Come On Children
Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Allan King
Actors: Alan Dunikowsky, Alex Lifeson, Jane Harrison, JoAnne Lye, John Hamilton, Ken Gibbs, Lesley Henry, Noreen McCallum, Richard McMullen, Sharon Wall
The Negro Soldier
Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers.
It’s All True
A documentary about Orson Welles’s unfinished three-part film about South America.
21 Up
After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes…
The Hellstrom Chronicle
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
Elvis on Tour
This documentary captures Elvis Presley on his 1972 American tour and includes rehearsals, interviews, archival television appearances and backstage moments. With Elvis at his most flamboyant, the film features well-known…
Jailbreak: Love on the Run
An Alabama correction officer falls in love with a man awaiting trial for murder and risks it all to help him escape.
Burden of Dreams
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents,…
Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion
A look inside the Playboy mansion around the year 2000. Features Hugh Hefner and his 7 girlfriends pre-Girls Next Door.
Hitler – Never Heard of Him
In 1963, 22-year-old Bertrand Blier invited 11 of his peers to come to a film studio and talk about their lives. The record of what was said is a discussion…
Fårö Document 1979
In 1969, with Sven Nykvist as cinematographer, Ingmar Berman made The Fårö Document, a film that ended with a rather pessimist view of the island’s future. One of the scenes…
Land of the Anaconda
Join barefoot scientist Jesús Rivas in the murky marshes of Venezuela on his quest to understand these huge, fearsome reptiles. Up to 30 feet long, weighing many times more than…
Letter from Paris
Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human activity. People and flowers attempt to survive in…