Documentary Movies

Reflecting on Mao’s famous saying, “Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” Trinh T. Minh-ha’s film — whose title refers in part to a Chinese…

From Amos ‘n’ Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows…

Jean-Pierre Gorin examines the lives and cultural background of Samoan street gangs in Long Beach, California.

The film explores what transformations in power and politics do to art, how much opportunism can be found in “pure” art and whether fascist symbols can ever regain their aesthetic…

A short promotional documentary detailing production of the 1992 film Alien³, containing interviews with cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes clips.

Prompted by a seminar given by acclaimed German filmmaker Peter Nestler, Prague, March ’92 combines 16mm footage shot over the course of a week in the title city with excerpts…

Directed by Hava Kohav Beller, this stirring documentary chronicles the anti-Nazi resistance movement within Hitler’s Germany and the countless unsuccessful attempts to remove the führer from power.

Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer…

In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan’s Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional…

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors’ health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and…

“Join the festivities with over two dozen of your favorite PLAYBOY magazine Playmates as they soak the screen with sexy fun. … it’s an aquatic adventure you’ll never forget!”

Tom of Finland is one of the gay world’s few authentic icons. His drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity. Tom’s ultimate leather men are known and seen…

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking’s life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking’s friends, family, classmates,…

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the…

A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during…

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for ‘public indecency’ in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990…

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American…

They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart. By…

A former mining town in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Aspen is now better known as a winter playground for wealthy holidaymakers. Against the majestic landscape, visitors relax while locals toil around…

A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many of his films and interviews with friends, actors and colleagues.

Documentary about the making of the 1967 Czech film “Marketa Lazarova”.

Winter can be long and boring but grab a pair of skis or a snowboard and transform it and find out what it’s like to have an Extreme Winter. Ride…

When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go…

The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones — one of the 20th century’s most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers — provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary…

Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.

A look at what it’s like to be gay and black in America.

George Carlin brings his comedy back to New Jersey and this time talks about Offensive Language, Euphemisms, They’re Only Words, Dogs, Things you never hear, see or wanna hear, Some…

This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to 1990, the film features a…

Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo…

A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting…

Songs for Drella is a concept album by Lou Reed and John Cale, both formerly of The Velvet Underground, and is dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, their mentor,…

The most explosive barehanded combat sequences ever filmed. An electrifying video of martial arts mastery and mayhem. This program takes a behind-the-scenes look at the weapons, the mystical eastern philosophy,…

Documentary about a small town in Austria.

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth’s surface, we see how natural forces – volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes – affect our world, and how a powerful new…

“From waterfalls to water-sports, crystal-clear pools to tropical island lagoons, Playboy’s famous playmates get ‘wet and wild’ in an all-new series of exciting escapades and provocative nude scenes.”

Sam Kinison live at the Felt Forum, 2/14/89. Also has opening act Carl Labove plus Sam’s 3 MTV videos.

The story of a black lesbian’s relationship with a white, upper middle class high school girl.

Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction….