The Wrecking Crew (2008)
A celebration of the musical work of a group of session musicians known as “The Wrecking Crew”, a band that provided back-up instrumentals to such legendary recording artists as Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys and Bing Crosby.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Denny Tedesco
Actors: Al Casey, Bones Howe, Cher, Dick Clark, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Herb Alpert, Lou Adler, Micky Dolenz, Snuff Garrett
America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)
Political commentator, author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza puts forth the notion that America’s history is being replaced by another version in which plunder and exploitation are the defining characteristics. D’Souza…
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell (1993)
Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow. Included are clips from many of her films, photos and stories about her…
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009)
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
I, Dolours (2018)
Dolours Price, the infamous IRA radical convicted of bombing England’s Old Bailey in 1973, granted a series of revealing interviews in 2010 on the strict condition of their posthumous release….
Pornotropic (2020)
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering…
Lemmy (2010)
Over four decades, Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister has registered an immeasurable impact on music history. Nearly 65, he remains the living embodiment of the rock and roll lifestyle, and this…
The Image Book (2018)
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the…
My Old School (2022)
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff…
Echo in the Canyon (2019)
A look at the roots of the historic music scene in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon featuring the music of iconic music groups such as The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield,…
Optimism (2018)
The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find gold in alluvial gravel is part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian…
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock ‘n’ Roll (2019)
Story of Chuck Berry told by his relatives and friends.
A Boy Has Been Dead (2010)
An investigation on the death of a 18-year-old boy and its cover-up by the police.