
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (2021)
Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.
Genre: Documentary
Director: James Redford
Actors: Amy Tan, Isabel Allende, Kevin Kwan
Country: United States of America
Willie (2019)
Documentary about Willie O’Ree, the first black hockey player to play in the National Hockey League. O’Ree played winger for the Boston Bruins during the 1957-58 and 1960-61 seasons.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the “demi-gods of Canadian metal” influenced a musical generation that…
Here We Are Now (2024)
“Here We Are Now” is an emotional documentary which tells three stories of Ukrainian refugees who are now scattered around the world.
Australia (2009)
How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participates for the first time in…
Hippo vs Croc (2014)
Hippos and crocs have lived side by side for millennia, but are they cozy bedfellows or arch-enemies? One is a hefty herbivore, the other is the most successful freshwater predator…
Foreign Puzzle (2019)
Foreign Puzzle is an intimate documentary that captures the journey of an inspiring Mexican American dancer as she communicates the impermanence of life through dance while juggling the roles of…
Joe Mande’s Award-Winning Comedy Special (2017)
Stand-up comic Joe Mande aims for critical adulation with this special that covers dating shows, “Shark Tank,” Jewish summer camp and much more.
3 Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks (2016)
In November 2015, when gunmen attacked Paris, France declared war on the Islamic State. But that war – and France’s ‘year of terror’ – began a year ago with the…
Raising the Mary Rose: The Lost Tapes (2022)
The raising of King Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose in 1982 remains one of the most significant events in the history of maritime salvage. Comparable to the recovery of the…
Loudmouth (2022)
Josh Alexander’s Loudmouth documents the winding road that is Al Sharpton’s life story as an iconic activist and spiritual leader.
Hating Peter Tatchell (2021)
The powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil diso bedience rocked the British establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homosexuality and exposed world…
Controlling Britney Spears (2021)
Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her”. This New York Times investigation reveals much of how it worked, including an intense…