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The Exorcist: 50 Years of Fear
The Exorcist: 50 Years of Fear
Explores the making of and cultural impact of THE EXORCIST, 50 years since its release.
The Exorcist: 50 Years of Fear 2023
The Battle of Midway
Prime Video
The Battle of Midway
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
The Battle of Midway 1942
The Day The Series Stopped
The Day The Series Stopped
On Oct. 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. PT, soon after Al Michaels and Tim McCarver started the ABC telecast for Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, the ground began to shake beneath Candlestick Park. Even before that moment, this had promised to be a memorable matchup: the first in 33 years between teams from the same metropolitan area, a battle featuring larger-than-life characters and equally colorful fan bases. But after the 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake rolled through, bringing death and destruction, the Bay Area pulled together, and baseball took a backseat.
The Day The Series Stopped 2014
Hellraiser: Evolutions
Hellraiser: Evolutions
Exclusive to Arrow Video Amazon Channels, Hellraiser: Evolutions is a documentary looking at the evolution of the hit horror franchise, Hellraiser, and its enduring legacy, over the last 30 years. Featuring interviews with Scott Derrickson (director, Hellraiser: Inferno), Rick Bota (director, Hellraiser: Hellseeker), Stuart Gordon (director, Re-Animator, From Beyond) and Doug Bradley (Pinhead himself).
Hellraiser: Evolutions 2015
Dream Boat
Dream Boat
A cruise ship and 3,000 men – it is a universe without heteros and women that usually remains a mystery to the outside world. Once a year the Dream Boat sets sail for a cruise exclusively for gay men where most passengers are united by the wish to live life authentically as themselves in a protected place.
Dream Boat 2017
Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
An irresistible journey through the universe of the singer and composer that revolutionized the song in Brazil and influenced generations of musicians, paving the way for movements such as Bossa Nova and Tropicália.
Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos 2024
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through intimate interviews with some of those closest to him including his eldest son Flávio, former government ministers, as well as his opponents, explore Bolsonaro’s brilliant yet ruthless journey to the presidency, with high-stakes drama, guns and God.
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros 2022
Free to Play
Free to Play
Follow three professional video game players as they overcome personal adversity, family pressures, and the realities of life to compete in a $1,000,000 tournament that could change their lives forever.
Free to Play 2014
Animals Are Beautiful People
Animals Are Beautiful People
Animals Are Beautiful People (aka Beautiful People) is a 1974 nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa. It was filmed in the Namib Desert, the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango River and Okavango Delta. It was produced for cinema and has a length of slightly more than 90 minutes.
Animals Are Beautiful People 1974
Return of the Goodies
Return of the Goodies
The Goodies finally return to television after nearly 25 years with a compilation of classic clips, interviews and new material.
Return of the Goodies 2005
Daniel
Max
Daniel
The remarkable first-person story of filmmaker Daniel Northcott, who documented his travels around the world, including a visit to a mysterious Mayan cave that may have precipitated his death.
Daniel 2023
Lola Índigo: GRX
Lola Índigo: GRX
Lola Índigo is one of the most relevant female figures on the Latin music scene and has collaborated with the best international artists. With her EP "GRX" she returns to her roots. This documentary shows us how her most personal project was created.
Lola Índigo: GRX 2024
Particle Fever
Prime Video
Particle Fever
As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time - or perhaps their greatest failure.
Particle Fever 2013
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
Prime Video
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary.
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary 2019
Deliver Us from Evil
Freevee
Deliver Us from Evil
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.
Deliver Us from Evil 2006
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
HISTORY Vault
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Filmmaker Werner Herzog combs through the film archives of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft to create a film that celebrates their legacy.
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 2024
Kingdom Come
Prime Video
Kingdom Come
The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a million dollars to finance his first film, Broken Kingdom. This emotionally-charged journey is interwoven with over 30 rare interviews from acclaimed indie darlings including Mark Ruffalo, Illeana Douglas, Don Cheadle, Kevin Smith, Edward Burns, Tim Roth, Morgan Spurlock, Selma Blair, Robert Townsend, Bill Pullman and many more.
Kingdom Come 2012
Rosakinder
Rosakinder
Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on their careers in honor of his 70th birthday. After discussing Praunheim's inspiration, each protégé presents an original short drawn from the experience.
