Origins of the 21st Century (2000)
Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in “Gigi” and Godard’s own “À bout de souffle.”
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011)
Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic “The Return of the Living Dead.”
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
An examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in the fall of 2003.
Path of Blood (2018)
Deep in the Saudi desert, young thrill-seekers at jihadi boot camp sign up to a plot to overthrow the Saudi government. They detonate three horrific car-bombs at Western compounds in…
The Speed Cubers (2020)
This documentary captures the extraordinary twists and turns in the journeys of Rubik’s Cube-solving champions Max Park and Feliks Zemdegs.
Mission to the Sun (2018)
A look at NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched its mission to explore the sun in August 2018.
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists…
The Donut King (2020)
The Donut King, Ted’s story is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, and redemption. It’s the rags to riches story of a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in…
College Boys Live (2009)
In a quiet Orlando, Florida, suburb three young men struggle to escape the wreckage of their pasts and create new lives for themselves. Their new home is CollegeBoysLive.com, a voyeur…
Snowden’s Great Escape (2015)
“Snowden’s Great Escape” tells the story of how Edward Snowden managed to evade capture by the US. For the first time Snowden tells the story of how he managed to…
Vinyl (2000)
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting
Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot (2008)
The film follows 8 of the top high school basketball players in the US at the time of filming, in 2006. The plot centers around the first annual Boost Mobile…
Aquarela (2019)
From massive waves to melting ice, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky travels around the world to capture stunning images of the beauty and raw power of water.