in our blood. But is it a danger to us ?The plastic industry annually generates hundreds of billions of dollars. Every industrial sector in the world today is dependent on plastic. The amount of plastic we have produced since it was invented would be enough to cover the entire globe six times over. But this inexpensive and convenient substance comes with a hefty price. Plastic stays in the ground and water system for up to 500 years. It is found on every beach in…
African Cats2011-04-222684626847
An epic true story set against the backdrop of one of the wildest places on Earth, “African Cats” captures the real-life love, humor and determination of the majestic kings of the savanna. The story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom; Sita, a fearless cheetah and single mother of five mischievous newborns; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a once banished lion.
The Nine Muses2011-00-0000
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.
Becoming Chaz2011-00-0000
Bobby Fischer Against the World2011-09-092736227363
Considered by many to be the world’s greatest chess player, Bobby Fischer personified the link between genius and madness. His trajectory propelled him from child prodigy to world chess champion at age 29 and then into a nosedive of delusions and paranoia. Fischer was a recluse for decades before resurfacing for a bizarre final chapter as a fugitive. As a loner with no familial support, Fischer had to defend his title while representing his country against the mighty Russians during the cold war. The center of media attention, Fischer was never equipped for a life in the spotlight. From veteran…
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator2011-09-142773127732
GRANITO is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present. In GRANITO our characters sift for clues buried in archives of mind and place and historical memory, seeking to uncover a narrative that could unlock the past and settle matters of life and death in the present. Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in GRANITO are connected by the Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in a war where a genocidal “scorched earth” campaign by the military exterminated nearly…
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold2011-04-222663226633
Boundary-pushing Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film. While using brands in film promotion is not new for Hollywood, it certainly is new territory for the documentary format. Spurlock exploits the phenomenon to new heights, with everything from branded pizza boxes and in-flight film promotions to branded-everything in-film.

With humor and insight, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold unmasks the marketing process…
The Interrupters2011-07-292680626807
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three “violence interrupters” – two men and a woman – who with bravado, humility and even humor try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn, persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year, The Interrupters follows these individuals as they attempt to intervene in disputes before they turn violent: a family where two brothers threaten to shoot each other; an angry teenaged…
Rebirth2011-00-0000
These Amazing Shadows2011-00-0000
What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles, and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," by the Library of Congress and listed on the National Film Registry. These Amazing Shadows tells the history and importance of The Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself. The current list of 525 films includes selections from every genre - documentaries, home movies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, newsreels and silent films. These Amazing Shadows reveals how American movies tell us…
An African Election2011-00-0000
The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, serve as a backdrop for this feature documentary that looks behind-the-scenes at the complex, political machinery of a third world democracy struggling to legitimize itself to its first world contemporaries. At stake in this race are the fates of two political parties that will do almost anything to win. Director Jarreth Merz follows the key players for almost three months to provide an unprecedented insider’s view of the political, economic and social forces at work in Ghana. He builds suspense by taking the viewer down the back roads of the nation to…
The Bengali Detective2011-00-002716027161
This originally styled documentary series provides an entertaining yet poignant look at modern India. What happens when people lose trust in the authorities? In India – a new wave of private detective agencies are answering the call. Poisonings, adultery, fraud, bridal purity, and the occasional murder – such are the day-to-day investigations of Kolkata’s Bengali Detective - Rajesh Ji. The Bengali Detective follows the intrepid, dance-obsessed gumshoe and his motley band of helpers on unpredictable raids and corkscrew investigations, exposing the secrets, fears, and covert lives of today's middle-class Indian society with a cheeky mix of fly-on-the-wall surveillance and Bangla-pop…
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–19752011-09-092743127432
The Black Power Mixtape is compilation feature documentary film that displays the story of the African-American community 1967-1975, the people, the society and the style that fueled a change. Told with sparkling, beautiful and deep footage, lost in the archives in Sweden for 30 years.
Family Portrait in Black and White2011-00-0000
Olga has 27 children. Four of them, now adults, are her biological children; for the other 23 she has been an adoptive or foster mother for as long as they can remember. Of those twenty three, sixteen are bi-racial. She calls them “my chocolates”, and raises them to be patriotic Ukrainians. Some residents of Sumy, Ukraine, consider Olga a saint - but many believe she is just crazy. Inherited from the Soviet era, there is a stigma in the country against interracial relationships, and against children born as consequences" of such romantic encounters between Ukrainian girls and students from Africa,…
The Flaw2011-00-0000
Made by international award winning documentary maker, David Sington, THE FLAW tells the untold story of the credit bubble which caused the financial crash. With testimony from bankers, borrowers, brokers and some of the best economics brains in the world, the film challenges easy assumptions about this being simply a tale of greedy bankers and poor regulation. With the imaginative use of archive, harrowing personal stories and gripping graphics, the film shows how excessive income inequality in society leads to economic instability. The film is the definitive account of the roots, in the USA and the UK, of the biggest…
The Green Wave2012-06-002597925980
Since the 2009 elections, nothing is like it once was in Iran. The demonstrations and brutal repressions have pushed the country into a state of paralysis. Where does Iran go from here? Will the current system prevail or is the opposition gaining enough momentum to overthrow the political establishment? Through animated sequences of personal testimonies and interviews with leading political thinkers, like Noble Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, ’The Green Wave’ casts a spotlight on events surrounding the Presidential elections. We capture the atmosphere that led to the surprisingly high election turnout and afterward prompted mass demonstrations. Investigating allegations of electoral…
Hell and Back Again2011-10-052755727558
From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning war reportage to an intimate, visceral portrait of one man’s personal struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical and emotional difficulties of re-adjusting to civilian life with the love and support of his wife, Ashley.
