The Making of ‘The Lord of the Rings’
A collection of The Making of ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’, ‘The Two Towers’ and ‘The Return of the King’. This documentary treats movie, special effect and fantasy fans to…
Terminator – a film about JT LeRoy
The literary persona JT LeRoy visiting Stockholm, Sweden in 2002, on a promotion tour for the novel “Sarah”. Framed by footage of US highways and Heaviness “Curtains of Rain”.
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
In a world where romance has been replaced by speed dating, is arranged marriage the hassle-free way of getting hitched in the new millennium? This documentary takes a lighthearted look…
74th Academy Awards Opening Film
A short documentary about movies produced for the 74th Academy Awards in 2002.
The Century of the Self
A SECRET HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it’s a phenomenon…
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
Apollo 8: Christmas at the Moon
The first effort to send human beings to the Moon coincides during Christmastime on Earth.
CĂ©sar MenĂ©ndez: el cazador de fantasĂas
CĂ©sar MenĂ©ndez confesses that he has lived and, at the same time, is a man condemned to paint. Through a brief tour we enter the interior of his work and…
Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder
Across the United States, violent crime in prison is an everyday reality, with inmates routinely exposed to assault, riot, rape and murder. Anatomy of a Prison Murder examines the culture…
9/11
An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider’s view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about…
Discovering ‘Evil Dead’
Stories of how the film Evil Dead, The (1981) rose up very high against the accusations of the ‘Video Nasties’ of the 1980’s in the UK. Many controversial films are…
The Odyssey of Life – The Photographer’s Secrets
Synopsis by Laura Mahnken Lennart Nilsson, the famed photographer who brought us the spectacular insight into the mysteries of life before birth in Nova’s Miracle of Life and Ultimate Journey…
Shanghai Ghetto
SHANGHAI GHETTO recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. Left…
The Tramp and the Dictator
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film âThe Great Dictator,â released in 1940.
Body & Earth
The story of the first woman on earth, as she journeys through mythical landscapes in search of her soul-mate.
Lost in La Mancha
Fulton and Pepe’s 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam’s attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage…
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler’s secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her…
Allen Iverson – The Answer
Philadelphia 76ers star guard Allen Iverson is in many ways the fantasy of armchair hoopsters, and I readily cop to being one. We know that we’re not as intimidating a…
Egypt’s Golden Empire
In 1560 BC, when Rome was still a marsh and the Acropolis was an empty rock, Egypt was already 1,000 years old. Although the period of the pyramid-builders was long…
Biggie and Tupac
In 1997, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G.) were gunned down in separate incidents, the apparent victims of hip hop’s infamous east-west rivalry….
The Lighthouse Family: Greatest Hits
The songs on this DVD are: 1. Lifted, 2. Ocean Drive, 3. High, 4. Raincloud, 5. Lost in Space, 6. Loving Every Minute, 7. Free / One, 8. Question of…
Lewis Black: Taxed Beyond Belief
Lewis Black hosts this comedic documentary about the US income tax system. Set at St Johnâs University, Lewis, as Professor Black, teaches a âTaxes 101â course to students which highlights…
Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy
This is the making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by acclaimed documentary maker Laurent Bouzereau and appears on the Back to the Future DVD set.
Price for Peace
Steven Spielberg, historian Stephen E. Ambrose, and director James Moll bring us a film with firsthand accounts chronicling the unforgettable events in the Pacific Theater of World War II. From…
Raw Iron: The Making of ‘Pumping Iron’
A documentary on the making of “Pumping Iron” to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax.
Rebels in the End of Times
A documentary about the everyday life and the expectations of three rebels, from Cape Verde, who are waiting for the end of the world. They believe salvation will come with…
What Killed the Mega Beasts?
“What Killed the Mega Beasts?” is a TV movie about the mystery of what caused the great extinction from the Pleistocene to Holocene eras with several paleontologists to find out…
The Real Bruce Lee 2
Dragon arrives in town and notices that it’s under the influence of the cruel Tang which controls the games, the prostitution and the loans of money with its fist of…
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’
Movie and stage icon Debbie Reynolds hosts the making of “Singin’ in the Rain”. The short documentary includes Donald O’Connor, who played the comical “Cosmo Brown”, Stanley Donen, one half…
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the modern world, these mutant human…
National Geographic – Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Rings
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic countryside, moving on to describe his fighting…
Winged Migration
The cameras of Jacques Perrin fly with migratory birds: geese, storks, cranes. The film begins with spring in North America and the migration to the Arctic; the flight is a…
Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter
Explore the myths and legends that inhabit the real world of Harry Potter. Follow award-winning documentary filmmakers as they offer insights to witches, wizards, Greek gods, ancient Celts, ghosts, magical…
A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of ‘Lord of the Rings’
Master of the Rings: The Unauthorized Story Behind J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’
This documentary examines the social and cultural underpinnings of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, in an attempt to understand the work’s phenomenal success and…
Sting: All This Time
This DVD contains a behind the scenes documentary film and an intimate concert performance by Sting. The documentary is a candid look at the genesis, development and realisation of Sting’s…
Classic Albums: Lou Reed – Transformer
In 1972, Lou Reed’s second solo album Transformer elevated him from a minor cult figure to one of the best known and most talked about artists in rock & roll,…
The Cuban Game
A documentary depicting Cuba/US relations through baseball.
The Matrix Revisited
The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.
Muhammad Ali – Through The Eyes Of The World
“This is a kid who just said it. I’m the greatest – and he said it with poetry. And I don’t mean just the poems that he wrote but with…