Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Being Mick

    For everyone who’s always envied the life of the legendary Rolling Stones frontman, this behind-the-scenes documentary lets you in on Mick Jagger’s private life, with family home movies and interviews, and also follows him recording and performing songs from his solo Goddess in the Doorway” album. Special appearances by Bono, Pete Townshend, Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, and others are featured.

  • Hardcore

    Wanting to provide for her daughter, a 25 year old mother travels from her UK home of Canvey Island to get into porn in America having done some UK videos. The documentary follows her journey further into the business and watches as she comes under a variety of influences.

  • War Photographer

    Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

  • Alien Evolution

    Mark Kermode brings a tribute to the successful Alien series, featuring interviews with the cast members and directors, including Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott. This documentary is featured on the 9th disc of the Alien Quadrilogy DVD set, released in 2003.

  • Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

    Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox’s 1963 film “Cleopatra,” then the most expensive film of all time.

  • A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of ‘Lord of the Rings’

    The making of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien’s classic work.

  • Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters

    This documentary examines a selection of real life serial killers and compares them to the fictional Hannibal Lecter.

  • The Unbeatable Bruce Lee

    A look at the life of superstar Bruce Lee.

  • Startup.com

    Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship of these best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom’s the technical chief. A third partner wants a buy out; girlfriends come and go; Tom’s daughter needs attention. And always the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crash first?

  • We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company

    Over a period of two years, Mark Cowen and his crew travelled to thirty U.S. states and ten European cities, to interview the veterans of Easy Company. The stories told by the veterans themselves, create a history of the Second World War from the point of view of this heroic company of men, made famous in the mini-series Band of Brothers.