Knuckle2011-12-092637226373
James Quinn McDonagh and Paddy “The Lurcher” Joyce. Names that demand attention. Men related by blood but separated by a feud that dates back generations. As the heads of rival families, they train to represent their feuding Irish travelling clans, in their long-standing history of violent bare-knuckle boxing. With KNUCKLE, filmmaker Ian Palmer presents a hard-edged portrait of Irish Traveller male culture and explores the bond of loyalty, the need for revenge, and the pressures to fight for the honor of your family name. Irish Travellers are normally silent about certain parts of their lifestyle and this is a rare…
Position Among the Stars2011-09-152598125982
“Position of the Stars”, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries “Eye of the Day” and “Shape of the Moon”. Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari.
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure2011-09-162598325984
The most important recording in the 1990s grunge era wasn't made by some alternative rock star. It was a covert audio recording of two drunken men living in a small flat in San Francisco, who spent their available free time yelling, screaming, hitting and generally abusing each other. The phenomenon began in 1987 when Eddie and Mitch (two young punks from the midwest), moved next door to Peter Haskett (a flamboyant gay man), and Raymond Huffman (a raging homophobe). This ultimate odd-couple hated each other with raging abandon, and through the paper-thin walls their alcohol-fuelled rants terrorized Eddie and Mitch.…
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest2011-07-082664826649
BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST documents the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama that follow the band, A Tribe Called Quest, even today and explores what's next for a group many claim are the pioneers of alternative rap. Having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of its groundbreaking music since the group’s much-publicized breakup in 1998. A Tribe Called Quest has three platinum albums - Midnight Marauders, The Low End Theory and Beats, Rhymes & Life, multiple Grammy nominations and…
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey2011-10-2100
Buck2011-06-172649426495
"The Horse Whisperer" may be the stuff of Hollywood legend but the cowboy who inspired the novel and film is very real. Buck Brannaman – master horseman, raconteur and philosopher - is a no-excuses cowboy who travels the world sharing a hard-won wisdom that's often more about human relationships than about horses.

BUCK, a richly textured and visually stunning feature documentary, follows Brannaman from a severely abusive and painful childhood to his inspiring work as a teacher. He possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses - and people - with his understanding, compassion and respect. Plucked from…
Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology2011-09-302807928080
Between texts and tweets, memes and microchips, we’ve become great at breaking the world down into byte-sized bits. In the process we’ve stopped seeing the forest for the trees, never mind the root system that connects them all. In Connected, Tiffany Shlain—award-winning filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards--sets out to explore these bonds with the help of her father, acclaimed author and thinker Dr. Leonard Shlain. When the unexpected happens during the making of the film, Tiffany is forced to reexamine everything she thought she knew about life, relationships, and connectedness. Tracing interdependence through history, she discovers the surprising…
Crime After Crime2011-07-012755527556
26 years in prison could not crush the spirit of Deborah Peagler, despite the injustice she experienced, first at the hands of a duplicitous boyfriend who beat her and forced her into prostitution, and later by prosecutors who used the threat of the death penalty to corner her into a life behind bars for her connection to the murder of her abuser. Her story takes an unexpected turn two decades later when a pair of rookie land-use attorneys volunteer to try to set her free.
Hot Coffee2011-00-002598525986
What is the most famous legal case in American history? Marbury v. Madison, Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade? Ask anyone in the U.S. or abroad and they will likely tell you about a woman who spilled coffee on herself and collected millions of dollars. The McDonald’s coffee case became the poster child for frivolous lawsuits in America. Jerry Seinfeld did an entire episode where Kramer sued Java World after spilling a café latté on himself while trying to get a seat in a movie theater. Jay Leno, David Letterman and other comedians have made the case the…
How to Die in Oregon2011-00-0000
At first glance, it could be a birthday celebration. Friends and relatives gather around an elderly man seated at home and clamoring for a drink. But when a woman talks the group through what is about to happen, it’s clear the drink in question is no ordinary beverage. In fact, it’s a lethal dose of Seconal that will free the man, Roger Sagnaw, from his cancer-riddled body. After affirming that he fully grasps the significance of what comes next, Sagnaw says his good-byes, thanks Oregon voters “for allowing me the honor of doing myself in,” then quaffs the potion and…
Extraordinary Stories2011-05-042703127032
Three parallel stories establish the basic framework for Extraordinary Stories, which is divided into 18 chapters. These three unconnected tales featuring main characters known only as X, Z, and H, respectively, branch out into a labyrinth of plots and subplots in a vast narrative that moves from a small town in Argentina to Africa and back. X (played by Llinás himself), witnesses in a sleepy country town, an argument between two men and an older tractor driver, then a shooting. After the two assailants left the scene, X finds a briefcase hidden moments before by the driver. His curiosity about…
The Last Mountain2011-06-032676826769
In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. A battle that has taken innocent lives and threatens to take more. A battle to protect our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal. Mining and burning coal is at the epicenter of America’s struggle to balance its energy needs with environmental and health concerns. Nowhere is that concern greater than in Coal River Valley, West Virginia, where a small but passionate group of ordinary citizens are trying to stop corporations like Massey Energy from continuing the devastating practice of Mountain Top Removal. Mountain…
Miss Representation2011-00-0000
Miss Representation explores women’s under-representation in positions of power by challenging the limited and often disparaging portrayal of women in the media. As one of the most persuasive and pervasive forces in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that women’s primary value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality—not in their capacity as leaders. Through the riveting perspectives of youth and the critical analysis of top scholars, Miss Representation will change the way you see media.
