Origins of the 21st Century (2000)
Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in “Gigi” and Godard’s own “À bout de souffle.”
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995)
Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.
The Business of Being Born (2008)
Director Abby Epstein’s controversial documentary takes a hard look at America’s maternity care system, juxtaposing hospital deliveries against the growing popularity of at-home, natural childbirths that some expectant parents are…
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2003)
Filmmaker Michael Gramaglia’s years-in-the-making biography of the legendary punk band the Ramones entitled End of the Century traces nearly all the various and sundry peaks and valleys which the seminal…
The Invisible Wall (1991)
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is “structure failure”…
San Francisco 2.0 (2015)
San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists. With the onset of the digital gold rush, young members of…
Seed: The Untold Story (2016)
SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared
The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody (2004)
Deaf (1986)
The School for the Deaf at the Alabama Institute is organized around a theory of total communication i.e. the use of signs and finger spelling in conjunction with speech, hearing…
The Blackout Experiments (2016)
You arrive at a secret location at a precise time, prompted by a mysterious email. You must follow the instructions closely. Once inside, disturbing visions begin. Unspeakable acts befall you—often…
Vincent Price’s Dracula (1982)
Vincent Price hosts this documentary exploring the historical myths surrounding vampires.
The Bomb (2015)
Using masterfully restored footage from recently declassified images, The Bomb tells a powerful story of the most destructive invention in human history. From the earliest testing stages to its use…
Popcorn Porn: Watching ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’ (2009)
The making of Kevin Smith’s film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.