Devil’s Playground (2002)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Lucy Walker
Actors: Dewayne Chupp, Dylan Cole, Mark Bontrager, Matt Eash, Sally Fisher, Velda Bontrager
Country: United States of America
The True Cost (2015)
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
Mother I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You. (2019)
The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, beggars and passersby, outraged…
Like A Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres (2021)
Suzanne Joe Kai’s intimate documentary shows us how the Rolling Stone writer and editor defined the cultural zeitgeist of the ’60s and ’70s.
Best of Enemies (2015)
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as…
Further Beyond (2016)
In their debut documentary Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure, Ambrose O’Higgins, and attempt to retrace his remarkable journey from…
The Central Park Five (2012)
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. They spent between 6 and…
Evolution of a Criminal (2014)
In 1997, 17-year old Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank and went to prison for it; then he went to NYU film school and made this movie about his life….
The Desert Said Dance (2021)
Anyone can enter the Baja 1000, but not everyone finishes it. Some aren’t tough enough. Some don’t have bikes that are tough enough. And some make mistakes that take them…
City 40 (2016)
Hidden in the heart of Russia, there is a Soviet-era city where thousands of people live and work behind barbed-wire fences monitored by armed guards. It is Ozyorsk (Ozersk), located…
Biggest Heist Ever (2024)
Their crimes earned them the nickname Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde — and the story only gets weirder in this documentary about the most lucrative heist ever.
Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy (2023)
Sitting down with co-creators Terry Dunn Meurer and John Cosgrove, along with long-time actors, producers, and directors of the show, this documentary special pulls back the curtain with behind-the-scenes stories…
Memories of my People (2014)
Follow freestyle skier Marie Martinod as she returns to the sport after giving birth, with the goal of finding victory at the 2014 Winter Olympics.