Page One: Inside the New York Times2011-06-172728627287
In the tradition of fly-on-the-wall documentaries, the film gains unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the public's main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil.
The Redemption of General Butt Naked2011-00-002667326674
This tells the incredible true story of Joshua Milton Blahyi, a brutal African warlord turned Christian evangelist. The film follows Blahyi's crusade to redeem his past as he attempts to rebuild the shattered lives of those that he commanded and brutalized during the civil war in Liberia.
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles2011-00-002632126322
Beginning in the early 1980s, hundreds of tiles carrying this cryptic message were found embedded in the asphalt of city streets as far apart as New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. Street art? A prank? A message from space? Filmmaker Jon Foy recounts how young artist Justin Duerr became fascinated with the strange plaques and, with two other "Toynbee tile" enthusiasts, Steve Weinik and Colin Smith, spent years trying to discover what they meant and who made them. The unlikely investigators uncovered increasingly bizarre clues: a newspaper article, a David Mamet play, a Jupiter colonization organization, and…
Sing Your Song2012-01-1300
This surveys the life and times of singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer—inspired by Paul Robeson—and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte’s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement and impacted many other social-justice movements. Rostock reveals Belafonte as a tenacious hands-on activist who worked intimately with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mobilized celebrities for social justice, participated in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took action to counter gang violence, imprisonment, and the incarceration of youth. Because of his beliefs, Belafonte…
Troubadours2011-00-0000
A musical journey tracing the lives and careers of James Taylor and Carole King, pillars of the California singer/songwriter scene, which converged in and around LA's Troubadour Club in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
We Were Here2011-09-092800228003
WE WERE HERE documents the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. It offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of understanding to those who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years. It provides insight into what society could, and should, offer its citizens in the way of medical care, social services, and…
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel2011-12-162646526466
This is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director producer, and seminal influencing force in modern moviemaking over the last 60 years. Featuring interviews with Hollywood icons and cinematic luminaries, some who launched their careers within Corman’s unforgettable world of filmmaking, including Paul W.S. Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert De Niro, Peter Fonda, Pam Grier, Ron Howard, Eli Roth, Martin Scorsese, William Shatner and Jack Nicholson, along with many others, this documentary chronicles how Corman created his cult film empire, one low-budget success at a time, capitalizing on undiscovered talent, and pushing the boundaries of independent…
Untitled Noah Baumbach/Jake Paltrow Documentary2011-00-0000
This is a secret documentary shot in New York and Los Angeles.
The Last Lions2011-02-182623626237
In Botswana's Okavango Delta, an abandoned lioness and her two cubs have to action abandoned to survive - advantageous all address of hazard, from the angry wildfires on the Delta, to the annoyance of sister lionesses, to the burglary males who annihilate her mate, to the casualty that becomes predator. Their alone aegis is to escape to Duba Island -- and with that, an alien future. The ambience for this ballsy account is one of the endure regions area lions can reside in the wild. Faced with abbreviating acreage and accretion burden from hunting, lions - like our abandoned lioness…
Walk Away Renee2011-00-002768427685
In 2004, ‘Tarnation’, Jonathan Caouette’s feature-length detonation of the documentary form took Sundance and Cannes by storm. Seven years on, Caouette plunges us again into a psychedelic maelstrom fused from snapshots, super 8 home movies, answerphone messages, intimate video diaries and dreamlike landscapes of events both past and future, real and imagined, to createa multilayered portrait of an American family shaken by crisis but united by love. In 2010, he decided to film his mother Renée’s move from a care home in Houston to another in New York, where she would be nearer to him. Their road trip - mother…
To Catch a Dollar2011-03-3100
Professor Muhammad Yunus never wanted to be a banker and he certainly never imagined winning the Nobel Peace Prize.  Yet his quest to help the working poor invest in themselves led to both. Known as the father of microcredit, Yunus spent years developing the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, and in 1983 it became a fully licensed bank with a twist—it was owned by its borrowers—mainly poor women, and its mission is to eradiate poverty, not make a profit. Yunus is famous for saying that in developing Grameen he deliberately did the opposite of what a conventional bank would do.  Today, the…
Wretches & Jabberers2011-00-002662626627
WRETCHES & JABBERERS follows two men with autism, Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette, who embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, the men travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland, where at each stop they challenge public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful message to reconsider competency. A poignant narrative of personal struggle that rings with intelligence, humor, hope and courage, WRETCHES & JABBERERS is about the life-sustaining power of relationships - the personal connections that people make through communication.
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead2011-04-012645126452
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn’t end well— with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn’t far behind. FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe’s personal mission to regain his health. With doctors and conventional medicines unable to help long term, Joe turns to the only option left, the body’s ability…
Dumbstruck2011-04-222683826839
“Dumbstruck” follows five professional ventriloquists at all levels of ability and fame over the course of the most unusual year in ventriloquism history: Dylan, a shy 13-year-old whose dream of being a professional conflicts with his dad’s preference for football; Kim, a former Miss Ohio beauty queen, who yearns to 'make it' on the cruise ship circuit; Dan, a successful cruise ship performer who struggles to maintain a family life, although he is on the seas much of the year; Terry, who, after a 22 year struggle to “make it” in Corsicana, Texas, finds himself on NBC's “America's Got Talent”…
The Desert of Forbidden Art2011-03-112654126542
This is the incredible true story of how one man, Igor Savitsky, saved a treasure trove of art worth millions of dollars, “hiding” it in a museum in the desert in Uzbekistan. A tireless collector of paintings that the Soviet government wanted destroyed, Savitsky traveled thousands of miles — scheming, plotting, pleading — doing whatever it took to get his hands on the art he so passionately wanted to preserve. As a result of his efforts, The Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after Savitsky, also known as the Nukus Museum - hosts the world's second largest collection of Russian…
How to Live Forever2011-05-1300
Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 103-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil, a laughter yoga expert, or an elder porn star? Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters, alongside those of health, fitness and life-extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in…
Blanket City2011-04-062675326754
Before there was HD there was Super 8. Before Independent film there was Underground Cinema. And before New York there was…well, New York. Once upon a pre-Facebook time, before creative communities became virtual and viral, cultural movements were firmly grounded in geography. And the undisputed center of American – some would say international – art and film was New York City. In particular, downtown Manhattan in the late 1970’s and 80’s was the anchor of vanguard filmmaking.

