Dying at Grace (2003)
This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share the last days of their lives and deaths with a film crew.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Allan King
Actors: Arthur Morris, Carmela Nardone, Colette Hegarty, Gordon Henwood, Joyce Bone, Lloyd Greenway, Marion Morris, Norman Collins, Phyllis Bobbitt, Sue Kaul
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003)
Heinz Bütler interviews Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) late in life. Cartier-Bresson pulls out photographs, comments briefly, and holds them up to Bütler’s camera. A few others share observations, including Isabelle Huppert,…
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (2011)
Mother, the film, breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that silently fuels our largest environmental, humanitarian and social crises – population growth. Since the 1960s the…
Hollywood Banker (2014)
How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood, but could not prevent it all from crashing down, when…
My Perestroika (2010)
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they…
The Beginning: Making ‘Episode I’ (2001)
The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this documentary. From pre-production through post-production, we get to see visual effects…
The Real Fauda (2018)
Set in the cloak-and-dagger world of the IDF’s undercover special forces – the Mista’arvim – Fauda is an Israeli-produced TV drama which has garnered praise for its realistic depiction of…
Death of a Nation (2018)
Parallels are drawn between Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump. Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election….
Another State of Mind (1984)
Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands – Social Distortion and Youth Brigade –…
Butterfly Kisses (2018)
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students’ disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story…
No Distance Left to Run (2010)
A documentary film about the British rock band Blur. Following the band during their 2009 reunion and tour, the film also includes unseen archive footage and interviews.
Marjoe (1972)
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the “church tent” Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and “the religion business”, prior to…
The Ice King (2018)
The greatest skater of all time, John Curry transformed a dated sport into an art form. Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the…