Documentary

In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It’s an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully ...

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

A riveting journey into the minds of men whose contempt for homosexuals led them to murder. Attacked in 1977 by gay bashers on the streets of San ...

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique ...

Greg James and Maisie Adam will team up to tackle some of the classic Indiana Jones stunts – we’re talking dodging poisonous darts, outrunning ...

Greg James and Maisie Adam will team up to tackle some of the classic Indiana Jones stunts – we’re talking dodging poisonous darts, outrunning ...

It’s 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of ...

A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees ...

Al Pacino’s deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare’s significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth ...

Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with ...

The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious ...

This documentary examines the Seattle scene as it became the focus of a merging of punk rock, heavy metal, and innovation. Building from the ...

The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray’s investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition ...

Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it longer than everyone else.

Isaac Mizrahi, one of the most successful designers in high fashion, plans his fall 1994 collection.

“Trinity and Beyond” is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and ...

If you’re arrested in New York City and can’t make bail, you’ll be sent to Rikers Island — a mammoth holding facility for ...

The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using ...

A comprehensive re-edit of the source footage shot in 1993 for the original 1995 film, charting three days at the Glastonbury music festival.

Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of ...

What “That’s Entertainment” did for movie musicals, “The Celluloid Closet” does for Hollywood homosexuality, as ...

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of ...

Stand up comedy by Martin Lawrence, filmed in the Majestic Theater in New York City. Martin Lawrence talks about everything from racism, to ...

In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil’s Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, ...

Some of MGM’S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical ...

An underwater exploration beneath kelp forests in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. The film captures the birth of a shark, ...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High ...

Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.

This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin’, Fritz the Cat, and ...

A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several homosexual ...

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he ...

The equation of life on the Serengeti is simple: carnivores eat plants, herbivores eat carnivores. Africa: The Serengeti takes you on an ...

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George ...

Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news ...

After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father ...

After escaping Russia’s communist revolution, Léon Theremin travels to New York, where he pioneers the field of electronic music with his ...

An examination of a group of skinheads–white, mostly male youths involved in the neo-Nazi, white supremacist hate movement in the ...

An extraordinary video diary about living with AIDS documenting, with guts and humor, the love and dedication of longtime companions Tom Joslin ...

This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film ...

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic ...

A documentary about Orson Welles’s unfinished three-part film about South America.

An overview of the life of the most shocking, vile, and notorious of punk rock legends.

Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their ...

Agnes Varda’s documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy’s film The Young Girls of ...

Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.