BLANK CITY tells the long-overdue tale of the motley crew of renegade filmmakers that emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous period of…
Rejoice and Shout2011-06-032727527276
“No wonder the music is so beautiful. God’s on their side.” Perhaps the most intense and emotional music you can ever hear is the best of African-American Gospel music. Packed with evocative photos, rare audio recordings, stirring film and TV performances, REJOICE AND SHOUT covers the 200 year musical history of African-American Christianity. Culled from hundreds of hours of music, REJOICE AND SHOUT features the crème de la crème of Gospel music, tracing the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel,…
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird2011-05-1300
Fifty years after the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on May 4, 1961.This documentary film by Mary McDonagh Murphy explores the phenomenon To Kill a Mockingbird became and unravels some of the mysteries around the novelist’s life, including why she never published again. Harper Lee’s first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was instantly a beloved classic. The film version, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, won a trio of Academy Awards. Luminaries like Tom Brokaw list the novel among their all-time favorite books, and Oprah Winfrey calls it “our national novel.” It is still required…
Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja2011-04-152678326784
In 1979, the US Customs Service reported that 87% of all marijuana seizures in the US were made in the South Florida area. Due to the region's 5,000 miles of coast and coastal waterways and close proximity to the Caribbean and Latin America, South Florida was a pot smuggler's paradise. In sharp contrast to the brazenly violent cocaine cowboys of the 1980's, Miami's marijuana smugglers were cooler, calmer, and for the most part, nonviolent. Square Grouper paints a vivid portrait of Miami's pot smuggling culture in the 1970s and 1980s through three of the city's most colourful stories.
El Valley Centro1990-00-0000
Employing natural sound and contemplative proscenium shots, Benning skillfully composes a series of pure and majestic images that at once evoke a sense of nostalgic splendor as well as deliver a subtle, yet penetrating, political commentary. Benning tells the story of how water irrigates this valley and how the produce is carted away in boxcars for the nation's consumption. He shows the lifestyle of a modest and growing rural community, whose concerns are often drowned out by the powerful railroads, oil companies and insurance conglomerates which own the farms and ranches and benefit from undocumented immigrant labor while insisting on…
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress2011-07-272685126852
El Bulli has been called the best restaurant in the world and Ferran Adrià, its creator, deemed a brilliant innovator, the father of molecular gastronomy, or sometimes just a crazy chef. The restaurant, located outside of Barcelona, closes each year for 6 months, as Adrià and staff sequester themselves to concentrate on creating the new culinary wonders that will become their next 30-course menu. (The restaurant accommodates only 50 for dinner, despite two million annual requests for reservations.) This is cooking as avant-garde art: a cocktail composed of hazelnut oil, salt, and water or a dessert of freeze-dried peppermint and…
Iron Crows2011-08-242777727778
The world center for ship-breaking is located in the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh -- perhaps the poorest nation on earth. Here huge megaton behemoths that once sailed the seas are sent to be broken apart by men and boys (some as young as 12, often wearing flip-flops) who earn $2 a day, from which they send money home to their families. They wrestle with thousands of tons of iron and asbestos, wielding blow-torches, hammers and crowbars. Here is where half of the world’s retired vessels are dismantled by 20,000 people who risk their lives to eke out the…
Louder Than A Bomb2011-05-182691126912
Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to compete in the world's largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the turbulent lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. Louder Than a Bomb is not about "high school poetry" as we often think of it. It's about language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance. While the topics they tackle are often deeply personal, what they put into their poems-and what they get out…
Thunder Soul2011-09-232839528396
It was afros and pleated shirts; James Brown and Bootsy Collins. It was the ’70s, and an inner-city Houston high school was about to make history. Charismatic band leader, Conrad “Prof” Johnson would turn the school’s mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse. Now, 35 years later, his students prepare to pay tribute to the man who changed their lives, the 92-year-old Prof. Some haven’t played their horns in decades, still they dust off their instruments determined to retake the stage to show Prof and the world that they’ve still got it.
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop2011-06-242721827219
After a much–publicized departure from hosting NBC’s Tonight Show, O’Brien hit the road with a 32-city music-and-comedy show to exercise his performing chops and exorcise a few demons. Filmmaker Rodman Flender’s documentary, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, is an intimate portrait of an artist trained in improvisation, captured at the most improvisational time of his career. It offers a window into the private writers room and rehearsal halls as O’Brien’s “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour” is almost instantly assembled and mounted to an adoring fan base. At times angry, mostly hilarious, we see a comic who does not…
El Velador2011-00-002734727348
From dusk to dawn EL VELADOR accompanies Martin, the guardian angel whom, night after night, watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious Drug Lords. In the labyrinth of the narco-cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us how, in the turmoil of Mexico's bloodiest conflict since the Revolution, ordinary life persists and quietly defies the dead.
Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told2011-00-0000
It all began with a conversation with Shekhar Kapoor, a member of the Cannes Jury in 2010. Why not make a film that brings together the most beautiful moments in the history of Indian musical films, with all their moving pageantry and dance? A few months later, there was Bollywood, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. It is a swirling and poignant montage in which Shekhar Kapoor, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
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 Jeff Zimbalist pay tribute to this cinema genre that has contributed to establishing India’s identity in the eyes of the world and to making Mumbaione of the world capitals…
Chasing Madoff2011-08-262751727518
At approximately 8:30am on December 11th, 2008 two federal agents entered the New York City penthouse of 133 East 64th Street and arrested Bernard Madoff, the admitted mastermind behind the largest act of financial fraud in world history. Ten years prior, Boston-based Securities Analyst Harry Markopolos discovered that Bernard L. Madoff Securities was a Ponzi scheme. Comparable to Eliot Ness and Al Capone, Foxhounds is the compelling story of Harry Markopolos and his team of investigator's ten-year struggle to expose the harrowing truth behind the infamous Madoff scandal. Throughout the decade long investigation, Markopolos pieced together a chain of white-collar…
The Bully Project2012-03-092953629537
This year, over 18 million American kids will be bullied, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the U.S. This follows “a year in the life” of America’s bullying crisis, offering an intimate look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families. With an intimate glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals’ offices, the film offers insight into the often cruel world of the lives of bullied children. As teachers, administrators, kids and parents struggle to find answers, THE BULLY PROJECT examines the dire consequences of bullying through the testimony of strong…
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi2012-03-092866628667
This is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar.

For most of his life, Jiro has been mastering the art of making sushi, but…
Forks Over Knives2011-05-062710127102
This examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline traces the personal journeys of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional scientist from Cornell University, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former top surgeon at the world renowned Cleveland Clinic. Inspired by remarkable discoveries in their young careers, these men conducted several groundbreaking studies. Their separate research led them to the same startling conclusion: degenerative diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even several…
Klitschko2011-10-212759227593
Six-foot-six Ukrainian brothers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko moved to Germany to begin careers in heavyweight boxing in 1996, and the sport was never the same. After a 15-year reign over the ring, they made history in 2008, becoming the first brothers in the sport to hold world titles at the same time. Through an engaging mix of candid interviews and absorbing fight footage, KLITSCHKO offers a captivating glimpse into the makings of these champion boxing brothers. Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko are two exceptional boxers, both icons and role models in their native Ukraine and around the world. But they also…
Pearl Jam Twenty2011-09-232822728228
Told in big themes and bold colors with blistering sound, Pearl Jam Twenty chronicles the years leading up to the band’s formation, the chaos that ensued soon-after being catapulted into superstardom, their step back from the spotlight with the instinct of self-preservation, and the creation of a trusted circle that would surround them—giving way to a work culture that would sustain them. The film celebrates the freedom that allows the band to make music without losing themselves, their fans, or the music lovers they’d always been. Crowe was among the band’s inner circle when they formed and has maintained a…
Battle for Brooklyn2011-06-172728127282
BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way for the polarizing Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets. The film focuses on graphic designer Daniel Goldstein whose apartment sits at what would be center court of the new arena. A reluctant activist, Daniel is dragged into the fight because he can’t accept that the government should use the power of Eminent Domain…
Jig2011-06-172728327284
In the fifteen years since “Riverdance,” followed by “Lord of the Dance” introduced millions of North American fans to Irish Dance, there has never been a film that takes the viewer behind the scenes to see the dedication, passion and sacrifice that dancers and their families make to pursue their dream of the dance. “Jig” is an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at this world of hard work, obsession and astonishing talents, pushed to their limits in the quest for perfection. Six thousand dancers, their families and teachers descend upon Glasgow for one drama filled week of dancing at the Irish Dancing…
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?2011-06-102732027321
This is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and solutions in restoring humanity's age-long relationship with bees. Bees are the engines that keep the earth in bloom. In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist, philosopher and social innovator, predicted that…
Dragonslayer2011-11-042733227333
The is about the transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty. DRAGONSLAYER is Tristan Patterson's attempt to capture this wavelength and preserve it: a portrait of a new generation of kids from the rotting suburbs of inland California, and a celebration of what makes one of them so unique. The music plays an integral role in the film’s identity and really becomes a character in itself. It’s present tense, alive, and celebrates the kids in the film, following while riding the rays…
Family Instinct2011-00-002733727338
Family Instinct is a film about incest - social taboo and a violation of religious norms. Zanda is a 28-year-old woman, trying to survive with her two children in a god-forsaken Latvian village. Valdis is serving a year's sentence in prison for physically abusing them. Family Instinct follows Zanda for the duration of that year as she tries to cope with the hardships of poverty and the amorous of frequently drunken attentions of several local men. During the year local community forces her to make a difficult choice: to stay with Valdis or with her children. Film is structured around…
