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Tag: pop culture

  • Candyman: The David Klein Story

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    Candyman tells the amazing true story of David Klein, an eccentric candy inventor from LA, who came up with the concept of Jelly Belly jellybeans. These colorful beans became a pop culture phenomenon, revolutionized the candy industry and were personally endorsed by Ronald Reagen. However, David’s eccentric personality and peculiar sense of business led him…

  • Natural Born Killers

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    Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

  • Spice World

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    World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.

  • Love and Other Catastrophes

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    A day in the life of two film school students trying to find love and another housemate.

  • Trekkies

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    Denise Crosby takes a first look at the huge fans of “Star Trek” from around America and how the series has affected and shaped their lives.

  • And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story

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    Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny and Cher during the early 60’s to their messy divorce in the late 70’s.

  • Flash

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    A series about the evolution of various spheres of Ukrainian culture and its modern heroes. This is the result of 100+ interviews and stories about how whole layers of culture were created in Ukraine. It is an attempt to capture the outbreak that is happening today and that we are waiting for tomorrow, to understand…

  • A LEGO Brickumentary

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    A look at the global culture and appeal of the LEGO building-block toys.

  • The Matrix: Generation

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    After the 1999 premiere of the first Matrix movie, it became a pop culture phenomenon. A special documentary about the Matrix saga and its prophetic aspects.

  • Garden State

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    Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam – a girl also suffering from various maladies – opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his…

  • Everything Is Illuminated

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    A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

  • Sgt. Frog

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    Alien frogs come to take over the planet & get into all kinds of trouble while living under the roof of a small family.

  • Britney: For the Record

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    An introspective documentary which chronicles pop music queen Britney Spears’ return to the spotlight after her much-publicized professional and personal struggles. Honest, raw and revealing, the one-hour special shares some of Spears’ most intimate moments in the span of 60 days, and gives fans an inside look at Britney in the recording studio and on…

  • Good Bad Ugly

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    AK, a powerful gangster, surrenders to the police, in hopes that his wife and son will live a peaceful life. When he is released 17 years later, he learns that his son is falsely accused of serious crimes. To protect him, he is forced to go back to his old ways, facing enemies, both old…

  • This Is It

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    A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.

  • The People vs. George Lucas

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    The passion the original Star Wars trilogy inspires in its fans is unparalleled; but when it comes to George Lucas himself, many have found their ardor has cooled into a complicated love-hate relationship. This hilarious, heartfelt documentary delves deep into Lucas’s cultural legacy, asking all the tough questions. Has Lucas betrayed his masterwork? Should he…

  • Chuck Norris vs Communism

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    In late eighties, in Ceausescu’s Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.

  • You and I

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    Janie Sawyer, an American teenager, is forced to live in Moscow because of her father’s job. Janie is trying to escape her lonely life in Moscow through her deep love of music and the internet. Janie and Lana Starkova meet on a fansite for the pop-band t.A.T.u. Trapped in a small Russian town, Lana wants…

  • Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope

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    A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Comic-Con, the world’s largest comic book convention, and the fans who attend every year.

  • The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

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    A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce…

  • Get a Life!

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    An EPIX Original documentary directed by William Shatner, based on his hugely popular book, in which he examines the cultural phenomena of STAR TREK, its fan-following and his own role within it.