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Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Mayor of the Sunset Strip

    A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario, Rodney Bingenheimer

  • Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

    Documentary on Bayard Rustin, best-remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

  • Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

    Examines the relationship between sex, women, and the role of female sexuality in popular Hollywood culture, focusing on Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, and Sharon Stone.

  • Fellini: I’m a Born Liar

    A look at Fellini’s creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for “availability.” His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.

  • Tupac: Resurrection

    Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.

  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex ‘n’ Drugs ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll: a turbulent and dark tale of ambition, envy, betrayal, hatred and self-destruction.

  • A Species Odyssey

    “A Species Odyssey” portrays the origins of Mankind from the moment the first primate stood up on their hind legs and set off to conquer the African Savanna, to modern Man, setting off to conquer space. 7 million years of triumph fraught with difficulties and extraordinary events that make Man what he is today.

  • Capturing the Friedmans

    An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.

  • The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men – Making X2

    The making of the sequel to the first X-Men film, trying to make it bigger and better than the previous film, and the challenges that come with that goal

  • Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

    George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.