Fuel (2008)
Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues define our generation. The film exposes shocking connections between the auto industry, the oil industry, and the government, while exploring alternative energies such as solar, wind, electricity, and non-food-based biofuels.
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Director: Joshua Tickell
Actors: Barbara Boxer, George W. Bush, Joshua Tickell, Larry David, Richard Branson, Sheryl Crow
Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (2018)
In her 59 years, Barbie has become a fashion icon, a lightning rod and a target for feminists. Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie, featuring newly discovered footage and unprecedented access…
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
A chronicle of Bob Dylan’s strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to “voice of a generation” to rock star.
A Slice of Lynch (2007)
David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about “Twin Peaks” while seated at a diner counter.
City of Ghosts (2017)
With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as…
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone (2001)
A short documentary based on Sergio Leone’s life and career, and the making of the film “Once Upon a Time in America”
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2011)
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight…
Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice (2011)
Shot mainly using spy cameras, this film gets closer than ever before to the world’s greatest land predator. As the film captures its intimate portrait of polar bears’ lives, it…
Rich Hill (2014)
If you ever find yourself traveling down Interstate 49 through Missouri, try not to blink—you may miss Rich Hill, population 1,396. Rich Hill is easy to overlook, but its inhabitants…
Propaganda (2012)
An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.
Touching the Void (2003)
A documentary based on the book of the same name by Joe Simpson about Simpson’s and Simon Yates’ disastrous and near-fatal attempt to climb 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera…
The Corporation (2003)
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the…
General Orders No. 9 (2011)
One last trip down the rabbit hole before it gets paved over. A deep geography. What is above and what is below. What came before and what will come after….