Doddie Weir: One More Try (2019)
Louis Theroux: A Different Brain (2016)
Following on from his recent look at alcoholism, the UK’s premier documentarian returns with another sensitive film, this time on living with a brain injury. Earl’s personality and interests have…
Nothing Lasts Forever (2022)
Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn infiltrates this highly secretive world, he uncovers a vast, far reaching crime that threatens…
Chasing Evel: The Robbie Knievel Story (2017)
Robbie Knievel, 52 and the owner of 20 world records and 350 jumps worldwide, life is uncovered through his personal pursuit of sobriety and the need of continuing his father’s…
In Search of Chopin (2014)
The latest in British documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky’s In Search Of series, looking at the life of Polish pianist and composer: Frédéric François Chopin, whose grave in Paris remains a…
S Is for Stanley (2016)
The incredible story of the Italian Emilio D’Alessandro, personal driver of the great director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), who met Emilio by chance in London in 1971 and hired him, thus…
Crazy Not Insane (2020)
Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she…
She Looks Like Me (2024)
A legless girl abandoned at birth is adopted and becomes an acclaimed gymnast. She idolizes Olympic champion Dominique Moceanu, not knowing Dominique is actually her biological sister.
Outside In (2023)
A personal diary of an eerily empty and haunting metropolis captured while running through city streets, embalmed in a state of suspended animation.
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
The Net (2003)
More of a film essay – of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker – than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck’s The Net: The Unabomber, the…
World’s Biggest Bull Shark? (2021)
How one of the largest Bull Sharks ever caught off the quiet coast of Florida grew to become a giant of the ocean.
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (1986)
A documentary following a sex surrogate and two of her clients.