Monterey Pop (1968)
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: D. A. Pennebaker
Actors: Cass Elliot, Denny Doherty, Frank Cook, John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Scott McKenzie
Country: United States of America
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum housed there. This short film…
In Jackson Heights (2015)
Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley, National Gallery) explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC district of Jackson Heights, which lays claim to being the…
Balifilm (1997)
Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the island of Bali. The soundtrack is…
Growing Up Milwaukee (2020)
Behind every statistic is a story. Three inner-city youth growing up in Milwaukee struggle with the daily dilemma of growing up Black and avoiding becoming just another statistic.
Salt in My Soul (2022)
Based on Mallory Smith’s posthumously published memoir, Salt In My Soul offers a look inside the mind of a young woman trying to live while dying. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis,…
Waiting for “Superman” (2010)
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
In 1948, Lenny Bruce was just another comic who couldn’t get arrested. By 1961, all that would change.
I Am Luke Perry (2025)
Celebrating the life of a generational acting talent from humble roots who emerged from small-town obscurity to become a Hollywood heartthrob and a pop culture icon.
Snow Bears (2017)
The enchanting true-to-life tale of polar bear cubs and their mother on a 400-mile journey from their birth den in Svalbard to the pack ice surrounding the North Pole.
Fat Head (2009)
A comedian replies to the “Super Size Me” crowd by losing weight on a fast-food diet while demonstrating that almost everything you think you know about the obesity “epidemic” and…
The Last Shaman (2017)
James, giving himself 12 months before he has “a license to kill himself,” sets off to the Amazon rainforest with hopes of finding a shaman who can save his life.
Retrograde (2022)
The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.