
O Seasons, O Castles
A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Agnès Varda
Actors: Antoine Bourseiller, Clotilde Joano, Danièle Delorme, Nina Peinado
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with…
Capitalism: A Love Story
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest…
Jane
Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives, director Brett Morgen tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our…
Making of ‘demonlover’
Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesied the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient…
The John Garfield Story
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the rough neighborhoods of…
Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
Tyler Perry is America’s consummate multihyphenate. But underneath this entertainment behemoth is a man working humbly to heal his childhood trauma by transforming his pain into promise. This documentary, a…
The Cockettes
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Ilary Blasi: The One and Only
In this documentary, Ilary Blasi shares the emotional and powerful story of the much-discussed end of her marriage.
Richard Pryor: I Ain’t Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
This documentary praises comedian Richard Pryor by showing fragments of various shows Pryor made and having famous comedians talk about the importance and greatness of Pryor. Different themes are reviewed…
Cocaine Bear: The True Story
The bizarre, stranger than fiction tale behind the hit Hollywood movie “Cocaine Bear,” involving international drug smuggling, murder, mayhem, and a mysterious dead body in a suburban driveway wearing a…
Gimme Shelter
A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on…
The Imposter
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village…