Making The Five Heartbeats (2018)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Robert Townsend
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a small cult…
Look Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)
The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.
Sex Lies and Butterflies (2018)
An exploration of the diversity of moths and butterflies from caterpillars to larvae to chrysalis to winged flight. The documentary covers camouflage and other anti-predatory tactics along with uniqueness of…
Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley (2021)
Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government’s reliance on ordinary people.
A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (2021)
A hybrid of memoir docudrama and narrative fantasy, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff tells the story of Madoff and the system that allowed him to function for decades through the…
Alumination (2021)
For nearly a century, the image of the Airstream travel trailer, with sunlight gleaming off the aluminum of its sleek silver-bullet body, has evoked the romance of escape and the…
Berlin Bouncer (2019)
A portrait of Berlin’s most famous bouncers – Sven Marquardt, Frank Künster and Smiley Baldwin. The three men have been part and parcel of the capital’s club scene for more…
Ending the Silence: Confronting Sexual Shame in the Church (2019)
Ending the Silence explores patriarchal and hierarchal structures in the church that foster the devaluing and demonizing of sex, women, and the LGBTQ community.
Leap (2018)
The LEAP Movie tells the story of a one year experiment seeking to discover whether coaching can help ordinary people achieve extraordinary things. Four participants will be pushed to their…
Rock and Roll’s Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie (2013)
Documentary about the rise and fall and rise again of the legendary John Otway.
I Have Tourette’s But Tourette’s Doesn’t Have Me (2005)
This insightful Home Box Office documentary profiles some American children afflicted with Tourette’s syndrome — a hereditary neurological disorder manifested by recurrent, involuntary vocal and motor tics. More than a…
Point and Shoot (2014)
At first glance, Matthew VanDyke—a shy Baltimore native with a sheltered upbringing and a tormenting OCD diagnosis—is the last person you’d imagine on the front lines of the 2011 Libyan…