The Clash: The Rise and Fall of The Clash (2012)
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Danny Garcia
Actors: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)
When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs’ path from a small…
Amish: A Secret Life (2012)
Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the…
Witness to Waco: Inside the Siege (2009)
An in-depth look into the Branch Davidians, a religious cult led by David Koresh in the late 1980s and early 1990s that ultimately met with a tragic, fiery end.
Beethoven’s Hair (2005)
Beethoven’s Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven’s corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. The film begins in modern…
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida…
Faces of Death II (1981)
Brief scenes of death related material: mortuaries, accidents and police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Some of it is most likely fake, some not as…
Apollo: Missions to the Moon (2019)
National Geographic’s riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, photos and audio.
The Week Starts on Friday (1962)
A short documentary about the production of movie marquee art for cinemas in Prague.
Cease Fire! (1953)
A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with reenactments in which real veterans of the Korean War…
Damilola: The Boy Next Door (2020)
Yinka Bokinni was a friend of Damilola Taylor growing up in Peckham. On the 20th anniversary of his death she confronts the impact of his killing and conflicting thoughts of…
Routine Pleasures (1986)
Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.
Being Japanese (2021)
A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.