Turtle: The Incredible Journey2011-06-242735727358
The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, has one of the longest and most difficult migratory patterns of any marine animal: Sea turtles newly hatched on the East Coast of the United States (usually in Florida) make their way from the sand into the ocean, and then begin a voyage that can span the entire Atlantic Ocean, only to return decades later to that same beach. This follows the loggerhead turtle on an adventure of more than 9,000 miles guided only by instinct. Stringer and his camera crew spent two years following loggerhead turtles on their trips across the ocean, and…
Raw Faith2011-06-242736627367
This surprisingly intimate and revealing documentary follows two years in the private life of Marilyn Sewell, an outspoken and socially progressive Unitarian minister who has re-energized her Portland community. During Marilyn Sewell's tenure as senior minister of the First Unitarian Church of Portland, the church grew from 625 to 1,600 members, becoming one of the largest and most esteemed UU groups in the nation. As one of the few women to lead a large church of any faith in the United States, Marilyn also brings a female perspective to local and national issues, making her a irreplaceable figure in Christian…
A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt2011-00-002737527376
A MATTER OF TASTE takes an intimate look inside the world of an immensely talented and driven young chef, Paul Liebrandt. At 24, he was awarded three stars by the New York Times for unforgettable and hyper modern dishes such as "eel, violets and chocolate," "espuma of calf brains and foie gras," and "beer and truffle soup." Critic William Grimes likened Paul to "a pianist who seems to have found a couple of dozen extra keys." Conversely, Gourmet critic Jonathan Gold called Paul's food "the result of a failed science experiment." He soon became a chef critics loved or loved…
U.N. Me2011-09-232740627407
When the United Nations was founded more than sixty years ago, it embodied our hope for a safer, more peaceful world. But as reports of human rights violations and international conflicts make daily headlines, a question arises: Is the United Nations living up to its founding ideals? The answer is a resounding no. In a film that exposes the incompetence and corruption at the heart of the United Nations, filmmakers Ami Horowitz and Matthew Groff show how an organization created to ennoble mankind now actually enables evil and sows global chaos. U.N. Me takes us on a harrowing and darkly…
Bombay Beach2011-10-142742427425
The rusting relic of a failed 1950s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren Californian landscape often seen as a symbol of the failure of the American Dream. A sea in the middle of the Colorado desert. First-time director Alma Har'el visits this poetically fruitful terrain in her distinctive documentary Bombay Beach, and finds there a motley cast including a bipolar seven-year-old, a lovelorn high school football star, and an octogenarian poet-prophet. Together they make up a triptych of American manhood in its decisive moments, populating the Salton Sea's land of thwarted opportunity.

True to her roots as a…
Dark Days2011-07-012745727458
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
Revenge of the Electric Car2011-10-212747827479
In Revenge of the Electric Car, Director Chris Paine (Who Killed The Electric Car) takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors, and an independent car converter named Greg “Gadget” Abbott to find the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of automobiles is America’s future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever. With almost every major carmaker now jumping to produce new electric models, Revenge of the Electric Car follows the race to be the first, the best, and…
Sex Crimes Unit2011-00-002748227483
Sex Crimes Unit is an unprecedented look inside the New York District Attorney's unit dedicated to the prosecution of rape and sexual assault. The film examines the history of injustice toward rape survivors; trails the unit through its investigations; tracks the case of a prostitute who dared cry rape; and follows one survivor’s 16-year journey to justice.
Love Crimes of Kabul2011-00-002758727588
Of the 125 prisoners at Badam Bagh Women’s Prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, approximately half are there for crimes like drug smuggling, murder and attempted suicide bombing. The others are imprisoned for “moral crimes” that include running away from home, adultery and premarital sex. Granted unprecedented access to Badam Bagh Women’s Prison and Kabul Men’s Prison, as well as several Afghan courtrooms, Tanaz Eshaghian weathered dangerous and unpredictable prison conditions to craft intimate profiles of three subjects imprisoned and awaiting trial for alleged sexual transgressions, as well as their families and prison guards.
Mann V. Ford2011-00-002766527666
One of the worst environmental disasters in the United States is located just 19 miles from New York City. This toxic Superfund site is at the former home of the Ford Motor Plant in Mahwah, NJ, which was the country's largest car factory when it opened in 1955. Thousands of cars were produced over the following decades, along with a mountain of toxic paint sludge, which was dumped on the nearby lands of the Ramapough Mountain Indians. This film tells the story of Wayne Mann, the leader of a small Native American community, who stands up to Ford. It spans…
From The Sky Down2011-00-0000
Twenty years after the release of U2’s Achtung Baby (1991), this charts this groundbreaking album with new interviews, stories and unseen footage from Berlin and Dublin. Now a key chapter in their career, Achtung Baby was in Bono’s words “the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree.
Koran by Heart2011-00-002775027751
There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, many of whom grapple with the role religion should play in their lives, and the lives of their children. Each year during Ramadan, more than a hundred of the best young students from more than 70 countries across the Islamic world converge on Cairo for Egyptʼs International Holy Koran Competition, one of the Islamic worldʼs most prestigious contests. Some of the competitors are as young as seven, and several have memorized the entire 600-page Koran without actually speaking Arabic.
Glee Live! 3D!2011-08-122776827769
GLEE LIVE! 3D! will include live performances of some of the show’s most memorable musical numbers, including “I’m a Slave 4 U,” “Raise Your Glass,” “Teenage Dream,” and “Lucky,” as well as the original songs that became chart-toppers such as “Loser Like Me,” “Hell to the No!” and “Get it Right,” and of course, the show’s anthem, “Don’t Stop Believin’.”
