It has dominated news cycles for the last several years, leading to both criminal and congressional investigations. The people involved are some of the most influential in our culture, and the issue has led to regular tabloid headlines and hours of media attention. With a presidential election on the horizon, two wars raging, and a crumbling economy, one story continued ...
In this probing documentary from director Nick Broomfield, the notoriously abrasive Englishman conducts his own investigation of two separate drive-by shootings that took the lives of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur in the late 1990s. Starting with the original police investigations, Broomfield attempts to knit together pieces of information while establishing the framework of the Los Angeles gangsta rap ...
While many films have portrayed the negative ramifications of war, few will pack the visceral and emotional punch that Body of War delivers. The film puts a human face on the devastating consequences both physical and physiological of conflict.
Born into Brothels, the winner of the 77th Annual Academy Award for Best Documentary, is a tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art. The film is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes. Zana Briski, a New York-based photographer, gives each ...
Our Take: Quietly powerful - you'll be amazed by Briski and Kauffman's dedication and the perpetual good spirits of the children.
Bowling for Columbine is an alternately humourous and horrifying film about the United States. It is a film about the state of the Union, about the violent soul of America. Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence? The talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. ...
Theoretical physicist Steven Hawking discusses his ideas on the origins of the universe and its future fate, which he first set forth in his bestseller "A Brief History of Time." Through interviews with friends, relatives, and colleagues of this brilliant man, the filmmaker paints a picture of how a truly ingenious mind works, and how the onset of ALS, the ...
Bus 174 is a careful investigation of the hijack of a bus in Rio, based on an extensive research of stock footage, interviews and official documents. The hijack took place in June 12, 2000 (Valentines day in Brazil) and was broadcast live for 4 and a half hours. The whole country stopped to watch the drama on TV.
The award winning Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? is the inspiring story of a modern-day Mr. Smith's quixotic campaign to win the 2006 Missouri Democratic primary with little more than political savvy, tireless work, and passionate leadership over a committed group of grassroots volunteers that grows from a few friends to more than 500 by election day.
Our Take: Watch what happens when a feisty 29-year-old college instructor with a castrato-high voice and plenty of youthful idealism squares off against the son of a former governor who represents power, money, and the status quo. It’s an amusing gambit, but also deeply insightful about the state of American politics today.
Captain Mike Across America takes us back to the 2004 election, when the polling margin between candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry could have tipped either way. Framed like a concert film, it captures Moore’s activities as he set out on a campaign trip almost as rigorous and far-reaching as the candidates’ own. He targeted young people as the ...
Oscar nominated for Best Documentary 2003 and Winner of the Grand Jury prize in the Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2003. Capturing the Friedmans is a non-fiction feature film that explores the elusive nature of truth through the prism of one of the strangest criminal cases in American history.
Our Take: A film that refuses to give you an easy answer - both horrifying and riveting at the same time.
An experiential look at Robert Smithson's monumental sculpture, the Spiral Jetty, as it has evolved over 30 years in concert with the ebb and flow of the Great Salt Lake.
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 ...
Our Take: This is the ultimate tabloid story, studded with enough grotesque details to make today’s US Weekly cover stories look like innocent Disney fare. Burt and Linda are both candid about their lurid, high-rolling love affair in the 1950s that ended in a vicious, disfiguring attack, but that’s only the beginning of this weird tale of obsession. Crazy is right.
The African nation of Tanzania has a booming business selling fish to Europe, but its citizens live in a state of horrific poverty and degradation. Filmmaker Hubert Sauper uses his documentary Darwin's Nightmare to explore the lives of these people, and those who come from other countries to do business.
De Nadie tells the story of Maria, a Central American immigrant who is forced to leave her home in search of a better life for her family. On her way to the United States, she must cross Mexico were she experiences a nightmare. This documentary profiles the courage of Central American immigrants and the injustice committed to them as they ...
Deep Water is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever, the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.
Our Take: At first glance, Father Ollie is a gentle, soft-spoken man, eloquently attempting to explain and express remorse for his three decades of crimes. But as Berg digs deeper and begins to speak with his victims, a shockingly different picture of this sanctimonious predator--and the Church authorities who protected him—begins to emerge. Harrowing stuff. Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose. DIG! takes you out on the road for seven years with two of America's most creative and unique rock bands: The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Get in the van! Harlan Ellison is as well known for his outsize personalty as for his substantial literary output, which includes some of science fiction's greatest works. This fond portrait of the aging enfant terrible looks back at his classic novels and short stories, his days as a screenwriter--producing some of the best-known episodes STAR TREK and THE OUTER LIMITS--his singing career, and ... Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film.Director Amy Berg helms this shocking documentary, which looks at the activities of a priest named Oliver O'Grady. O'Grady had been identified by the Catholic church as a pedophile, but they allowed him to continue to work and molest children throughout the ...
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