Rosakinder 2012
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996
Assholes: A Theory
Assholes: A Theory
Some people grapple with the moral challenges of treating human beings decently. Others are just… assholes. Inspired by Aaron James’ New York Times bestseller of the same name, this documentary investigates the breeding grounds of contemporary ‘asshole culture’ — and locates signs of civility in an otherwise rude and nasty universe. Venturing into predominantly male domain, this film moves from Ivy League frat clubs to the bratty princedoms of Silicon Valley and the bear pits of international finance. Why do assholes thrive in certain environments? What explains their perverse appeal? And how do they keep getting elected?
Assholes: A Theory 2019
The Movie Orgy
The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
The Movie Orgy 1968
James Corden's Top Gun Training with Tom Cruise
James Corden's Top Gun Training with Tom Cruise
When "Top Gun: Maverick" star Tom Cruise calls you up to hang out for the day, you say yes. And for James Corden, that meant having Tom pilot you in two different fighter planes, pushing the limits of gravity and James's stomach.
James Corden's Top Gun Training with Tom Cruise 2022
Spitfire
Prime Video
Spitfire
A feature documentary about the people and the planes that helped win World War War II. Through people personally connected to the events, the film investigates the story of how the Spitfire, its stable-mate, the Hawker Hurricane and its great adversary, the Messerschmitt 109 came into being during the huge advances in aviation in the interwar period—and then how the pilots fared in combat, three miles up in the skies over Europe, Africa and Asia.
Spitfire 2018
Broadway: The Next Generation
Broadway: The Next Generation
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
Broadway: The Next Generation 2017
Wandering Stars
Wandering Stars
This film follows the making of Nekfeu's 3rd album, between Paris, Japan, Greece and the United States.
Wandering Stars 2019
Springsteen On Broadway
Netflix
Springsteen On Broadway
Bruce Springsteen shares personal stories from his life and acoustic versions of some of his best-known songs in an intimate one-man show.
Springsteen On Broadway 2018
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest." caricature she has become. Friends, fellow actors, directors, and others reminisce about their association with her, and numerous film clips show off her talent from her start in silents to bad science fiction/horror movies at the end of her career.
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star 2002
The Interrupters
The Interrupters
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once caused.
The Interrupters 2011
Spatiodynamisme
Spatiodynamisme
Spatiodynamisme is six-minute silent color 16mm record of Nicolas Schöffer’s interactive robotic sculpture, CYSP 1, which reacted in unpredictable ways to light and color.
Spatiodynamisme 1958
Suzi Q
Suzi Q
Story of trailblazing American rock singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro, who helped redefine the role of women in rock 'n' roll when she broke out in 1973.
Suzi Q 2019
The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
The unique inside story of the collective creative evolution behind the sounds of 1990s psychedelic rock bands Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Apples in Stereo — the founding groups behind the Elephant 6 collective, as well as a host of other artists — with inspirational resonance for today’s music makers, and music lovers everywhere.
The Elephant 6 Recording Co. 2023
Bonnie
Bonnie
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
Bonnie 2022
Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere
Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere
Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.
Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere 2022
In the Footsteps of Elephant
In the Footsteps of Elephant
Follow filmmakers as they capture the epic journey of African elephants across the Kalahari desert. The team faces extreme weather, inaccessible terrain, crocodile-infested waters and close encounters with lions in order to shine a light on these remarkable creatures and their ancient migrations.
In the Footsteps of Elephant 2020
Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre
Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre
Revered French actor Gérard Depardieu, featured in over 170 film and television projects, has, in recent years, been disgraced. Countless allegations of sexual assault and abuse have brought this titan under fire.
Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre 2023
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds."
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle 1980
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
AMC+
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. So how did Shere Hite disappear?
The Disappearance of Shere Hite 2023
Land of Silence and Darkness
Prime Video
Land of Silence and Darkness
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Land of Silence and Darkness 1971
Inside 'the Swarm'
Inside 'the Swarm'
A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The Swarm.
Inside 'the Swarm' 1978
Make Us Dream
Prime Video
Make Us Dream
Steven Gerrard became perhaps the greatest player in the history of Liverpool FC, but did so when success and trophies were declining. It became his personal mission to lift the famous club back to the top. That loyalty raised him to God-like status with Liverpool fans, but was an unbearable burden, bringing with it a profound sense of responsibility to live up to their and his own expectations.
Make Us Dream 2018