The Song of Stockholm (1981)
Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jonas Mekas
Rope Unleashed (2001)
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly making a movie about gay murderers in the 1940’s.
George Carlin: On Location at Phoenix (1978)
Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his 12 HBO specials. The show was originally planned as…
Lucky (2010)
A documentary about the American lottery and some of the industry’s biggest winners (and losers). Qang is a Vietnamese refugee, whose American dream materializes in the form of $22 million…
Flee (2021)
Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for…
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012)
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (2009)
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool’s Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the Beatles. He arranged their first live…
Pygmies: The Children of the Jungle (2011)
The adventurer, Ivan Bulík, traveled all through Africa. However, one of his dreams still eluded him: He desired to capture the life and customs of the smallest people on Earth,…
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to…
I’m a Stranger Here Myself (1975)
A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (2011)
Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as ‘A Tribe Called Quest’ have…
Enthusiasm (1930)
A lyrical documentary on the lives of Coal miners in the Donbass who are struggling to meet their production quotas under the Five Year Plan.
Tapped (2009)
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig’s debut feature is…