Burning (2021)
Alexandria: The Greatest City (2010)
Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the…
Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli (2019)
The unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who made Italian B-movies of all genres, wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbucci’s Western “Django,” adored…
The Faculties (2019)
Students of different careers prepare to take final exams. Botany, anatomy, sociology, medieval philosophy, criminal law, morphology, theoretical physics and piano. Each one uses their own abilities to cope with…
Super Greed: The Fight for Football (2022)
In April 2021, in the perfect storm left behind by the Coronavirus pandemic, owners and executives of the 12 most powerful clubs in world football attempted a bullish and brazen…
What Happened in Vegas (2017)
Ramsey Denison investigates a terrifying pattern of police corruption and discovers that behind the shimmering surface of Las Vegas lies a police department with individuals willing to go to any…
American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures (2024)
The documentary celebrates some of the unsung action stars of the late eighties/nineties in the North American Pictures Catalog. From Cynthia Rothrock and Bolo Yeung to Billy Blanks the film…
Upside Down: The Creation Records Story (2010)
Over a quarter of a century since it began and a decade after it folded, this is the definitive film about Creation Records, one of the world’s most successful and…
We Are As Gods (2022)
“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” This is the audacious opening line of the Whole Earth Catalog, a compendium of wonderful tools compiled by…
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career…
Hype! (1996)
This documentary examines the Seattle scene as it became the focus of a merging of punk rock, heavy metal, and innovation. Building from the grass roots, self-promoted and self-recorded until…
Saving Notre Dame (2020)
When Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire in 2019, Paris came perilously close to losing more than 800 years of history. As engineers rebuild, researchers use cutting-edge technology to piece together…