High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995)
Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jon Alpert, Maryann DeLeo, Richard Farrell
Actors: Dick Eklund, Jon Alpert
McCullin (2012)
Biographical documentary of the war photographer Don McCullin, with sections on his upbringing, early work for the Observer and extensive war reporting for the Sunday Times until the purchase of…
Song of Parkland (2019)
When Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama teacher Melody Herzfeld heard the fire alarm on Feb. 14, 2018, she was with her students in rehearsals for their annual children’s musical….
Big Mama (2001)
Eighteen months in the life of 89 years old Viola Dees as she tries of persuade Los Angeles authorities that she can care for her grandson, 9-year-old Walter.
Dragonslayer (2011)
Dragonslayer documents the transgressions of a lost skate punk falling in love in the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California in the aftermath of America’s economic collapse. Taking the viewer through…
Counterpunch (2017)
As boxing’s popularity wanes, three fighters at different stages of their career make sacrifices to pursue their dreams of becoming champions.
Checkpoint (2003)
Documentary filmmaker Yoav Shamir’s depiction of the checkpoints that the Israel Defense Forces man in the Palestinian Authority.
Tongues Untied (1989)
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…
Heart Like a Hand Grenade (2015)
More than 10 years after the release of Green Day’s American Idiot, the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees present this time capsule rock doc that takes us…
Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story (2017)
Four performers in the neo-burlesque scene in New York City discover a new identity and belonging in a world of bawdy comedy and striptease. However, they find that this community…
Cyberpunk (1990)
Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and…
Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story (2017)
Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story is a documentary about the life and work of Michael “Mick” Ronson, the guitarist, songwriter, producer and arranger who, in the early part of…
Daughters (2024)
Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.