Chimpanzee
A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Actors: Tim Allen
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Moana
Robert J. Flaherty’s South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by “pride of beauty… pride of strength.”
Rize
A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came out of the low income neighborhoods of L.A.. Director David LaChapelle interviews each dance crew…
Gettysburg
An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level.
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
The Oscar nominated actor best known for his role of Mr. Miyagi, left behind a painfully revealing autobiographical record of his much-too-brief time here on earth. Tracing his journey from…
And the Oscar Goes To…
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927…
The Doomsday Cult of Antares de la Luz
Almost 10 years after being charged with a heinous crime, former members of a Chilean cult share their haunting experiences.
Wingspan
When the most famous and influential pop band in the world, the Beatles, broke up in 1970, hardly anyone expected that resident heartthrob Paul McCartney could follow up with another…
Orozco the Embalmer
In 1996, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers, ventured into the center of Hell itself – the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. With death and murder…
Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. This first half of her two-part film…
Zero Days
Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed…
Simple Minds: Everything is Possible
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American Beauty: Look Closer…
A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.