Documentary

In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the intrepid documentarian Michael Moore set out to investigate the long, often volatile love affair between Americans and their firearms, uncovering the pervasive culture of fear that keeps the...

Les Blank (Burden of Dreams) considered this free-form feature documentary about beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974, to be one of his greatest accomplishments. Yet it has not been released until now. Hired by Russell to...

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: Mother and Daughter, High-Society Dropouts, and Reclusive Cousins of Jackie Onassis. The Two Manage to Thrive Together Amid the Decay and Disorder of Their East Hampton, New York, Mansion, Making for An Eerily Ramshackle...

Streetwise/Tiny: The Life Of Erin Blackwell Bd Blu-Ray

Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties. He did this by assembling an...

General Idi Amin Dada: Self Portrait/Bd Blu-Ray

One of the most influential, radical science fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue: LA JETEE and SANS SOLEIL couldn't seem more different but they're the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema. A...

Ahmed El Ma?nouni's musical documentary explores the sound and impact of the internationally popular Moroccan acoustic band Nass El Ghiwane, an ensemble that formed in the early 70s and remains active to this day. Their singular style-blending local...

A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras, Ichikawa captured...

In Ethiopia, the flowering, stimulant-bearing plant known as khat is a major commodity, for ritual use by the Sufi Muslim populace and for those who have a more secular purpose for it's euphoria-inducing properties. Jessica Beshir's engrossing...

The international acclaimed film What Price Immortality' directed by Thomas Olofsson and Ture Rangstr?m gives an authentic picture of a man and composer who still receives less attention outside Scandinavia than he deserves, even more than 100 years...

New remastered from original 16mm film due to Newton, Helmut's 100birthday on 31 October 2020. Strong women in provocative poses, confident, mysterious - in Newton, Helmut's photography, the lines between art and pornography are blurred. Whether fashion,...