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Popular Documentary Movies
Everything Will Not Be Fine
The frankest of films from within a shelter for homeless women. Their stories usually combine domestic violence or acrimonious divorce, with mental fragility. Sonja is trying to make contact with her estranged children. Rula, is unsuccessfully trying to build a home with a new husband. This doc offers a unique window into their world. An evocative reminder of the fragility of human existence, and the value of a stable psyche.
City World
An investigation into the whereabouts of an unseen child narrator among the lifeless suburbs of Orlando, Florida. Told by mixing documentary footage with fantasy elements, the boy's tale slowly swivels from a possible theme park ride into his own harrowing familial reality.
The Politics of Competitive Board Gaming Amongst Friends
Through first hand accounts and dramatic recreations, director Jay Cheel examines the mental breakdown of a man who loses his cool during a friendly night of board games, proving that even the most trivial things sometimes have the highest stakes.
Marilyn Manson: Fear of a Satanic Planet
"Marilyn Manson : Fear of a Satanic Planet" tells the full story of a legend, revealing how a boy named Brian from small town Ohio broke the mould for Alternative Metal and managed to gain worldwide critical acclaim in the process. For the first time this DVD documentary charts his early career with the Spooky Kids, his progression through various line-up changes. It explains how one man managed to become the soundtrack for jilted youth worldwide, going from strength to strength with every new album.
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Tarzan: Lord of the Louisiana Jungle
A documentary about the making of the 1918 film "Tarzan of the Apes"
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My Way
My Way begins with the conventional "small-town girl livin' in a lonely (corporate) world." Yet instead of taking the midnight train, Rebekah Starr trades her pants-suit for a Les Paul, grabs her sassy Estonian tambourine-banging sidekick and hits the highway-destination: Sunset Strip. When Rebekah's marriage falls apart in real time, we realize her dream is not a whim. It is a burning passion for music that comes with its share of real world sacrifices. Thanks to the support from her newfound rock n roll legend friends such as Steven Adler (Guns n Roses) and Rikki Rocket (Poison), Starr re-commits to her mission and accomplishes what she set out to do. Her contagious optimism acts as the film's through line, hoping to inspire anyone feeling trapped by their circumstances.
Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show
In a Chinese prison yard every week, Ding Yu, a beautiful TV journalist sits face to face with a convicted criminal. They discuss his crime, his kids, his hopes, his ambitions. Her camera crew captures it all. But these are no ordinary prisoners, shortly after their interview, they are executed. This is the story of a remarkable woman and her equally remarkable TV series, "Interviews Before Execution".
Porcupine Tree: Octane Twisted
A live performance of the band's 2009 album The Incident in its entirety recorded at the Riviera Theater in Chicago on 30 April 2010.
8.8.88
After the crackdown of the pro-democracy protesters in the 8888 Uprising on 8th August 1988, Tarji's parents were students who joined the protest in Rangoon, left Burma to Thailand through Koh Song Island (Victoria Point) of Ranong Province. They moved and worked in the Southern region of Thailand. The documentary focuses on observation Tarji's life that is about to change from children to the world of adults. The film interviews the life of Tarji and his mother. Follow Tarji to various locations, observing his coming of age.
The Golden Hour
Docu-drama which recounts one of New Zealand sport's greatest ever moments. Based on the true-life heroics of iconic New Zealand Olympians and runners Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, and their visionary coach Arthur Lydiard whose tactical genius designed their famous victories, THE GOLDEN HOUR is a universal story of three men (each in his way an outsider) who share the same dream of winning an Olympic gold medal; a dream almost no one thinks them capable of achieving, but which comes spectacularly true one glorious afternoon in Rome 50 years ago.
El problema con los muertos es que son impuntuales
Die Wiege des Alpinismus
The documentary traces the development of the phenomenon of alpinism and questions the motives of the early pioneers, who set themselves a monument with their mountaineering achievements.
Colditz Revealed: Life Inside the Colditz Castle
A look at the harsh realities of life as a POW in the notorious Colditz Prison during World War Two as told by those who were there.
Ocho construcciones imaginadas por ocho obreros de construcción
Stop motion based on drawings made by construction workers, approached at the exit of their workplace, they answered in several ways to the question: What would you build if you could build anything you wanted?
Make Me Happy: A Monkey's Search for Happiness
Comedian and ventriloquist Nina Conti explores the world of new age and alternative therapies in a quest for self-knowledge, enlightenment and happiness. With her puppet Monkey as the voice of scepticism, Nina undergoes naked yoga, laughter therapy and shamanic ritual, before taking part in primal screaming and rebirth at a three-day retreat in the wilds of Scotland.
