Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Ghosts of the Abyss

    With a team of the world’s foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James Cameron embarks on an unscripted adventure back to the wreck of the Titanic where nearly 1,500 souls lost their lives almost a century ago.

  • Something to Scream About

    Actresses best known for the power of their lungs in horror classics and cult favorites discuss what it’s like to work within the B-movie industry and have a career based in horror.

  • Pearl Jam: Live At The Showbox

    Live at the Showbox captures Pearl Jam playing in the intimate environment of the Showbox Theatre in Seattle, WA. It was released on May 7, 2003. It was recorded on December 6, 2002 at The Showbox in the band’s hometown of Seattle, Washington. The show was the second of four warm-up gigs for the band’s 2003 Riot Act Tour. The DVD is only available through the band’s official website.

  • Wheel of Time

    Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog’s photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

  • Overnight

    Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man’s misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.

  • Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.

  • Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

    British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind — and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos’ trial.

  • Cinema Hong Kong: Kung Fu

    Filmmaker Ian Taylor examines the impressive legacy of Hong Kong cinema — specifically, how martial arts crossed borders and become an international phenomenon — with the help of footage and interviews with the stars who made the genre what it is today. Director Lau Ka Leung (who helmed The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) joins in, sharing his thoughts on how certain cinematic technologies have improved martial arts films and expanded their appeal, on the set of Drunken Monkey (2003).

  • Windy City Heat

    A man caught up in the glamor of being a Hollywood celebrity has no idea that the production he’s in is a fake.

  • Deep Blue

    Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinematic rollercoaster ride for all ages, Deep Blue uses amazing footage to tell us the story of our oceans and the life they support.