Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009)
Following folk musician Joan Baez on her extensive 2008-2009 tour, this film commemorates her career, which has spanned five decades. It includes concert and archival footage as well as interviews with such disparate colleagues, friends and admirers as Bob Dylan, Jesse Jackson and David Crosby. In addition to the music, it also touchs upon Baez’s long history of global social activism.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Mary Wharton
Actors: Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Steve Earle
Women He’s Undressed (2015)
Hollywood stars, historical footage and stylized reenactments tell the story of costume designer Orry-Kelly, who ruled Tinseltown fashion for decades.
Tickled (2016)
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of…
Five Broken Cameras (2011)
Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from…
Gideon’s Army (2013)
Follows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even…
Close-Up (1990)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered…
Plastic Planet (2009)
Werner Boote presents an up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic. He takes us…
Elvis on Tour (1972)
Concert footage and offstage documentary of singer Elvis Presley.
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2017)
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story is the harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks, Nevada. After surviving a…
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)
A portrait of the lives of a disparate group of patrons and employees at an American watering hole today.
Citizen Koch (2013)
Wisconsin – birthplace of the Republican Party, government unions, cheeseheads and Paul Ryan – becomes a test market in the campaign to buy Democracy, and ground zero in the battle…
Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean (2008)
This documentary goes to coral reefs of the Bahamas and the waters of the Kingdom of Tonga for a close encounter with the surviving tribes of the ocean: wild dolphins…
The Spy Who Fell to Earth (2019)
Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman’s book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire and double agent.