Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Director: Andrew Hutton
Actors: Aidan McArdle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Good, Daniel Weyman, Jamie Parker, Rowena Cooper
Country: United Kingdom
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023)
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A…
Ender – The Eero Ettala Documentary (2015)
The story of Eero Ettala, a professional snowboarder from Finland. The documentary tells about his career and includes his friends’ and colleagues’ comments.
Time Indefinite (1993)
After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the…
The Real T Rex with Chris Packham (2018)
A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like – both appearance and behaviour – using the recent palaeontological and zoological research.
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013)
The story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was, at her death, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor. She discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how…
The Mole Agent (2020)
When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident—and a mole inside the…
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike (1943)
The second film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the…
The Leadership (2020)
The world is crying out for a new model of leadership, but what is it? One woman thinks she has the answer. Australian CEO and ‘dreamer’ Fabian Dattner leads an…
Elizabeth I: Tudor Queen (2023)
A woman in a man’s world. Though strong-willed, intelligent and passionate, Queen Elizabeth I is keenly aware that her life is in constant peril. With her died the Tudor dynasty,…
Prowlers of the Everglades (1953)
Part of the “True-Life Adventure Series”; Disney filmmakers take their cameras to Florida, not to document the swamps that would become Walt Disney World, but to capture the lives of…
After the Bite (2023)
Following a series of great white shark attacks that dominated the headlines, one Cape Cod community renegotiates its relationship with the marine environment. Local residents, fishermen, and environmentalists are forced…
Joan of Arc: God’s Warrior (2015)
Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life – and death – of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure – a female warrior in an age that…