
A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of ‘Lord of the Rings’
The making of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien’s classic work.
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Actors: Barrie M. Osborne, Billy Boyd, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, Grant Major, Ian McKellen, Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, Sean Astin, Thorkild Hansen
Country: United States
The Look of Silence
An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.
The Undefeated
A documentary that chronicles Sarah Palin’s pre-political life; her tenure as Governor of Alaska, and her time spent as John McCain’s running mate.
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
From a chance meeting to a tragic fallout, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali’s extraordinary bond cracks under the weight of distrust and shifting ideals.
The Captains
The Captains is a feature-length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in the…
Kubrick by Kubrick
A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we’ve never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of unearthed interview recordings from the…
Assassins
True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader. The film follows the trial of…
49 Up
49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada’s World in Action team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim “Give…
Naqoyqatsi
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
The Wildest Dream
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory’s frozen…
Soul Boys of the Western World
A journey through the 1980s and beyond; the story of a band, an era and how one small gathering of outsiders in London shaped the entire world’s view of music…
Girls State
What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in Missouri navigate an immersive experiment to build…
Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Trevor Noah recounts his amusing travels around the world, from foreign national anthems to different cultural norms.