Venerable storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture.

Peter Greenaway presents this “Commentary in one hundred parts” on Drowning by Numbers (1987), discussing and analyzing many of the film’s more intriguing features.

River Niger, Black Mother follows the 4184-kilometer-long River Niger from its source in Guinea through Mali, Niger and Benin to Nigeria. A passionate ode to the river, the cultures that…

In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two “alien”…

For a series of programs made for TV Fnac, Philippe Grandrieux meets different people who tell us, each in their own point of view, a story of images. After Paul…

Grateful Dead show on July 17, 1989 at Alpine Valley.

On a winter night, the author of “The King and the Mockingbird” is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens…

Winner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, Marcel Ophuls’ riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed “The Butcher of Lyon.” Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in…

TV’s most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

Errol Morris’s unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer’s murder in Dallas.

At the Southern end of the line, the three stations around St Leonards are separated by two long tunnels. Emerging at Bopeep Junction our “4-CEP” EMU – in the much…

Superhero creator and Marvel Comics legend, Stan Lee, together with Marvel’s top artist, John Buscema, demonstrate the skills needed to create compelling characters and scenes for drawing and writing comic…

An account of the major political events that took place in Santo Domingo from the government of Juan Bosch in 1963, until the rise to power of Dr. Joaquin Balaguer…

George Carlin changes his act by bringing politics into the act, but also talks about the People he can do without, Keeping People Alert, and Cars and Driving part 2.

A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of…

Episode of the French television series “Cinéma Cinémas” which documents the discovery of the negatives that led to the completion of the color version of Jacques Tati’s 1949 film “Jour…

The film follows the first Greenpeace expedition to the Antarctic on board of the Ross Sea. The film is also about the attempts of the industrialized nations to parcel out…

The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude – An Afrikaner Speaks Out is a 1988 documentary film directed by Robert Bilheimer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary…

A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa’s bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank’s personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo…

Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.

This is a behind the scenes on DEAD RINGERS, and features interview with David Cronenberg, Jeremy Irons, co-producer Marc Boyman, and optical effect supervisor Lee Wilson.

Unfinished documentary about two of pop artist Martin Sharp’s obsessions: performer Tiny Tim, and the Luna Amusement Park in Sydney, Australia.

In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the “exemplary conditions” under which prisoners of war were kept, and to “soften up” the…

A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his last 14 days on death row. Everyone involved is interviewed, Johnson himself, his…

On a NYC subway in December 1984, 36-year-old Bernhard Goetz shot four black teenagers he believed were about to mug him. The incident immediately set off a national debate about…

The history of of heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 1975-1987. The documentary includes several rare videos and interviews from the band’s career.

Huey Lewis And The News: BEFORE! follows one of the world’s top rock-and-roll bands of the 80’s and a crew of fifty technicians to the Bahamas for the making of…

On July 4th, 1946, the crowd in Kielce, Poland, slaughtered forty-two Jews and wounded many others. Forty years later, in 1987, Marcel Łoziński visited those places and met some witnesses…

In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and triptychs link him to the distorted realism…

Compiled after 15 months filming and editing, this fast-moving, professional video documentary will give you a unique education on the inner teachings of Judaism and the Talmud. Through the television…

The greatest film festival (anti)promotional short ever made which explains why Midnight Sun is a unique event for both film buffs in Finland and some of the stellar international talents…

This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The film contains unedited, previously unavailable film footage of Auschwitz shot…

American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on artists, actors and writers of the United States who have left a profound impact on the nation’s popular culture….

Follows the punk rock band 7 Seconds on their 1985 summer tour of the United States and Canada

Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.

Eerie, forbidding, and darkly beautiful – Okefenokee is ruled by a relative of the dinosaur: the fearsome alligator. Day and night the alligator glides silently through its steamy realm, stony…

Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson. The film’s full on-screen title is Home of the Brave: A…