La Vérité Sur Le Rap Indépendant : vol.2
In this new volume, the subject is explored in greater depth. We delve into the theme of musical racism, a truly existing issue in independent music. The subject matter is somewhat shocking and at times provocative in the testimonials. We also raise the fundamental question of the 'hip-hop problem': Why does French rap, or more broadly, French hip-hop, not evolve and not sell?
Three Days in Wukan
the disappointments and hopes of Wukan villagers at the height of their dramatic protests against the government’s seizure of their farmland. Ai and a group of volunteers secretly entered the village on December 19, 2011, the day Shanwei City Party Secretary Zheng Yanxiong’s speech on the protests was delivered to the village. In the next two days, the provincial party officials entered the village and the provincial vice party secretary met with the villagers’ representative, recognizing his and other representatives’ legitimacy. Ai’s documentary, with interviews of villagers, therefore records Wukan’s protests as it turned a new page.
Vida i mort d un espai en tres actes
This documentary chronicles the final days of the Colony Castells, one of the few remaining factory colonies in Barcelona, which was demolished in 2011. With the demolition of low houses and narrow streets, an entire relational microworld was buried with its peculiar and very human way of understanding the urban space, by its beloved inhabitants.
As Old As The World
On a continuing journey and without destination defined, the painter Anton Lamazares meets with friends and family to reflect about key issues to answer this question: what place is left for the art as a way of understanding existence?
Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: discussion on Sri Ramana's 'Who am I?' (abridged)
At a meeting of the 'Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK' on 11th August 2012, Michael James discusses some passages from நான் யார்? (Nāṉ Yār? - Who am I?) and then answers questions on the practice of the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Wright's Law
Every now and then, we get a teacher who doesn't just connect with us -- they make us a better person in the world. Jeffrey Wright of Louisville, Ky. is one of those teachers. He uses wacky experiments to teach high school kids about science and the universe. But it's his own personal story about his relationship with his disabled son that shows his students the true meaning of life.
Between Shadows and Whispers
Miriam Torres stopped seeing and hearing at the age of 7. She learned to speak whilst being deaf-blind and now at 55 years old, she teaches other people with the same disability on how to communicate with others. Based on the diaries of Miriam, the film takes you through the inner journey of a woman seeking to recall the forgotten sights and sounds of her childhood, her mother's face, her own face, and the last image she saw and heard in her life.
Photonovela
A 12-year-old girl must complete a family history assignment for school. The boring task slowly becomes a sweeping drama embodying many secrets over three generations of one family, beginning before the Second World War and ending with the fall of the collective kibbutz idealism. In the vein of Arnon Goldfinger’s The Flat, this quiet and sensitively-constructed documentary explores a family’s resistance to excavate a buried painful past.
You Had to Be There
A collection of memorable stories from The Doors as well as friends who were present the night of their legendary 1968 appearance at the Hollywood Bowl - from long-held rumors to behind-the-scenes anecdotes.
Before The End of The World
In recent times, there is a lot to talk about 2012; the possibility of the end of the world or the beginning of a new era. But this is for those who follow the Mayan Calendar. What about other religions? Christians believe in the second coming of Christ, Judaism awaits the emergence of the Messiah, Hindus have the concept of the change of Yugas with the coming of the Kalki avatar, Buddhists believe in the arrival of the Bodhisattva Maitreya. And science, atheists, environmentalists, what do they believe? The film explores the many and diverse apocalypses and each point of view behind them.
Talking Architect
Chung Guyon is a second-generation Korean modern architecture. By implementing the Miracle Library Project for children in six major metropolitan cities nationwide for instance, he confronts and fights society, displaying his indefatigable will to build a better one through architecture.
Love in the Grave
Filmed over a number of years, David Vondráček’s powerful documentary records the lives of Jan and Jana, a homeless couple who find refuge in a cemetery in the Prague borough of Strašnice. Living on food from garbage containers and trading the books and porn magazines they find there, they nonetheless live lives of independence, love and humour. Jana, a former prostitute, tries to visit her daughter while Jan visits his aged mother after many years, but both fail to re-establish links with their past. Through identification with their everyday world, Vondráček reaches the human reality and complexity beneath the surface, a world not so different from that of the supposedly successful. Eventually, they are expelled from their temporary home with heartbreaking consequences. Vondráček’s award-winning documentary reveals the breadth of experience – even vibrancy – surviving in the world of the dispossessed.