
The Beatles on Record (2009)
A collection of interviews and footage of the band detailing how their sound progressed and how their albums were made.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Bob Smeaton
Actors: George Harrison, George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr
Great Barrier Reef (1981)
Mysterious and only superficially explored by generations of the native Aborigines, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the world’s most extraordinary natural life systems. Twelve hundred miles long and…
30 Bikes: The Story of Homestead Bicycles (2021)
Twenty-three years after his BMX bicycle company folded, Alden Olmsted sets out to reconnect with the people his innovative bikes impacted and possibly re-launch the brand that was born out…
One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)
Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between…
The Fence (La Barda) (2010)
In Oct. 2006, the U.S. government decided to build a 700-mile fence along its troubled 2000-mile-plus border with Mexico. Three years, 19 construction companies, 350 engineers, thousands of construction workers,…
Operation Crossbow (2011)
The heroic tales of World War II are legendary, but Operation Crossbow is a little known story that deserves to join the hall of fame: how the Allies used 3D…
Spaceship Earth (2020)
In 1991 a group of countercultural visionaries built an enormous replica of earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2. When eight “biospherians” lived sealed inside, they faced ecological calamities and cult accusations….
The Kleptocrats (2018)
In full-on investigative mode, reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter doggedly pursue the story of US $3.5 billion missing from a Malaysian wealth…
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker (2020)
A collage-like, incisive look at the life of writer, painter and thinker David Wojnarowicz, whose powerful, unapologetic way of seeing the world gave voice to queer rights at a critical…
Stand Tall (1997)
This documentary is very much in the style of Pumping Iron, but like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Rebuild it is centered around its “Star”, Lou Ferrigno. It charts his early years…
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (2024)
A man forms an unlikely friendship with a wild otter while living in the remote Shetland Islands.
a/k/a Tommy Chong (2006)
Documentary about Tommy Chong’s federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs over the Internet.
Jawline (2019)
Sixteen-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the world of digital celebrities, builds his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl adoration as he tries to escape a dead-end life…