Documentary

The history of the Ku Klux Klan in America.Read More »

A documentary about the life and work of Martin Heidegger, born and raised a Roman Catholic in Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg.Read More »

Dušan Hanák’s renowned film was voted by critics as the best Slovak film of all time. Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček (1913–2004) whose pictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images, Hanák created his own distinctive impressions of the artist’s work in reflecting a myriad of human stories.Read More »

PLOT: Austin, Texas. Lord’s Gym was founded sixteen years ago by Richard Lord, a former professional boxer. A wide variety of people of all ages, races, ethnicities and social classes train at the gym: men, women, children, doctors, lawyers, judges, business men and women, immigrants, professional boxers and people who want to become professional boxers alongside amateurs who love the sport and teenagers who are trying to develop strength and assertiveness. The gym is an example of the American “melting pot” where people meet, talk, and train.Read More »

In a divided America, Van Jones attempts to pass a landmark criminal justice bill – and finds himself under fire from all sides.Read More »

Tom Lyons, Eye Weekly said:
Jacob Miller reappears on the darkened stage not as a good-natured clown but as a possessed messenger. Peter Tosh spits out “400 Years” as if he is reading a death sentence to a condemned people. And Marley himself seems less a pop singer than a genuine messiah when he returns to the island to deliver classics like “War” and bring Manley and Seaga together onstage in an attempt to halt the bloodshed. Even seemingly innocuous songs like “Jammin’ ” and “Trenchtown Rock” take on an added dimension when they are viewed as wished-for escapes from the violence.Read More »

A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate.Read More »

unifrance wrote:
7 films by Denis Gheerbrant.
La République Marseille leads us through seven worlds that make up a city and give it the aspect of a republic: the world of dockers, activist workers, women in the garden projects or the inhabitants of an enormous ghetto, and, in all its nooks and crannies, ready to encounter all kinds of people, from an ex-junkie, a boxer, or young women on the brink of life. The Republic, a main street in the middle of the city. Confronted by a brutal real estate operation, all these stories come into play again.Read More »

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1. Desert Gods
First transmitted in 1963, this is the first in a series of six programmes by David Attenborough on the Northern Territory of Australia.

David Attenborough, cameraman Eugene Carr and sound recordist Bob Saunders spent four months in the Northern Territory of Australia. Hoping to capture the essence of this vast territory they meet its people and explore its unique landscape and animals.Read More »