Anti-fashion
90’s Antifashion French Documentary The histories behind each designer and how much they disrupted the mainstream fashion industry. (Yohji, Margiela, Ann D, Hemlut Lang, etc.)
Paris Is Burning
A chronicle of New York City’s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film.
Blue Planet
From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth’s surface, we see how natural forces – volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes – affect our world, and how a powerful new…
The Best of Martial Arts Films
The most explosive barehanded combat sequences ever filmed. An electrifying video of martial arts mastery and mayhem. This program takes a behind-the-scenes look at the weapons, the mystical eastern philosophy,…
The Voyager Odyssey
In 1977, two scientific research satellites, Voyagers I and II, were sent into orbit to travel to the farthest reaches of the solar system. This documentary compiles the images beamed…
The Mentors: A Piece of Sinema
The Mentors short “Fuck Movie” where El Duce plays a couch test caster up to typical Mentors practice of “peaceful rape” as well as showing where inspirations for “Goin’ Thru…
Good News: Newspaper Salesmen, Dead Dogs and Other People from Vienna
This documentary, Ulrich Seidl’s full-length film debut, examines the lives of the street newspaper sellers in Vienna, a mixture of men from Turkey, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Eastern Europe, standing…
Metropolitan & District
In 1989, the Hammersmith and City line was still known as part of the Metropolitan line. This is a Driver’s eye view from Hammersmith to Whitechapel (where the H&C trains…
Back to the Future Part II. Behind the scenes.
Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
Based on the true story of Richard “The Night Stalker” Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down.
Making ‘Do the Right Thing’
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
For All Mankind
A testament to NASA’s Apollo program of the 1960s and ’70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals…
Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He’s on the…
I’m from Hollywood
I’m from Hollywood is about the adventures of late performance artist Andy Kaufman in the world of professional wrestling. This film includes interviews with Taxi co-stars Marilu Henner and Tony…
Angano… Angano… Tales from Madagascar
Venerable storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture.
Fear of Drowning
Peter Greenaway presents this “Commentary in one hundred parts” on Drowning by Numbers (1987), discussing and analyzing many of the film’s more intriguing features.
River Niger, Black Mother
River Niger, Black Mother follows the 4184-kilometer-long River Niger from its source in Guinea through Mali, Niger and Benin to Nigeria. A passionate ode to the river, the cultures that…
The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink
In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two “alien”…
Le trou noir
For a series of programs made for TV Fnac, Philippe Grandrieux meets different people who tell us, each in their own point of view, a story of images. After Paul…
Grateful Dead: Downhill from Here
Grateful Dead show on July 17, 1989 at Alpine Valley.
Turning Table
On a winter night, the author of “The King and the Mockingbird” is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens…
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Winner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, Marcel Ophuls’ riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed “The Butcher of Lyon.” Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in…
American Experience
TV’s most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
The Thin Blue Line
Errol Morris’s unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer’s murder in Dallas.
1066 DC
At the Southern end of the line, the three stations around St Leonards are separated by two long tunnels. Emerging at Bopeep Junction our “4-CEP” EMU – in the much…
How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
Superhero creator and Marvel Comics legend, Stan Lee, together with Marvel’s top artist, John Buscema, demonstrate the skills needed to create compelling characters and scenes for drawing and writing comic…
Abril: La Trinchera del Honor
An account of the major political events that took place in Santo Domingo from the government of Juan Bosch in 1963, until the rise to power of Dr. Joaquin Balaguer…
George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey?
George Carlin changes his act by bringing politics into the act, but also talks about the People he can do without, Keeping People Alert, and Cars and Driving part 2.
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film Willow (1988). Included are interviews with cast and crew and scenes of the actual filming of the production itself.
A gifted nation…
A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička
Jane B. by Agnès V.
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of…
Jour de fête: In Search of the Lost Color
Episode of the French television series “Cinéma Cinémas” which documents the discovery of the negatives that led to the completion of the color version of Jacques Tati’s 1949 film “Jour…
Antarctica Project
The film follows the first Greenpeace expedition to the Antarctic on board of the Ross Sea. The film is also about the attempts of the industrialized nations to parcel out…
The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude – An Afrikaner Speaks Out
The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude – An Afrikaner Speaks Out is a 1988 documentary film directed by Robert Bilheimer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary…
The True Story of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels
A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa’s bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank’s personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo…
Walking After Midnight
Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.