Basic Training (1971)
Shot during the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Frederick Wiseman’s film Basic Training focuses on a group of men going through infantry training, showing how they are turned from civilians into soldiers. As well as being a unique portrait of the US army at work, the film is also a fascinating snapshot of a time and place at a defining moment in American history.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Dancing with the Devil (2009)
Rio de Janeiro. September, 2008. Three men stalk the gloomy back-alleys of the city’s notorious slums. Spiderman, a 28-year-old drug lord, embarks on a routine patrol through the shadowy streets…
The Making of The Walking Dead (2010)
The Making of the TV Series The Walking Dead
Film Is. a Girl & a Gun (2009)
Fragments of several (mostly) silent films are shown. They’re guided by quotes from, among others, Plato and Sappho and a soundtrack.
The Toilet: An Unspoken History (2012)
Welsh poet Ifor Ap Glyn has a passionate interest in the toilet – its history and how it has evolved over the centuries, right up to the development of the…
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
“A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends,…
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against…
Los Sures (1984)
A documentary on the inhabitants of South Williamsburg, New York, whose lives are explored through the testimony of five inhabitants of the Brooklyn neighborhood. In the late 70s and early…
Shooting the Mafia (2019)
Sicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first pointed her camera at a brutally slain victim. Documenting the Cosa Nostra’s barbaric rule, she bore unflinching…
Introduzione all’oscuro (2018)
Gaston Solnicki plays himself in this cinematic tribute to his friend Hans Hurch.
Life Itself (2014)
Life Itself recounts the surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert. The film details his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize…
Aroused (2013)
Get up close and personal with 16 of the most successful women in the adult film industry as they shed their clothes for an intimate photo shoot with director Deborah…
The End of the Line (2009)
Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act.In the film we see…