Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Alex Gibney
Actors: Carol Coale, Dick Cheney, Gray Davis, Jim Chanos, John Beard, Peter Coyote
Country: United States of America
Burning (2021)
Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an exploration of what happened as told from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and…
Crumb (1994)
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin’, Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in…
Bipolar Rock ‘N Roller (2018)
The film explores Mauro Ranallo’s career, including his work on the two biggest pay-per-view events in television history, and his relentless pursuit of a childhood dream despite seemingly insurmountable odds….
Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disability in Britain (2021)
Cerrie Burnell presents a history of disabled people’s struggle for human rights in Britain. She also shares inspiring stories of pioneering campaigners for social change, and looks at the challenges…
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (2017)
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20×24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her studio:…
The Disrupted (2020)
What do a farmer in Kansas, a laid-off factory worker in Ohio, and an Uber driver in Florida have in common? All three are resourceful, positive thinkers who strive to…
Expedition Happiness (2017)
A German couple and their dog travel across North America in a school bus searching for a state of pure bliss.
Scratch (2001)
A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world’s best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers, and producers…
Searching for Mr. Rugoff (2019)
The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, the mid-century theater chain and film distribution company. Rugoff…
Against the Tide (2023)
Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.
Monogamish (2017)
Recovering from a heartbreaking divorce, independent filmmaker and son-of-an-Italian-Prince Tao Ruspoli takes to the road to talk to his relatives, advice columnists, psychologists, historians, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, sex workers, sex…
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (2015)
Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle chronicling a century of African-American life. Wilson won two Pulitzer…