Jane's Journey2011-09-162780627807
It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Dr. Jane Goodall, Dame of the British Empire, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) and UN Messenger of Peace. Dr. Goodall’s pioneering study of wild chimpanzee behavior in Africa is legendary and continues today, more than 50 years later, under the auspices of her Institute. In Jane's Journey, we travel with Dr. Goodall across several continents, from her childhood home in England to Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research, and…
The Last Gladiators2011-00-0000
In ice hockey, no one is more feared than the enforcer. These blue-collar players have one reason to be on the ice: to protect their guys, no matter what the cost—to themselves or others. For Chris Nilan, once the most tenacious enforcer in the National Hockey League, that meant a shattered body, addiction to drugs, and harming the people closest to him. But in the process, the Boston tough guy won the adoration of hockey’s holy city, Montreal, and earned everlasting glory by helping win the Stanley Cup. Through interviews with a generation of hockey’s most hard-bitten tough guys, the…
Sarah Palin: You Betcha!2011-09-302843428435
Nick Broomfield's quest for the real Sarah Palin is a journey across the icy snows of Alaska in mid winter, to meet the school friends, family, and Republican colleagues that in previous days gave their heart, and souls to the charismatic, charming, intoxicating ex hockey mum. But it's not all plain sailing. People are frightened to talk, Wasilla makes Twin Peaks look like a walk in the park. It's a devout evangelical community - 76 churches with a population of only 6 thousand, and the Crystal meth capitol of Alaska. Who are the flying monkeys, the enemies, the friends, and…
Where Soldiers Come From2011-09-092783927840
From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war. A documentary about growing up, WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM, is an intimate look at the young men who fight our wars and the families and town they come from. Returning to her hometown in Michigan's Upper Penninsula, director Heather Courtney gains extraordinary access following these young men as they grow and change from restless teenagers to 23-year-old veterans facing the struggles of returning home. Enticed by a $20,000…
American Teacher2011-09-302784227843
Based on the New York Times best-selling book, Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers, narrated by Matt Damon, this chronicles the stories of four teachers - Erik Benner, Jonathan Dearman, Jamie Fidler, and Rhena Jasey - who live and work in disparate urban and rural areas of the country. By following these teachers as they reach different milestones in their careers, the film tells the deeper story of the teaching profession in America today. The film shows us the experience of these four young teachers as they recognize the importance of what they…
Superheroes2011-00-002785227853
A journey inside the world of real life caped crusaders. From all over America, these self-proclaimed crime fighters, don masks, homemade costumes and elaborate utility belts in an attempt to bring justice to evildoers everywhere.
Crazy Horse2012-01-1800
Wiseman spent ten weeks with his camera exploring one of the most mythic places dedicated to women, ‘CRAZY HORSE’. This legendary Parisian cabaret club, founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin, has become, over the years the Parisian nightlife ‘must’ for any visitors, ranking alongside the Eiffel tower and the Louvre. Wiseman’s impeccable eye allows us to enter into this intriguing international temple of the Parisian club world and to discover what makes the CRAZY HORSE tick: elegance, perfectionism and a grueling schedule (with 2 shows a night and 3 on Saturdays, 7 days a week). The film takes us to…
I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful2011-00-0000
Carolyn Parker was the last to leave her neighbourhood when a mandatory evacuation order was decreed as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans in the summer of 2005, and was the first resident to return to her now flood-devastated community. Mrs. Parker takes us deep inside her personal biography as a child born in the 1940s, raised in segregated New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, who became a teenager joining the front lines in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and later became one of the most outspoken voices in the fight for every New Orleanian’s right to return home after…
Into the Abyss2011-11-112900429005
In his fascinating examination of a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill—and why a state kills. In intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (who was scheduled to die eight days after his interview with Herzog), the filmmaker achieves what he describes as “a gaze into the abyss of the human soul." Herzog’s inquiries also extend to the other convicted killer, Jason Burkett; his father, also incarcerated; a woman who lost both her mother and brother in the crime; as well as a chaplin and…
Dark Girls2011-00-002790627907
Dual documentary Directors/Producers D. Channsin Berry and Bill Duke took their cameras into everyday America in search of pointed, unfiltered and penetrating interviews with Black women of the darkest hues for their emotional expose’, “Dark Girls”. Two years in the making and slated to premier at the Toronto International Film Festival, “Dark Girls” pulls back our country’s curtain to reveal that the deep seated biases and hatreds of racism – within and outside of the Black American culture – remain bitterly entrenched.
Gerhard Richter Painting2012-03-142904829049
The opening frames take us directly into the promised land - the artist's studio, his bright, clean, well-guarded workspace. A bustling production hall where Germany's preeminent post-war painter directs an army of assistants operating at peak capacity to satisfy the appetites of the global art market? On the contrary, we are given a fly-on-the-wall perspective to an intimate and highly personal artistic production process, as the coveted canvasses of one of the most productive and respected painters in contemporary art take shape. It is a quiet yet highly charged process of action and reflection, inner struggle and astonishing physical ease.…
Girl Model2011-00-0000
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a 13-year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley‟s initial discovery of Nadya, the two rarely meet again, but their stories are inextricably bound. - TIFF
In My Mother’s Arms2011-00-0000
Husham works tirelessly to build the hopes, dreams and prospects of the 32 damaged children of war under his care at a small orphanage in Baghdad‟s most dangerous district. When the landlord gives Husham and the boys just two weeks to vacate the premises, a desperate search for lodging ensues. - TIFF
Last Call at the Oasis2012-00-002790827909
Although it covers 70 percent of the earth’s surface, there is a very real possibility that in the near future, there won’t be enough water to sustain life on the planet. This documentary illuminates the vital role water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in the current system and shows communities already struggling with its ill-effects and individuals championing revolutionary solutions. Firmly establishing the urgency of the global water crisis as the central issue facing our world this century, the film posits that we can manage this problem if we are willing to act now.
The Last Dogs of Winter2011-00-002791027911
In 1976, Brian Ladoon took on the self imposed mission of preserving and breeding Canadian Eskimo Dogs, the rarest registered breed of dog in the world. The dogs share their pitiless natural environment with itinerant wild polar bears. This film documents a unique situation, and explores mankind’s responsibility for managing and exploiting animals.
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory2012-01-0000
This film tells the entire story, from the arrests in 1993 to the growing movement, through the entire appeals process and the uncovering of new evidence, concluding with their release. As Damien Echols notes in the film, if not for the “Paradise Lost” documentaries, “...these people would have murdered me, swept this under the rug, and I wouldn't be anything but a memory right now.”

