Around the World in 20 Years
To mark the twentieth anniversary of “Around the World in 80 Days” we went back to Dubai and India to retrace our steps and to see if we could find any of the crew of Al Shama. The result was a one-hour documentary and an account of our return and a whole stack of new pictures. Now they join all my other traveller’s tales.
Accelerating America
Tells the story of a revolutionary school in Rhode Island that gives inner-city youths who are at risk of dropping out a second chance by accelerating their studies. At the…
White Water Black Gold
David Lavallee travels down the Athabasca River to see firsthand how the search for oil threatens rivers and the third-largest watershed in the world. The development of Alberta’s tar sands…
Studs Terkel: Listening to America
For over 60 years, Studs Terkel elevated the voices and experiences of everyday Americans through his skillful interviews on radio, in books and on TV. This documentary takes a fond…
Turn it Up!
A celebration of the electric guitar, hosted by Kevin Bacon and featuring interviews & performances by B.B. King, Slash, Les Paul, Robby Krieger, John 5, Paul Stanley, Skunk Baxter, Jerry…
Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin’
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’ is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was filmed in…
Outing
Multi-platinum country music superstar and recent Academy of Country Music Awards “Entertainer of the Year” recipient, Luke Bryan, as he experiences the ups, downs, triumphs and tragedies along the road…
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
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 Three Stooges in Orbit
Taking a ‘bottom-up’ view of history by exploring everyday lives of the nations ordinary people.
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Orson Welles’ archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last…
The Godfathers of Mondo
A look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre with MONDO CANE in 1962. It follows their career until their split in following…
The New Watchdogs
In 1932, the writer Paul Nizan published “The New Watchdogs” to denounce the philosophers and writers of his time who, sheltering behind intellectual neutrality, imposed themselves as true watchdogs of…
Jackass 3D
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Wee Man and the rest of their fearless and foolhardy friends take part in another round of outrageous pranks and stunts. In addition to standing…