Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Top Gear: Vietnam Special

    The boys headed to Vietnam for epic road trip across the country. Each of them were given 15 million dong (about US$ 1000) to spend on buying some wheels and must make it to the north of Vietnam.

  • Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices

    The life and career of the renowned voice actor of animation and radio. For generations, Mel Blanc was one of the most famous Hollywood voice actors with his myriad of voices for classic animated characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and scores of others. However, animation was only one of the fields where Blanc shone through in his long career. This film covers the life of this amazingly talented and big hearted actor, comedian and musician as he became one of the performing greats from the golden ages of American animation and radio through to the 1980s.

  • It Might Get Loud

    A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

  • Let’s Play, Boy

    The history of Playboy magazine as told by Hugh Hefner.

  • Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski’s sudden flight from the United States.

  • In the Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy

    Films beget films. Filmmakers influence other filmmakers constantly. But the most influential filmmaker of all time is Alfred Hitchcock.

  • Life After People

    In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life, and plant life might be like if, suddenly, humanity no longer existed, as well as the effect humanity’s disappearance might have on the artificial aspects of civilization.

  • Food, Inc.

    Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it’s sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.

  • Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight

    Delve into the world of Batman and the vigilante justice that he brought to the city of Gotham. Batman is a man who, after experiencing great tragedy, devotes his life to an ideal–but what happens when one man takes on the evil underworld alone? Examine why Batman is who he is–and explore how a boy scarred by tragedy becomes a symbol of hope to everyone else.

  • What’s Going On: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye

    The story of Marvin Gaye, one of the great and enduring figures of soul music whose life was one of sexual confusion and bittersweet success, using his own words and memories.