On May 5, 1993, the bodies of three eight-year-old boys were found next to a muddy creek in the wooded Robin Hood Hills area of West Memphis, Ark. A month later, three teenagers, Jason Baldwin,…
Samsara2011-00-0000
Samsara is a Tibetan word that means "The ever turning wheel of life." It is a concept both intimate and vast - the perfect subject for filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, whose previous collaborations include Chronos and Baraka. "Samsara" takes the form of a nonverbal, guided meditation that will transform viewers in countries around the world, as they are swept along a journey of the soul. Through powerful images pristinely photographed in 70mm and a dynamic music score, the film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of the nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm…
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell2011-00-002798927990
Under the Khmer Rouge regime, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, directed the M13 prison for four years, before becoming the head of S21, the terrifying death machine that eliminated Khmer Rouge opponents. Some 12,280 Cambodians met their deaths here. In July 2010, Duch was the first Khmer leader to appear before an international court, which sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He appealed the sentence. While Duch waited for his new trial, Rithy Panh questioned him in depth.
Whore's Glory2012-00-002799127992
WHORES' GLORY is a cinematic triptych on prostitution: three countries, three languages, three religions. In Thailand, women wait for clients behind glass panes, staring at reflections of themselves. In Bangladesh, men go to a ghetto of love to satisfy their unfulfilled desires on indentured girls. And in Mexico, women pray to a female death to avoid facing their own reality. In worlds where the most intimate act has become a commodity, these women have physically and emotionally experienced everything that can happen between a man and a woman. For this they have always received money, but it has not made…
Urbanized2011-10-282799327994
Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic engagement, economic development, and environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns. Yet much of the dialogue on these issues is disconnected from the public domain.
Undefeated2012-02-102963029631
Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school’s 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school football coach turned lumber salesman, volunteered to lend a hand. When he arrived, the team consisted of 17 players, some timeworn equipment and a patch of grass masquerading as a…
Paul Williams Still Alive2011-00-0000
He won Grammys and an Academy Award; wrote many #1 songs from Barbara Streisand's "Evergreen" to the Carpenter's "We've Only Just Begun" as well as Kermit the Frog's biggest hit, "The Rainbow Connection"; starred in a Brian DePalma movie; put out his own hit records and albums; was a guest on The Tonight Show fifty times; and is the president of ASCAP... and you might not have heard of him. In the 1970's, Paul Williams was the singer / actor / songwriter that emotional, alienated teenage boys all over the world wanted to be, a sex symbol before MTV, when…
The Tall Man2011-00-0000
When Cameron Doomadgee was found dead in the Palm Island police station, his injuries were like those of someone who'd been in a fatal car crash. The police claimed he had tripped on a step. The Palm Islanders rioted and burnt down the police station. The subsequent trial of Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley – who had been decorated for his work in Aboriginal communities – made headlines day after day, shadowed by Queensland police threatening to strike. The Tall Man, based on the best selling book by Chloe Hooper, tells the gripping story of the trial, of the complex Senior…
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father CIA Spymaster William Colby2011-09-232799727998
This takes a look at the rise and fall of legendary CIA operative William Colby, one of the most influential spymasters in American history who also was a family man forced to keep secrets from his own wife and children. This is a son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. Told by William Colby’s son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and a most timely inquiry into the hard costs of a nation's most cloaked actions.…
First Position2011-00-0000
Ballet is not for sissies. It is fiercely competitive, physically demanding, and must be mastered early. First Position follows six aspiring dancers (ages 9-19) as they prepare for the ballet world's toughest youth competition. With exclusive access, First Position offers an inside look at the extraordinary world of ballet and the determined young dancers who try to capture a dream only a few will achieve.
The Weird World of Blowfly2011-09-162805128052
Miami musician Clarence Reid could be your cranky grandfather… until he puts on his gold-spangled superhero costume and starts singing some of the raunchiest tunes you’ve ever heard in your life. Having changed the game in 1965 by recording what may well be the world’s first rap song (“Rap Dirty aka Blowfly’s Rapp”), Clarence has shocked and grooved audiences for over forty years with Blowfly’s hilarious and provocative hard-core songs and stage antics.

But before his X-rated career began, Clarence was a major force in the renowned Miami soul scene of the 1960s and ‘70s; writing Top-10 songs for…
White Wash2011-09-2300
WHITE WASH explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean and examines the history of “black consciousness” as it triumphs and evolves in the minds of black surfers. From the sport and culture that’s formed around it WHITE WASH allows us to experience the power of transcending race as a constructive phenomenon. The story is narrated by the legendary, Grammy Award winner Ben Harper (Fistful of Mercy, Relentless 7, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals) along with Tariq “Blackthought” Trotter of the Grammy Award winning hip hop group, The Roots whom originally scored the film.
Finding Joe2011-09-302848928490
Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories, FINDING JOE shows how Campbell's work is relevant and essential in today's world and how it provides a narrative for how to live a fully realized life-or as Campbell would simply state, how to "follow your bliss". While studying myths, and writing on the human experience, Joseph Campbell was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College for 38 years. His seminal work, "A Hero with a Thousand Faces" was published in 1949 and greatly influenced generations of artists and writers, including Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Jerry Garcia and others.
The Sons of Tennessee Williams2011-10-072807328074
Mardi Gras, drag royalty and a glittering civil rights revolution–where else could these elements come together but in the city of New Orleans? Interweaving archival footage with contemporary interviews, Tim Wolff’s documentary film The Sons of Tennessee Williams tells the story of New Orleans’ outrageous gay Mardi Gras o