Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Kent Jones
Actors: Arnaud Desplechin, Bob Balaban, David Fincher, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Wes Anderson
Country: France
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats (1985)
Jack Kerouac’s life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William S. Burroughs. The film also employs dramatic recreations of Kerouac’s life…
In the King of Prussia (1983)
Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the “Plowshares Eight”. In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania,…
The Mars Underground (2007)
The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary that brings to life, through the use of state-of-the-art 3D animation, the daring first human mission to the red planet and explores the…
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (2023)
Survivors, whistleblowers, and experts recount the Boy Scouts of America’s decadeslong cover-up of sexual abuse cases and its heartbreaking impact.
Basic Training (1971)
Shot during the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Frederick Wiseman’s film Basic Training focuses on a group of men going through infantry training, showing how they are turned…
You’ve Been Trumped (2012)
In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland’s last…
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer (2013)
Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop in its infancy long before it became a worldwide phenomenon. His iconic images of kids sporting sneakers and…
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely…
Revive Us 2 (2017)
Kirk Cameron hosts a “family meeting” to discuss unity in a time when political, racial, economic, and religious tensions are increasing every day.
Tongues Untied (1990)
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…
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies (2017)
Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share…