Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)
Hollywood is a town of tinsel and glamour; but there is another Hollywood, a place where maverick independent exploitation filmmakers went toe to toe with the big guys and came out on top.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Ray Greene
Actors: David F. Friedman, Dick Miller, Doris Wishman, F. X. Feeney, Forrest J. Ackerman, Harry H. Novak, Maila Nurmi, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff
Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher…
Clapboard Jungle (2020)
Following five years in the life and career of independent filmmaker Justin McConnell, this documentary explores the struggles of financing, attracting the right talent, working with practical effects and selling…
Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)
Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City. Distorting biblical tales, Albert Fish takes…
Leviathan (2012)
Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh,…
Exploring the Reef (2003)
Jean-Michael Cousteau’s documentary about the Great Barrier Reef keeps getting interrupted by Nemo, Marlin and Dory.
S Is for Stanley (2015)
S Is for Stanley is the story of Emilio D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick’s personal driver. A friendship that lasted through 30 years of their lives, helped create four cinema masterpieces, and…
COVID-19: The System (2020)
COVID-19. The whole world is in Lock Down. There is panic in society. What is going on? Is this actually about our public health?
Francofonia (2015)
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
Mavis! (2015)
A look at the life and music of legendary singer and civil rights activist, Mavis Staples.
Steal a Pencil for Me (2007)
1943, The Netherlands is under total Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party – a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing…
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2019)
Documentary on psychedelic potash mines, expansive concrete seawalls, mammoth industrial machines, and other examples of humanity’s massive, destructive reengineering of the planet.
Mercury 13 (2018)
After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for spaceflight.