Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Lost Tombs of the Pyramids

    In the shadow of the pyramids, an elite team of archaeologists embark on an extraordinary excavation. Could this secret site reveal startling new evidence about the great pharaohs who built these majestic monuments?

  • Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

    Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.

  • The Human Pyramid

    Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a “what if” question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.

  • Citizenfour

    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

  • In the Dark of the Valley

    In 1959, an unconfined partial meltdown of a sodium reactor at the Santa Susana Field Lab caused such a devastating radiation leak, that many consider it to be the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history. What intensifies the situation, is that it’s located just 30 miles from Downtown Los Angeles. For twenty years, this nuclear meltdown was concealed from the public eye; the resulting contamination never to be fully eradicated. Years of
    subsequent investigations have uncovered a number of catastrophic accidents that occurred on the site as well as decades of improper handling of radioactive materials, including the practice of open air burn pits that spread clouds of radioactive waste across the surrounding valley. SSFL is now believed to be one of the most contaminated sites in the world.

  • I’ll Get Up Anyway

    This film is about three modern Russian singers (Irina Bogushevskaya, Svetlana Surganova, Anna Gerasimova), whose life and creative path can serve as a model of fortitude. Each of them had to overcome difficult life trials and remain true to themselves and their creativity. The author of the film and their colleague Elena Pogrebizhskaya talks about these outstanding women with a tragic revelation.

  • I Get Up in the Morning with the Giraffes

    About the art of the painter Channa Bankier.

  • Deconstructing the Beatles’ A Hard Days Night

    In Deconstructing A Hard Day’s Night, Scott shares the stories behind the 1964 Beatles along with a track-by-track look at the songs of A Hard Day’s Night, including “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “And I Love Her,” and the title track. Scott also welcomes an absolutely charming guest appearance from the Fab Faux’s awesome bassist, Will Lee.

  • The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman

    The return of a young filmmaker to her home country, Cameroon, and her reunion with her mother.

  • The Two Faces of Tomorrow

    An invisible scientist uncovers the ubiquitous influence of algae on our planet in a visually sumptuous science fiction documentary that stretches from the deepest past to the near future.