Documentary Movies

Cast and crew discuss the 1973 film The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy.

This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We…

Documentary about the making of the 1996 horror-comedy.

Live performance by Robyn Hitchcock, in… well, a storefront.

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentration camps, and visiting childhood homes more than 50…

In 1948, Lenny Bruce was just another comic who couldn’t get arrested. By 1961, all that would change.

Hang on! Freeriders sends an unstoppable avalanche of adventure and breathtaking ski action right your way! From awesome mountain vistas in Wyoming to the incredible steeps of South America and…

This documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin introduces us to Randy Horne, a high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal. As a defender of his people’s…

Alaska… Here, in this vast and spectacularly beautiful land teeming with abundant wildlife, discover the “Spirit of the Wild.” Experience it in the explosive calving of glaciers, the celestial fires…

Tells the story of the rise and fall of Michael Alig, a kid from Middle America who aspired to take the place of Andy Warhol. Michael quickly rose to become…

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists Alice Austen, Hannah Höch and Nicole Eisenman. Utilizing groundbreaking…

A historical analysis of how groups such as the Nazi’s may use language, symbols, and religious connotation in order to come to power. It raises questions that deserve in depth…

Video footage of some of the beauties that have graced Playboy and appeared in Baywatch.

Join barefoot scientist Jesús Rivas in the murky marshes of Venezuela on his quest to understand these huge, fearsome reptiles. Up to 30 feet long, weighing many times more than…

Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersberg, Russia. She escaped to America in 1926 amidst the rise of Soviet Communism. She remained in the United States for the…

The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris that chronicles the ‘gutter punk’ lifestyle of homeless teens in Los Angeles.

A true story of four Jewish intellectuals born in New York and educated at City College during the 1930s, and their divergent paths over the next six decades.

Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut’s “belt of…

This award-winning documentary probes UFO fanatics, government cover-ups, and top alien experts Stanton T. Friedman, Robert O. Dean, Budd Hopkins, Peter Gersten, Don Schmidt, Whitley Strieber, Rich Kronfeld, and hundreds…

Bettie Page was the top pin-up queen of the 50s and developed a cult following in the 80s. She is known for her distinctive hair style and is reputed to…

Julie Strain and others star in this video centerfold of Penthouse Pets in Amazon-like settings.

The Twentieth Century swept in on a tide of Progress – with great advances in communications and transport. Society was still class-ridden, and at that time, Britain was still building…

A fascinating collection of interviews, recollections and documentary information about the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic, and how it touched people’s lives. Investigates the contemporary importance of the story…

A series of videos containing footage of real life events that were too disturbing for television.

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz…

Produced and directed by Walt Missingham who, in 1983, became the first non-Chinese to practice Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple, this authoritative and informative programme uses rarely seen archive…

Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

Get rare views of Ireland in this unique video tour of the Emerald Isle featuring expert cinematography from an accomplished aerial production team and an original musical score. See the…

Get ready as the Dahm Triplets take you on a wild ride of seductive sisterly fun.

Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the island of Bali. The soundtrack is…

Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This enlightening program looks at the origins of the Western world’s…

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War….

Denise Crosby takes a first look at the huge fans of “Star Trek” from around America and how the series has affected and shaped their lives.

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russians were our “enemies”. And to them the Americans were…

Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s…

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982).

Documentary about the lifelong project of Troy Hurtubise, a man who has been obsessed with researching the Canadian grizzly bear up close, ever since surviving an early encounter with such…

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

1997 documentary, part of the Taiwan-produced series “Personal Memoir of Hong Kong”, is both a self-portrait and a depiction of Hong Kong during the 40 years preceding the handover by…

A personal memoir reflecting upon director Stanley Kwan’s career and identity, set upon the backdrop of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. Kwan adopts a complicated cinematic structure which includes…