Documentary

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

This documentary captures Elvis Presley on his 1972 American tour and includes rehearsals, interviews, archival television appearances and ...

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional ...

Les Blank’s portrait of the great Texas bluesman, ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by ...

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man’s ...

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated ...

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, ...

Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike ...

Live performances by some of the top rock-and-roll acts of the mid 60s. Includes Ray Charles, The Byrds, Joan Baez, Ike and Tina Turner, Donovan, ...

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual ...

In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys ...

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

Hailed by one music reviewer as “the grooviest, wildest, slickest hit ever to pound the screen,” “The T.A.M.I. Show” is ...

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or ...

After decades of conflict Vietnam’s railway system was badly damaged and rebuilt post the Vietnam War. The Reunification Express railway line ...

Events and athletes that characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. From the absolute protagonist Wilma Rudolph, called the black gazelle, ...

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking ...

A fabulous new adventure in exciting entertainment.

Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in ...

A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical ...

This classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the ...

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation in 1953.

A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay ...

A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with ...

The strange and wonderful world that lies beneath our feet, under leaf, log and rock, peopled by millions of weird and fascinating creatures. ...